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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.

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 ...

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.

When she’s named in a mysterious stranger’s will, does Brooke dare ask her lifelong crush to serve as her lawyer, even though she’s accepted another man’s ring? Town beauty queen Brooke Chadwick knows Dane Rockwell will never take a second look at her, his best friend’s younger sister, no matter how much she’s longed for him. Dane is a Rockwell - of the felons, frauds, and cheats Rockwells. How can he possibly ask Brooke - of the upstanding, reputable Chadwicks - to accept his proposal? Now Dane is back in town with three things.

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 ...

Super powers? Super useless. At seventeen, disgraced former beauty queen Daisy just wants to escape her viral-video past. The flaming baton that caught the stage and a judge’s pants on fire also burned up her dreams of someday becoming a serious TV journalist. Now Daisy faces a dead-end summer job in her dead-end hometown. The only cool guy in Prairie Grass, Cliff Calloway, doesn’t even know she exists, and her arch nemesis is determined to keep it that way. Then lightning strikes! Daisy crashes her jeep and a vision swiftly unfolds. “You, Daisy Blaine, have been selected for The ...

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 ...

An arranged engagement goes sideways when the guy lays eyes on the wrong girl first. Noah Rush has only one job to do for his father's company: win over the competition's daughter. Although he's not crazy about the idea of an arranged engagement, he falls head over heels at their first meeting. Except ... it's the wrong girl. Keeley Castle has one job on this vacation: help her cousin Echo forget Mr. Wrong and focus on the business deal with the Rush Holdings heir. She had zero plans of getting in the way of a multi-faceted merger by finding Noah irresistible. Now Noah has to choose between...

Lisette Pannebaker speaks five languages and has a brilliant business plan - personal language immersion. Clients can hire her to shadow them and speak all day in any language they need to learn for business or travel - whatever. But there's a major hitch: she's far too pretty. Clients with less than honorable intentions sign up just to have Lisette at their side. Solution? A make-under. Way under. The bad wig, icky makeup and puffy sweaters work like a charm. None of her male clients show her the least bit of interest. Lisette's totally relieved. Until...Erik.

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

He needs this job to honor his late wife. She needs to complete her late fiancé’s bucket list.Former action-movie star Chet Winters has counted the days since he lost his wife last New Year’s Eve. When he’s given a shot at starring in a reboot of her favorite TV show, he jumps at it. But there’s a catch: the producers won’t hire him unless he can prove he’s regained emotional stability. They require him to bring a steady girlfriend to his five auditions. In other words, five mandatory dates for this bereft widower. Social worker Holly Day lost her fiancé to war. With his good ...

As a lawyer for A-list Hollywood actors, Jillian Price's job is soul-sucking, and she needs a way out. She may have found one - at a yard sale. Across a junk-strewn lawn, she spies a painting that makes her heart stop. It looks to be a lost masterpiece! With that painting she could have it all: the new job, her own gallery, and even the guy - gorgeous banker Aero Jantzen.

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 ...

About Your Mother is a monthly podcast hosted by writer Jennifer Griffith. Each podcast features a conversation with a dynamic guest exploring the influence their mothers had on the trajectory of their life.

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 ...

He always loved her. Now, he's back in their small town to claim the girl who contracted to marry him. Aircraft mechanic by day, wildly successful author by night, Cash never forgot his first love, Annabel. In fact, she is the princess character in all his bestselling sci-fi novels. Dental assistant and former actress Annabel will do anything to protect her eccentric old inventor father—even agree to marry a man she doesn't love, the town's most-eligible bachelor. When a work assignment sends Cash back to their hometown, he sees Annabel, and his heart knows he can't let her slip away ...

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 ...