Brothers of the Vine
Forever Evermore
Women of W.A.R.
Looking for a sweet and gentle love story? Go for 1 – 2 chillis —perfect with just a hint of festivity. Or if you want something sizzling (or even scorching), try a 4-5 chilli read, packed with passion and fiery twists to heat up your holiday season!
Pick your favorite spice level and dive into the magic of romance this holiday season!
1 Chilli: Sweet 🌶️
Clean: no sex/closed door sex scenes , more romantic tension than sexual
A Country Farm Christmas by Lily Malone Penelope Janu Stella Quinn Pamela Cook
A heartwarming collection of four brand-new festive stories from favourite Australian authors about finding love on the farm this Christmas.
The Christmas Contract by Pamela Cook
Bridie has until Christmas to convince her dad not to pull the loan he gave her to set up her organic produce farm. So when she gets an unexpected offer of assistance from her elderly neighbour’s son – the same elderly neighbour who’s been actively trying to railroad her into selling – she can’t say no. Are all the resulting feels another complication or exactly what she needs?
A Fairytale for Christmas by Penelope Janu
Big-city lawyer Juliette is living a small-town life in Ballimore for one reason only – to save her career by Christmas. Which is why she should say no to helping the town, no to taking over the fairytale cabin in the forest, and no to challenging the impossibly attractive farmer and local-boy-made-good, Beau. A past left behind, a reimagined future. Can there be a happy ending to this fairytale?
The Christmas Kindness Project by Lily Malone
After the break-up of her 26-year marriage, high-flying property manager Rosie returns to Chalk Hill to start over. When she’s nominated to represent her new employer in the Christmas Kindness Project, Rosie struggles in the competition spotlight. Then enigmatic real estate valuer Fletcher takes an interest in her ideas. If it’s not a hot flush, maybe Rosie’s love life is finally heating up.
Christmas at Yindi Creek by Stella Quinn
Angela arrives in Yindi Creek desperate to restore her late mother’s opal earring only to discover the opal dealers are closed for the summer. Robbie spends his days with his sheep, determinedly not looking at the white cross planted by the gates of his property. But the meddlesome locals reckon he’s grieved long enough, and it doesn’t take them long to hatch a devious (but romantic!) plan …
2 Chillis: Simmering 🌶️🌶️
Moderately clean: more explicit sexual tension, may have 1 sex scene not explicitly described.
My Kind of Christmas by Robyn Carr
Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that inspired the hit Netflix series…
While the Riordan brothers have a reputation for being rough-and-tumble, Patrick has always been the gentle, sweet-natured one. But his easygoing manner is tested by his high-octane career as a navy pilot, and for the Riordan men, when the going gets tough…the tough find the love of a good woman.
Angie LeCroix wants to spend the holidays relaxing, away from her well-intentioned but hovering mother. Yet instead of freedom, she gets her uncle, Jack Sheridan. If he had his way, she’d never go out at all. And certainly not with Patrick Riordan. Angie has her own idea of the kind of Christmas she wants — and the kind of man. But the Sheridan and Riordan families have different plans for Patrick and Angie and for Christmas, Virgin River style!
3 Chillis: Steamy 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Sexual Content: 1-2 open door sex scenes more explicitly decribed.
Anti Social Season by Adele Buck
Relationship Status: Doesn’t Get More Complicated Than This
In this offbeat holiday romantic comedy, an overworked firefighter-turned-social media coordinator and a librarian with an unrequited crush break a few rules in the company handbook…
For Thea Martinelli, burnout is real. After working as a firefighter for the Emergency Services Department over the last ten years, she can’t stomach anymore close calls. Just when she’s ready to hang up the hose for good, she’s offered an out: stay on as the station’s new social media manager. It’s a move that would keep her in the squad and off the truck — if she makes it through the probation period.
Basically, she needs to learn everything there is to know about social media…fast.
Librarian and social media coordinator Simon Osman is shocked to learn his new responsibilities include showing Thea Martinelli — his high school crush — the ins and outs of digital engagement. And the fact that she doesn’t even remember him? Not helpful. Still, this could be his chance to finally turn his part-time role into something long-term.
But as the chaos of the holiday season unfolds, Thea and Simon find that the closer they work together, the hotter their attraction burns. Yet giving in to these feelings could mean giving up their careers. Are they willing to risk everything they’ve worked toward…for each other?
4 Chillis: Scorching 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Explicit sexual content with multiple explicitly described sex scenes.
Lone Wolf In Lights by Stacey Kennedy
For fans of Elsie Silver, a spicy and emotional Western romance between a woman looking for a fresh start and the hot, brooding cowboy who wants to make her Christmas dreams come true.
Everyone daydreams about a fresh start…but Willow Quinn is making it happen. She’s left her life in Phoenix to open a bar in cowboy-country Montana with her two best friends. It’s a chance to reboot in a new town with a new life — and leave behind the shadows of her past and heal. Hopefully.
All she wants to do is create an empowering space for women who need support. There’s snow and holidays on the way, so surely a craft circle is the perfect way to build community…except who knew her plans would ruffle so many feathers.
Enter former bull rider Eli Cole. She’s drawn to the green-eyed cowboy, his intensity and the electrical charge between them. When she and her bar, The Naked Moose, go viral for being interlopers, suddenly Willow’s new life is on rocky ground.
But Eli has the perfect solution — give the fiercely single bar owner a fake relationship with a local. But while it might dim the negative spotlight and convince the town she really does fit in, it definitely won’t protect her heart from the cowboy she can’t resist…
5 Chillis: Scalding 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Super spicy, and may include elements of kink or taboo.
A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone
Opposites attract in this spicy holiday rom-com…
When actress Winnie Baker agrees to star in a steamier-than-a-steaming-mug-of-mulled-wine Christmas movie, she has just one concern: how can she be sultry on-scnree, when she’s never been sultry in real life?
Kallum Lieberman is an ex-boyband member now known exclusively for his reputation in the bedroom, thanks to a rogue sex tape. And he’s got just the experience she needs.
But Winnie and Kallum need to keep this research purely professional. They say opposites attract, and that makes this co-stars-with-benefits set up extremely dangerous indeed…