The Christmas Contract: An award-winning, small town, festive, boy-next-door, romance novella.

by Pamela Cook

A heartwarming novella from favourite Australian author Pamela Cook about finding love on the farm this Christmas.
Bridie has until Christmas to convince her dad not to pull the loan he gave her to set up her organic produce farm. So when she gets an unexpected offer of assistance from her elderly neighbour's son - the same elderly neighbour who's been actively trying to railroad her into selling - she can't say no. Are all the resulting feels another complication or exactly what she needs?



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131 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 2, 2025

About the author

Pamela Cook is the author of five page-turning women’s fiction novels. Her stories feature flawed but strong women, tangled family relationships and deal with the complications of life. Her most recent novel, Cross My Heart (September 2019) is a haunting story of friendship, guilt and redemption set in the beautiful central west of New South Wales. Pamela's previous novels are Blackwattle Lake (2012) Essie’s Way (2013), Close To Home (2015) and The Crossroads (2016). Pamela is the co-host of the exciting new podcasts Writes4Women and Writes4Festivals, and is proud to be a Writer Ambassador for Room To Read, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes literacy and gender equality in developing countries. When she’s not writing, reading or podcasting she wastes as much time as possible riding her handsome quarter horses, Morocco and Rio.


She loves to connect with readers both in person and online:

www.pamelacook.com.au
www.facebook.com/PamelaCookAuthor
www.writes4women.com
Twitter @PamelaCookAU
Instagram @pamelacookwrites and @w4wpodcast

Reviews

[EmG ReadsDaily · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a heartwarming, festive, next-door-neighbour novella.

I adore Finn!

This was published as part of A Country Farm Christmas anthology. I read it as a novella on Borrowbox.

[Jill Ball · Rating 4 out of 5]

Light, easy to read, happy ever after tale.

[Mary Ladrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent Christmas Read