Description

On Christmas Eve, Kat Wootton is determined to make tonight count. In her mother Simona's cosy Camden flat, the air smells of cardamom and cinnamon, Finnish treats are on the go, and Kat's siblings are finally home.

Most importantly, Kat is ready to take a bold next step in her relationship with Jacques, the charming French TV chef she works with at The Culinary Kingdom, who's kept himself just out of reach of her family life for two long years. Tonight, that changes.

But as the fairy lights glow and the wine flows, something feels… off. Simona is unusually tense. Phones keep buzzing. Small comments land too sharply. And the closer Kat gets to the future she's been imagining – complete with a romantic winter escape – the more she senses there are cracks beneath the celebration.

To Believe in Christmas Love is a twisty, emotional prequel novella to To Melt a Frozen Heart and a return to the Woottons' Christmas that sheds new light on what really happened before Lapland.