My eX-Mas Emergency

Ms. Peel has crafted a fun romantic read for the holiday season. 

Lots of push and pull between the heroine and hero. They have different goals, but can't deny the past or the present. 
The love of Calista's niece is their driving bond. 

Lots of love and loss to work through with multiple layers. A complex emotional web to untangle. 

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Very few in Aspen Lake expected that I, Calista Monroe, their most notorious wild child, would ever amount to anything besides being a model prisoner. So imagine their surprise when I returned as the hospital’s newest ER doctor. Believe me, no one is more surprised than I am. I had vowed to never return, even if it was the last safe haven during the zombie apocalypse. But when my niece, Quinn, begged me to come home, I couldn’t say no. My plan is to stay out of trouble this time, and above all, avoid Quinn’s uncle Tristan—the man I love to hate and the reason I left Aspen Lake.

But trouble starts to brew when my niece gets it into her pretty head that her uncle and I need to reconcile. The devious little thing insists we deck the halls together all season long. And since I’ll do anything to make Quinn happy, I agree, believing I’m completely immune to Tristan’s charm. Except the joke’s on me. Who knew that Tristan’s biggest regret was letting me go? And the infuriating man seems willing to do everything possible to win me back. Well, it’s going to take a Christmas miracle for me to give him a second chance. Unfortunately for my plan, our chemistry could set a blizzard on fire. Now I have a major ex emergency on my hands.

Do I give my niece her Christmas wish, or do I let the love between Tristan and me flatline once and for all?

USA Today best-selling author Jennifer Peel presents a sweet and swoony holiday rom-com that will leave you feeling oh so merry and bright. 

Twilight Bells & Wishes is HERE!

I'm so excited to announce that Twilight Bells & Wishes is HERE!

$0.99 on Amazon and a quick one hour read you can squeeze into the busy holiday season. 

Enjoy!

 

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A fake relationship with mega-star Isla Martin is not what Tobi C. had in mind this holiday season.

Celebrity Isla Martin has conquered Hollywood and is about to take the music world by storm with her singing debut at the festival. To get her ex off her back, she kisses a handsome stranger to prove she’s moved on, which leads to more than she bargained for when the kiss is splashed all over the media.

How did helping a damsel in distress land Tobi as Isla’s fake boyfriend? Now he’s being chased by the paparazzi, when all he wants to do is perform for his fans and write songs in his hotel room. He’s a fish out of water as Isla’s arm candy.

As the days fly by, fake dates lead to real feelings. Can this opposites-attract couple see a future past the festival when they come from different worlds?

If you love fake relationships, celebrities, and rockstar romance mixed with holiday/Christmas cheer, then you’ll love this short story by award-winning author Lisa Swinton

A short story that can be read in an hour or less.

Sweethearts Music Festival Holiday Edition
Book1: Heart of Joy
Book 2: Under Snowflakes & Stars
Book 3: Holly & Mistletoe
Book 4: Starry Sleigh Ride
Book 5: Twilight Bells & Wishes

Sweethearts Music Festival
Book 1: Hart & Soul
Book 2: A Song in Every Kiss
Book 3: Electric Heartstrings

Isabelle & the Beast

This is a charming retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fairytale by Ms. Rian. 

I liked the timless setting, the change ups on the classic, and the wonderful use of tropes to bring Isabelle and Andre together. 

It's well crafted, well told, and with emotional depth packed into its pages. 

It's a short and satisfying read, perfect for the holiday season. 

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There are wolves all around, Belle, and they aren’t the only beasts.

He says this to her as if he should care. As if she could be his. But Lord Bentley is meant to inherit his estate and grand gardens of roses, and Isabelle is only meant to tend them.

As Isabelle contemplates her future, including a proposal from a tenant farmer her father is keen for her to accept, she cannot escape Lord Bentley’s friendly but determined kindness. Surely he must know that someday she will leave, and he will marry to secure his standing in society. Their childhood friendship will be as if it never existed. She will forever only be the girl who tended to the gardens.

At every turn, the vile Mr. Godfrey encroaches on Belle and her confused heart, while Lord Bentley’s intentions are directed toward a young woman who should be his wife. Isabelle should accept Mr. Godfrey, but the cruelty of surrendering her heart to secure Lord Bentley’s societal standing eclipses even the ferocity of the beasts which lurk in the forest.

Isabelle and the Beast is a standalone Victorian-era romance inspired by the classic tale Beauty and the Beast. It is an enchanting tale of forbidden love and the struggle to find one’s place in the world. If you like historical romance and a captivating story set during the most wonderful time of the year, then you will love this story by Olivia Rian.

