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On the shortest day of the year, people reach out for light--and one another--in this luminous, lyrical winter solstice story.Today we stretch the daylight as much as we can, trying to make it last.On the shortest day of the year, when daylight slips by like sand through one's fingers, people savor the light. As night falls, a community gathers on a beach and builds a bonfire of hope. Winter Solstice Wish is an ode to the winter s...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, Winter Solstice (the basis for the TV movie) is the story of five unforgettable characters, lonely and haunted strangers who find love and loyalty as a reborn family of friends during the Christmas holidays.Elfrida Phipps, once of London’s stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of vil...

Sugar isn’t as sweet as her big brother, Yas, believes. After he leaves the big city to venture to a small pack in the hills he’s heard about from their mom, she decides to let loose in all the best ways. Except when all hell breaks loose and she’s faced with some tough decisions, she runs…to her family.Growing up in Los Lobos, twins Derek and Tyler Baker lived through all the hardships under the former Alpha leader. While one twin is happy playing the dating field, the other wants...

Sara Philips has come home after almost twelve years. Married to a man she planned on claiming as her own and telling about the babies she carried, she never got the chance. Now, the widowed mother of twin ten-year-old rambunctious boys, she has learned what true happiness is along with the gut wrenching pain of loss.Ero and Luc Mathews, the dark and light twins, are waiting for the one. For the last year, women have come and gone from their life without that spark of recognition. ...

***A Witchin' Winter Solstice Gone Wrong: Magic and Mayhem Universe***is book 8 in the Magick and Chaos series.Scroogess Ebesneezer should be on top of the world. She's rocking her new job as the Christmas Witch. For the first time in her life, she has actual friends, not the Barbie dolls, she used to play dress up with when she was twenty-five… I mean ten. But actual, bona fide, real friends. She's spreading Christmas cheer around the world and making everyone happy. Yet, she's ne...

Celebrate the winter season in the sparkling world of Netflix’s Unicorn Academy! Meet Ava, her unicorn Leaf, and the rest of Sapphire dorm as they ride into a world of magic and adventure!Discover your destiny. Become a Unicorn Rider. Be extraordinary.Winter has arrived on Unicorn Island, and the Unicorn Riders can't wait to celebrate! They are excited about the decorations, the food, the songs! They are especially excited about the presen...

Torn from her home in the Dales as a child, Nadelma has made a place for herself as the head cook in the Witch Queen of Azrimar’s castle. She stays in the background of the busy court and uses her gentle magic gifts sparingly to help others. More or less content, she’s made peace with the hard facts of her life. Romance, marriage, a family – all beyond her dreams any longer.Then Halvor, an ambitious Dales lord rides into the city, bringing his mercenaries to serve the king, with th...

Powerful, immortal, magikal and cursed to the shadows of the night. Gordon O’Caha, a seven-hundred-year-old druid sorcerer, fell in battle centuries ago. When he recovered, he found he wasn’t as he’d once been, purely magik. He was much, much more. Now, he shares his body with darkness—a demon gifted to him by the blood drinkers he’d been attacked by. His family and clan haven’t turned their back on him. It’s Gordon who has shut himself away from them. This hardened man does what he has to...

Raise one last glass with the Quinn Family at the Winter Street Inn as New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand delivers a Christmas novel filled with love, family, and celebration.It's been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same roof, but that's about to change. With Bart back safe and sound from Afghanistan, the Quinns are preparing for a holiday more joyous than any they've experienced in ...

It’s not easy being a seventeen-year-old adopted peasant girl in the Viking-inhabited Northlandic Kingdom, especially when you have terrifying mare dreams of an evil Empress named Eiess and when your friends oust you because they consider you cursed. Little does Ailia know, that she hasn’t even seen the tip of the iceberg yet... On Winter Solstice, Ailia seeks out a quiet place to ponder: a large cliff overlooking her hometown. On her way home, Eiess and an army of Vikings capture ...

A short story featuring characters from the Rogues Shifter Series.Elle, a fae female, has refused to return to the Faerie Court because of the treatment she endured under the former queen, Fionna. She's been a guest in Sasha's home for the last few months, and is finally beginning to feel comfortable in this new world—finding herself drawn to the gentle warrior, but not feeling worthy to stand at his side. When she sees how Sasha has decorated his home for Christmas, Elle invites h...

BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • BOSTON.COM BOOKCLUB SELECTIONA celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neighbor’s door, experiencing the change in light of shorter days. All aspects of Winter, from the meteorological to the mythological, are captured in this masterful essay, told in wise and luminous prose that pushes back the dark.