Overview

Perfect for fans of Alison Cochrun and Ashley Herring Blake, this sapphic retelling of It’s a Wonderful Life will make the yuletide gay.

After years of putting aside her dreams of travel and adventure, Bailey George is ready to leave Lanford Falls and her responsibilities behind on a long-awaited vacation to New York City. But when the volunteer who took over her leadership position for the town's Winter Wonderfest has a medical emergency, Bailey finds herself stuck in Lanford Falls. She gets roped into reassuming her old role, not wanting to let the town or her friends and family down.

Staying home seems slightly less terrible when Bailey runs into her high school crush, Maria Hatcher. A kiss they shared years ago in the town's mistletoe grove was a life-defining moment for them both. Maria quickly offers to pitch in and help with Winter Wonderfest. Her sunny disposition and holiday cheer perk up Bailey's grinchy feelings about everything.

However, one disaster after another snowball on the day of the festival. Bailey’s frustration boils over, and she ends up on the town's old wooden bridge. There, she meets fabulous drag queen Clara Angel. Bailey declares that she wishes she hadn’t been born in this Christmas-obsessed, suffocating small town. With a little of the magic Clara possesses, she shows Bailey how wrong she is about Lanford Falls and her place in it. And that with a little hope and some true holiday spirit, there is a way to attain all her dreams.

Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Narrator: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw, Pete Cross

Listening Length: 9 hours and 40 minutes

Audible.com Release Date: October 17, 2023

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

About Kelly Farmer

Kelly Farmer (she/her) has been writing romance novels since junior high. While the stories have changed, one theme remains the same: everyone deserves to have a happy ending. She is the bestselling author of queer contemporary romances with snarky humor and lots of heart.

When not writing, she enjoys being outside in nature, quoting from eighties movies, listening to all kinds of music, and petting every dog she comes in contact with. All of these show up in her books. Kelly lives in the Chicago area, where she swears every winter is her last one there.

About Mia Hutchinson-Shaw

Actor and narrator based in New York City, known for her playful portrayals across audiobooks, theater, and screen…

Mia Hutchinson-Shaw (she/her/hers) is a queer actor based in NYC. Mia creates soulful, saucy, and lovable characters with her arsenal of accents and flare for the fun. She trained in the UK at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, earning a BA in acting with honors, and was raised between Massachusetts and Montana by a ceramics artist and woodworker who moonlight as professors. She crafts narration and characters with lots of heart and big appetites for adventure. When not working as an actor, Mia is thrifting for her next outrageous, colorful clothing item, getting on her soap box about low-waste living, or hunting down handmade jewelers for a new item for her collection of giant earrings. Her favorite is a pair of hot pink Galahs (a bird from Australia). Her favorite genres to narrate are YA, middle grade, romance, classics (give her that chewy language!), fantasy, and LGBTQIA+.

About Pete Cross

Pete is an Audie Award-winning narrator. When he was 11 years old, Pete sent a cassette tape to an address he found at the back of a magazine advertising auditions to narrate audiobooks. He chose a selection from Dandelion Wine. He was not hired. At about this same time he stowed a cupcake in his knit hat walking home from school. Crumbs for days.

Zip forward several decades and you can find Pete in his home studio. He now narrates and produces audiobooks for a living. Pete has narrated over 100 titles, has multiple Earphones Awards, three Audie finalist nods, and was nominated for a SOVAS award for his narration of Moby Dick. He received the 2022 Audie Award for YA narration of Ryan La Sala’s Be Dazzled.

He no longer wears cupcakes in his hair.

Favorite genres include YA, classics, and nonfiction.