Ginger Bell Gets Ghosted For Christmas
(2025)(The third book in the Sweet Sparkling Swoony Romance Novellas series)
A novel by Sarah Vance-Tompkins
Bah Humbug!
On a sweltering hot winter day, Hollywood studio executive, GINGER BELL, scurries across the backlot. Bitter and lonely, she''s unable to see all the many possibilities her life might hold. Instead, she spends her holiday season dreaming of a perfect white Christmas with her ideal man.
Ginger won’t spend her time shopping, wrapping, baking, or hosting for the holiday season. Refusing to participate in the studio’s charity Christmas party, she steals other people’s work and turns it in as her own. Just as she’s about to be called out on her subterfuge, Ginger takes a tumble down a deep elevator shaft in the Admin Building.
She wakes up in a soundstage hospital set on the studio lot, where she is declared healthy and sound by HARLEY MITCHELL, the handsome actor who plays ‘Doctor Jake’ on MERCYWOOD, the television series she once watched religiously with her mom, and who she’s been crushing on forever. Before sending her back to her office on the lot, Doctor Jake jokingly prescribes a candy cane cocktail and to expect three visits from ghosts of Christmas.
As if.
Ginger doesn’t believe in the magic of the season until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future appear, giving her a vivid peek behind the scenes at the mistakes of her Christmases past, the hollow smugness of her present-day holiday plans, and the dark future Christmases that awaits her if she doesn’t change her ways.
What the Dickens?
As Ginger is slowly changed by the spirits of the season, she wonders about the too-good looking and too good to be real, Harley ‘Doctor Jake’ Mitchell. His kisses are magical, but is he one of the Christmas spirits haunting her vivid imagination, or is he something more? Ginger will have to risk her heart to find her own happily ever after and all the joys the holiday season can bring.
A tale of redemption full of hope, the magic of Christmas, and a few delicious peppermint-mocha kisses.
Genre: Romance
On a sweltering hot winter day, Hollywood studio executive, GINGER BELL, scurries across the backlot. Bitter and lonely, she''s unable to see all the many possibilities her life might hold. Instead, she spends her holiday season dreaming of a perfect white Christmas with her ideal man.
Ginger won’t spend her time shopping, wrapping, baking, or hosting for the holiday season. Refusing to participate in the studio’s charity Christmas party, she steals other people’s work and turns it in as her own. Just as she’s about to be called out on her subterfuge, Ginger takes a tumble down a deep elevator shaft in the Admin Building.
She wakes up in a soundstage hospital set on the studio lot, where she is declared healthy and sound by HARLEY MITCHELL, the handsome actor who plays ‘Doctor Jake’ on MERCYWOOD, the television series she once watched religiously with her mom, and who she’s been crushing on forever. Before sending her back to her office on the lot, Doctor Jake jokingly prescribes a candy cane cocktail and to expect three visits from ghosts of Christmas.
As if.
Ginger doesn’t believe in the magic of the season until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future appear, giving her a vivid peek behind the scenes at the mistakes of her Christmases past, the hollow smugness of her present-day holiday plans, and the dark future Christmases that awaits her if she doesn’t change her ways.
What the Dickens?
As Ginger is slowly changed by the spirits of the season, she wonders about the too-good looking and too good to be real, Harley ‘Doctor Jake’ Mitchell. His kisses are magical, but is he one of the Christmas spirits haunting her vivid imagination, or is he something more? Ginger will have to risk her heart to find her own happily ever after and all the joys the holiday season can bring.
A tale of redemption full of hope, the magic of Christmas, and a few delicious peppermint-mocha kisses.
Genre: Romance