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We wish you a merry Christmas and a happily-ever-after! This special holiday historical romance anthology featuring three heartwarming novellas proves that no matter the obstacles, ’tis the season for love.

With a head full of get-rich dreams and a business idea, but no funding, Fran McBride embarks on a life-changing challenge. Immersed reluctantly into an equestrian life, Fran has to grasp the basics of not only how to care for a horse, but also how to ride and jump. In fact, her very future depends on it! For a capable adult, just how difficult can that be? Maybe not so. For our super intelligent yet super uncoordinated Fran? Very bloody difficult. Will she make it? Will she get her desperately sought-after investment?

Cleo writes about love stories every day. She just isn't living one of her own. When the editor of her dating column asks her to marry herself on a remote Irish island - a sensational piece to mark Cleo's 30th birthday - Cleo agrees. She's alone but not lonely, right? She can handle a solo adventure. Cleo arrives at her luxury cabin to find a tall, dark, stubborn American who insists it's actually his. Mack refuses to leave, and Cleo won't budge either. With a storm fast approaching, they reluctantly hunker down together. It's just one night, after all.

Diane knows why the earl asked her to marry him; he needed a mother for his daughter, an heir for his title, and a hostess to assist with his position in Parliament. With two sons of her own, and no security to speak of, she never thought twice about accepting his proposal. Summering at his holiday cottage at the sea was meant to be reward for a busy first year as the new countess, and a time for her to rest before their baby is born.

Peggy Square blankets are a New Zealand institution. Knitted in individual squares, the whole is greater than the parts.These stories by Josie Laird are individual and charming, thought-provoking, and gruesome. As a collection, they seek to warm and entertain you, and maybe have you in stitches!

Hardworking accountant Nora Lancaster returns to her modest hometown to help manage an inn that her parents once owned. In order to escape small-town living, she’d married young and moved away. Now, as a single mother of a rebellious teenage daughter, she doesn’t intend to stay long - only a few weeks at most - or until the current owner of the inn recovers from his heart attack. World-weary Julian Wilson is a businessman who arrives in town for one reason - to open another restaurant.

Dipple is a brilliant, if somewhat, bungling wizard, who accidently drops his wedding band into the Trapdoor of Time. With the aid of his wife Bernadaea, who thinks he has dropped something a lot more dangerous into Time, he sets off to retrieve the ring before she finds out what he is really seeking.

Seventeen-year-old Crystal White is the new girl on Starfish Island. Dragged to the remote community by her environmental activist father, she is eager to find fun that doesn’t involve touching fish guts or listening to local folklore. During a midnight swim with some new friends, Crystal is pulled out to sea by the waves.

Et si vous pouviez revivre votre plus belle histoire d'amour ? Lydia et Freddie. Plus de dix ans d'amour, auquel un terrible accident met brutalement fin. Face au vide, à l'absence, Lydia se laisse sombrer, incapable de poursuivre le fil de sa vie. Jusqu'au jour où elle accepte d'avaler un médicament pour dormir et le miracle se produit : elle se réveille au côté de Freddie, bien vivant. Alors, Lydia se met à vivre pour ses nuits. Chaque soir, elle avale un cachet et vole quelques heures, des morceaux de la vie qui aurait dû être la sienne.

Harassment and bullying at work can be a nightmare for managers. Nowadays, over-the-top behaviours have been replaced by more subtle, less observable actions. These are far harder to recognise, let alone deal with. Before you notice what’s going on, morale and trust can be irreparably damaged, and key staff are resigning. But it doesn’t need to be like that.

Colum O’Brien, a professional ballet dancer, is still hurt from a breakup four decades earlier. All this time, his heart has gravitated toward the woman who left him behind. Sure, he’s moved on with his life, but he’s never forgotten his childhood sweetheart Keira Murphy. That is, until he meets her again. Because, his father is marrying her mother.

In Cora Carpenter’s small California hometown, Christmas is tailor-made for couples. Unfortunately, Cora is a party of one, thanks to a con man who stole her heart, then bilked her out of thousands of dollars. What’s on her Christmas wish list this year? Nothing whimsical. She’ll take a new vacuum cleaner, thanks - and no dating for the foreseeable future. But when she meets a stranger with a broken-down car, his warm smile and perilously blue eyes almost make her want to tweak that list. If only she could get over the pain and humiliation of her past.

