Yule Be Home for the Holidays

Natalie Bennett lives a life dictated by routine. She’s never been the type to act on impulse. However, when the promotion she rightly deserved goes to her incompetent male coworker, she does exactly that and quits.

For the first time in her life, Natalie doesn’t have a plan—until she gets a call informing her that her grandmother fell and broke her leg. Without a career keeping her in the city, Natalie decides to finally return to the small coastal town where she spent her teenage years to help Grandma Peggy.

Evie Howe has always dreamed of opening her own witchcraft shop. In the past few years since moving to St. Henry, she and her best friend Stella have built a successful online presence for Lavender & Thistle. And now, with the Holiday market fast approaching, it will be their first chance to make their dreams of a physical location a reality.

Evie doesn’t expect to become distracted by her septuagenarian friend’s granddaughter, but something about the lost look in the grumpy woman’s eyes does exactly that.

Despite Natalie and Evie being complete opposites, the spirit of small town holidays keeps bringing them closer. But is that Yuletide magic enough to keep them together?

Yule Be Home for the Holidays is a sapphic pagan holiday romance published as part of Home for the Holidays, a collection of standalone novellas connected by a singular theme: spreading queer joy during the holiday season.

Content Notes


Yule Be Home for the Holidays is a sapphic pagan holiday romance that contains strong language, sexual themes, and content that may be troubling to some readers, including but not limited to: injury, parental abandonment, late-in-life neurodiversity diagnosis related trauma, and explicit content. Reader discretion is advised.

Representation: LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Bisexual), Neurodiversity (ADHD), Pagan

Tropes and tags: Practical Magic meets Hallmark, small town, Pagan Yuletide celebrations, Christmas festivals, witchy vibes, opposites attract, Hallmark-levels of instalove, found family, taking “make the Yuletide gay” seriously