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 holid...

Deep, mysterious, beautiful . . . dangerous . . .Women and the sea have been tied together in myth and story from the beginning of time. Tales of women being drawn to the sea or being left on the shore, waiting for their men’s return, have been passed down through the ages.But what mysteries lie beneath the sparkling placid waters? What power drives the wind and waves crashing against the shore? There is transformation and exaltation—magic—in the ocean and women al...

Katie Brunswick is an eleven-year-old girl who lives with her parents and two younger sisters in a small Canadian town. This summer, she’s hanging out with her friends, an all-girl group who call themselves The Posse. Katie is a competitive swimmer and her other favourite thing to do is read mysteries. Imagine her excitement when a whodunit turns up in her neighbourhood.Katie peeks through a dirty window in a deserted house and spies a body! While she’s figuring out who was murdere...

Five out of this world short stories that include a dragon, a zombie, a vampire and epigenetics to give reality a kick in the butt for a minute or two.

Just in time for Christmas 2022 comes this boxed set of eight charming stories of love, family, and miracles. Each Belle has contributed a tale set in the festive season--one just long enough to fit in between tasks at this busy time of the year. The tales are unrelated, except by the festive season.Some have been written for this collection, some are made-to-order stories never before published, some have been used as fan giveaways. All are delightful.So watch for the oppo...

A Christmas in ManchesterMiss Evelyn Allen has led a quiet life in Worcestershire her twenty-one years as the devoted daughter of Pastor Joshua Allen and his wife. She always assumed she'd wed one day since her siblings had all done so, but no man had ever appealed to her in a way that she felt she could look across the breakfast table at him forever.Until he came into her life…The Duke of Manchester never expected to be left robbed and bleeding in the road miles fr...

As the village of Reabridge in Cheshire prepares for the first Harvest Festival following Waterloo, families are overjoyed to welcome back their loved ones from the war.But excitement quickly turns to mystery when mere weeks before the festival, an orphaned child turns up in the town—a toddler born near Toulouse to an English mother who left clues that tie her to Reabridge.With two prominent families feuding for generations and the central event of the Harvest Moon festival...

Napoleon's war still rages on the Continent, and Lieutenant Christmas Astley-Milne must return to sea. However, Chris is tormented that Emma Clavering, the woman he's always loved, might marry another while he's gone. There's nothing for it but for him to propose before he leaves.Emma accepts without hesitation. But as months turn into years, and nothing more is heard of Chris, must she also accept that he's dead, or is he being held captive? The only way she can keep hope alive is...

GAMING HELL CHRISTMAS - VOLUME 1: Mysteries abound at the newest Hell in town.A Gift for the Duke's Illegitimate Daughter - Kathy L WheelerMiss Alexandra Blessing, the Duke of Winsome's illegitimate daughter longs for anonymity and a home of her own where her younger half-siblings don't commandeer every moment of her day. Escape is imminent—right after her family's annual Christmas fete.But Alexandra is missing from the ball, and Theodore Mi...

Six charming holiday season romances from award-winning and best-selling authors.The Bluestocking Belles and Friends brighten your holidays with:A beleaguered uncle whose wards have run off every governess--what he needs is a wife, if only he can persuade the latest applicantA country solicitor who becomes an earl and then finds a secret that changes everythingA very proper clergyman battles very improper urges when he and a lady w...

Love at Christmastide is wonderful… if the couple in question believes in the magic.Alistair Forsythe, the 12th Earl of Reardon, is the most sought-after man in the ton this Christmastide season. Handsome, of good character, and possessing a large fortune, he finally intends to do his duty to his title after being in India for years. In the market for a wife, he can now easily have his pick of any woman, yet none of them have snared his interest—not since Carole—b...

From the workhouse to the British army, then captivity courtesy of Napoleon's men, Lieutenant Daniel Barrett has never known the warmth or safety of a real home. But now, his training as a physician and loyalty to his captain, Sir Christmas Astley-Milne, have found him a temporary resting place. Having helped the wounded Chris escape to England, Daniel is sequestered at Milne Manor, caring for other soldiers who've returned across the Channel.But it's not the place he can call home...