The Secret Christmas Library by Jenny Colgan
Published: October
14, 2025 by William Morrow Paperbacks
Genre: Christmas,
Romance, Book about Books
Mirren Sutherland stumbled into a career as an antiquarian book hunter after finding a priceless antique book in her great aunt’s attic. Now, as Christmas approaches, she’s been hired by Jamie McPherson, the surprisingly young and handsome laird of a Highland clan whose ancestral holdings include a vast crumbling castle. Family lore suggests that the McPherson family’s collection includes a rare book so valuable that it could save the entire estate—if they only knew where it was. Jamie needs Mirren to help him track down this treasure, which he believes is hidden in his own home.
But on the train to the Highlands, Mirren runs into rival book hunter Theo Palliser, and instantly knows that it’s not a chance meeting. She’s all too familiar with Theo’s good looks and smooth talk, and his uncanny ability to appear whenever there’s a treasure that needs locating.
Almost as soon as Mirren and Theo arrive at the castle, a deep snow blankets the Highlands, cutting off the outside world. Stuck inside, the three of them plot their search as the wind whistles outside. Mirren knows that Jamie’s grandfather, the castle’s most recent laird, had been a book collector, a hoarder, and a great lover of treasure hunts. Now they must unpuzzle his clues, discovering the secrets of the house—forming and breaking alliances in a race against time.
A treat for booklovers and treasure hunters alike, The Secret Christmas Library serves up a delicious mystery with a hint of romance, and plenty of holiday spirit!
My Thoughts: What a
treat! Jenny Colgan wrote a Christmas
book that takes the readers on a sweet adventure. Mirren is hired to search a castle in the Highlands
for a special book that just might save the families legacy.
The beginning of the book had me wondering where it would
take me. The story took me on a train ride, through the country to a true
castle, into a snowstorm, and so much more.
The adventures kept coming. The clues
were slowly solved, sending the characters on an adventure through the castle
and the grounds.
Jenny Colgan wrote a wonderful easy to read Christmas adventure
book.
Thank you William Morrow Books for a copy of the book via
NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
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Meet the Author (taken from her website): Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling novels and has won various awards for her writing, including the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance, the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award and the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year Award. Her books have sold more than fifteen million copies worldwide and in 2015 she was inducted into the Love Stories Hall of Fame. Jenny is married with three children and lives in Scotland.
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