THE JINGLE BELL MINGLE closes out Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone'sΒ Β Christmas Notch trilogy. Set in the unlikely world where members of the adult movie industry (aka porn actors/actresses/producers/costumers/make-up artists) become involved in making Christmas movies for The Hope Channel (aka Hallmark) along with former pop boy band singers. This final book focuses on Isaac Kelly, the saddest man in the music industry and third member of pop sensation INK. After his wife died suddenly, Isaac shut himself away in Malibu to mourn but to escape his memories he now bought the mansion in Christmas Notch Vermont where his best friends Nolan and Kallum found their happily ever after with their Christmas movie co-stars.Β After attending Bee and Nolanβs wedding and a second one-night standΒ in her dumpy motel room, Isaac offers to let Sunny Palmer move in with her grumpy cat. The unlikely pair strike a bargain to help each other since Isaac needs an album to fulfill his contract to his record label and Sunny is on a deadline to write a Hope Channel screenplay. Both characters are scared to love again. Plenty of funny situations and contact with the characters from the other books in the series. This book definitely requires the suspension of disbelief with all the crazy stuff that happens.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone who gave us A Merry Little Meet Cute comes a new holiday rom-com—’tis the season for second chances!
What happens when there’s no room at the inn and you and your potentially demonic cat become roommates with your grumpy one-night stand?
Part-time adult film actress/one-time adult film director/makeup artist Sunny Palmer has accidentally sold her very first screenplay to the Hope Channel. That was six months ago. Fast forward to a looming deadline, an uninspired Sunny has returned to the source of her inspiration in Christmas Notch, Vermont, to immerse herself in the local Christmas miracle on which her fever dream of a movie pitch was based.
Isaac Kelly, former boy band heartthrob and the saddest boy in the music biz, is the latest owner of the town’s historic mansion. After his years of heartbreak following his young wife’s death, Isaac’s record label is done waiting for new music. What better place to attempt his first holiday album than a snow-covered mansion where he can become a hermit in peace?
But after their best friends’ wedding leads to them waking up together in a freezing motel room with questionable wiring and a broken shower, Isaac takes a chance and asks Sunny to stay with him at his home. Surely the place is big enough that he’ll hardly see her or her unhinged cat. But when the two discover they’re both creatively blocked, they make a handshake deal: Isaac will help Sunny hunt down the truth behind the local lore, and Sunny will find Isaac a new muse.
And with these two opposites under one roof, there’s no way this jingle bell mingle could go off script…right?
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