This image is the cover for the book Christmas Jinx

Christmas Jinx

Marnie desperately needs an assistant. As the proprietress of For the Love of Fruitcake, her successful little home bakery, her Christmas orders are piling up. She’s had bad luck in the past with assistants, and vows this year will be different, especially now that she will be entering a Christmas Bakeoff competition.

Jinx needs a job and a home for the holidays. She’s young, sweet, and eager to please. But she’s also a jinx, just like her name.

Marnie is smitten with Jinx and hires her on the spot, but soon realizes that everything Jinx touches goes wrong. She threatens not only Marnie’s business, but the Christmas Bakeoff, as well.

There must be something Jinx is good at, but what? Can the two work together to make the bakery -- and their budding relationship -- a holiday success?

Natalie-Nicole Bates

Natalie-Nicole Bates is a book reviewer and author. Her passions in life include books and hockey along with Victorian photography, Frozen Charlotte dolls, and antique poison bottles. Natalie contributes her uncharacteristic love of hockey to being born in Russia. She currently resides in the UK where she is working on her next book and adding to her collection of 19th Century postmortem photos. For more information, please visit mnatalienicolebates.com.