Kissing Mr. Mistletoe by Angela Casella
Apple Ridge #2
Holiday Romance
November 12, 2026
What to expect:
🎄Christmas romance
❄️Off limits
🎄Best friend’s brother
❄️Secret identity
🎄FMC works in a bookstore
❄️MMC owns a Christmas tree farm
🎄Found family
❄️Frenemies to lovers
🎄Snowed in
When you kiss the one person who should be off-limits, blame it on the mistletoe.
Emily
The whole town turned on Miles after the crash that killed my boss’s granddaughter. They didn’t care that he hadn’t been driving. Still, he brought a peace offering to the bookstore’s Christmas Eve party, and my boss told him he should have been the one who died.
No one defended him. Not even me.
But I chased him outside and kissed him under the mistletoe. It started as sympathy, then turned electric. When he told me he was leaving forever, I gave him a book to help him heal.
Years later, Miles comes home with a tattoo inspired by that very book. And somehow, he knows I wrote it.
Worse, he wants to know everything else about me.
Which makes Miles Public Enemy Number One, because the life I’ve built here depends on keeping the truth buried.
Miles
Kissing Emily was definitely not a mistake.
Now I’m going to prove it, even if she’s not my Number One Fan.
Joining her retirement home book club? You bet.
Selling Christmas trees outside her bookstore? Absolutely—and I’ll even hire the punk kid she’s taken under her wing.
But the closer I get to Emily, the more I realize the girl who saved me is hiding from everyone, including herself.
This Christmas, I’m determined to find out why.
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Kissing Mr. Mistletoe by Angela Casella
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Miles and Emily share one unforgettable moment right before he leaves town, and five years later he’s back. The moment he sees her, all those feelings come rushing right back. There’s just one tiny problem and that’s that Emily is definitely not ready to let him back into her heart. And then he finally reads the book she gave him that night five years ago and it makes him realize what might have been right in front of him all along and that Emily just might be his person.
I loved watching these two find their way back to each other. Their connection was always there, but just when they finally decide to explore what’s between them, their pasts come crashing back in and threaten everything they’re trying to build. But love like theirs comes around once in a life time and they were not ready to give it up easily.
My first Angela Casella book, and I’m honestly shocked I haven’t read her before. It definitely won’t be my last!
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Angela Casella lives in Asheville, North Carolina in an almost-one-hundred-year-old house with her daughter, two dogs, and an ever-changing number of fish. She worked as a developmental editor for years, both as a freelancer and at Random House in NYC before she started writing (inspired by her friend and frequent co-author Denise Grover Swank!). Now, it’s become an addiction, and she’d rather not be cured, thank you very much.
She comes from a loud Italian American family, so she basically has a phD in bickering…er…banter.
For more information about Angela Casella and her books ⇒ https://linktr.ee/angelacasella
