Merry Not Included
(2025)(A book in the Knot Your Average Wedding Romcom series)
A Story by Carina Walsh
A chaotic family Christmas. A marriage still finding its rhythm. One llama in a sweater. What could go wrong?
Newlyweds Anica and Callan Burkhardt are ready for a quiet, cozy first Christmas together, until Gram calls with a request impossible to refuse. Suddenly they're headed to Gram’s estate for a week-long extravaganza of over-the-top traditions, competitive gingerbread carnage, holiday bar-hopping, and the annual Burkhardt ‘Blessing’ speech… which they’ve been voluntold to deliver.
Callan’s family is a powder keg of old wounds, feuding parents, and weaponized passive aggression. As stress pushes him back into old coping habits, Anica—organized planner that she is—refuses to let him disappear behind his walls.
But Christmas has a funny way of cracking people open.
Perfect for readers who love:
🎄 Spicy Christmas romcoms
🔥 Married-couple romance
😂 Chaotic, over-the-top family holidays
🦙 A Christmas llama named Tinsel
💔 Healing old wounds + honest communication
❤️ Warm, funny, heartfelt happily-ever-afters
A cozy, chaotic, and deliciously steamy holiday novella that will leave you smiling long after the lights come down.
Genre: Romance
Newlyweds Anica and Callan Burkhardt are ready for a quiet, cozy first Christmas together, until Gram calls with a request impossible to refuse. Suddenly they're headed to Gram’s estate for a week-long extravaganza of over-the-top traditions, competitive gingerbread carnage, holiday bar-hopping, and the annual Burkhardt ‘Blessing’ speech… which they’ve been voluntold to deliver.
Callan’s family is a powder keg of old wounds, feuding parents, and weaponized passive aggression. As stress pushes him back into old coping habits, Anica—organized planner that she is—refuses to let him disappear behind his walls.
But Christmas has a funny way of cracking people open.
Perfect for readers who love:
🎄 Spicy Christmas romcoms
🔥 Married-couple romance
😂 Chaotic, over-the-top family holidays
🦙 A Christmas llama named Tinsel
💔 Healing old wounds + honest communication
❤️ Warm, funny, heartfelt happily-ever-afters
A cozy, chaotic, and deliciously steamy holiday novella that will leave you smiling long after the lights come down.
Genre: Romance
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