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\nBestselling author Meghan Quinn has a new holiday romance on the wayMerry Christmas, You Filthy Animal, out in October, is a spinoff of her 2024 book How My Neighbor Stole ChristmasRead an exclusive excerpt here<\/p>\n
Ring in the holidays a few months early with Meghan Quinn\u2019s latest book!<\/p>\n
PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the author\u2019s new novel, Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal, set to publish this fall via Bloom Books.<\/p>\n
The book is a loose spinoff to the author\u2019s 2024 enemies-to-lovers romance How My Neighbor Stole Christmas<\/a>, about two rivals who meet while competing in their town’s annual holiday contest. Though an official synopsis for the new novel has not yet been released, Bloom Books calls it a \u201cbrand new holiday rom-com with all the humor and heat her fans adore.\u201d\n<\/p>\n The cover of ‘Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal’ by Meghan Quinn.<\/p>\n Bloom Books<\/p>\n In addition to her holiday-themed books, Quinn is also the bestselling author of multiple series, along with the standalone rom-com Till Summer Do Us Part<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read an exclusive excerpt from Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal<\/a> below.<\/p>\n Narrator: And through the woods, without a hug, Max trudges over broken tree trunks, under snow-laden branches, subtly tripping here and there but with one mission on his mind: to find out who this Betty, the niece of Dwight Yokel, really is and what her intentions are. Because in his eyes, right now, she\u2019s seeming like a real wench.\n<\/p>\n I slip my slippers onto my feet and then look at myself one more time in the mirror to make sure I rubbed in all my lotion. I turn off the bathroom light and start to settle in for the night when I see a flash of light in the window again. Startled, I pause where I\u2019m at in the kitchen and reach into the fridge, pulling out another two-liter of soda, this time Coca-Cola, and I bring it up to my chest just as there\u2019s a knock at the door.\n<\/p>\n Meghan Quinn.<\/p>\n Julie Harris<\/p>\n Ready to attack, I shuffle toward the door, two-liter in position to take out a human, and I call out, \u201cWho is it?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAtlas Maxheimer, without a crowbar.\u201d<\/p>\n What is he doing here?<\/p>\n Didn\u2019t he get the hint the other day at the farm that I want nothing to do with him?<\/p>\n Or this morning when I sprinted across the street to avoid walking past him?<\/p>\n \u201cI promise, I come in goodwill. I\u2019m not here to hurt you.\u201d<\/p>\n Says the serial killer about to attack.<\/p>\n \u201cHow do I know that?\u201d I ask.\n<\/p>\n