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Amor Actually
Adriana Herrera - 2021
One party. Nine Happily Ever Afters. It’s Christmas Eve in New York City, when anything is possible. For these couples, it’s the season to find true love. From second-chances, big leaps, missed connections, and reconnections, this charming collection celebrates the spirit of the holidays and delivers nine perfect HEAs. From seven acclaimed and bestselling Latina authors—Zoey Castile, Alexis Daria, Adriana Herrera, Diana Muñoz Stewart, Priscilla Oliveras, Sabrina Sol, and Mia Sosa—comes a holiday romance collection like never before. Make the Yuletide Gay • Adriana Herrera After a string of broken engagements, an international Latin Pop Star finds love in her sexy and constant manager. Days before her big live holiday special, Vivi wonders if the woman of her dreams could finally be hers.Only Yours • Sabrina SolThe Mayor of New York embarks on a Christmas Eve search to find the woman he loves before she gets away. Meet Me Under the Mistletoe • by Priscilla OliverasChallenged by his friends to find a plus one to Nochebuena dinner or else, widower Hector Gutierrez isn’t sure he’s still got any good moves left. That is until he strikes the right chord with his son’s music teacher, Cristina.All I Want for Nochebuena • Alexis DariaWhen sparks fly between adult film stars Honey and Julie, Honey must work up the courage to invite Julie to her family’s holiday party or risk losing what she really wants for Nochebuena—a chance at true love.Santa’s Eager Little Helper • by Mia SosaSarita’s plan to confess her crush on a coworker goes awry when she’s tasked with playing the Sexy Elf to his grumpy Santa. Will she seize the opportunity to make Carlos’s naughty list, or will she spend another Nochebuena alone?The Nochebuena Dating Dare • by Diana Muñoz StewartEneida Lucero takes a second chance on love with the handsome musical director at her school—even if it means causing some Nochebuena drama with her ex-husband and familia. Love in Spanglish • Zoey CastileA heartbroken romance writer gets snowed in with a novel-worthy hero who may just make her believe in love again. To Us, You Are Perfect • Alexis Daria & Adriana HerreraNewlyweds Pasquale and Yamilette’s Christmas is just short of perfect. The missing piece is their best friend Marcelo, who has loved them from afar for years. This Nochebuena, they’ll finally complete their happily ever after.The Great Holiday Escape • Zoey CastileGigi is always on the hustle, making sure her little sister has everything she needs including a big Christmas Eve fiesta with all their friends and family. That night, Gigi receives an all-expenses paid trip to a luxe South Beach weekend where not one, but two beautiful strangers steal her heart.
A Kiss for Christmas
Melody Grace - 2013
In Unexpectedly Yours… Sophie has been dreaming of a magical winter holiday in New York City. Can a chance encounter with musician Austin bring her festive dreams to life?In Holiday Kisses… Writer Dash needs peace and quiet to finish his new script, but he wasn’t betting on inn-keeper Ellie and the local Starbright festival to give him a jolt of holiday inspiration.
The Christmas Swap
Sandy Barker - 2020
Chloe, Jules, and Lucy meet at a Maui resort kids' club, aged 11, forging a lifelong friendship spanning two decades and three continents.Twenty-two years later, they decide to swap Christmases, none of them expecting the hilarity and romantic escapades that will ensue.Chloe from Melbourne spends her Christmas with Lucy's mum and dad in a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, England, stunned to the core when she discovers who grew up across the road from Lucy.Lucy, who has jetted off to snowy Colorado for her dream-come-true white Christmas, is taken into the fold of Jules's loud and brash family, discovering more about herself in a few short days than she has in years.And Jules leaves the cold climes of Colorado to spend a balmy 'Orphan's Christmas' with Chloe's friends in Melbourne, finding that time away from her mundane life is just what she needed.Join these three lovable women as they each get a Christmas to surpass their wildest dreams.
LOL Romantic Comedy Anthology - Volume 3 - Sixteen All-New Romance Stories by Bestselling Authors!