A Candlelight Courting

Whenever I open a book by Ms. di Pastena I'm confident that the time period is well researched and the romance will be clean and sweet. 

This is the perfect short holiday story as you only need an hour or two to read it.

We spend one important night with the characters as they overcome their barriers and agree to marry. Sounds impossible, not so. 

This is easy to make time for in the rush of the season. 

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When Burthred comes courting on Christmas Eve, Meg rejects his advances. She has her heart set on becoming a nun and insists that he call her Christina, the spiritual name she has chosen for herself. She tries to make him swear on her box of holy relics that he will not pursue her, but he carefully words his oath to allow him to stay in her candlelit chamber and try to change her mind.

What Meg does not confess is that her reliquary box holds a secret.

Burthred needs a wife, and no one will satisfy him except Meg. He swore on his father’s deathbed that he would marry her. But Burthred has a secret, too. When they come together before the Yule fire, their shared revelations will either join their hearts together or tear them apart.

Her Mistletoe Cowboy

Ms. Isaacson weaves an excellent holiday romance. 

I'm always impressed how Ms. Isaacson creates relatable believable characters with real emotional issues and keeps a steady flow and pace that keeps the reader turning pages while soaking up the romance blooming off the pages book afer book. 

Great watching these two characters overcome the internal and external battles while enjoying swoony kisses. 

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Logan Buttars has always been good-natured and happy-go-lucky. After watching two of his brothers settle down, he recognizes a void in his life he didn't know about. He tried to fill that void with canine service for special needs students, but it's not quite cutting it.

Veterinarian Layla Guyman has appreciated Logan's friendship and easy way with animals when he comes into the clinic to get the service dogs. When she attends his brother's wedding, she sees him through new eyes.

But with his future at Steeple Ridge in the balance, she's not sure a relationship with him is worth the risk. After all, she's got an established practice in her east-coast hometown and he's talking service dog training all the way across the country in California.

Can she rely on her faith and employ patience to tame Logan's wild heart?

Scrooge & the Girls Next Door

I'm a long time fan of Ms. Jacobson, and this story lives up to her high bar. 

Lots of feels, great romance, humor, and how did I not see the grandma thing coming?! 

Also, I can totally relate to the laughing issue. This is a real thing. 

If you like enemies to lovers, holiday, and characters that grow, then you're ready to pick up this book. Be prepared, you won't want to put it down. 

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When the sunniest woman in Creekville buys the house next to the grumpiest man on the street, sparks fly . . . and not just because she keeps blowing his fuses...

Twenty-six-year-old Paige Redmond, single mom and go-getter, can’t wait to give her daughter, Evie, the Christmas of her dreams. Nothing can get in Paige’s way, not even her newly purchased fixer-upper cottage needing way more fixing than she planned.

Paige tackles the holiday with Clark Griswold spirit, amusing the entire town—except for her humbug next door neighbor, the grumpy but deliciously handsome Professor Henry Hill. With the help of colorful friends and found family—plus a feral cat and a pancake snowman—Paige and Evie wage a campaign to cure the cranky professor of his Christmas blues.

When Paige's feelings for Henry wind up as tangled as her Christmas lights, there's suddenly more than Christmas spirit on the line. Will Henry pull the plug on their first solo Christmas? Or can Paige and Evie convince the town's biggest scrooge to open his grinchy heart to the holiday . . . and to them?

Cowboy Billionaire Best Friend

Liz Isaacson always delivers a good holiday story. 

This is a sweet small town, slow burn novel. It's part best friends to lovers, part second chance romance since one of them had romantic feelings toward the other long ago. And it's good in all the right ways a holiday romance should be. 

Settle in for good read. 

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A cowboy returning to his hometown—and the best friend he left a dozen years before. This Christmas, can Graham and Laney build a family and find their happily-ever-after?

Graham Whittaker returns to Coral Canyon a few days after Christmas—after the death of his father. He's just found out his long-time girlfriend in Seattle has been cheating on him, and while Coral Canyon isn't his first choice of where to live, it's certainly the friendliest. He takes over the energy company his dad built from the ground up and buys a high-end lodge to live in—only a mile from the home of his once-best friend, Laney McAllister.

Laney returned to her family ranch after college, but her husband left Laney and their daughter, Bailey, to work the ranch themselves, which they've been trying to do. But with her furnace on the brink of failure and the snow falling faster than ever, Laney agrees to bring Bailey up to Graham's lodge for the holidays.

They were best friends once, but Laney's always entertained feelings for him, and spending so much time with him while they make Christmas memories puts her heart in danger of getting broken again.

Can they take their friendship to the next level and build a family? Or will Laney be risking her heart only to remain in the friend zone?