What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? by Catherine Stein

One thousand ladies want his attention. He only wants one. Too bad he doesn’t know her name.

Eschewing his privileged life as heir to an automaton empire, William Ashton, Jr. spends his days diving into research and pining for the young woman who frequents his branch of the NYPL. Until one careless word from his mother leaves him with every Knickerbocker princess and penniless chambermaid eager to become his date for the biggest New Year’s Gala in Manhattan.

Maddie Peters has long admired sweet and shy librarian Will Ashton, but his family’s position in high society means anything more than friendship is a fantasy. When a letter arrives to say that Will has invited her to his mother’s exclusive party, Maddie is flabbergasted. She’s sure it’s a mistake, but she’s not one to waste the opportunity to woo him.

Angry neighbors, meddling guardians, and rampaging mechanical dragons all threaten Will and Maddie’s chance at holiday romance. But when the clock strikes midnight, these two lovers might find they have what it takes to wind up in each other’s arms.

About the Author…

Award-winning author Catherine Stein believes that everyone deserves love and that Happily Ever After has the power to help, to heal, and to comfort. She writes sassy, sexy romance set during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Her books are full of action, adventure, magic, and fantastic technologies.

Catherine lives in Michigan with her husband and three rambunctious girls. She loves steampunk and Oxford commas, and can often be found dressed in Renaissance Festival clothing, drinking copious amounts of tea.

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Twitter: catsteinbooks
Website: catsteinbooks.com
Facebook: catsteinbooks

Home for the Holidays Anthology

Heart-rending, happy-ending romances to enhance your holidays!

Family get-togethers for the holiday season can sooth our emotions or savage our souls.  No one knows us better than the family and friends we choose share such times with.

In each of these seven delightful short romances, our heroes and heroines find going home for this season even more of a heart-wrench, for true love challenges their deepest held beliefs.

Going home for the holidays has never felt so wonderful.

This is the first annual edition of the Christmas Romance Digest, edited by national award-winning, best-selling romance author Tracy Cooper-Posey, featuring some of Romanceland’s most beloved authors.

“A Christmas Carole”—Roxy Boroughs
“Just In Time For Christmas”—Lea Storry
“Because Of The Christmas Stroll”—Debbie Mumford
“The Invitation”—Jasmine Luck
“The Ghosts of Christmas Present”—Karen McCullough
“The Reunion”—Annie Reed
“Burying His Ghost of Christmas Past”—Tracy Cooper-Posey

Holidays with Hades by Brenda Trim

Popcorn strands, holly berries, and twinkly lights. Add a little magic and the holiday season will be perfect, right?

‘Tis the season and I’m setting the stage. But even with all the trimmings, I know better than to think everything will run smoothly.

I’ve promised an invitation to Fate and it’s never a good idea to keep such a powerful being waiting, but my festive frenzy keeps getting interrupted.

Removing curses and humoring carolers are the last things I should be doing when I’ve also just learned that I have to make room at the Yule Dinner table.

For whom? Oh, just Hades, God of the freaking Underworld and father of the man in my bed.

I didn’t have time for the normal chaos in my life, but this is a new extreme. It’s impossible to make a good impression when I barely remember my name.

My power is hours away from turning me into a vegetable, my house is a mess, and suddenly my ex-husband has some demands of his own.

Not today, Satan.

Nothing will ruin these holidays for me and my family.

About the Author…

Brenda is a USA Today bestselling author that loves everything fantasy and paranormal. She has written over forty books with plans for many more to come. Her series includes the best-selling Dark Warrior Alliance, Midlife Witchery, Mystical Midlife in Maine, the Hollow Rock Shifters, and Bramble’s Edge Academy.

Brenda creates worlds that feature dangerously handsome heroes and feisty heroines. With the help of popcorn and candy, she takes dragons, fairies, witches, vampires, and so much more and brings them to life. She lives in Texas with her husband and three kids who fuel not only her heart but her life.

If she’s not writing, she’s reading, traveling, or knee-deep in projects with her husband and five sisters. She encourages readers to Dream Big. If your dreams don’t terrify and electrify, you then they aren’t big enough!

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorBrendaTrim
Twitter: AuthorBTrim
You can also grab reader swag she creates herself at: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1009534573/author-brenda-trim-author-midlife-magic

Peppermint Pixies by Danielle Garrett

Lumi Northrop is having the best summer of her life. She’s earned the respect of the entire haven after her role in recovering Rudolph and saving Jack Frost, her family’s reindeer sanctuary is thriving, and she’s even got herself a date to the Summer Solstice Celebration.

Life is sweeter than a bowl full of jelly.

Right up until the beloved frost pixies start going full gremlins-after-midnight, wrecking havoc around the sanctuary, and threatening to invade the entire magical Christmas village.

With no clue as to their sudden shift in attitude, Lumi and her boyfriend, the Frost Prince, are forced to go out into the wild woods searching for answers—but there are dangers far greater than a band of feral pixies lurking in the ancient forest.

Can they save the pixies before they are lost forever? Grab your favorite beach towel and an iced cocoa with extra whipped cream, and dive into this sweet Summer Solstice story with magic, mystery, danger, and a pinch of romance!

