Publication Date: September 23, 2025
All bets are off when a single-minded photographer and a professional hockey player are forced to spend a week together on his sister’s Christmas tree farm, perfect for fans of Jenny Holiday and Maggie Knox.
Maisie Smart doesn’t look back. Not on the choice she made to be a photographer, and not on the one-night stand she had six months ago. But sleeping with a professional hockey player who bolted the morning after is a whole new level of embarrassing. Now she’s about to spend the week at Tickle Tree Farms with her family this Christmas—and then the universe throws a Grinch in her festive plans.
Nick King is a mess. After a significant injury benches him, he has more time to dwell on his anxieties and the one-night stand he can’t get out of his head. With the holidays around the corner, he figures visiting his sister and nephew at their Christmas tree farm will be a good way to sort himself out. That’s impossible when he learns Maisie is there, still beautiful and justifiably angry about the way he left. But Christmas is the time for second chances, and the forced proximity may help Nick and Maisie unwrap feelings neither of them can walk away from twice.
You Make It Feel Like Christmas by Sophie Sullivan is filled with the magic of the Christmas season.
Maisie and Nick are the stars in this contemporary romance, set in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, which features numerous Christmas activities and a festive atmosphere. They never expected to see each other again after he snuck out the morning after their one-night stand.
When the two meet up unexpectedly months later at Nick’s sister’s tree farm to celebrate Christmas with their respective families, their feelings come through. There’s a lot of romance and Christmas happenings. The relationships between family members were heartwarming and realistic. However, Maisie’s mother constantly harps on wanting more for her, even though she is a well-known photographer and has her hands in numerous different opportunities.
Nick, a professional hockey player, is thinking about what’s next for him and is always there for his sister and his nephew, who adds another layer to the story.
There are vivid descriptions of the locations, the tree farm, and the small town it’s located in. There are numerous heart-to-heart talks on different levels, and Maisie is always present. There’s a happily ever after and some closure.
You Make It Feel Like Christmas is filled with magical moments during Christmas that even Scrooge would want to participate in.
SOPHIE SULLIVAN is a Canadian author as well as a cookie-eating, Diet Pepsi-drinking, Disney enthusiast who loves reading and writing romance in almost equal measure. She writes around her day job as a teacher and spends her spare time with her sweet family watching reruns of Friends. She has written Ten Rules for Faking It and How to Love Your Neighbor, and has had plenty of practice writing happily ever after as her alter ego, Jody Holford.
