The Holiday & Hearts Books in Order

The Holiday & Hearts books are small-town romances built around Holiday Peak, a place where every season comes with a town-wide celebration and everybody seems to know everybody else's business. The setup is simple and smart. Each novella drops a new couple into the middle of a familiar community, then lets the holiday atmosphere do part of the work.

Holiday Peak is the real draw.

The town leans hard into Christmas lights, New Year's fresh starts, and Valentine's charm, but the stories do not feel like greeting cards. Havens uses the setting to bring old feelings back to the surface, especially for characters who are trying to focus on work, family, or a practical next step and suddenly find romance getting in the way. Estate sales, coffee shops, bookstores, diners, and local traditions keep the place grounded.

The books also work well because the couples feel different from each other. Christmas at Holiday Peak has a gentle second-chance mood, with old memories and changing plans in the snow. New Year's at Holiday Peak leans into starting over and running into the person you thought was safely in the past. A Holiday Peak Valentine adds a quieter, bookish energy, pairing a bookstore owner with a former football star who has found a new life in town.

These are short romances, so they move quickly, but they still make room for the pleasures that matter in this kind of series. Friends reappear. Neighbors interfere. The town itself keeps nudging people toward honesty. The result is warm, easy reading with enough emotional friction to keep the stories from floating away.

If you want Candace Havens at her sweetest, this is a good place to look. The Holiday & Hearts books are less about big plot twists and more about comfort, chemistry, and the pleasant feeling of watching people choose love in a town that has already decided they belong there.