Ellie's Book Loving Christmas 2024

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Across
  1. 5. Striker author
  2. 7. Former prima ballerina; career cut short by a tragic accident
  3. 10. Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home setting
  4. 12. Hopeless’s town prince, a handsome military hero with a tortured past
  5. 17. Place-trading mechanic with “no daddy’s credit card”
  6. 18. Trading Places author
  7. 21. Living legend and darling of the Premier League
  8. 22. Ready or Not character who is content with her life; childhood best friend is Willa
  9. 24. Just for the Summer character who Reddit outs for his curse
  10. 25. Less permanent than HEA
  11. 27. A male character a reader is enamored with
  12. 28. “Lost and Lassoed” author
  13. 29. Madison Beer genre
  14. 30. Four Weekends and a Funeral author
  15. 32. She didn’t get the memo that Jon Morgan gets everything he wants in life
Down
  1. 1. The Christmas Tree author
  2. 2. Friend Zoner who doesn't do drama, will fight to the death for her friends
  3. 3. A trope where characters are stuck together (e.g., snowstorm, sharing a bed)
  4. 4. Jacksonville NHL team
  5. 5. Post-double-mastectomy BRCA 1 carrier and reluctant thrill-seeker
  6. 6. A trope where one character is brooding and the other is cheerful and optimistic
  7. 8. The Christmas Tree Farm character who hates Christmas
  8. 9. A romance where characters fall in love almost immediately
  9. 11. Diamond-dusted nail girl who trades places with a mechanic
  10. 13. Convention believed to have originated in Italian fairy tales
  11. 14. Mortal Instruments author
  12. 15. A romance that develops gradually over time
  13. 16. King of Wrath character, thrives on control, both personally and professionally
  14. 19. Brutal Birthright #5
  15. 20. Magnolia and BJ ask how many of these a person gets in a lifetime
  16. 23. Demon-slaying Shadowhunter who just wishes that her life would go back to normal
  17. 26. He is on vacation in Dream Harbor, taking a break from his life in California
  18. 31. Kennedy Kay’s Isaiah plays for this city’s team