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Narrated by:
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Kellen Boyle
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Eliana Marianes
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Leanne Woodward
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By:
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Emily March
About this listen
Return to Lake in the Clouds, Colorado, with this feel-good, emotional story about family, healing, and second chances from a New York Times bestselling author!
Genevieve Prentice is learning that reinventing herself is a bit like downsizing a house. Deciding what to keep and what needs to go gets complicated. After settling into life in Lake in the Clouds, Colorado, with her sister’s help, she’s finally finding her balance. But Genevieve’s newfound steadiness is threatened when her daughter Willow unexpectedly arrives carrying a mountain of emotional baggage.
Willow Eldridge needs a fresh start, but that can’t happen until she comes clean about her family’s secrets. Thankfully, between caring for her two young children and planning her brother’s wedding, Willow has plenty of reasons to delay the uncomfortable heart-to-heart with her mother. Yet when Willow grows close to her kind but standoffish neighbor and suspects he is keeping secrets of his own, she realizes there’s no moving forward without facing what came before…
Can Genevieve and Willow jettison the pain of the past to create the future they so desperately crave? Beneath the crystal blue skies of Lake in the Clouds, anything seems possible.
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When mystery author D. B. Ziegler is late delivering her book, Abi Schore steps in to help. Surely she can give her favorite author moral support over the holiday break and get the manuscript to her boss at Tea & Sympathy Publishing in time for the new year. When Abi shows up on Ms. Ziegler’s doorstep bearing holiday treats, she’s met by the author’s handsome grandson Dov, who reveals a startling plot twist. His grandmother isn’t able to finish the book and Dov promised he’d complete it so fans won’t be disappointed—a task that’s harder than he ever imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a gem!
- By Joanna N. on 11-14-24
By: Liz Maverick
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How My Neighbor Stole Christmas
- By: Meghan Quinn
- Narrated by: Vanessa Edwin, J.F. Harding, Robert Hatchet, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,645
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,589
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,589
Living in a year around Christmas town has its drawbacks. The caroling, the decorations, the insanely cheery spirit, it never disappears. It's why I like to hibernate away in my cave - I mean housekeeping a healthy distance from the holly jolly spirits. And all was going according to plan until my nemesis, Storee Taylor, moved in next door to care for her Aunt Cindy. Without blinking, she turned my simple world into a real nightmare-before-Christmas, especially when she decided to enter the town Christmas Kringle contest - which she was determined to win.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Anything But Christian
- By Anonymous User on 11-08-24
By: Meghan Quinn
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Mr. and Mrs. Christmas
- By: Michelle Stimpson
- Narrated by: Marcella Cox, Ian Hackney
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 856
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 840
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 840
There's no place like home for the holidays ... especially for Lesley Carver. Life in the big city just wasn't her jam and now she's back in Hickory Falls, working at the family diner and helping her mom after she took a tumble. Lesley longs to build a life here, working at the cafe, selling her handmade ornaments and ... er, apparently reviving her high school crush on her best friend’s older brother. Only one problem, her mom wants her to leave Hickory Falls far behind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved the book!
- By Amazon Customer on 11-15-24
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Merry Ever After
- Under the Mistletoe Collection
- By: Tessa Bailey
- Narrated by: Summer Morton, Connor Crais
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 929
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 906
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Story3 out of 5 stars 906
Evie Crowe is starting over in a strange town with her newborn, and men are the furthest thing from her mind. If only the quiet, hulking farmer, Luke Ward, would stop coming into the thrift shop and piquing her reluctant interest. Evie wants to stay single all the way—she can’t trust anything more than friends-with-holiday-benefits. But Luke is in it for the long haul. He’s fixed on making this a Christmas Evie will remember forever. If she gives him a chance.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Cringy lines ruined it
- By Lenna Crosby on 12-01-24
By: Tessa Bailey
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Verity
- By: Colleen Hoover
- Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson, Amy Landon
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 126,110
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 111,281
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 111,148
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.