Melanie MarchandeZoe York - 2015
Readers love these tasty tales from their favorite funny authors and swoon-worthy heroes. By popular demand, here's the third issue of LOL! You'll love (and laugh out loud) at these novellas, with satisfying, romantic endings and not a cliffhanger in sight. Enjoy 16 brand-new stories from your favorite NYT Bestseller and USA Today Bestseller romance and romantic comedy authors, plus a few fresh new faces. The theme of this volume is SNOW. Enjoy!LOL #3 features exclusive stories from:Waiting for Snow - Melanie MarchandeFor the first time ever, here's his version of how the world's most obnoxious billionaire playboy fell in love with his muse.Heat level: EroticSkiing in June - Blair BabylonRae Stone-von Hannover is no fairy tale princess. She’s a country bumpkin currently turning into a pregnant pumpkin.When three real princesses try to steal away Rae's handsome prince, she'll do anything to keep her man.Heat level: Spicy hot, 4 flames!The Snowman - Sky CorganFerne Lynch hates living in Alaska. She wants nothing more than to get away and explore the world. One night, she builds a snowman and makes a wish upon a star. Before the night is through, a mysterious man shows up on Ferne's doorstep. Are they meeting by chance, or is something magical happening?Heat level: SweetCan You Love Me Now?: Oakland Hills Short Story 3 - Gretchen GalwaySasha Selkirk has been in love with her bestfriend’s brother, Jake Lapinksi, since she was thirteen. Now twenty-eight, she finds him at the snowbound mountain cabin where she’s staying. . .and trying to forget about him.Heat level: SensualSnowbound - Victoria WessexWhen a blizzard traps shy girl Arabella in a gas station with cocky but gorgeous Jarrett, it feels like a fate worse than death. But as temperatures plunge outside, the friction between them leads to sparks...and a whole new way to keep warm.Heat level: SpicyIt Was Always You - Brenna AubreyWhen Jeremy, her brother’s best friend, came back into her life, Michaela cursed the fact that she was in a relationship. Now Michaela’s single again, but he’s dating her roommate.Heat level: SensualTake for Granted - Daisy PrescottJo and Ben Grant are spending a week in Aspen, without the kids. Bliss. Heaven. When Jo plans a wild evening out, will Ben embrace the crazy?Heat level: Sweet & SpicyFall Fast - Zoe YorkNavy SEAL Nathan Meyers isn’t complaining about being snowed in at O’Hare Airport with a sexy flight attendant. But one night together isn’t going to be enough. . .Heat level: EroticVegas Holiday - JJ KnightJo’s high-profile wedding is getting to her, so sheescapes to Las Vegas with her best friend to take a day off. Mayhem ensues, including a surprise attack by an army of XenaWarrior Princesses, and the arrival of an entire troupe of Elvis impersonators.Heat level: Moderately spicyWhen Things Go Wrong - Lacey SilksHigh school friends who don’t believe in lasting relationships reconnect when they’re forced to spend the night together, trapped in a cave.Heat level: EroticThis Never Happened - Julia KentA stolen kiss with her professor two months ago comes back to haunt a young woman when fate—and Mother Nature—bring them together.Heat level: Mostly sweet, some spice!Snow Kissed: A Three Girls short story - Rachel SchurigToo-shy-for-her-own-good Bella is taking a break from her med school applications to get some dating experience. Scott seems like just the guy to help her, and a working vacation at a luxurious ski resort is the perfect setting… for romance, ordisaster.Heat level: EroticBegin Again - Harlow NashAfter catching her cheating ex in the act, Louisa Gallo has sworn off men forever—until she collides with an old flame and starts to second guess everything she thought she knew about love.Heat level: SweetOnce Upon a Midnight Snowy - N.M. SilberProsecutor Kevin Taylor can't help falling for his feisty neighbor Alison Klein twice - once in the show, and once in the night. A cryptic note and a unexplained bang bring the two would-be sleuths and lovers together for romance and mystery.Heat level: SweetWarm Winter Kisses - Juliet SpenserBest friends forge a deeper connection during a winter storm. Hannah is a B&B manager and her best friend, Liam, is a detective. Can she keep her feelings a secret from the hunky investigator?Heat level: SensualLove and Elephants (Love & Witches Short Novella) - Mimi StrongA jaded businessman who doesn't believe in love crosses paths with a witch or two. A case of mistaken identity leads to shenanigans, and kissing!Heat level: Sweet
Hot and Badgered
Shelly Laurenston - 2018
Definitely they don’t usually hop up and demand his best gun. Berg gives the lady a grizzly-sized t-shirt and his cell phone, too, just on style points. And then she’s gone, taking his XXXL heart with her. By the time he figures out she’s a honey badger shifter, it’s too late. Honey badgers are survivors. Brutal, vicious, ill-tempered survivors. Or maybe Charlie Taylor-MacKilligan is just pissed that her useless father is trying to get them all killed again, and won’t even tell her how. Protecting her little sisters has always been her job, and she’s not about to let some pesky giant grizzly protection specialist with a network of every shifter in Manhattan get in her way. Wait. He’s trying to help? Why would he want to do that? He’s cute enough that she just might let him tag along—that is, if he can keep up . . .
