The Fox Around the Corner
(2026)(The second book in the Hers for the Holidays series)
A novel by Kat Blackthorne
Two strangers, no names, and a battle to keep the Christmas spirit alive.
Nestled in the heart of Winterbrook, Zuzu Pennyworth’s holiday bookstore is one of most lucrative shops in town, and has been visited by Christmas enthusiasts for decades. Recognizing the need to expand, Zuzu places a bid on a larger building, despite the lack of holiday cheer she’s been feeling. When Christmas is your life, what’s left to spark magic anymore?
When she receives a text from the wrong number one cold December night, she begins to feel a spark of the holiday magic she believed was lost.
Little does Zuzu know, Fox Gladstone, her bookstore rival from two towns over, is not only the stranger on the other end of the phone, but the woman with the competing offer.
Excited to embark on this new holiday chapter, Zuzu finds herself falling for the mystery woman, unaware that she’s walking straight into a plot twist she’ll never see coming.
When the truth is revealed and the woman on the other end of her messages turns out to be her biggest business rival– will the holiday magic prevail or will they both end up alone and heartbroken for Christmas?
The Fox Around the Corner is a sapphic Christmas rom-com filled with lesbian heat and bookish holiday cheer, perfect for fans of You’ve Got Mail and Happiest Season.
Genre: Romance
Nestled in the heart of Winterbrook, Zuzu Pennyworth’s holiday bookstore is one of most lucrative shops in town, and has been visited by Christmas enthusiasts for decades. Recognizing the need to expand, Zuzu places a bid on a larger building, despite the lack of holiday cheer she’s been feeling. When Christmas is your life, what’s left to spark magic anymore?
When she receives a text from the wrong number one cold December night, she begins to feel a spark of the holiday magic she believed was lost.
Little does Zuzu know, Fox Gladstone, her bookstore rival from two towns over, is not only the stranger on the other end of the phone, but the woman with the competing offer.
Excited to embark on this new holiday chapter, Zuzu finds herself falling for the mystery woman, unaware that she’s walking straight into a plot twist she’ll never see coming.
When the truth is revealed and the woman on the other end of her messages turns out to be her biggest business rival– will the holiday magic prevail or will they both end up alone and heartbroken for Christmas?
The Fox Around the Corner is a sapphic Christmas rom-com filled with lesbian heat and bookish holiday cheer, perfect for fans of You’ve Got Mail and Happiest Season.
Genre: Romance