Code Blue Christmas

by Jillian David

One injured sled dog. One old grudge. One Christmas snowstorm that turns Yukon Valley into a matchmaking minefield.

Reggie Price runs on precision because it keeps Yukon Valley Hospital’s lab humming and his sled dog team on track for the North Pole 500. With the Iditarod qualifier three weeks away, he can’t afford distractions.

Then his lead dog limps into Katz Veterinary Clinic—and bolts straight into Dr. April Katz.

April is all twinkle lights and holiday cheer this Christmas. She’s also juggling a father who thinks responsibility is a love language, a career decision she keeps punting, and the inconvenient fact that Reggie still pushes her buttons.

The town’s matchmaking network declares them a holiday project. A community festival throws them together. And a whiteout strands April at Reggie’s cabin—with a sputtering generator, a crackling fire, and one too-tempting bed.

Then race day comes, and with his dogs’ health and a promise to his brother on the line, Reggie and April must risk the thing they both cling to control.

Steamy small-town Alaska holiday romance. Standalone with HEA.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication October 6, 2026

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Award-winning and bestselling author and physician Jillian David quickly writes then slowly edits medical romance, paranormal romance, and romantic suspense books. She loves to use medical situations and characters to drive drama in her books. Her favorite cell is the platelet and her least-favorite organ is the pancreas. She fully believes that curse words, when appropriately deployed during surgery, are hemostatic. Which also explains why no book of hers will ever bleed out...

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- "I started this incredible paranormal suspense filled love story and couldn't put it down. I stayed up the entire night reading it."
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YUKON VALLEY, ALASKA (medical romance)
1) Dr. Alaska
2) Paging Dr. Breakup
3) Five Alarm Love

HELL TO PAY (paranormal romance)
1) Immortal Flame
2) Relentless Flame
3) Flame Unleashed
4) Flame's Dawn

HELL'S VALLEY (paranormal western romance)
1) Legacy of Lies
2) Legacy Lost
3) Legacy of Danger
4) Legacy Found

PROJECT MORPHEUS (military romantic suspense)
1) Fallen Comrade
2) Hidden Comrade
3) Silent Comrade

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Reviews

[Jillian]

Dear Reader,

This is Jillian, and this note is for you!

First of all, thank you for checking out my books. I’m so glad you’re here!

I heard how much you loved my sled dogs in Book #1 DR. ALASKA, and I thought, hey what if I write an entire book involving even more sled dogs? This book took me a bit out of my medical knowledge zone into veterinary medicine and laboratory science. But, it’s good to have friends who are vets. Also, there’s really nothing quite like being able to walk down the hall of my hospital and chat with the lab techs and lab scientists! :)

My medical romance books are set in challenging rural environments, and showcase medical characters who risk it all to save lives, all while lugging serious baggage that they have to work through if they’re going to find love.

CODE BLUE CHRISTMAS is no exception.

And let's talk about tropes! Do you love tropes? How about:
Grumpy versus sunshine
Enemies to lovers
Holiday romance
How about two characters snowed-in together with only one bed?
Totally aDORKable sled dogs and a three-legged Chihuahua? (That’s not a trope, but it was really fun to write about dogs!)


CODE BLUE LOVE: One injured sled dog. One old grudge. One Christmas snowstorm that turns Yukon Valley into a matchmaking minefield.


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