While the humans are running around being merry, he’s hunting in the shadows. Ben plans to spend the holidays his way…by stalking deadly prey. But fate has other plans for Ben.Three visitors are coming Ben’s way…A demon who will force Ben to face his past, a ghost who will show Ben the present he could have, and a shifter who will reveal the darkness that waits in Ben’s future. Unless Ben can change his ways, he may just turn into a real monster, one who can’t be saved by anyone or anything.’Tis the season…to be undead.Ben’s redemption rests in the hands of the one woman he loved and lost—Simone Laurent. If Ben is going to have a chance at being more than just the beast in the darkness, he has to prove himself to the lovely Simone. A very hard task, considering that, once upon a Christmas Eve, Simone died in Ben’s arms… _________________Warning: This book features one very tortured vampire, a sexy ghost from his past, and hot scenes designed to melt the winter snow. Plenty of action, adult situations, and steamy times are ahead. Happy holidays!Approximately 23,000 words

    As her time of rumschpringe is about to come to an abrupt end, bringing for Annie an overwhelming sense of loneliness. She returns home and finds herself face-to-face with a budding romance with an Amish farmer and important choices to make.

    We hope it adds to your holiday spirit. Claire and Ayden are a young married couple in the start of the Christmas season and the traditions that ensue. From Thanksgiving to decorating to shopping to playing in the snow to caroling to giving, we follow the great traditions of the season. Their love is unmatched and their tale of falling in love is truly unique. This tale is about a question we have all thought about: what would you do if you only had a certain amount of time left to live? Making matters worse, is that in this particular story, the question comes at a time of great tragedy. This means that in that certain amount of time, a choice needs to be made: will they sulk about their situation, or will they try to make something of their last days? The Christmas season can be magical, but for some it can be very difficult. This is a story about choices, love, love lost, lasting relationships, goodwill, and lastly Christmas. Embark on this journey to experience the true meaning of Christmas.

    This bundled version also includes nine holiday recipes inspired from the series! The Boss Who Stole Christmas, Book 1Dear Santa, Please bring me a new boss for Christmas. 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 WinterIf You Give a Jerk a Gingerbread, Book 2Dear Santa, I do not want Keller James for Christmas. I will not fall for him, no matter how charming or irresistible or famous he is. I will not be swayed by his skills in the kitchen or by his British accent. I’m going to win the Great Gingerbread Bake Off and no one is going to stand in my way. Not even Keller. All kisses are off. I mean all bets. All bets are off. And all his clothes. Grr, never mind. I’ll figure this out myself. XOXO, Ginger WinterThe One Night Stand Before Christmas, Book 3Dear Santa, Please stop by my house and pick up your suit. If you thought I was going to run it to the dry cleaners for you after you left it on my bedroom floor, you’ve got another thought coming. Best, Noel Winter

    Her kids are grown up, her restaurant is doing just fine on its own, and her twenty-six-year marriage has come to an unceremonious end. Untethered for the first time in her adult life, she finds a winter guardian position in a historic seaside home and decides to leave her city life behind for a brand-new beginning.When she arrives in Willow Bay, Annie is enamored by the charming house, the invigorating sea breeze, and the town's rich seasonal traditions. Not to mention, her neighbors receive her with open arms--that is, all except the surly nephew of the homeowner, whose grand plans for the property are at odds with her residency. As Christmas approaches, tensions and tides rise in Willow Bay, and Annie's future seems less and less certain. But with a little can-do spirit and holiday magic, the most difficult time of her life will become...a season for second chances.

    It ended with a love story.Every December, Josie posts a letter from her home in London to the parents she lost on Christmas night many years ago. Each year, she writes the same three words: Missing you, always. But this year, her annual trip to the postbox is knocked off course by a bicycle collision with a handsome stranger--a stranger who will change the course of Josie's life.Josie always thought she was the only one who avoided the Christmas season, but this year, Max has his own reasons for doing the same--and coincidence leads them to spending the holiday together. Aglow with new love, Josie thinks this might be the start of something special.Only for Max to disappear without saying goodbye.Over the course of the next year, Max and Josie will find that fate continues to bring them together in places they'd never expect. New York City. Edinburgh. The quiet English countryside. And it turns out, Max had every reason to leave and every reason to stay. But what does fate hold for Josie and Max as Christmas approaches again?A devastating, romantic, life-affirming love story, Always, in December will stay with readers long after they've finished the last page.

