Emily Stone Books in Order

Josie meets Max after a bicycle collision interrupts her annual Christmas letter to her late parents. Their holiday connection ends in his sudden departure, but unexpected encounters throughout the following year keep drawing them toward each other.

After losing her brother Tom, Cassie discovers the first clue in his final Christmas scavenger hunt. Following it takes her beyond familiar routines, toward old friends, unresolved feelings for his best friend, and a future shaped by grief.

After a family tragedy, Holly exchanges anonymous Christmas letters with lonely strangers. One letter leads her to an elderly woman and her estranged grandson, whose familiar attraction complicates Holly’s attempt to heal another family and perhaps her own.

Lexie inherits half her estranged father’s holiday travel company, with the rest going to difficult executive Theo. Required to work together for a year, they confront business tensions and unexpected chemistry while she reconsiders her plans to leave.

Mel agrees to pretend she is back with ex-boyfriend Finn during his family’s Christmas in Scotland. Her condition is a public breakup that restores her dignity, but renewed closeness makes it harder to separate revenge from real affection.

Grieving her best friend, Ali follows the challenges in a final Advent calendar to a job at an Alpine ski lodge. A misunderstanding creates a fake romance with her boss, whose own grief could bring them closer or divide them.