THE HOLIDAY HONEYMOON SWITCH

A hilarious and heartfelt holiday rom com about doppelganger best friends who trade one's cabin Christmas vacation for the other's Hawaiian honeymoon after she's left at the altar, and both find love they weren't expecting.

Holly Beech and Ivy Cassidy are bury-the-body, bail-you-out-of-jail besties. They're so in-sync, they even look alike. So when Holly's fiancé jilts her, leaving her in shock and with a non-refundable, non-transferrable honeymoon, Holly convinces Ivy to switch places. Ivy will go on the Hawaiian honeymoon Holly can't bear to take alone or let go to waste, while Holly holes up in Ivy's rented Hudson Valley cabin to binge-watch holiday movies and heal. But Holly's planned wallowing is interrupted when her rugged Airbnb host turns out to be her high school academic rival whose had a major glow up. Meanwhile, Ivy's (now Hawaiian) annual solo art retreat is upended because Holly's ex-fiancé already checked into the honeymoon suite - with a new woman. Raging and bedless, the last thing Ivy expects is for the hot hotel bartender to come to her rescue. Against all odds, this Christmas might prove the most magical yet. Julia McKay is the pen name of Marissa Stapley, a former magazine editor and New York Times bestselling author of Reese's Book Club Pick Lucky, as well as international bestsellers Mating for Life, Things to Do When It's Raining, and The Last Resort. She is also one half of the writing duo behind The Holiday Swap and All I Want for Christmas by Maggie Knox, and co-author of Three Holidays and a Wedding. Many of her novels have been optioned for television and her journalism has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Elle, Today's Parent, and Reader's Digest. She lives in Toronto with her family and a precocious black cat named Oscar.