About the Author…

As a lifelong bookworm, Danielle Garrett has always loved dreaming of fantastic places and the stories they have to share. Through her love of reading, she’s followed along on hundreds of adventures through the eyes of wizards, princesses, elves, and some rather wonderful everyday people as well. This lifelong passion led her into the world of writing and she has now achieved the dream she’s held since the second grade and become an author herself.

Danielle lives in Oregon, and while she travels as often as possible, she wouldn’t call anywhere else home. She shares her life with her husband and their house full of animals.

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Website: http://www.daniellegarrettbooks.com
Facebook: daniellegarrettbooks

Bewitched Christmas by Cate Lawley

Witch-napped from a Florida vacation!

Camille’s been unwillingly drafted to help prevent a Christmas catastrophe in snowy Hidden Haven. Magic from the annual Spirit of Christmas Ball keeps the town hidden from humans for the rest of the year, but the magic from the ball can’t be captured without the town’s holiday cheer vessel: a wand that adorns the town’s tree as its crowning star.

Camille arrives dressed in a red ball gown, receives a pair of glass slippers that magically don’t pinch, and is assigned a canine companion to assist in her mission: find Hidden Haven’s pilfered holiday cheer wand.

She and Ethan—the dog—have ten hours to sort the entire fiasco or Hidden Haven will be revealed to the human world.

Join Camille and her not-entirely-canine companion, Ethan, as they try to save the quaint little town of Hidden Haven from the outside world.

About the Author…

Cate Lawley writes humorous, action-filled mysteries that frequently contain a paranormal twist.

When Cate’s not tapping away at her keyboard or in deep contemplation of her next fanciful writing project, she’s sweeping up hairy dust bunnies and watching British mysteries.

Cate is from Austin, Texas (where many of her stories take place) but has recently migrated north to Boise, Idaho, where soup season (her favorite time of year) lasts more than two weeks.

She’s worked as an attorney, a dog trainer, and in various other positions, but writer is the hands-down winner. She’s thankful readers keep reading, so she can keep writing!

Links…

Website: http://www.CateLawley.com
Facebook: cate.lawley.33

The Daughter Claus by D. Thrush

 It’s not all tinsel and candy canes for Santa’s daughter!

Grumpy, workaholic Santa always favored Tina’s younger brother, grooming him from birth to fill his boots when he retires. There’s just one problem – Nicholas, Jr. hates Christmas. He even writes anti-Christmas songs for his rock band, Black Ice. When their father winds up in the hospital, it falls to Tina to leave college in sunny Florida and temporarily return home to the frozen North Pole to run the family business. Not only does she have to put her classes on hold, she has to leave a new romance with her brother’s bandmate.

It isn’t easy dealing with rowdy reindeer who enjoy karaoke, the ex-boyfriend who broke her heart, her best friend’s flirtation with an elf, a long-distance relationship, and resistance from her father! Yet there’s a bigger problem – Tina likes it. She excels at running the family business. But who will deliver the presents on Christmas Eve? Santa is supposed to be a man, right? Should Tina go back to college and her new love or fight to be the next Santa?

Christmas magic, girl power, and a dash of romance make this a fun story any time of year!

About the Author…

D. Thrush’s first novel, “Guardian of the Light,” was honored with a B.R.A.G. Medallion. New Connexion Journal called this Visionary fiction novel “Riveting and compelling.” This was followed by a Chick Lit story her mother told her to write. “The Daughter Claus” was a finalist in the Wishing Shelf and Readers’ Favorites awards. This Christmas story was so fun to write, it became the popular Santina Series. D likes to write in a variety of genres from Chick Lit to Visionary to Literary and Women’s Fiction. Each of her novels explores family and friendship, love and romance, relationships and life. She writes from the heart and finds it difficult to part with her characters when their stories end. Click that follow button for news about new release deals!

D grew up in Levittown, New York, and currently lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest corner of the U.S. where there seem to be a lot of authors. Rainy weather is good for writing or curling up with a good book!

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Goodreads (for news about sales and book recommendations): https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7428187.D_Thrush

Yule Be Sorry by Sara Bourgeois

 Jingle Bell Hell!!!

When the unthinkable happens, Kinsley has to figure out a way to save her best friend. There’s a bad witch on the loose, and Kinsley’s going to have to stop her before the bodies pile up like presents under the Christmas Tree.

“This book sucks.” – Meri

About the Author…

Sara Bourgeois is a Midwesterner through and through. She spends her time writing, reading, and standing in her driveway during tornado warnings. (You can’t see them from the basement.)

Links…

Facebook: sarawitchcakes

A Merry Christmas Anniversary Mystery by Anna Celeste Burke 

When Georgie Shaw met Detective Jack Wheeler it was love and murder at first sight.

In the year since they were married, they’ve solved lots of mysteries, but nothing has prepared them for what they face in A Merry Christmas Anniversary Mystery. Georgie’s boss, “Mad” Max Marley, insists that she and Jack start their anniversary celebration in New Arcadia where they were married the year before.

