Christmas at Gingerbread Inn

A Message in a Bottle Holiday Romance

By: Jennifer Griffith

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Secrets. Warm spices. Holiday love. And a message in a bottle!

Former reality TV starlet Jessamyn Fleet is in hiding.

She’s living the Sugarplum Falls version of witness protection: running the Gingerbread Inn bed and breakfast—and keeping off her famous ex’s radar.

Jessamyn has changed her look, her name, her world. Instead of living the glamorous life, she’s making warm-spices-laced breakfasts and providing her guests cozy hospitality. All she needs now is to pay off that unwise loan she borrowed from that horrible loan shark to buy the place, and she can exhale—by Christmas.

Thank goodness she has an anonymous pen pal, Santa Claus of San Nouveau, to confide in and give her guidance.

Sugarplum Falls’ #1 hotel owner, bachelor Cliff Rockingham,
gave up chairmanship of his charity, Presents for People, this year. Instead, he’s determined to do something deeply meaningful for Christmas. Something life-changing for an individual. But what?

Plus, there's the little matter of saving his business, Sweetwater Hotel. Why is it suddenly hemorrhaging money?

When Cliff retrieves a desperate message in a bottle from Sugarplum Falls, he’s gifted a chance to achieve that goal! He can create meaningful change in the life of the most beautiful tourist he’s ever seen.

It’s perfect! Until … he learns Jessamyn isn’t a tourist. And the two hotel rivals become the latest targets of the matchmaking mayor of Sugarplum Falls.

Read Christmas at Gingerbread Inn, book 5 in the Sugarplum Falls Romance series by USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Griffith and fall in love with Cliff, Jessamyn, and Sugarplum Falls in this snowy Christmastime pen pal romance.

All the books in the Sugarplum Falls Romance series are CLEAN STANDALONE romances with a happily ever after, swirling with blizzards of Christmas charm.

Publisher's Note: All stories in the Sugarplum Falls Romance series are clean, standalone holiday romances. They’re arranged in a loop. Book 1 introduces characters from book 2, and so forth, and then The Christmas at Gingerbread Inn loops back to Christmas at Holly Berry Cottage. This means readers can begin at any point in the series and then complete the loop and meet the many recurring characters from the charming small town. The books can be read in any order, but they are best enjoyed as listed below.


The Sugarplum Falls Romance Series
Christmas at Holly Berry Cottage
Christmas at Turtledove Place
Christmas at Angels Landing
Christmas at The Cider Press*
Christmas at Sugarplum Falls
Christmas at Gingerbread Inn

*Christmas at The Cider Press is available exclusively to subscribers to Jennifer’s hilarious, upbeat newsletter.

Please STOP using AI narration

This would have been a delightful light Christmas read, but the abysmal AI narration ruined it. Many of the offerings in the Plus catalog use it, and it’s incredibly frustrating. The AI lacks any inflection and fails to pause at the end of sentences. There are numerous instances of word mispronunciation, and I had to rewind several times to mentally punctuate the read sentences. I’m seriously considering canceling my Audible subscription.