Cooking Up a Christmas Storm: A warm and cosy festive romcom, the perfect Christmas escape
By (Author) Amelia Berry
Canelo
Canelo Hera
25th November 2025
18th September 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Humorous fiction
Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Family life fiction / Stories about family
Narrative theme: love / relationships
Narrative theme: identity / belonging
Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction
Narrative theme: sense of place
Narrative theme: diversity, equity, equality, inclusion
823.92
Paperback
368
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
Can you find love if you cant be yourself
Jodie Simpson's life is falling apart.
She has lost her girlfriend, Gemma, her job and is about to be kicked out of her flat. When she mistakenly opens a letter addressed to Gemma and finds a job offer to work at the Highland Cookery School, she makes a momentary decision that will change her life forever.
Jodie heads to the Scottish Highlands to begin her new job - as Gemma. But it all starts to work a little too well, and she finds herself loving her new life at the cookery school. As the snow starts to settle and the festive magic cast its spell, she finds herself falling for Pavel, the estate caretaker.
But Jodie cannot keep up her fake identity forever and a storm is brewing.
If she tells the truth, will she lose the new life she has built for herself, and the man who might just be The One
An uplifting romcom that fans of Sarah Morgan, Heidi Swain and Katie Ginger will adore
Amelia grew up on the North Yorkshire coast and now lives in Worcestershire. She has been writing professionally since 2013, and is also published as Ally Sinclair, Alison May and, in collaboration, as Juliet Bell. She is a former Chair of the Romantic Novelists Association, and currently works as an associate lecturer for the Open University.