Author: Mary Jo Putney Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: 142013194X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 413
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This delightfully daring collection of holiday Regency novelettes, follows the lives and loves of eight individuals, from a spirited lady who sets out to save her rakish best friend from a unsuitable engagement, to a bold spy who finally gets his chance with the woman he has always loved. Original.
Author: Lauren Willig Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101444703 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
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Despite her dear friend Jane Austen's warning against teaching, Arabella Dempsey accepts a position at a girls' school in Bath, just before Christmas. She hardly imagines coming face-to-face with French aristocrats and international spies. Reginald "Turnip" Fitzhugh-often mistaken for the elusive spy known as the Pink Carnation-has blundered into danger before. When Turnip and Arabella find their Christmas pudding yielding a cryptic message, they are launched on a Yuletide adventure. Will they find poinsettias-or peril?
Author: Melissa Ivers Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 114
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Julia Rowe isn't just my best friend's little sister. She's a beautiful, talented baker and anytime I get within five feet of her, my blood heads south for the winter. She's got me more tangled than a box of Christmas lights. I've been in love with her for longer than I can remember. Too bad, she's also the only woman I'm not allowed to touch. Why? Because of a promise I made to her brother years ago. Not to mention, she hates me. Now, we're under the same roof, and I'm not sure I can resist her. With Christmas right around the corner, can I show her I've changed? Or will I ruin my chances, destroy Christmas and lose my best friend? I may be in need of a Christmas miracle.
Author: Stephanie Rowe Publisher: Authenticity Playground Press ISBN: 1940968925 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 481
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★★★★★ "Will make you believe in love, happiness and the magic of Christmas." Five-star Amazon Review A Christmas romance treat! For the first time ever, a three-book holiday romance bundle from New York Times bestselling author, Stephanie Rowe. Fun, sexy, and heartwarming, these three stories about the magic of Christmas are full of romance, laughter, and the deeply satisfying happily-ever-after that Christmas is all about. ★★★★★ "I absolutely loved this story! What a beautiful and classic romance story with a Christmas theme beautifully woven in." ~Amber S. (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "Characters were full of depth, the heartwarming storyline had meaning, and it kept me wanting to turn the page. Great Christmas tale." Five-star Amazon Review A Real Cowboy for Christmas (A Wyoming Rebels Novel) Fall in love with a charming cowboy sheriff and the single mom he rescues on a Christmas hayride. Wrapped up in You (A Mystic Island Novel) Enjoy all the happy feels when a chance meeting on a snowy ferry ride in Maine ignites a romance that started with a moonlight kiss a decade ago. Jingle This! (Steamy Contemporary Romance) A steamy, sassy romance between a hot-as-heck boss and the irreverent, anti-romance copywriter hired to write stories about Christmas love and diamonds. ★★★★★ "Where do I even start with how much I enjoyed this book? It was funny and sexy and I couldn't stop reading it once I started!!!" ~Janet W. (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "Sheriff Dane would definitely be my first choice as a Christmas gift with his charm, good looks, and protective nature for those he loves." ~Five-star Amazon Review ★★★★★ "I was so touched and drawn in. A fairy tale love story that left me happily smiling and shedding tears." ~Vickie R (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "This book is great! I cried happy tears all through the last two chapters and the epilogue." ~artist (Five-star Amazon Review) ★★★★★ "Super funny and super hot…I was either laughing or fanning myself throughout." ~Jenae111 (Five-star Amazon Review)
Author: Eloisa James Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0063139707 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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From four beloved writers—Eloisa James, Christi Caldwell, Janna MacGregor, and Erica Ridley—come four original stories that tell a hilarious tale of a Christmas house party that serves up love and scandal in equal measure! The Duke of Greystoke’s Christmas Revelry is famous throughout the British Isles for its plays, dancing, magical grotto… not to mention scandals leading to the marriage licenses he hands out like confetti. But not everyone welcomes a visit from Cupid. Lady Cressida, the duke’s daughter, is too busy managing the entertainments—and besides, her own father has called her dowdy. Her cousin, Lady Isabelle Wilkshire, is directing Cinderella and has no interest in marriage. Lady Caroline Whitmore is already (unhappily) married; the fact that she and her estranged husband have to pretend to be together just makes her dread the party all the more. But not as much as Miss Louisa Harcourt, whose mother bluntly tells her that this is her last chance to escape the horrors of being an old maid. A house party so large that mothers lose track of their charges leads to a delightful, seductive quartet of stories that you will savor for the Season!
Author: Pamela M Kelley Publisher: Piping Plover Press ISBN: 0991243528 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 174
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This is Dan & Traci's story. We first meet them in SIX MONTHS IN MONTANA. Dan is Christian's younger brother, who loves the city life and living in Chicago...and is not happy to be stuck for several months in Beauville, MT recuperating with a badly broken leg. His spirits lift when he meets newly single Traci, who is also crazy about Christmas....while Dan would be happy to skip the holiday entirely. Traci just ended a serious relationship with the former high school football star, when he grew uncomfortably controlling....and she is not ready for a new relationship with anyone, especially a scrooge like him.....but Dan doesn't give up easily...