Lucky Bunny
Eva Luxe - 2018
I'm just the guy to fill her up.
Tessa has a heart of gold and curves that are worth a ton of it.Fate brings us together during desperate times.She needs money to rebuild her school for disabled kids.And I need a fake wife, to inherit my father's business.I decide to make her adeal she can't refuse:Fake marry me on Easter Sunday. I'll pay five million dollars.But for that price, it has to include a real honeymoon...in which we'll f*ck like rabbits."Let me tie you up and have my way with you," I tell her."It'll be my very first time," she says. Even better.We'll each help each other out, in multiple ways.Then we'll be done for good.She agrees- and a deal's a deal, right?So why am I finding it so hard to walk away from her?
I never believed in mating for life.
Now I want to make her my lucky bunny for good.
Lucky Bunny is a standalone romance with no cheating and no cliffhangers, but with a very happy Easter and ever after, and with a whole bunch of steam. * Please note that an incorrect file was inadvertently uploaded upon initial publication, but the issue has been resolved, with the correct file published now.
Dear Santa
Nancy Naigle - 2018
They’ve weathered over sixty tourist seasons, major hurricanes, and urban sprawl, in their old decommissioned lighthouse. But the national chain that set up shop in their small North Carolina town of Pleasant Sands may be more than Heart of Christmas can survive.Encouraged by her niece to ask Santa for help, Angela gives in and lets the words fly in a way that, if Santa were real, would no doubt land her on the naughty list. What’s the harm when it’s just a computer-generated response?Geoff Paisley has been at his mother’s side running the mega-chain Christmas Galore for the last ten years. When his mother falls ill, Geoff promises to answer the town’s Dear Santa letters in her stead. Soon he realizes the woman he’s been corresponding with on Dear Santa is Angela. How could the woman that grates his every last nerve in person have intrigued him so deeply through those letters?When Geoff reveals that he’s her Dear Santa, will Angela be able to set aside their very public feud to embrace the magic of the holiday and possibly find true love?
Wanted Under the Mistletoe (The Sweater #4)
Kate Tilney - 2020
A curvy nurse with a big secret. She holds the answer he’s looking for, but will she give it up easily?EvangelineWho hasn’t gotten a little tipsy at the office Christmas party and done something regrettable? Say, like, photocopying your derrière and posting it on every bulletin board in the hospital?It was a true Christmas miracle that I managed to find every copy and shred them before anyone figured out it was MY backside.At least I thought I found every copy . . .JasperMy first day at the hospital, I open my locker to find a most enticing picture. Days later, the photo—and who it might belong to—are all I can think about.The Jade Mountain Hospital holiday party seems like the perfect setting to track down the picture’s owner. Whoever she is, I want her. And if Santa is feeling generous, this year she’ll be wrapped up in a bow under my tree.The Sweater Series are fun, sweet and steamy short stories of holiday office romances with swagger-filled heroes and confident and sassy women.Find out if that kiss will happen today!
The Mistletoe Motive
Chloe Liese - 2021
She loves them. She’s full of festive cheer. He’s brimming with Bah, Humbugs. Besides unreasonably seasonable names, the only thing Jonathan Frost and Gabriella Di Natale have in common is a healthy dose of mutual contempt. Well, that and the same place of employment at the city’s most beloved independent bookstore, Bailey’s Bookshop. But when the store’s owners confess its dire financial state, Jonathan and Gabby discover another unfortunate commonality: the imminent threat of unemployment.With the Baileys’ requests to minimize expenses, win new customers, and make record sales dancing in their heads, Jonathan and Gabby conclude—barring a financial Christmas miracle—one of them will soon be cut from the payroll. Neither are willing to step down from their position, so they strike a bargain: whoever has more sales in December gets to stay on in the new year; the loser will resign. With a lifetime's worth of festive tricks up her sleeve, Gabby should easily outsell her nemesis, except the unreadable Mr. Frost’s every move seems purely designed to throw her off her game.As if that wasn’t bad enough, Gabby's deceptive ex won't quit pursuing her, and her anonymous online friend suggests they take a break. Worst of all, as the pressure mounts to save the bookshop and her job, Gabby meets a new, tender side of Jonathan. Is this the same man she's called her cold-hearted enemy?Maybe he’s got a motive she just can’t figure out—or maybe Jonathan Frost isn’t as chilly as she once thought. Maybe Jonathan and Gabby already know—and love—each other in ways they never thought possible.This is an #OwnVoices story for its portrayal of autism by an autistic author.
