
Holly and Nick Hate Christmas
A Novel
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About Holly and Nick Hate Christmas
When a Christmas-hating woman’s brother sets her up with a fellow Grinch and it backfires, she decides to out-Christmas her date by kicking off a festive battle of wills in this “irresistible” (Publishers Weekly) enemies-to-lovers holiday romcom. Holly Sinclair has hated Christmas for as long as she can remember. Who names their Christmas baby Holly in the first place? She was teased mercilessly growing up. Holly Berry, Holli-days, Holly Jolly . . . not to mention the fact that her birthday is often totally overlooked amidst the season. To make matters worse, instead of getting the promotion she was expecting, Holly’s been downsized—which is just fancy holiday talk for fired. Now Holly has to go home single, unemployed, turning thirty, and only a tinsel strand of faith. Bah, humbug. Holly’s big brother, Ryan, has dragged his best friend, known holiday-hater Nick Kinsley, home with him. But when Holly discovers that Nick’s here to be her pity date, she decides the best revenge is to play along . . . and Christmas like she’s never Christmas’d before. Commence Operation: Naughty List. The fact that she’s attracted to Nick is totally not the point. She’ll teach him a lesson, one ho ho ho at a time. The holiday grows more complicated when Holly and Ryan find out their parents asked all the siblings to come home for Christmas this year, but refuse to say why. The rest of the Sinclair siblings descend, each with their own sleigh full of secrets. Rumors spread as everyone tries to guess the reason for their parents’ demand—and Nick turns out to have a secret of his own. Will this be a Christmas to forget? Or will Holly and Nick discover there is so much more?
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- Audience
- Adult/general
- Commitment
- Standalone or self-contained
- Estimated reading time
- 9.0 hours at about 40 pages per hour
- Length
- Standard-length read
- Best for
- Readers seeking enemies to lovers, heartwarming, contemporary romance
Why readers are finding Holly and Nick Hate Christmas
Holly and Nick Hate Christmas by Betsy St. Amant, published in 2025, is a 353-page book for readers who prefer to browse by the experience of a story, not only by its sales category. Its strongest discovery signals include Enemies to Lovers, Heartwarming, Contemporary Romance.
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- Print ISBN
- 978-0-593-60256-0
- Published
- 2025
- Pages
- 353





