Releases Nov. 18, 2026
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Pastry chef Juliet wants to disappear. Instead, a sweet, small-town coastal Christmas brings second chances, heartwarming romance, and found family.
After losing the restaurant that carried her name, Juliet wants six quiet weeks in a little blue cottage on the bay. No calls from home. No questions about what went wrong. And definitely no baking.
But Moonbeam Bay is not the kind of town that lets anyone stay invisible for long.
When a smoke alarm brings Cole to her door, Juliet meets the steady, observant handyman repairing storm damage at her rental cottage. He is practical, patient, and far too good at noticing the things she would rather keep hidden.
Then a visit to the Sea Glass Cafe pulls Juliet right back into the kitchen she swore she was done with. The town’s beloved Parker Christmas Dessert Table is only days away, and with Evelyn Parker injured, generations of holiday tradition suddenly rest on Juliet’s shoulders.
At first, Juliet thinks the dessert table is one more chance to prove herself.
But as she works through Grace Parker’s old recipe binder, she begins to understand that the pies, cookies, and cinnamon rolls were never about perfection. They were about memory. Family. Belonging. A way of telling people they had a place at the table.
And somewhere between the warm cafe kitchen, the lighted boats in the harbor, and Cole’s quiet faith in her, Juliet starts to wonder if the life she lost was not the only life she was meant to have.
Christmas at the Blue Cottage is a stand-alone coastal Christmas novel set in the small town of Moonbeam Bay. This sweet women’s fiction story features a pastry chef heroine, a handyman hero, a blue cottage on the bay, and small-town holiday traditions. It is full of found family, second chances, community, and charming town characters.