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An Unconventional Christmas Love Story


Ellie Hall - 2021
    Love, MinnieI used to think Christmas was the most wonderful time of the year, filled with magic, mistletoe, and family except I don’t have one...or that special person to spend cozy nights with in front of the twinkling tree while sipping hot cocoa. But I know exactly who’s on my wish list.The problem is Tyler and I are besties and a relationship would ruin the dynamic in our friend group. Not to mention he flirts with half the women in the city, including the department store elves.When a blizzard-sized misunderstanding with my boss leaves me looking greener than the Grinch, I’m desperate for damage control. Tyler swoops in to save the holiday using little more than a mitten, tinsel, and a candy cane. Don’t ask. He also offers to escort me to the company Christmas party.In order to make our ruse believable, we go on a practice date then another... The whole thing is unconventional, especially when a guy named Kris Kringle accidentally marries us.I’m not complaining because my secret crush is also my secret Santa, but do I have the guts to give him the biggest gift of all, the truth about how I feel?This funny, flirty, and festive romantic comedy is clean and a companion story to the Falling into Happily Ever After Sweet Rom Com series.

Rediscovering Us


Daphne Elliot - 2021
    Will one magical Christmas in Havenport be enough to mend their hearts?Josh took his family for granted and lost the love of his life along the way. Now he’s pulling out all the stops for a second chance with his wife. Exhausted and heartbroken, Maggie agrees to a last-minute weekend away in the mountains. After getting snowed in, the sparks fly as their emotional walls begin to crumble. Can they rekindle their fire and rediscover the love between them?Author’s Note: Rediscovering Us is a standalone, Christmas-themed, marriage in crisis, small town novella featuring a sassy heroine and a lovable nice guy hero. May contain adult language, snowstorm sexy times, lots of holiday cheer and a heartwarming HEA.

UNDRESSED: Soul Catchers MC


Zoey Parker - 2017
     To my MC brothers, I’m a reckless rebel. But to Kira, I’m a new dad, desperate for help raising a child I never knew I had. She thinks I’m kind, normal — because she doesn’t know what I really do. I just hope she’s ready… Because I’m going to show her all at once – with my words, with my hands, with the monster behind my zipper – I’m a bad, bad man. By day, I’m a good guy. I have a real job, a real life. I help people. And, hell… part of me even likes it. But there’s another side that I don’t share in the sunlight. With my leather on my back and my bike between my legs, that white knight façade gets left behind. When the engines roar, I’m as bad as they come. I drink. I f*ck. I fight. And g*ddamn, I love it. But my dual life comes to a screeching halt when my ex drops off a child I didn’t know I had. Suddenly, I have a son to care for. I wasn’t ready for this, and I sure as hell can’t manage it alone. Especially not when my club is threatening to implode. I need help until I can get all this sh*t figured out. The girl who answers my Help Wanted ad is desperate, but I figure that’s a good thing – I’m desperate, too. And it doesn’t hurt that she’s a stone-cold stunner with a child of her own. Single dad meets single mom… Under other circumstances, it might even be cute. But ours isn’t a cute story at all. There’s far too much blood and misery for that. And besides – when I finally f*ck Kira, it will be far from cutesy. It will be hard. Brutal. Damn near savage. My dark side wouldn’t have it any other way. UNDRESSED is a bad boy MC baby romance. It is over 75,000 words of hot sex and exciting action, and comes with two exclusive bonus novels. Enjoy!

Billionaire for Christmas


Laurie Baxter - 2021
    A crush she can’t shake. A Christmas she’ll never forget.Ivy Steadman is not in love with her boss. Because first of all, technically speaking, she’s an independent contractor, so he’s not her boss. And second of all, she’s way too professional to fall for someone she works with. Someone it’s her job to sell to the public. Someone who only thinks of her as a colleague, or, at best, a friend. Only a fool would fall for their own marketing like that.Alec Ames is completely in love with his PR Specialist. He’s tried to keep it professional, but there’s no denying the chemistry between him and Ivy. He thinks she just might feel the same way. There’s really only one way to find out.His plan? Sweep her off her feet at the big holiday party he’s throwing for all the employees. He’s got the perfect night planned, from the lush and elegant Christmas decor to the string quartet ready with her favorite holiday song. What could possibly go wrong?

