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Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a Jewish author secretly writing Christmas romances, has to get a ticket to the hottest Hanukkah party in New York to save her career, and it is run by her old summer-camp enemy.
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Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Over Christmas in New York, Lily leaves a red notebook of dares on a shelf at the Strand bookshop, and Dash, a cynical teenager who hates the holidays, picks it up.
The Christmas Train
Tom Langdon, a burned-out journalist banned from flying, takes the train across America to Los Angeles for Christmas, and finds an old love among the passengers.
Let It Snow
Three linked love stories set over one snowbound Christmas Eve in a small town, starting with a train stuck in a blizzard.
In a Holidaze
Mae Jones, at her family's last Christmas at a cabin in Utah, wishes for a different life and wakes up back on the drive there, given another go at the holiday and at her crush on Andrew.
The Holiday Swap
Charlie Goodwin, a television chef in Los Angeles who has lost her sense of taste, swaps lives for Christmas with her identical twin Cass, who runs the family bakery in a snowy mountain town.
Well Met
Emily moves to a small Maryland town to help her sister recover from an accident and is roped into volunteering at the local Renaissance Faire, where Simon, the uptight teacher who runs it, plays a swaggering pirate and clashes with her at every turn.
Better Than the Movies
Liz Buxbaum, a high school senior who lives by romantic comedies, asks her irritating next-door neighbour, Wes Bennett, to help her win back her childhood crush, Michael, who has just moved back to town.
Red, White & Royal Blue
Alex Claremont-Diaz, son of the American president, has a public feud with Prince Henry of Wales, and after it ends with both of them falling into a royal wedding cake, the two are ordered to stage a friendship for the cameras.
Seven Days in June
Eva Mercy, a single mother in Brooklyn who writes a bestselling erotic vampire series, runs into Shane Hall, a reclusive literary novelist, at a New York literary event, fifteen years after the one week they spent in love as teenagers.
A Redbird Christmas
Oswald T. Campbell, told by his Chicago doctor that he won't survive another winter, moves to Lost River, a small town in Alabama, and meets a little girl and a redbird.
This Time Next Year
Minnie Cooper and Quinn Hamilton were born minutes apart on New Year's Eve in the same London hospital, and he took the prize for the first baby of the year, and her name for it. Thirty years later they meet again.
The Unhoneymooners
When everyone at her twin sister's wedding gets food poisoning except Olive Torres and the groom's insufferable brother Ethan, the two take the couple's free honeymoon to Maui, which means pretending to be newlyweds for ten days.