Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

Elinor "Nory" Noel runs a secondhand bookshop in London but has never quite shaken the class anxiety of being the scholarship kid among her wealthier boarding-school friends. When the group reunites at their old castle-campus for a Christmas wedding — minus one friend they lost to suicide — old grief resurfaces alongside guilt over how they once treated Isaac, the gardener's son they bullied as teens. Isaac, now head gardener and still wary of the others, forgives Nory, and the two discover an undeniable attraction that only deepens as Isaac reveals a secret from his past that Nory may be uniquely positioned to help make right.

Jenny Bayliss delivers a heartfelt Christmas romance about reckoning with old cruelty and finding unexpected love at a school reunion.