The last thing she can fix is her own life. Until one man’s offer changes everything. There’s been one constant in Belle Boots’ nomadic life. Horses. She’s lived in Roses, North Carolina, for a couple years, but lately the universe seems to be telling her it’s time to pack up her equine therapy practice and move on. Maybe Florida. Or California. But when she’s offered a horse-friendly fixer-upper near where she grew up, her usual sense of adventure gives way to a longing for something familiar. Salt air, wheeling seagulls, summer sand between her toes. Wilmington. Home.

Als Tochter der alten und angesehenen Delaney-Familie ist Graces Platz im Leben vorbestimmt, und jeder Versuch auf Freiheit wird unter den wachsamen Augen einer Familie, die ein schreckliches Geheimnis birgt, unterdrückt. Adam Falzons rücksichtsloser Ruf hat ihm die Ehrfurcht der elitären Oberschicht eingebracht. Sein alter Reichtum und sein Charme verbergen eine Vielzahl von Sünden, aber nichts kann wirklich den Teufel in seinem Innern verbergen.

A disillusioned widow longing for a change. A hard-working truck driver looking for love. Will Emily and Joe find their happily-ever-after in a forgotten summer breeze? Widow Emily Varon doesn’t believe in love anymore, and she isn’t wasting her time trying to find it. At her age, she’s learned that life is a daily routine. Rinse and repeat. Safe and secure. And she’s not about to change her ways now. With her hard-won affluence, succumbing to a truck-driver’s invitation to spend a summer weekend together means only one thing. Friendship.

Bist du mutig genug, um die Liebe erneut in dein Herz zu lassen? Als Lydias große Liebe Freddie mit nur Ende zwanzig bei einem tragischen Verkehrsunfall ums Leben kommt, bricht für sie eine Welt zusammen. Sie weiß, dass er für immer fort ist und kann ihn doch nicht loslassen und ihr Leben weiterleben. Jonah, Freddies bester Freund, der neben ihm saß, als der Unfall passierte, ist der einzige Mensch, der Lydias Schmerz wirklich verstehen kann, der Einzige, für den Freddie genauso wichtig war wie für sie.

In this sequel to Dream of Me, Josie Litton pursues the romantic and political affiliations between the Saxons and the Norse at the end of the ninth century. When the Saxon lord Hawk agrees to take a Norse bride, he finds an unexpected affection for his enigmatic and fiery fiancée, Lady Krysta...

Please mind the HEART. London. An einem trüben Winterabend sitzt Lu im Bus, als sie einen jungen Mann an der Haltestelle bemerkt, der in ein Buch vertieft ist. Er blickt auf, und für einen wunderschönen Moment treffen sich ihre Blicke. Doch bevor er einsteigen kann, setzt sich der Bus in Bewegung. Monate vergehen, und Lu kann die Begegnung mit dem Bus Boy, so nennen sie und ihre beste Freundin Sarah den Fremden, einfach nicht vergessen. Erst ein Jahr später finden Jack und Lu sich endlich wieder. Doch mittlerweile ist Bus Boy mit Sarah zusammen. Und die ahnt nichts von dem furchtbaren Zufall...

Set in ninth-century England and Norway, Dream of Me tells the story of Wolf Hakonson, a fierce Norse chief who falls in love when he kidnaps the sister of his rival, Hawk, a prominent Saxon lord. Wolf marries the lovely Cymbra but their wedded bliss is short-lived. First the women of the...

Lyssa Harper should have warned divorced DILF du jour Harry Wilder before she invited him to meet the mommies of the Paradise Heights Women’s League Board. At least he brought cupcakes. Since taking the former Master-of-the-Universe turned stay-at-home-single-dad under her wing, Lyssa has been his domestic Sherpa, teaching him the ins and outs of life inside their gated community. She never dreamed her friends would bombard him with casseroles, leopard-print bikini briefs, and offers to rearrange his kitchen cabinets.