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They say everyone has a doppelgänger. Hers was a killer. With only sixty-three cents in her pocket, Molly is way down on her luck. No job, no food in the fridge, no power at her cold, dark apartment. Her mom won't take her calls. Her ex only lives in her memories. Worst of all, she might be getting evicted. At the grocery store, a posh woman approaches Molly. "Wow, we look so much alike." Indeed, it's uncanny. The posh lookalike, Hester, offers to buy Molly lunch so they can chat. Who's Molly to turn down free food? "I'd give anything," Hester sighs, "to get away from my life. Just for a ...

Get deported to a hobbit cult or marry the hot lawyer who came in for lunch? Just when her café is about to receive a major award, beautiful and talented chef Piper's world is racked. She's not a U.S. citizen! Worse, she's being deported. To New Zealand, where her parents have joined a hobbit cult. Up-and-coming lawyer Zach is determined to climb the ladder of his old-money law firm, when he discovers the reason his promotion has always been blocked: they only promote married associates to partner. Cue up the contract marriage. Piper can stay in the country as the wife of full citizen and ...

A torching kiss on a long-ago high school dare just might flare up again.Swoony Award 2021 Winner: Best Medical Romance Dr. Jasher Hotchkiss, first rate knee surgeon, never wanted to return to his hometown of Mendon. Not after what happened years ago that made him the town’s most hated teenager. Nor did he want to practice general surgery. And he certainly doesn’t want to form any ties in Mendon. Except … Sage Everton appears at an ambulance call. Sage? Nurse-anesthetist Sage Everton is widowed and is convinced she carries a hex that ruins the lives of men she begins to care about. ...

"Austen + Chocolate = Love" Mormon girl Susannah is ready to take a big risk. Suddenly unemployed and unmarried, Susannah puts everything on the line to open up downtown Salt Lake City’s first all-chocolate café, The Chocolate Bar. It all starts out sweetly. Susannah even catches the interest of the city’s most eligible bachelor, a charismatic attorney. But when Susannah's first love, John Wentworth, returns to town, her heart goes sideways. He’s rich. He’s handsome. And he intends to marry anyone but Susannah. Chocolate and Conversation is a light and frothy, chocolate-filled romp...

This Christmas, she's determined to meet and marry a prince.This holiday season, historical architecture expert Mallory Jameson has landed her dream job—for her dream client. Hired to consult on a remodel for a European prince, she might finally receive her first-snowfall wish of meeting and marrying royalty. After all, she has a good, pure-hearted reason for wanting nothing less than to marry a prince. However, when she arrives at Buckworth Castle on the cliff-lined coast, the place is anything but royal-looking. And the only man present in Mallory's daily life is a construction worker ...

Her good heart has a really bad plan--destined to fail spectacularly.Nanny and grad student Eliza has a harebrained, movie plot-based scheme to teach her terrible boss a lesson: find a wretched hobo, give him a Hollywood makeover, and trick the selfish woman into falling for him and becoming a better person. What could go wrong? Hint: everything. Henry, the hunky lost traveler with the dashing Australian accent that weakens Eliza’s knees, is game. More than game. For Eliza, he gladly gets a glow-up, debuts at a film premier, and plays the role of the fake rich dude on a posh, exclusive ...

One wedding party, two jilted lovers, and three ill-behaved dogs. Can they add up to love? Numbers-guy and best man Price Robertson dances with the maid of honor, and sparks ignite. She gets him. He hasn’t ventured into a relationship since a heart-wrenching rejection years back. But, it’s pointless. He’ll never see her again. Dancing with Price is amazing, but Annika Dearborn needs this wedding to end so she can get back to studying. Being a returning student is rough. If she’d never quit school for Mr. Wrong years ago, she wouldn’t be in this mess. Too bad the Price is leaving. ...

Six Award-Winning Authors have contributed new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Under the Mistletoe Collection. Six contemporary novellas, all adding sweet romance to the Christmas season.

She jilted him in college. He never expected to spar with her in court. Carson Huxley is a hotshot attorney from the city with a future partnership on the line and plans to marry the boss's daughter. Becca Goldfinch is a big-hearted small-town defense lawyer who ends up doing too much work pro bono. When Becca gets tricked into taking a real estate case, she has no idea she's going to battle against the town gazillionaire, who has hired a big-city barracuda lawyer who can tear her, and her client, to shreds. What she doesn't know is, that very barracuda attorney is Carson, her ex. And that ...

The guy next door. The world’s worst first date. A second chance ten Christmases later. Juliet and Taggart’s first—and last—date a decade ago was an unmitigated disaster, ending with Pepto-Bismol and the police. He probably needed a decade to recover. But Juliet couldn’t forget him. Now that he’s back in touch, Juliet is torn.If this is just a one-time thing, she risks carrying a torch for him for another decade. The one that got away might be the one guy she needs to be happy in life—and this date could show him she’s right for him, too. Unless the Christmas date curse ...