Kissmas Eve


M.E. Carter - 2016
    What he does love is sports, the thrill of a competition and the mysterious identity of the woman he’s been flirting with on the company messanger… Meg McClane loves everything about Christmas, from her festive Ugly Sweaters, down to her candy-cane striped toenails. But not everyone appreciates her holiday cheer; not her co-workers, not her bosses, and certainly not Adam Roberts—especially the night they get stranded in the elevators on their way to the company Christmas party…

Brownies & the Billionaire


R.K. Coven - 2021
    Dedicated to her baking with an entrepreneurial spirit, the vibrant young woman is not going down without a fight. Even if her opponent has billions to his name, and a body that shakes her to her core.Baxter Fern, used to farm and fortune, isn’t quite used to being told “no.” When a young competitor steps on toes he plans to solve the problem with money. When he finds himself up against a fierce woman, he’ll have a hard time staying focused on the deal at hand when all his hands want to do is touch Fanny.This is the story of a business merger baked with love.

Fur-ocious Lust Volume One


Milly Taiden - 2015
     Fur-Bidden Penelope Medina has stage fright the size of Texas. So when her boss signs her and her friends up for a bachelorette auction for their non-profit, this curvy girl is ready to quit. Except, she loves her job. Good thing she can arrange it so that her assistant will buy her. Easy peasy... or not. Fur-Gotten Karina Roma is a dare-devil curvy woman who fell hard for a sexy, rich bear shifter. Too bad the relationship was one-sided. The only thing she has going in her life is her job and her friends. When her boss signs her and her friends up for a bachelorette auction, this curvy girl is ready to quit, but her friends talk some sense into her. How hard can it be to get on stage and strut her stuff for charity? Fur-Given Julie Durante loves every single one of her curves. So when she met a hot as heck bear shifter who loved them too, she was more than happy, for a little while. A year after their break-up, she finds herself on the stage, being auctioned off and bought by the grouchy bear. Things couldn’t get worse, right? Wrong. Reader Note: These stories contains some scorching hot sex. If you have problems with low down dirty hanky-panky, you might want to skip this one. However, if you like bears who can’t get enough of their curvy women and some cheeky humor, this is the set for you.

The Naughty List


Ellie Mae MacGregor - 2020
    Kate isn’t sure if Nikolai is the real deal, but this silver fox with big hands and thick thighs might just make her believe in Christmas miracles.See if Kate has been naughty or nice in this light, fun, and steamy 15,000 word holiday romance with a guaranteed HEA.“I devoured this… It’s like a cup of cocoa, but if the tiny marshmallows were shaped like Santa boners” –Sierra Simone

Bad Santa


Kacey Hamford - 2017
    and all of the Santa Lands employees and clients would agree. Especially when December 1st rolls around and the most elusive strip club once again opens its doors. And the rules are once again in place to protect all of the secret Santas, especially the bad ones. Rules: 1.To be able to enter into Santa Land a non-disclosure agreement has to be signed. 2.All men have to wear a red Santa suit, hat and beard. 3.All women have to wear a Santa dress, stilettos, Santa hat and a red mask. 4.No contact information can be traded. 5.The Santa playrooms can be used by anyone but masks and beards must be kept on. 6.Only consensual sex is allowed. So when Candy wanted a repeat performance with the very Bad Santa that filled her stocking so well last year, it may not go to plan. However, Cupid wanted to find the Mrs Claus that's been on his naughty list since last Christmas. The rules say the Santas must remain a secret. But since when do Bad Santas stick to the rules?

