Can’t Wait Wednesday #204: The Best Christmas Ever by Sarah Morgan

Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the Jill at Breaking the Spine. So let me introduce you my Can’t Wait Wednesday #204 pick. Click on the book’s cover to add it to your Goodreads shelf (opens in a new window).

The Best Christmas Ever by Sarah Morgan book cover — Publishes: October 27, 2026 by MIRA / HQ.
Length: 384 pages / ~10 hours.
Narrator: Dara Rosenberg.
Genre: Christmas, Romance

From The Publisher:

As the snowstorm of the century bears down on New England, reclusive author Mabel Miller is preparing to spend yet another Christmas alone with her cats. While everyone else is making merry, she’ll be avoiding the whole painful holiday. No decorations. No tree. No traces of Christmas. That is, until the weather intervenes and sends not one but two cars spinning into the stone wall surrounding her isolated cottage. Now she has a house full of strangers when the last thing she wanted was company for Christmas.

Yet Mabel’s unexpected guests—a family with two young children expecting Santa to drop gifts down the chimney, and two work colleagues who clearly have a history—are determined to make the best of the situation. As her attempts to protect her privacy are thwarted by the two little ones who are charmingly oblivious to her boundaries, soon Mabel is making cocoa and cookies for the first time in years, and allowing them into her library, a place that contains so many of her secrets.

Mabel has her reasons for keeping her truths so deeply hidden. But this Christmas, if Mabel is brave enough to share, she might finally be able to rewrite the past and find a festive happy-ever-after – for her new friends, but also herself.

Why I Can’t Wait to Read The Best Christmas Ever:

Sarah Morgan is an auto-read author for me and I particularly enjoy her Christmas stories. I can’t wait to see how Mabel is forced to step outside of her comfort zone and the personal growth I believe she will experience.