Week of December 2, 2019
Six standalone holiday short stories
The Merry Mistakeย by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward
Note to self: Ask Santa for glasses this year. When I accidentally mistook a gorgeous man resting outside my building for a homeless person in need of lunch, we got into it. Iโd only been trying to do a good deed around the holidays, but he called me righteous. I called him something far worse. If only I didnโt have to see him again. But fate had other plans.
Finding Perfectย by Colleen Hoover
ย A short story that brings back several of Colleenโs most beloved characters. Told from the point of view of Daniel from Finding Cinderella, readers will finally get the story theyโve been begging for more of. For the best reading experience, make sure youโve read all three books that come together to make up this heartwarming and fun Holiday short story; Finding Cinderella, Hopeless and All Your Perfects.
A Rock Chick Christmasย by Kristen Ashley
What’s Christmas with the Starks like? Get a peek into the Rock Chick world and how Luke copes with Ava going Christmas gaga and just what he will, and won’t, do for his girls during the holidays.
Just Say Whenย by Jill Shalvis
When the one you want โฆ
Is the one you canโt seem to haveโฆ
Can love conquer all?
The Pactย by Elle Kennedy
Thanks to my hectic schedule as a pro hockey player, my girl and I are spending more time apart than together. Luckily, I have a solutionโa romantic New Yearโs Eve getaway in the mountains, just me and Grace and plenty of sexytimes. Except this blizzard has other ideas…
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The Packageย by K. Bromberg
Christmas week canโt get any worse for Jules Jilliland. Dumped by her boyfriend, rear-ended on the freeway, and fired from her job, she finds herself stuck in an elevator with a handsome stranger. When their packages are accidentally swapped, will it end up being a misfortunate accident that suddenly brightens her holidays?
Stone Reeves was my neighbor, and I’ve hated him since sixth grade.
Gorgeous and charismatic, he became the town’s football god, while I became the town’s invisible girl.
He went to a Division 1 school for football, while my father was fired by his father.
His team won the National Championship, while my mother died the same day.
Cowritten by USA Today best-selling author Tara Sivec and award-winning narrator Andi Arndt, a hysterically funny, heartfelt romance about starting over and taking chances.
Nothing good ever comes from drinking a box of wine alone. So when I decided to entertain my drunken self by setting up some hand-me-down podcasting equipment and reading the steamy parts from romance novels, I never thought anyone would actually listen. The fact that I admitted my huge crush on my sexy next door neighbor made the whole thing even more mortifying. But sometimes life surprises you, and thatโs how my podcast, Heidiโs Discount Erotica, was born.
Now I, Heidi Larsen, a sweet former kindergarten teacher in Waconia, Minnesota, lead a scandalous double life reading erotic novels to the listening world. And with each episode, I find myself embracing my new alter ego more and more. Now Iโm starting to feel more comfortable in my own skin and do things I never would have dreamed of – like kissing my neighbor.
Look out, Waconia, because Heidiโs on the loose! Sheโs in your ears, in your hearts, and down your pants…wait, that didnโt sound as good as it did in my head. Well, you get the picture, donโtcha know!
Maxwell Lewis has to make the play of his life in order to breach the woman of his dreamโs defenses in this new football romance from the author ofย Fumbled.
Brynn Larson owes a lot to reality television and professional athletes. Her bar hit new heights of success after becoming a local haunt for the Denver Mustangs players and their WAGs. But although sheโs grateful, that doesnโt mean sheโs crazy. And thatโs exactly what she would be to ever consider dating a professional athlete. Even if itโs Maxwell Lewis, whose shy smile makes her wonder what going on behind those beautiful brown eyes.
Maxwell knew from the moment he met Brynn that she was going to change his life. It was only a matter of time. But when he finally makes a move, fate conspires against him and everything goes wrong. Now he has to show her that their potential is real. Too bad for him, Brynn isnโt fooled by his glamorous NFL life, and when ghosts from both their pasts make a sudden reappearance, she must decide who she can trust. But when the person sheโs most afraid of is herself, navigating lifeโs tackles is harder than anticipated.
After battling the impossible, Zรฉlie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orรฏsha. But the ritual was more powerful than they could’ve imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of nobles with magic ancestry, too.
Now, Zรฉlie struggles to unite the maji in an Orรฏsha where the enemy is just as powerful as they are. But when the monarchy and military unite to keep control of Orรฏsha, Zรฉlie must fight to secure Amari’s right to the throne and protect the new maji from the monarchy’s wrath.
With civil war looming on the horizon, Zรฉlie finds herself at a breaking point: she must discover a way to bring the kingdom together or watch as Orรฏsha tears itself apart.
