A Heart for Christmas: Advent Romance

By Sophie Jomain

A teen reclaims her independence and opens her heart to Christmas with the help of a handsome ski instructor in this swoon-worthy young adult holiday romance told in a groundbreaking advent calendar format, with chapter-a-day reading making it a true slow-burn!

When eighteen-year-old April heads to the foothills of Mont Blanc in the Alps to spend her first Christmas at her father's chalet, she's hoping for a change. Ever since her heart operation two years ago, she's lived as carefully as possible. Supervised exercise, green tea, rice cakes, focusing only on her studies. But now, she's healthy and there's a world out there that she's missing.

When April's ski instructor turns out to be her best friend's older brother, Augustin, it feels like a sign. As Augustin encourages April to build up her strength, April feels drawn to him in ways she wasn't expecting. Augustin is daring and gorgeous, and April doesn't want to let her life pass her by any longer. But is her just-healed heart ready for a Christmas miracle?

With this book's unique advent calendar format, each of the twenty-four chapters is sealed by its own perforated enclosure that readers can gently tear open--by hand or with the help of a ruler--to read a chapter a day in the weeks leading to Christmas!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1665990392
• ISBN13: 9781665990394
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12