Love, Listings and Christmas Lights
(2026)(The prequel to the Bluewater Cove series)
A novel by Tina Cyr
A guarded single mother. A charming real estate agent with a reputation to overcome. One small-town Christmas — and a home that might finally feel safe.Nora McLean is not looking for romance.
A year after leaving an abusive relationship, she wants one thing only: a small, safe home for herself and her seven-year-old daughter before Christmas. Somewhere steady. Somewhere quiet. Somewhere she can trust.
Simon Roth is exactly the kind of man Nora has learned to be careful around. In Bluewater Cove, he has a reputation for being polished, persuasive, and a little too good at making people believe what he wants them to believe. Charming, ambitious, and not nearly as different from his father as he claims.
When Nora walks into his family’s real-estate office looking for Simon’s sister, she flinches at his automatic attempt to stop her from leaving. The moment stops him cold.
As house showings turn into paperwork, Christmas errands, and quiet moments beneath Bluewater Cove’s holiday lights, Nora begins to see a different version of Simon: a man trying, failing, and trying again to become someone steadier. Someone safer. Someone worthy of her daughter’s easy smile and Nora’s guarded heart.
But in a town where reputations linger, good intentions are not enough. When Simon’s old instinct to take over crosses a line Nora cannot ignore, he will have to prove that change means more than saying the right thing.
This Christmas, home might be more than a place to live. It might be where love learns to feel safe.
Love, Listings, and Christmas Lights is a cozy, closed-door small-town Christmas romance about trust, redemption, and finding home.
Genre: Romance
A year after leaving an abusive relationship, she wants one thing only: a small, safe home for herself and her seven-year-old daughter before Christmas. Somewhere steady. Somewhere quiet. Somewhere she can trust.
Simon Roth is exactly the kind of man Nora has learned to be careful around. In Bluewater Cove, he has a reputation for being polished, persuasive, and a little too good at making people believe what he wants them to believe. Charming, ambitious, and not nearly as different from his father as he claims.
When Nora walks into his family’s real-estate office looking for Simon’s sister, she flinches at his automatic attempt to stop her from leaving. The moment stops him cold.
As house showings turn into paperwork, Christmas errands, and quiet moments beneath Bluewater Cove’s holiday lights, Nora begins to see a different version of Simon: a man trying, failing, and trying again to become someone steadier. Someone safer. Someone worthy of her daughter’s easy smile and Nora’s guarded heart.
But in a town where reputations linger, good intentions are not enough. When Simon’s old instinct to take over crosses a line Nora cannot ignore, he will have to prove that change means more than saying the right thing.
This Christmas, home might be more than a place to live. It might be where love learns to feel safe.
Love, Listings, and Christmas Lights is a cozy, closed-door small-town Christmas romance about trust, redemption, and finding home.
Genre: Romance