Merry Ever After
Merry Ever After is Tessa Bailey's contribution to Under the Mistletoe, an Amazon Original Stories collection of five standalone holiday romances (alongside novellas from Ali Hazelwood, Olivia Dade, Alexandria Bellefleur, and Alexis Daria). Released in November 2024, it's a short, complete story rather than an excerpt or bind-up — readable independently of the other novellas in the collection.
Evie Crowe has relocated to a small town to rebuild her life as a single mother, working at a thrift shop while chasing a quiet dream of upcycling secondhand clothes into her own designs. She isn't looking for romance. Luke Ward, a big, soft-spoken farmer who can never find jeans that fit, keeps finding reasons to visit her shop anyway. What begins with alterations turns into a fast, flirtatious holiday fling — one Luke has decided he wants to make permanent.
Told in Bailey's signature banter-heavy, explicit style, this is a quick, spicy read for fans of small-town romance looking for a one-sitting holiday pick-me-up rather than a full-length novel.
Single mother starting over in a new small town, running a thrift shop and designing upcycled clothing.
Quiet, physically imposing local farmer who pursues Evie at her thrift shop.
No. Merry Ever After is Tessa Bailey's own complete, standalone story within a five-novella Amazon Original Stories collection (alongside entries by Ali Hazelwood, Olivia Dade, Alexandria Bellefleur, and Alexis Daria). Each novella has different characters and can be read independently in any order.
It's a short novella — about 58 pages, meant to be read in a single sitting — rather than a full-length novel, consistent with the other entries in the Under the Mistletoe collection.