Image description: A brown cat on a window sill looking at the wintery day with a cup of coffee and an open book placed nearby. Outside the window, is a red house with smoke coming out the chimney, snow falling, covering the trees and a bird flying by.

Happy holidays everyone! Sorry for the prolonged break as I was majorly busy this last year and a half. I love the fall/winter season as Spooktober is always a fright, Thanksgiving with Black Friday Book deals, and cozy hot chocolate Christmas season comes to finish off the year! I have a few end of the year reads I hope to finish if you want to check any of these out, as some of them did come out this year and are advent calender themed.

December Hopefuls

Candy Cane by Katye Tilstone -Indie author, releasing on 12/10/2025

Synopsis : The snow is falling and the scent of peppermint hangs heavy in the air, but this isn’t a season of warmth; it’s a season for punishment.
Dressed in a terrifying, ragged Santa suit a silent homage to the ancient, punishing Krampus, the town of Gloomhaven’s newest serial killer has arrived. He believes his gruesome work is a form of divine winter justice, and he’s not bringing coal.
His weapon is as unexpected as it is a simple, striped candy cane, sharpened to a deadly point and driven by ritualistic obsession. As he stalks the winter shadows, each blood stained treat he leaves behind is a chilling signature, a morbid echo of the ancient tales of reckoning.

Deck The Halls With Bodies by Danielle Fear- Indie author, released on 11/25/2025

Synopsis: Christmas cheer turns to terror when two bodies are discovered posed in the town’s nativity display. What begins as a grotesque holiday spectacle quickly unravels into something far darker… a series of ritualised murders mirroring the story of redemption itself.
As Detective Inspector Maia Powell and her partner, Detective Rourke, race to uncover the truth, they find themselves drawn into the warped theology of a serial killer who believes he’s been chosen to cleanse the impure through acts of “divine forgiveness.”
Deck the Halls with Bodies is a chilling psychological thriller told over 25 chapters to read either in one go, or over the days of Christmas like an advent calendar. Come join where faith, obsession, and the spirit of Christmas collide.

I’ll Be Gone for Christmas by Georgia K. Boone, Trad author, released 10/8/2024

Synopsis: Bee Tyler needs a break. In the bustling San Francisco tech community, no one ever seems to stand still—especially her perfect sister and business partner, Beth. So when her best friend suggests a getaway on the wildly popular house-swap app, Vacate, Bee decides a countryside retreat might be exactly what she needs.
Clover Mills has had a year. Between losing her mother and making the complicated decision to leave her fiancé, sticking around the idyllic Christmas obsessed town of Salem, Ohio, just doesn’t feel right. So when she hears about Vacate, she jumps at the chance to spend the holidays in the unfamiliar city of San Francisco.
Soon enough, Bee is living in Clover’s cozy Salem cottage, and Clover is living in Bee’s sleek San Francisco apartment. As Clover can’t seem to stop running into Bee’s frustratingly gorgeous sister, Beth, and Bee finds herself spending more and more time with Clover’s ultra charming ex-fiancé, Knox, the two women realize that this Christmas they may find just what they were looking for and more…

The Christmas Tree Farm by Laurie Gilmore, Trad author, released 10/10/2024

Synopsis: Kira North hates Christmas. Which is unfortunate since she just bought a Christmas tree farm in a town that’s too cute for its own good.
Bennett Ellis is on vacation in Dream Harbor trying to take a break from both his life and his constant desire to fix things.
But somehow fate finds Ben trapped by a blanket of snow at Kira’s farm, and, despite her Grinchiest first impressions, with the glow of the fairy lights twinkling in the trees, and the promise of a warming hot chocolate, maybe, just maybe, these two lost souls will have a Christmas they’ll remember forever…
The Christmas Tree Farm is a spicy romantic mystery with a HEA guaranteed, perfect to curl up with this winter!

I will post an update on books within a week or two, so be on the lookout for that! Comment below your anticipated Cozy Winter Reads!