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4 out of 5 stars
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intriguing but skip if triggered by child abuse
- By Amazon Customer on 05-16-19
By: Colleen Hoover
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Cruel Winter with You
- Under the Mistletoe Collection
- By: Ali Hazelwood
- Narrated by: Vivienne LaRue
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,492
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,467
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,467
All newly minted pediatrician Jamie Malek wants is to borrow a roasting pan for Christmas dinner. Unfortunately, that requires her to interact with Marc—her best friend’s troublemaking brother, who’s now a tech billionaire. He’s the one who got away. She’s the one who broke his heart. Outside, a howling blizzard. Inside, a crackling fire. Suddenly, being snowbound with the man she never expected to see again might not be such a bad way to spend a winter’s night.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Endless insecurities and translation fails
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 11-12-24
By: Ali Hazelwood
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Holiday Hideaway
- A Short Story
- By: Mary Kay Andrews
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 737
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 710
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Story4 out of 5 stars 711
Tilly Farriday isn’t feeling very jolly this season. Recently divorced and broke, she’s squatting in one of her rental agency’s properties until her new home is ready. The sprinkles on top of the burnt Christmas cookie that is her life? The new owner shows up early, forcing Tilly to hide in the attic to save her job…and what remains of her dignity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I ain’t afraid of no ghosts
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 10-31-24
By: Mary Kay Andrews
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The Plight Before Christmas
- By: Kate Stewart
- Narrated by: Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,228
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,070
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,065
Clark Griswold was onto something...at least with his annual holiday meltdown. And since the last three weeks of my life have been riddled with humbug—another breakup, a broken toe, an office promotion I deserved and didn’t get—I’m not at all in the mood to celebrate nor have the happ, happ, happiest Christmas EVER.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Gaslighting and games
- By FMC on 12-22-22
By: Kate Stewart
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How to Lose a Guy Before Christmas
- By: A.J. Pine
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Jason Clarke
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,206
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,061
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,060
After a snowstorm grounds her flight, Lucy makes a last-ditch effort to get home for Christmas using a rideshare app. She thinks she’ll be taking a road trip with a stranger...but the guy who shows up is someone she knows all too well. He’s the hookup she ghosted a few months ago, and now she’ll be stuck in a car with him for the most awkward road trip of her life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Nearly pitch perfect holiday romcom novella
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 11-17-23
By: A.J. Pine
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Resting Scrooge Face
- A Short Story
- By: Meghan Quinn
- Narrated by: Carly Robins, Aaron Shedlock
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,331
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,149
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,144
After a bad breakup, Nola wants nothing to do with Christmas, especially in her quaint hometown of Bright Harbor, Maine. Infuriatingly charming and cheery, Nola’s surroundings only worsen her sour mood. To make matters worse, Caleb, the boy who broke her heart years ago, is all grown up and still living in town. While doing her best to avoid him, Nola bumps into the local mailman, who gives her a mysterious letter. And when she finds that the writer is a fellow Scrooge, she can’t help but feel her spirit lifting.
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3 out of 5 stars
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No-sex, “enemies to lovers,” Christmas short story
- By Kate McMurry on 12-24-22
By: Meghan Quinn
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Nocticadia
- By: Keri Lake
- Narrated by: Aaron Shedlock, Stella Hunter
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,758
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,698
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,698
After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I'd find the cure for what ravaged her and leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years later, I received an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the oldest most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it's rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before, those whose bones are said to make up the island's white sandy shores. And restless ghosts aren't even its most daunting peculiarity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good but a slight miss
- By Destinyreadsbooks on 01-17-24
By: Keri Lake
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-05-23
Smile stuck on my face
I had a huge grin on my face when the book ended. Ms. March creates the best characters and I love her story telling- waiting for the next one… hope she continues this story
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- mmmh4
- 12-29-23
Lovable characters, well, written
I didn’t want the story to end I’m curious, which of the children’s story will be next. I can’t wait for the next one!!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Jesserae18
- 01-28-24
Another good story from Emily March
I have listened to a few novels from this author and enjoy the series and all the characters. The only thing that was hard to get past was the reader for Willow. She spoke too quickly and sounded more like a teenager getting through a report with poor inflections. It was not well suited for this character and took a lot of focus not to be distracted by it.
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- Lola
- 12-02-23
Another WINNER!
NO,NO,NO I didn't want it to end!!!!! You hooked me with the first word! When is the next one!
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Christine
- 12-20-23
Predictable
It was entertaining. But too much description. Dragged in places and then super fast in others. Not the best one I’ve listened too.
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- awesome
- 09-06-24
The love of family
I enjoyed the romance for Willow and Noah and his love for her children Drew and Emma
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- MiraclesHappen
- 03-09-24
Meh
I was disappointed. The story is underdeveloped. There were times I wondered if it was AI generated. Seriously, what modern mother uses the word “ febrile” ? I felt the narration was like listening to a high school play and found it annoying. I was looking forward to this sequel but it fell flat. I fail to see how Genevieve found her balance.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Snertnharold
- 01-30-24
Narrator was a struggle
I enjoyed the story but listening to this narration was painful. It just didn’t flow as well as book one.
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