Publication Date: October 13, 2026
Bestselling author Sheila Roberts is back with a heartwarming holiday romance full of family, love, and a little bit of intrigue!
Jordan Frost had to do it. Her family was simply too perfectly eccentric not to put in a novel. She was thrilled when she got an agent and then a publishing deal. For two books. Two! Then reality set in. The book about an oddball family’s holiday adventures is coming out in November. Just in time for her trip home to Holly Bay, Washington, from the big city. Jordan is desperately hoping she can keep her pseudonym a secret so she can stay in her family’s good graces. She wrote the book under a pen name and when it was time for an author picture, she wore a wig and glasses. No one will know it was her, right?
Wrong. Charles Pine, her high school friend who always hoped for more, recognizes the woman he’s never gotten over as soon as he unpacks her book to shelve at the bookstore where he works. He knows this is the perfect opportunity to get Jordan to see him in a new light and he makes sure to run into her when she arrives home. She never thought of him as anything more than a shoulder to cry on back then, but he’s determined to make her see him as boyfriend material. Can he be her hero and help her get through the season with her secret intact? Or at least save her from a holiday meltdown?
When a series of minor family emergencies threatens to add even more chaos to Jordan’s already hectic life, Charles tries to help her find the true meaning of the holiday. Maybe coming home wasn’t a bad idea after all…
For fans of:
- holiday love stories
- family hijinks
- second chance romance
- cozy winter stories full of nostalgia and tradition
Jordan Frost should be celebrating the success of her first novel, but instead she’s filled with dread.
Author Sheila Roberts serves up a side-splitting romantic comedy in Have Yourself a Merry Little Meltdown.
Despite a fake name and a disguise in the author photo, Jordan’s terror that anyone in her family will read the book is evident. The problem, though, is she used her own family experiences and replicated them in her Christmas story.
Everyone has quirky family members with humorous stories. However, some tales are designed to stay within private boundaries and not compiled into a book with fake names attached.
Her desperation even forces an alliance with her former best friend, Charles, in a madcap effort to ensure no copies of the book end up in Holly Bay. They have old business to settle, especially given Jordan’s reaction to his unrequited love.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Meltdown provides a hilarious romantic holiday comedy featuring family, friendship, and plenty of feelings.
Sheila Roberts lives in the Pacific Northwest. To date, she has seen over three million books sold both at home and abroad. Several of her books have been adapted for film by Hallmark, Lifetime, and GAF, including her holiday perennial, On Strike for Christmas, The Nine Lives of Christmas, with a sequel The Nine Kittens of Christmas, and most recently, Christmas on Candy Cane Lane.
