10 Steamy Christmas Romance Books to Heat Up Your Holiday Season in 2025 🎄
There's something absolutely magical about curling up with a spicy romance novel while fairy lights are twinkling, and you've got a mug of something warm in your hand. (Even if it's 100 degrees outside and scorching hot in Australia!)
Christmas romance hits different at this time of year. Maybe it's the forced proximity of snowed-in cabins. Maybe it's the "home for the holidays" second-chance vibes. Or maybe it's just that holiday magic making everyone a little more willing to take a chance on love.
Whatever it is, I'm here for it—and I've got 10 Christmas romance books that'll steam up your windows this holiday season. Fair warning: these aren't your grandma's sweet Hallmark reads (unless your grandma is cool, in which case, respect).
Grab your favourite festive beverage, get cozy, and let's dive in.
1. Silent Knight by Evie Mitchell
Heat Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Why You Need It: I went to hide—and found my heart instead. When a princess gets dumped and hounded by the press, she escapes to the last place anyone expects: Polar Bear, Alaska. Enter Croydon 'Roy' Knight—gruff, surly, and hating all things Christmas. He's also the most real man she's ever met. Could she have found her Knight in tarnished armour?
This is my love letter to grumpy/sunshine Christmas romance with a royal twist.
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2. A Very Merry Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams
Heat Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Why You Need It: 'Tis the season for a second chance at love. Country music's golden boy Colton Wheeler felt perfect harmony with Gretchen Winthrop—until she left. A year later, he's struggling to make music, and she needs a favour. He agrees... in exchange for three dates before Christmas. With help from the Bromance Book Club, can they overcome the ghosts of Christmas past?
Part of the beloved Bromance Book Club series, this one's got heart, humour, and serious chemistry.
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3. The Christmas Fix by Lucy Score
Heat Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Why You Need It: There's only one thing standing in the way of Cat King saving a small town's Christmas festival: Grumpy town manager Noah Yates. When reality TV star Catalina arrives with a camera crew and a massive budget, single dad Noah doesn't want a celebrity diva capitalizing on their tragedy. They can't be in a room together without rubbing each other the wrong way... except that time in the dark alley where the rubbing was just right.
Lucy Score delivers enemies-to-lovers perfection with serious steam and Christmas magic.
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4. Merry Christmas You Filthy Animal by Meghan Quinn
Heat Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Why You Need It: Nothing says "I love you" like trespassing, public humiliation, and a town-wide Christmas spectacle. Max is trying to save his family's Christmas tree farm. Betty is helping her uncle open a rival farm next door. Max thinks she's out to destroy everything. Betty thinks Max might be one sleigh short of a winter parade. Between blizzards, blown reputations, and one stolen ornament with a tragic backstory, this small-town war turns into something far more delicious.
Chaotic, hilarious, and absolutely swoon-worthy.
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5. Resolutions by Lucy Eden
Heat Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Why You Need It: Mike is Jane's best friend—her tall, gorgeous, bearded best friend. She also has a giant crush on him, and he has no idea. After losing her nerve at last year's New Year's Eve party (and watching him end up with someone else), she writes a list of resolutions to become New and Improved Jane. Mike offers to help her check them off... but spending all this time together is bringing up feelings she's been keeping under control. And sometimes the way he looks at her makes her think maybe he feels them too?
Sweet, sexy, and perfect for that New Year's Eve read that bridges Christmas to the new year.
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6. Secret Santa by Kati Wilde
Heat Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🔥
Why You Need It: Emma Williams finally lands her dream job—except Logan Crenshaw, the creative force behind the company, doesn't seem to want her there. He stalks around the office, growling every command as if her presence infuriates him. But when a Santa hat full of names leads to an office gift exchange, everything changes. One unexpected knock at her door is about to shake up all of her plans...
Warning: This super-hot holiday romance contains Santa hats, red satin blindfolds, and an obsessed alpha male who talks dirty and knows exactly what to do with his big hands.
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7. Holiday Husband by Megan Wade
Heat Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Why You Need It: Can a marriage of convenience between an anxious people-pleaser and her enigmatic playboy boss turn into the real thing? When awkward executive assistant Maeve spontaneously lies that she eloped with her handsome, older boss Gabe, he shocks her by offering to play along with the charade. As they pretend to be newlyweds over the holidays, real feelings come to light. But with Maeve's relatives scheming to expose their secret, will what started as a harmless fib spark into the kind of love she needs?
Megan Wade (my Stoneheart MC co-author!) delivers rom-com gold with serious heat and heart.
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8. The Mrs. Clause by Evie Mitchell
Heat Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Why You Need It: Collins Knight has been married to Nicholas Del Laurentis for nearly a decade, yet they've spent half that time in different houses, different countries, ignoring their arranged marriage. That was until she decided she wanted a baby. Nick won't divorce her, so she's left with no option: invoke the Mrs. Clause of their marriage contract. But Nick has ideas of his own. This Christmas, it's time to unwrap his favourite gift—one piece of clothing at a time.
Steamy, emotional, and absolutely swoon-worthy arranged marriage comeback.
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9. Good Spirits by B.K. Borison
Heat Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Why You Need It: Nolan Callahan intends to spend this holiday season exactly like every other: haunting terrible people as the Ghost of Christmas Past. Harriet York is a good person—a people pleaser who always does what's expected. When Nolan is assigned the sweeter-than-candy-canes antique shop owner for his holiday haunting, neither of them knows why. To escape one another, Harriet and Nolan must unravel the threads that bind them together—all by Christmas Eve. But why doesn't Nolan want to let go? And might Harriet be the key to giving the Ghost of Christmas Past... a future?
A unique, heartwarming paranormal romance with genuine holiday magic.
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10. He Sees You When You're Sleeping by Alta Hensley
Heat Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Why You Need It: It's the night before Christmas and I'm alone in the house... Popular jewelry influencer Chloe Hallman is steeling herself to spend another holiday on her own. Instead, she finds herself drawn to two different guys… a smoldering hot fan of her secret, seductive online persona, and a sexy fireman named Jack who looks out for her in their NYC neighborhood.
She has no idea that I know her better than she knows herself. Her deepest secrets, her darkest desires—she's careful, but I've been watching, never leaving footprints in the snow outside her home.
Jack was the first responder to the accident that stole a beautiful young woman's family two Christmases ago, and he's been quietly guarding her ever since. When Jack uncovers Chloe's secret account, his obsession only grows. Both he and Chloe are drawn to the darkness that mirrors their own.
Will Chloe's Christmas be a tale of fiery passion...or a dangerous game with a man whose love knows no bounds?
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