Author: Jill Shalvis Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062448056 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 278
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jill Shalvis continues her fun, sexy new contemporary romance series with a tale of friends-to-lovers...just in time for Christmas. If she has her way . . . Willa Davis is wrangling puppies when Keane Winters stalks into her pet shop with frustration in his chocolate-brown eyes and a pink bedazzled cat carrier in his hand. He needs a kitty sitter, stat. But the last thing Willa needs is to rescue a guy who doesn’t even remember her . . . He’ll get nothing but coal in his stocking. Saddled with his great-aunt’s Feline from Hell, Keane is desperate to leave her in someone else’s capable hands. But in spite of the fact that he’s sure he’s never seen the drop-dead-gorgeous pet shop owner before, she seems to be mad at him . . . Unless he tempers “naughty” with a special kind of nice . . . Willa can’t deny that Keane’s changed since high school: he’s less arrogant, for one thing—but can she trust him not to break her heart again? It’s time to throw a coin in the fountain, make a Christmas wish—and let the mistletoe do its work . . . (A standalone Heartbreaker Bay novel)
Author: Mary Jo Putney Publisher: Zebra Books ISBN: 142013860X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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“Eight romance authors walk into a Regency-era ballroom and wreak fabulous, shimmering holiday mischief all over the place.”—Publishers Weekly Christmas 1815. Upstairs and downstairs, Holbourne Abbey is abuzz with preparations for a grand ball to celebrate the year’s most festive—and romantic—holiday. For at the top of each guest’s wish list is a last chance to find true love before the New Year . . . “The tales are rather sentimental, a box of chocolates with sweet, soft centers inside a dark covering, a pleasant confection for the holiday season. My personal favorites are Anne Gracie’s ‘Mistletoe Kisses,’ a charming variant on the Cinderella story, and Susan King’s ‘A Scottish Carol,’ whose lovers must struggle to find healing for the wounds of self-doubt and past failures; but there is ample variety here for other tastes. Recommended for lovers of Regency romances.”—Historical Novel Society “In this wonderful collection of eight short stories, Christmas in the Regency world is brought to life in extraordinary fashion, with love, secrets, scoundrels and heroes of every description.”—Fresh Fiction “If what you are looking for is a set of short stories with a common location and holiday feel that are well done, quick to read, and entertaining then this will be a book for you . . . one of the best historical romance collections I’ve read in a long time.”—Smexy Books “Each author’s unique style and storytelling talents are at their best, gifting readers one scrumptious treat after another . . . glowing with the joy and romance of the yuletide.”—RT Book Reviews (4 Stars)
Author: Carola Dunn Publisher: Minotaur Books ISBN: 1429999969 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 278
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In December 1923, the formidable Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple has decided that for Christmas the family will all gather at Brockdene in Cornwall at the invitation of Lord Westmoor. Her daughter - Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher - is something less than pleased but yields to the demands of her mother, especially as she'll be there just before the holidays working on another article for Town and Country about the estate itself. But the family gathering quickly goes awry. Brockdene, it seems, is only occupied by the Norvilles - poor relations of Lord Westmoor - and Westmoor himself won't be joining them. So Daisy, her husband Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, and their family must spend their Christmas holiday trapped in an ancestral estate with a rich history of lore, ghost stories, rumors of hidden treasure and secret passageways with a family seething with resentments, grudges and a faintly scandalous history. The veneer of civility that pervades the halls of Brockdene, however, begins to wear thin when long-held family secrets threaten to bubble over, and one of the Christmas guests if found savagely murdered. With few clues as to who committed the murder and with too many motives as to why, it is once again up to Daisy to sort out the truth that lies beneath a generation of poisonous secrets.
Author: Cindi Madsen Publisher: Entangled: Amara ISBN: 1640639209 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 323
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From the moment Julie sees her best friend, Gavin, in the airport, it’s like no time at all has gone by. No matter how long they’ve been apart, their relationship has always been steady, comfortable, and decidedly “just friends.” Of course, that’s not stopping their meddling parents from hanging unlimited amounts of mistletoe everywhere she goes this holiday season. Gavin is all too aware of their family’s matchmaking intentions. Still, he’s been happy to keep things in the friend zone. As the new starting quarterback for the San Antonio Mustangs, he’s got enough on his plate without adding romance to the mix. But somewhere between dressing up as elves, nights watching com-coms, and heating things up in the town’s hot springs, Julie and Gavin wonder if they’ve landed right in the middle of a “reverse parent trap.” But falling for their parents’ scheming might involve one trap too many... Each book in the Heart in the Game series is STANDALONE: * The Wedding Deal * The Mistletoe Trap