One devoted innkeeper. His best friend’s globe-trotting sister. A Christmas secret that could cost them both their hearts.
Juliette Brennan has built a career traveling beneath a carefully guarded identity. No special treatment, no staged welcomes—just honest stories about the places she visits. When an assignment brings her home to Apple Valley for Christmas, she books a room at the Redmond Inn, determined to remain objective while spending the holiday near the family she rarely sees.
Brady Redmond has poured everything he has into his new inn. Its first Christmas season needs to be unforgettable, and a recommendation from the right travel writer could finally put it on the map. The last thing he needs is a distraction—especially one who happens to be his best friend’s younger sister.
But Juliette is no longer the girl Brady remembers. As Christmas outings become accidental dates and quiet evenings at the inn bring them closer, staying objective becomes impossible. Juliette is falling for the man behind the perfect holiday experience, while Brady begins imagining a future with a woman who has made a life out of leaving.
Brady knows Juliette has secrets. He just doesn’t know that she is the travel writer whose opinion could change everything for his inn—or that every moment they share is becoming part of a story she was never supposed to enter. With Christmas approaching and the truth growing harder to hide, Juliette must decide whether protecting her identity is worth losing the first place—and the first man—that has ever made her want to stay.
Staying for Christmas is a warm, closed-door small-town romance filled with brother’s-best-friend tension, a secret identity, an innkeeper and his guest, holiday outings that feel suspiciously like dates, a charming Victorian inn, complicated family Christmases, and a globe-trotting heroine who may finally have found somewhere she wants to call home.
Every Apple Valley romance can be enjoyed as a standalone and features a new couple, a complete love story, and a happily ever after—along with familiar faces you’ll love seeing again.
Genre: Romance
Juliette Brennan has built a career traveling beneath a carefully guarded identity. No special treatment, no staged welcomes—just honest stories about the places she visits. When an assignment brings her home to Apple Valley for Christmas, she books a room at the Redmond Inn, determined to remain objective while spending the holiday near the family she rarely sees.
Brady Redmond has poured everything he has into his new inn. Its first Christmas season needs to be unforgettable, and a recommendation from the right travel writer could finally put it on the map. The last thing he needs is a distraction—especially one who happens to be his best friend’s younger sister.
But Juliette is no longer the girl Brady remembers. As Christmas outings become accidental dates and quiet evenings at the inn bring them closer, staying objective becomes impossible. Juliette is falling for the man behind the perfect holiday experience, while Brady begins imagining a future with a woman who has made a life out of leaving.
Brady knows Juliette has secrets. He just doesn’t know that she is the travel writer whose opinion could change everything for his inn—or that every moment they share is becoming part of a story she was never supposed to enter. With Christmas approaching and the truth growing harder to hide, Juliette must decide whether protecting her identity is worth losing the first place—and the first man—that has ever made her want to stay.
Staying for Christmas is a warm, closed-door small-town romance filled with brother’s-best-friend tension, a secret identity, an innkeeper and his guest, holiday outings that feel suspiciously like dates, a charming Victorian inn, complicated family Christmases, and a globe-trotting heroine who may finally have found somewhere she wants to call home.
Every Apple Valley romance can be enjoyed as a standalone and features a new couple, a complete love story, and a happily ever after—along with familiar faces you’ll love seeing again.
Genre: Romance
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