He’s a benched quarterback who needs redemption. She’s the single mom of their child. He’s back in town to make amends.Charlotte Nilsen never thought she’d see McCoy Armstrong again after he hit the big time in the NFL. After all, she’s the one who insisted on an annulment after his scandal with the cheerleader. She’s rebuilt her life now. Her one regret is she never told McCoy their brief marriage resulted in a son. McCoy has been benched. A shoulder injury will do that to an NFL quarterback. Enough time has passed that he dares to hope that his ex-wife Charlotte will forgive ...

Pretend to be the wedding date for her enemy? Forget it. Unless it's a destination wedding. Advertising exec Calvin absolutely must find a plus-one for his best friend’s destination-wedding in New Zealand, or else he loses his bet with his best friend, the groom. And Calvin does not want to lose and face the humiliating consequences. Then, Calvin bumps into Amanda the office Ice Queen in the broken elevator. Of all the women in the office, she's the one who never reacts to his flirtation. However, her hobbit obsession makes her the obvious target for his pitch: Be my wedding date to ...

Sweetheart Morgan marries a stranger - her handsome next-door neighbor Josh - solely for college financial aid. But now she can’t stop running into him or thinking about him. Which is bad - because Josh has a serious girlfriend he plans to marry. Things leap from awkward to agonizing when a well-meaning philanthropist compels Morgan and Josh to move into his mansion as “newlyweds of the year.” Their arrangement is purely hands-off, but now they’re sharing a house, and chemistry between them is skyrocketing.

A disowned spy with one last chance, a divorced teacher needing to rediscover herself, and the search for a missing woman that brings them together. Intelligence op Birch Cardon has accepted a mission to rescue a diplomat’s kidnapped daughter. If he succeeds, he will reclaim his stolen career. Except, the woman goes missing and his intel contact turns out to be his college crush. After a messy divorce, Arden Pike takes a trip to see her college gal pal as a way to rediscover her single self. When her friend goes missing, Arden is stranded with no phone, no ID, and no access to her hotel ...

Can a single night at a class reunion change everything? She was the wallflower. He was the jock. She sent him anonymous love notes. Now, he's at the 10-year reunion to find out who his mysterious pen pal was. Tansy has come a long way since her nerded-out days as a high school nobody. She owns a successful tech business, learned to do her hair, and might even wear her sexiest red dress to the reunion. One big worry: Bridger might be there. What if he overlooks her again? Basketball star Bridger only ever dated the popular girls, but he shared his secret heart with someone else—someone ...

What's More Romantic than Falling in Love on a Covered Bridge?Boston financial district star Emily England has never forgotten her teenage dream of romance on a bridge. When a covered bridge comes up for sale in rural Vermont, she jumps at the chance to buy it—who cares what it costs? She’s got plenty saved and prospects for a great year ahead. Maybe her charming boyfriend will even propose to her on her newly purchased bridge and make her first-snowfall wish come true. But, things go sideways at her firm and with her boyfriend, and Emily finds herself back in the countryside ...

The hot hockey player she detests comes begging a desperate favor. When Emma—formerly super-nerdy Emily—goes out for a girls' night at the ice rink, she thinks they're hitting the Frozen on Ice show. That's why she wears her Elsa gown and goes full ice-queen glamour. Turns out, it's not Disney fun at the arena but that awful hockey team instead. Emma makes a quick exit—only to run into the man she hates most in this world: hockey star Dempsey Dean Davidson. And he recognizes her. Even though she's changed—she thought—everything about herself. Dempsey's career is tops. Until he ...

Polar opposites face undeniable attraction in a cozy lodge during a polar freeze. Jayne Renwick has landed her dream job at a TV station, and this year she finally gets to host her ideal family Christmas. She has even booked the luxurious Wildwood Lodge for her "perfect Christmas" activities. At the last minute, though, her family all bails and she is forced to revise her guest list. It’s not all bad. In fact, one new lodger fits Jayne’s ideal first-snowfall wish for love. However, another guest turns out to be Ben Bellamy—the hottest guy from her office—who’s also her biggest ...

When prosecutor Camilla Sweeten sees newly hired Zane Holyoak slide a pastry from a bakery bag, her reaction is nothing close to rational. It's the exact pink doughnut from her dream where she kissed a handsome stranger! Now she's daydreaming about kissing Zane, even though he poses her fiercest competition for the Chief Deputy promotion she desperately needs. Attorney Zane Holyoak has always gone with his gut. He's even followed it back to Yucca County, after swearing never to return. Maybe it's leading him back to fill the vacancy for Chief Deputy.

Dowdy art exhibit coordinator Ava Young is happy with her man suits and sensible clogs. She likes the way they clip-clop on the museum's tile floor. But they don't win her any lovelorn looks from her office crush. In fact the handsome new guy calls her "sir" when they first meet. Oh well. She's always known the only way a guy would take a second look at her was if she was the only person in the room. And on fire.