    Perfect for fans of Lauren Blakely, Sophie Kinsella, and Julia Kent!In SNOWED IN WITH THE BILLIONAIRE, an event planner finds that a sexy rockstar client plus an unexpected blizzard equals a very private party... for two!In CHRISTMAS WITH THE BILLIONAIRE, wannabe-actress Jill winds up playing girlfriend when she's stranded with arrogantly hot producer Oliver. But will their romance last when the snow starts melting?

     Includes:**Janie and Quinn**-Deleted (love) Scene from 'Neanderthal Seeks Human' (new)-Interview with Janie and Quinn (shared on a blog 2014)-Short entitled, 'Neanderthal Seeks Honeymoon' (shared in 'Scenes from the City,' free or $.99 limited release 2015)-Short entitled, 'Neanderthal Seeks Baby, part 1' (shared in newsletter 2016)-Short entitled, 'Neanderthal Seeks Baby, part 2' (shared in newsletter 2017) **Elizabeth and Nico**-Deleted Scene from 'Friends Without Benefits,' Original Opening (new)-Deleted Scene from 'Friends Without Benefits,' Not so nice Nico (new)-Deleted Scene from 'Friends Without Benefits,' Hunting an Elk (new)-Deleted Scene from 'Friends Without Benefits,' Original Confrontation (new)-Short entitled, 'Most-Definitely-With Benefits' (shared in 'Scenes from the City,' free or $.99 limited release 2015) **Sandra and Alex**-Short entitled, 'Hacking the Hacker' (shared in 'Scenes from the City,' free or $.99 limited release 2015)-Short entitled, 'The Junior Hackers Society' (new) **Ashley and Drew**-Deleted Scene from 'Beauty and the Mustache' Furry Purse (shared on a blog 2014)-Deleted Scene from 'Beauty and the Mustache' Eavesdropping (shared on a blog 2014)-Short entitled, 'A Winston Christmas' (shared in newsletter 2015)-Short entitled, 'Beauty and the Beard' (shared in 'Scenes from the City,' free or $.99 limited release 2015) **Fiona and Greg**-Deleted Scene from 'Ninja at First Sight' Greg's Point of View (new)-Extra feature, Greg's Valentine's letter to Fiona (shared on a blog 2016) **Marie and Matt**-Short entitled, 'Dirty Talk is for Parties' (shared on a blog 2017) **Kat and Dan**-Extra feature, Dan's Creative Curse Words (new)-Novella entitled, 'Scenes from the Hallway' (shared 2018, free limited release)-Extra feature, Dan's Valentines Letter to Kat (shared on a blog 2018)-Deleted Scene from 'Marriage of Inconvenience' Crying Material (shared on a blog 2018)-Deleted Scene from 'Marriage of Inconvenience' Astronaut Specialist (new)

     Enjoy a humorous workplace romance between two enemies who realize the one they’re looking for is the one right in front of them! Start with EGGNOG AND CANDY CANES: Sometimes enemies make the best boyfriends. Nurse Katie Reiter’s nemesis, Dr. Nash Leham, is back in Blueberry Springs and he came for one thing—Katie. Will their battles for control turn into regretted mistletoe kisses? Or will Katie allow her enemy—the one man she’s always trusted—to help her family during a snowstorm crisis…and in the process find what she’s always been seeking—a happily ever after? What about falling for the boss? Escape to Indigo Bay where romance happens at the beach wedding of the holiday season in SWEET HOLIDAY SURPRISE: Rule Number One: Never date the boss. Given Alexa’s crash and burn history with office romances, it should be an easy rule to follow. Then again, her rules have never gone up against Cash Campbell. When the two attend a wedding in the dreamy beach town of Indigo Bay, they begin to wonder why they ever bothered following the rules. Because sometimes breaking the rules is the best way to discover the love of your life. Love a good snowed-in story? Two opposites fall in love on Christmas Eve, but it’s not all sunshine and roses for these two in FALLING FOR THE FIREFIGHTER: One blizzard. Two opposites. And…mistletoe? Josh Carson has a big secret and so does Simone Pascal. The last thing Josh needs is to try and save a hard-headed woman in a snowstorm. And yet, that’s just what he ends up doing as Simone pushes the boundaries of her own independence. Both have plans and they don’t include falling for each other. But when the snowstorm forces them to work together, they come close to revealing their innermost secrets. Will the two come to terms with their true selves in time to snatch their happily ever after? Adore heartwarming family Christmas stories full of happily ever afters? Then be sure to check out the bonus short story MAIL ORDER SOULMATE CHRISTMAS—not available anywhere else! Something borrowed, something (baby) blue…this Christmas! Zach, a former international agent, is shocked when Catherine arrives on his step with a baby, stating she’s his wife. Now it’s several months after their surprise meeting and the two have a Christmas surprise for each other! What will this unlikely couple do this holiday season? Find out! Start reading this special Christmas collection today!

