The Naughty List Agreement: An Advent Romance by Katherine Garbera
- One sealed chapter a day in the run-up to Christmas
- Katherine Garbera, USA Today bestselling author
- 408 pages, published by One More Chapter
- She fired him. Now she needs him by Christmas Eve.
Mum of three. This is my ten minutes of peace every night in December. One chapter, one cup of tea, total joy!
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What's inside the book?
One continuous novel, released to you a chapter at a time.
The pages come in perforated sections. You tear one open each day in the run-up to Christmas and read that chapter, and there is no skipping ahead without spoiling the thing you bought it for.
Most advent fiction is a collection of short stories. This is a single continuous novel with one couple and one plot running the whole way through, and the daily format paces it rather than breaking it up.
Cora Quill's Winter Wonderland festival loses its toy supplier. The only person who can save it is Nick Bari, the grumpy toymaker she fired, who has her firmly on his naughty list and who needs a wife by Christmas Eve to keep his role as Santa. He offers her a deal.
The book is built around the countdown, so it wants to be started in the first days of December. Bought late it still reads perfectly well as a novel, but the daily format is the whole reason to own this edition rather than any other.
One Chapter. Every Day.
One Chapter. Every Day.
The format is the point.
The pages come in perforated sections, so you tear one open a day and read that chapter. It turns a book you would otherwise finish in a weekend into something that runs the length of December.
One story, not a collection.
Most advent fiction is a set of unrelated shorts. This is a single novel with one couple and one plot, which means the daily format builds instead of resetting every evening.
A present that lasts past Christmas morning.
Most books are read and shelved within a week of being given. This one is opened a little at a time through December, so it stays in use across the whole run-up rather than disappearing into a pile.
Thin on purpose.
This is a quick reference, meant to be opened to one page for one answer and closed again. It will not teach you a topic from nothing. Used for what it is, it is the book that stays open beside everything else.
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