The Santa Suit
Mary Kay Andrews - 2021
The Four Roses, as the farmhouse is called, is a labor of love—but Ivy didn't bargain on just how much labor. The previous family left so much furniture and so much junk, that it's a full-time job sorting through all of it. At the top of a closet, Ivy finds an old Santa suit—beautifully made and decades old. In the pocket of a suit she finds a note written in a childish hand: it's from a little girl who has one Christmas wish, and that is for her father to return home from the war. This discovery sets Ivy off on a mission. Who wrote the note? Did the man ever come home? What mysteries did the Rose family hold?Ivy's quest brings her into the community, at a time when all she wanted to do was be left alone and nurse her wounds. But the magic of Christmas makes miracles happen, and Ivy just might find more than she ever thought possible: a welcoming town, a family reunited, a mystery solved, and a second chance at love.
Holidays Ever After: Contemporary Romance Holiday Boxed Set
Colleen CharlesHolly Dodd - 2017
From Halloween to Kwanzaa, Valentines Day, Norooz, and the Fourth of July, these stories will give your holiday season extra spark and will be the best romantic holiday bundle to hit your ereader this year!Get ready to heat up your holidays when you treat yourself to Holidays Ever After!Including stories from…Colleen CharlesMonica Corwin Amy L. Gale Becca Fanning Victoria Pinder Alexa Padgett Tuesday Embers Khardine Gray Holly Dodd Liz Gavin Jillian Quinn Courtney Hunt Vivi Holt Kristen Luciani Astrid Arditi Rebekah R. Ganiere Jessica Gray Ja’Nese Dixon Teresa Roman Angela Corbett
The Holiday Swap
Maggie Knox - 2021
All they want for Christmas is a different life. When chef Charlie Goodwin gets hit on the head on the L.A. set of her reality baking show, she loses a lot more than consciousness; she also loses her ability to taste and smell--both critical to her success as show judge. Meanwhile, Charlie's identical twin, Cass, is frantically trying to hold her own life together back in their quaint mountain hometown while running the family's bustling bakery and dealing with her ex, who won't get the memo that they're over. With only days until Christmas, a desperate Charlie asks Cass to do something they haven't done since they were kids: switch places. Looking for her own escape from reality, Cass agrees. But temporarily trading lives proves more complicated than they imagined, especially when rugged firefighter Jake Greenman and gorgeous physician's assistant Miguel Rodriguez are thrown into the mix. Will the twins' identity swap be a recipe for disaster, or does it have all the right ingredients for getting their lives back on track?
All About Us
Tom Ellen - 2020
And then his old friend Alice gets back in touch. Ben’s always thought of Alice as the one that got away, and he can’t help but wonder: what if he’d done things differently all those years ago?He never imagines he might get to find out… but when a stranger sells Ben a mysterious watch one freezing winter’s night, he’s astonished to wake up the next morning on 5th December 2005: the day he first kissed Daphne, leaving Alice behind.Now Ben must make the biggest decision of his life, all over again. But this time around, will he finally find the courage to follow his heart?All About Us is a captivating novel of heartbreak and loss, friendship and hope – and how the choices we make throughout our lives will shape our destiny.
The Awkward Path to Getting Lucky
Summer Heacock - 2017
But when she realizes that it's been nearly two years since she and her boyfriend, Ryan, have been intimate, she makes a pact to break her dry spell-and cure her vaginismus, a muscular condition that can make sex physically impossible.Out of guilt, Kat calls for a break in her relationship with Ryan, so that he can see other people while she attempts to fix the issue on her own. She throws herself into physical therapy, but soon discovers her solo mission is more complicated than she anticipated. Fortunately, Ben Cleary, the shop's best (looking) customer, is also a physical therapist, and volunteers to help out.As time goes on, however, the boundaries Ben and Kat have set between friendship and love quickly become blurred, leaving her more confused than ever about what to hang on to and what to let go.
The Twelve Dates of Christmas
Jenny Bayliss - 2020
But then her best friend signs her up for a dating agency that promises to help singles find love before the holidays. Twenty-three days until Christmas. Twelve dates with twelve different men. The odds must finally be in her favor . . . right? Yet with each new date more disastrous than the one before--and the whole town keeping tabs on her misadventures--Kate must remind herself that sometimes love, like mistletoe, shows up where it's least expected. And maybe, just maybe, it's been right under her nose all along. . . .