Scrooged


Vi Keeland - 2018
    It was bad enough I was on my way to court for the gift of eviction.Although maybe today wouldn't turn out so bad after all.The Sexy Scrooge and I started to connect as we trudged our way through a storm. Our ride was about to end. But would I ever see him again?"THE MERRY MISTAKE"Note to self: Ask Santa for glasses this year. When I accidentally mistook a gorgeous man resting outside my building for a homeless person in need of a lunch, we got into it. I'd only been trying to do a good deed around the holidays, but he called me righteous. I called him something far worse. If only I didn't have to see him again. But fate had other plans."KISSMAS IN NEW YORK"It was just supposed to be a simple kiss with a stranger. I'd done it to prove a point - that I hadn't lost my sense of adventure. But you know what they about the best laid plans. Maybe I'd get something in my stocking after all this holiday season. . .

The Boss Who Stole Christmas


Jana Aston - 2019
    Mine is the worst. The worst, hidden in a six foot tall package of male perfection. It’d be easier if he looked like an old Scrooge, wouldn’t it? Nick Saint-Croix doesn’t look like an old scrooge. He’s hot as-Um, never mind. Just bring me a new boss. Please. Sincerely,Holly Winter

Christmas Dick (One-Handed Reads, #1)


Scott Hildreth - 2017
    After one too many holiday mistakes, she hopes to get through this years' party without doing anything she later regrets. Then, four drinks into the party, she notices a tattooed biker leaning against the wall.Knowing he isn't an employee, and that he must have 'crashed' the party, she propositions him. Little does she know, he's got secrets he's not telling...DICK has his Harley outside and a drink in his hand. He needs nothing more than to make it through the night without getting noticed. It's highly unlikely that he succeeds, though. He's tattooed, muscular, and wearing half a Santa suit.When he meets Tracey and her co-worker, he doesn't see it as 'three's a crowd', because he knows he's not the only biker scheduled for the night's event...CHRISTMAS DICK is a steamy contemporary romance short read in the One-Handed Read series of stand-alone HOT romance novellas that you'll need a free hand to read. They aren't simply steamy, they're guaranteed to set your Kindle ablaze.Keep one hand free, grab your Kindle, and prepare for the ride of your life.If you enjoy the novellas of Alexa Riley, Jenika Snow, Jordan Marie, and T. S. Joyce, you're sure to love this HOT novella.

This Is It: A Second Chance Romance: San Diego Social Scene Novella


Tess Summers - 2020
    Thinking back to the prior evening’s events, I decided it was definitely the naughty one. There had to be a mistake —I was always on the nice list. But the gorgeous, naked man snuggled next to me seemed to suggest I had a lump of… something waiting for me. Maybe the nice list was overrated. Or maybe naughty girls really did end up with coal in their stockings.GrantI was now on the ‘every-other-weekend and alternating holiday schedule' with my kids —one more thing about divorce that I detested. Attending my law partner’s Christmas Eve party seemed like a better alternative to drinking alone in my boring beige condo, staring at my new pipe-cleaner tree with its new, shiny ornaments. The last thing I expected was to be propositioned by a former PTA President. Or to wake up Christmas morning not wanting to leave her bed. But you don’t get to be our age without plenty of baggage. The question was, did ours match?This sexy, feel-good second chance romance will have you cheering for Paige and Grant to finally find their happily ever after together. But not before they discover that dating —at any age —isn’t so easy.

Stuck at Christmas


Georgia Coffman - 2021
    It's the furthest thing in my mind.Until her.To my surprise, one night is all it takes for me to fall for her, even though I know next to nothing about her.I never thought I'd see my mystery woman again, but like a holiday miracle, she shows up at my clinic one night with her young daughter.Every minute I’m with them only makes me fall harder, but our situation isn’t so simple.Getting stuck in a closet with Isabel just days before Christmas might be the gift we didn’t know we needed.

The Christmas Hims


Heather Henle - 2017
     Easier said than done, especially when everyone in town believes she’s the reason for the divorce between her and town Golden Boy, Lance. Two years after her divorce, and with a push from her best friend Marcus, she’s taken the plunge into the dating pool. Rachel gets more than she can handle when every date is almost too good to be true, or so it seems. Now she must choose her perfect match, between him, him, him, him and him. The Christmas Hims is a light-hearted, clean holiday romance that will make you believe that true love does exist, especially at Christmas.