After my hiatus from knee surgery recovery, I am happy to be back with opening my home for book club in December! We will read Julie Murphy’s newest release, The Jingle Bell Mingle.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone, who gave us A Merry Little Meet Cute, come to a new holiday rom-com—’tis the season for second chances!
What happens when there’s no room at the inn, and you and your potentially demonic cat become roommates with your grumpy one-night stand?
Part-time adult film actress/one-time adult film director/makeup artist Sunny Palmer has accidentally sold her very first screenplay to the Hope Channel. That was six months ago. Fast forward to a looming deadline, an uninspired Sunny has returned to the source of her inspiration in Christmas Notch, Vermont, to immerse herself in the local Christmas miracle on which her fever dream of a movie pitch was based.
Isaac Kelly, former boy band heartthrob and the saddest boy in the music biz, is the latest owner of the town’s historic mansion. After his years of heartbreak following his young wife’s death, Isaac’s record label is done waiting for new music. What better place to attempt his first holiday album than a snow-covered mansion where he can become a hermit in peace?
But after their best friends’ wedding leads to them waking up together in a freezing motel room with questionable wiring and a broken shower, Isaac takes a chance and asks Sunny to stay with him at his home. Surely the place is big enough that he’ll hardly see her or her unhinged cat. But when the two discover they’re both creatively blocked, they make a handshake deal: Isaac will help Sunny hunt down the truth behind the local lore, and Sunny will find Isaac a new muse.
And with these two opposites under one roof, there’s no way this jingle bell mingle could go off script…right?
Join me on Thursday, December 12, at 7 p.m. for cookies and hot cocoa. To learn more about our book club or to join, visit here.
New for 2025: Our book club will continue to meet every quarter, and in between, you can enjoy video interviews with authors on my YouTube page. Check your inbox (and spam) for emails from Bookmovement.com regarding upcoming meetings.
Hospitality is in my DNA. I founded Home with a Twist, a daughter’s twist on her mother’s traditions, in memory of my mother to celebrate her life and the gifts she shared with me. Mother loved to celebrate life’s occasions – big and small.
