A Minotaur for Christmas

Evelyn Mercer arrives in Tinsel Hollow with exactly six months to survive in a strange old house she never asked for. She expects dust, family secrets, and maybe a few aggressively festive neighbors.

She does not expect a three-hundred-year-old ghost relative waiting in the foyer. Or a town that seems to decorate itself. Or Theo Bellweather.

Theo is the enormous, horned, honey-gold Minotaur behind Bull & Brioche—quiet, careful, unfairly good at feeding people, and wearing a brass septum ring Evie is trying very hard not to think about. When Hemlock House starts knocking back, opening doors that should not exist, and dredging up secrets Evie’s family buried generations ago, Theo becomes the one person she trusts enough to call.

Unfortunately, haunted houses are terrible for maintaining sensible boundaries.

Soon Evie is juggling ancestral witchcraft, opinionated ghosts, a supernatural mystery, and an attraction to Theo that is getting much harder to blame on stress.