Holiday Romance (Fitzpatrick Christmas #1) by Catherine Walsh

holiday romance • friends-to-lovers • forced proximity • opposites attract • one-bed energy

Ten years. One Christmas Eve flight. Seven hours and fifteen minutes together every year. Molly and Andrew have perfected the art of being just friends. But when a snowstorm strands them far from home, their carefully maintained boundaries begin to look a lot less certain.

Holiday Romance is a warm, witty, slow-burn Christmas romance about longtime friendship, unexpected feelings, and one wildly complicated journey home. With Irish charm, festive mayhem, and chemistry that has been quietly building for years, this is the kind of holiday love story that makes you want to believe some connections are simply meant to be.

Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️ 2/5

The Vibe

Molly and Andrew have spent a decade sharing the same Christmas tradition. Every year, they board the last flight from Chicago to Dublin, settle into their seats, drink questionable airplane wine, and spend the journey catching up on everything that has happened since the previous Christmas. They're different in almost every conceivable way, but their friendship has always worked.

Andrew lives for Christmas and dreams of making it home to Ireland for the holidays. Molly is considerably less enthusiastic about the season, but when a snowstorm threatens their annual tradition and Andrew's Christmas with his family, she decides there's no way she's letting him miss it.

What follows is a chaotic race across the Atlantic involving whatever combination of taxis, planes, boats, and trains might get them home in time. As the journey stretches on, so does the tension between two friends who have always insisted there is nothing romantic between them.

Filled with Irish holiday charm, travel mishaps, heartfelt friendship, and a deliciously understated slow burn, Holiday Romance is a cozy Christmas escape for readers who love friends-to-lovers stories where the best love stories begin with knowing someone by heart.

Tropes & Tags

• Holiday romance
• Christmas romance
• Friends-to-lovers
• Friends-to-lovers slow burn
• Childhood friends
• Longtime friendship
• Opposites attract
• Forced proximity
• Travel romance
• Snowstorm
• Getting home for Christmas
• Irish setting
• Chicago to Dublin
• Festive family traditions
• Christmas chaos
• Romantic comedy
• Cozy winter romance

# 1 in Series of 3 Fitzpatrick Christmas