Mettle & Mistletoe

Name: Mettle & Mistletoe
Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)

Isadora Brown · H. C. Cardona

Nov 2025 · Grey Star Publishing, LLC

4 reviews

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Winter break at Dominion Point Academy was supposed to be quiet. Peaceful. Maybe even a little cozy.

Instead, Paige Calloway finds herself one of the only students left on campus—with a blizzard rolling in, a stack of placement logs to finish, and the emotionally constipated (and unfairly attractive) Professor Rhys Ashford haunting the halls like a very judgmental ghost.

But when a student’s body is discovered half-buried in the snow, Paige realizes the storm isn’t the only danger closing in. Files are being altered. Logs don’t match. And someone is working very hard to cover up what really happened.

With Ashford on winter rotation and danger creeping closer, Paige must unravel the truth before the killer strikes again.

Cozy, tense, and deliciously slow-burn, Mettle & Mistletoe delivers a snowed-in mystery perfect for fans of Bones and grumpy/sunshine banter.

Winter break at Dominion Point Academy was supposed to be quiet. Peaceful. Maybe even a little cozy. Instead, Paige Calloway finds herself one of the only students left on campus—with a blizzard rolling in, a stack of placement logs to finish, and the emotionally constipated (and unfairly attract...

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4 reviews

Michelle Solimene

January 1, 2026

Like my heading says this starts slow. After all the hubbub of students leaving for break there’s a lot of quiet. Even after the murder there’s a lot of dancing around in circles. As an aside I found the time flow confusing, I wasn’t sure how much time had passed and if it was night or day. I don’t know if this is intentional as the story takes place during a blizzard and that can be disorientating or just the rough edges of an arc or what but during the first half or so of the book I wasn’t sur

Christinaraven Blinn

December 12, 2025

I thought this one was funny and entertaining to read. Enjoyed the twists and surprises and trying to guess what was going on. And adding the complication of a blizzard made it fun to read too. Always fun watching Paige figure out the mystery.

Rosemary Kenny

December 31, 2025

Mettle and Mistletoe brings a Seasonal murder-mystery for Paige and Ashford, after they and a few others are marooned at the Academy by a snowstorm...and a killer strikes. I liked the way the authors build up the tension, both in the burgeoning relationship of mentor and intern, followed by uncomfortable revelations - and a corpse! The atmosphere is eerily contrasted with complicated emotions, and lurking danger, making Mettle and Mistletoe a Yuletide none of those involved will ever forget.

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