Children of Virtue and Vengeance is the stunning sequel to Tomi Adeyemi’s New York Times bestselling debut Children of Blood and Bone, the first title in her Legacy of Orรฏsha trilogy.
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Proby comes a new story in her With Me In Seattle seriesโฆ
Reed Taylor doesnโt pay much attention to the holidaysโuntil he receives a surprise present. Four-year-old Piper is the daughter he never knew about, and with the death of her mother, is also now the roommate he never expected. Heโs determined to make their first Christmas together one sheโll never forget.
Noel Thompson has gotten her share of strange requests in her career as an interior designer. The call to design a beautiful home for Christmas is more like a dream come true. And that was before she met her new employerโsexy and mysterious, heโs everything she ever hoped Santa would bring her.
As Noel showers his home with holiday spirit, Reed showers Piper with love. And the busy life heโs created for himself no longer seems nearly as important as the one Noel is helping him build with his daughter. But if he canโt convince his decorator to stay, this could be the only year he feels the true wonder of the season.
Every 1001 Dark Nights novella is a standalone story. For new readers, itโs an introduction to an authorโs world. And for fans, itโs a bonus book in the authorโs series. We hope you’ll enjoy each one as much as we do.
New York Timesย bestselling author Nalini Singh welcomes you to a remote town on the edge of the world where even the blinding brightness of the sun canโt mask the darkness that lies deep within a killer.โฆ
On the rugged West Coast of New Zealand, Golden Cove is more than just a town where people live. The adults are more than neighbors; the children, more than schoolmates.
That is until one fateful summerโand several vanished bodiesโshatters the trust holding Golden Cove together. All thatโs left are whispers behind closed doors, broken friendships, and a silent agreement to not look back. But they canโt run from the past forever.
Eight years later, a beautiful young woman disappears without a trace, and the residents of Golden Cove wonder if their home shelters something far more dangerous than an unforgiving landscape.
Itโs not long before the dark past collides with the haunting present and deadly secrets come to light.
Once upon a time, I fell in love with a boy.
A beautiful, broken boy who had his own world of struggles.
People warned me against our love, but I didn’t listen.
We looked weak.
Young, foolish.
Dangerously in love.
We didn’t care.
In order to keep our hearts protected from the opinions of others, we became each otherโs secret.
We shared stolen moments. Tender touches. Secretive embraces.
It was our twisted love story, and it worked for us up until our lives changed forever.
The boy I loved became Hollywoodโs newest golden boy.
His career blossomed as mine stalled.
He found massive success as I discovered multiple failures.
He made something of himself, while my dreams never came true.
We moved into different realms where our pieces no longer fit together.
In the fairy tales, love conquered all.
In reality, love was the main reason empires began to fall.
I always knew Landon belonged in my story.
He was my beginning, middle, and end.
The only problem? I wasnโt certain I still belonged in his.
They say thereโs no such thing as perfect.
But Iโve built my life to perfectionโthe perfect boyfriend, the perfect apartment, the perfect career planning celebrity weddings. My jobโmy only jobโis to make sure every event is absolutely and completely perfect.
Whatโs not perfect? Kash Bennet.
And I wish I didnโt find that so appealing.
I could have told you every perfectly imperfect thing about the gardener at Longbourne. Like his hair, lush and black and far too long. Or his nose, the flat bridge of a Greek god, bent a little like itโs been broken. Or his size. Beastly. Roped and corded with muscles, gleaming with sweat and peppered with dirt.
Thereโs no escaping him, not if Iโm going to use his familyโs flower shop for my events.
But nothing is what it seems. And in the span of a heartbeat, my perfect life is turned inside out.
They say the best way to get over somebody is to get under somebody new. When Kash offers his services to the cause, it sounds like the perfect plan.
Whatโs not part of the plan? Falling in love with the gardener.
But they were rightโthereโs no such thing as perfect.
And Iโm the fool who finds out the hard way.
โVictoria, will you marry me?โ
Those words changed my life foreverโฆjust not in the way it would for most. I had it all until one fateful evening transformed my life in ways I never imagined.
Nine months later, I move to a sleepy little town, hoping to escape the demons of my past. As I attempt to claim back my life, Jude Montgomery enters my world, and things begin to change.
I thought running would appease the nightmares, but I soon discover my past wonโt let go. Things are not what they seem, and I begin to question the world as I know it. Jude may hold the answers, but will my love for him blind me to the truth?
Does the flap of a butterflyโs wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? In my case, yes, it does.
Will the truth set me free? Or will it imprison us both?
My name is Victoria Armstrong, and this is my storyโฆI think.
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