Silver Bells and Christmas Spells: An Ice Queen/Free Spirit Toaster Oven Sapphic Holiday Romance (Birchwood Heights Holidays)

Annie Ames has built her reputation on perfection. PTA president, queen of holiday fundraisers, and the woman everyone in Birchwood turns to when something needs fixing—especially now that her marriage has quietly, officially ended. This Christmas, she’s determined to keep her crown intact by running the school’s pageant with her usual grace and order.

Then Emberlynn Walters stumbles in—late, flustered, and carrying more tangled lights than common sense. The kindergarten teacher is everything Annie isn’t: whimsical, chaotic, utterly unbothered by what anyone thinks. Worse, the principal has paired them up to co-chair the entire holiday event.

Annie insists she can survive one month of Emberlynn’s glitter-covered madness. But when her daughter Amelia adores Emberlynn’s quirky encouragement, when Emberlynn’s grin makes Annie’s carefully iced composure crack, when snowflakes start to feel like sparks—Annie wonders if perfection isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

This Christmas, order meets chaos, and somewhere between gingerbread disasters and a glitter-bombed nativity, Annie may discover that the second chance she never planned for is the one she wants most.