Quinn Matthews
A Corner Table Christmas by Quinn Matthews. A couple shares cocoa in the window of Bennett's café on a snowy evening.

A Balsam Falls Romance · Book One

A Corner Table Christmas

Some people come to Balsam Falls for the festival.
Will Erickson came to sit by the window.

Will Erickson has been Santa Claus for seven months. So far, he isn’t very good at it.

When his father died in April, he left Will a red wool coat, three peppermints, and one last instruction: Go to Balsam Falls, Maine. Sit by the window.

Emma Bennett hasn’t celebrated Christmas Eve in ten years. She runs her late parents’ café, says yes to everybody, and has just volunteered to wrangle the town’s fiftieth Christmas festival, right before a Boston consultant arrives with drones, wristbands, and a plan to make it go viral.

Will can’t hang a banner straight. But he knows your order before you say it, and the snow keeps falling right when it’s needed. And Emma is starting to add things up.

Coming this Christmas in paperback and Kindle.

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About the Author

About Quinn

Quinn Matthews lives in Maine and watches a lot of Christmas movies every year. Probably too many. The tree goes up the day after Thanksgiving, and the hot cocoa comes out way before that.

A Corner Table Christmas is Quinn’s first book and the start of the Balsam Falls series. Book two is already in the works.

Why I write these

I love Christmas movies. I love the whole Christmas season, really. And I love a good love story. A lot of the love stories out there have things in them I don’t want to see or read about, and I wanted there to be another option. Something clean, but still heartfelt and romantic. Just a plain good story you can curl up with. That’s what Balsam Falls is for.

The Balsam Falls Series

Welcome to town.

A small town in Maine with a frozen waterfall, a green iron bridge, and a café that keeps one table by the window. Every book stands on its own, and every one is clean: no explicit scenes, no strong language, just a lot of heart.