Only days until Christmas, the weather in North Palm Springs is perfect. The music and decorations make it a merry place to be at the happiest time of the year. Max even keeps his promise not to disturb them. Suddenly, their celebration goes up in smoke and no one can locate the maniacal genius behind the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire.

About the Author…

Anna Celeste Burke is an award-winning, USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author!

Life is an extravaganza! figuring out how to hang tough and make the most of the wild ride is the challenge.

On my way to Oahu to join the rock musician and high school drop-out I had met in San Diego and married in Tijuana, I was nabbed by the police as a runaway. When the police let me go and the rock band broke up, my husband and I had to find another way to survive. Our next stop: Disney World where we trained to be chefs, courtesy of the Walt Disney World University. A GED for my husband and many more years of education landed us in academia at The Ohio State University. Retired now from my role as a professor in social work and behavioral science, I have picked up a long-time interest in writing fiction. I’m still married to the same sweet guy and live with him in the Palm Springs area. In addition to reading and writing fiction, I enjoy painting, hiking, hanging out with my handsome husband and tending to my Siamese kitties.

An award-winning and bestselling author I enjoy snooping into life’s mysteries with fun, fiction, & food—California style! I write books in five series: The Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery series set in the Coachella Valley near Palm Springs, the Corsario Cove Cozy Mystery series set on California’s Central Coast, The Georgie Shaw Cozy Mystery series set in Orange County, California, The Seaview Cottages Cozy Mystery Series set on the American Riviera, just north of Santa Barbara, and The Calla Lily Mystery series set in Northern California’s wine country.

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Facebook: annacelesteburke
Twitter: aburke59
Website: desertcitiesmystery.com

Santa Cruise by Fern Michaels

At Ridgewood High, Amy, Frankie, Rachael, and Nina formed a deep bond. Now, fifteen years after leaving school behind, they’re back for a reunion, laughing, reminiscing, and chatting how much has changed—and how much hasn’t. Nina, once the star of every school play, moved to Hollywood and landed a recurring role on a sitcom. Amy, fondly known as “the brains of the operation,” is now a Silicon Valley bioengineer. Outgoing and compassionate, Frankie works for a New York publishing house. Rachael, always the most boy-crazy of the crew, married—mostly to please her parents—but is now divorced. All four are strong, successful, and somehow, still looking for the right partner.  But Frankie has an idea to help solve that: a singles cruise for the holidays.
 
In late December, Amy, Rachael, Frankie, and Nina gather in Miami, ready to board their state-of-the-art cruise ship. The entertainment options are endless, the food is to die for, and the passenger list includes hundreds of eligible men. The highlight of the week will be a magnificent New Year’s Eve celebration with multiple theme parties, dancing, and fireworks. The ladies are happy to give Cupid a helping hand here and there—hanging mistletoe in elevators and cheering each other on through speed-dating events and shore excursions. Holidays—like the path of love itself—don’t always go exactly as planned, but over the course of one festive, unforgettable week, all four will set sail on surprising new adventures.

About the Author…

Fern Michaels is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of the Sisterhood, Lost and Found, Men of the Sisterhood, the Godmothers series, and dozens of other novels and novellas. There are over ninety-five million copies of her books in print. Fern Michaels has built and funded several large day-care centers in her hometown, and is a passionate animal lover who has outfitted police dogs across the country with special bulletproof vests. She shares her home in South Carolina with her four dogs and a resident ghost named Mary Margaret.

Links…

Website: FernMichaels.com

When Christmas Comes by Andrew Klavan 

Colorful Christmas lights dapple the family homes in the idyllic lakeside town of Sweet Haven when Jennifer Dean, a young librarian at the local elementary school, is brutally murdered. There are witnesses and her boyfriend Travis Blake confesses to the crime… but something doesn’t quite add up. Blake is a third generation Army Ranger, awarded the Silver Star for his heroism in Afghanistan—how could a beloved son of this tight-knit burgh commit such a grisly deed?

As a community of military families a few miles down the road from an Army base, no one in Sweet Haven wants to investigate a war hero like Blake, not even the top brass at the police department. In steps Cameron Winter, a rugged and lonesome English professor haunted by the ghosts of his own Christmas past, whose former lover asks him to prove Blake innocent. The Sweet Haven murder reverberates in his mind, echoing a horrific yuletide memory from his youth, and Winter knows there are darker powers at play here than a simple domestic dispute. If he can solve this small-town mystery, just maybe he can find peace from his inner demons as well.

About the Author…

Andrew Klavan has been nominated for the Mystery Writer of America’s Edgar award five times and won twice. He is the author of several bestselling novels, including Don’t Say A Word, filmed starring Michael Douglas, True Crime, filmed by Clint Eastwood, and Empire of Lies. He is currently writing a series of thrillers for young adults called The Homelanders. The first two novels in the series are The Last Thing I Remember and The Long Way Home. Klavan is a contributing editor to City Journal and his essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, among other places. His satiric video commentaries can be seen on PJTV.com.

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Twitter: andrewklavan
Website: andrewklavan.com
Facebook: aklavan