    But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name.... It is perhaps only in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony of being in love without paying a crippling emotional price. I offer this book, then, as a cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery. Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer." --Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead All proceeds from My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead will go directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago. 826 Chicago is part of the network of seven writing centers across the United States affiliated with 826 National, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.

    They'll be together over the holidays, for the sake of their four year old son. But what chance do they have of becoming a family again, when she's returned to the tiny Idaho lakeside community she grew up in, and he's a city boy through and through? And that's before they deal with the issues that came between them in the past. Can they allow God to heal their broken marriage and broken hearts before his career tears them apart once more? I adore Christmas! Yummy food, fairy lights, decorating the tree, giving and receiving gifts—the big kid in me delights in all that! Plus it's a time for family, faith, and love, all things that mean a lot to me. And they're all important elements of my new novella Calm & Bright, too. It's a story of finding home, a second chance at love, and the greatest gift of all—the gift of a second chance with God. I've wanted to write this story since my spring release in 2015, Forget Paris. Brad appears in it very briefly, and unfortunately he's a bit of a jerk! Okay, a LOT of a jerk! But I treasure knowing none of us is such a jerk we can't be redeemed by love and faith. That earlier story woke Brad up that he needed to change, and in this book, he finds his heart's true home. I've enjoyed writing it so much! And I hope you'll enjoy reading it, too. This book begins a new series, set in beautiful Huckleberry Lake, Idaho! Every book is a complete romance, following a different couple through the trials and joys of a developing love, deepening their faith in the process, until they're ready for the happy-ever-after God has planned for them. Includes a bonus recipe! Faith, Hope, & Heartwarming - inspirational romance to make you smile!

    Three adventurous, irresistible women who don't mind teaching them. Add a secret FBI mission and a corrupt politician who wants them all dead, and watch the fireworks erupt. (Or is that gunfire?) A team that fights together sleeps together? Well, not ALL together. (But—okay, fine—love IS in the air.) (Seriously, these guys are hotter than a fire on a submarine.) "Action packed and breathtakingly romantic!" Susan Mallery #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author "...started with a bang and the tension never let up..." Paula Graves bestselling author

    . . and nothing was ever the same again!Once upon a time, four superstar storytellers—New York Times bestselling authors Stephanie Laurens and Mary Balogh, along with Jacquie D'Alessandro and Candice Hern—came up with a delicious idea. What if they each wrote a story about a proper young lady stranded at a remote inn away from society's constraints? What would happen? And how long would it take for her to give in to desire?In these four amazing tales, four heroines will come face-to-face with the men who got away . . . only to discover that, instead of anger, there is still a passionate connection that cannot be denied. And while each of their lives is quite different, and their pasts utterly unique, they will all make a common discovery—that one night can change everything . . . forever.

    Novelist Sophia Hart (real name: Sophie Bartholomew-Kaur-Hughes, but try fitting that on a book cover) absolutely hates her loudest critic—Evan Wolfe, evil mastermind behind the Lone Wolfe book review column. They've never met, but Wolfe's favorite pastime seems to be dumping on Sophie's unapologetically happy, magical romances. Sophie, not one to be left behind, gets her revenge in her own ways (never annoy a writer in search of a villain). When Sophie decides to throw a holiday party at her cabin, Wolfe is the last person on her mind. But the universe has a twisted sense of humor. Not only does Wolfe show up as someone’s plus one, but a massive snowstorm blows in, stranding them both alone together in Sophie’s cabin. Over the next few days, Sophie begins to realize that Wolfe isn’t as odiously cynical a man as she’d originally thought. In fact, he’s kind of…sweet. And impossibly hot. But still, Sophie’s been hurt before and she has so much to lose. What she needs is one sure sign that she and Wolfe are meant to be together. Will Sophie and Wolfe get their Christmas miracle?

    This is the story of my second chance." —Prologue of Lost DecemberWhen Luke Crisp graduates from business school, his father, CEO and co-founder of Fortune 500 Crisp’s Copy Centers, is ready to share some good news: he wants to turn the family business over to his son. But Luke has other plans. Taking control of his trust fund, Luke leaves home to pursue a life of reckless indulgence.But when his funds run out, so do his friends. Humbled, alone, and too ashamed to ask his father for help, Luke secretly takes a lowly job at one of his father’s copy centers. There he falls in love with a struggling single mother and begins to understand the greatest source of personal joy.