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<\/a>Christmas People<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Iva-Marie Palmer<\/p>\nThe Seven Year Slip meets Hallmark with a dash of sass and a sprinkle of sexiness in this sparkling Christmas rom com…with a speculative twist!<\/em> Some people are Christmas people, but Jill Jacobs is most certainly not. She hasn\u2019t been ever since her hometown love broke her heart on Christmas Eve three years ago. After that, Jill moved to L.A. to pursue her dream of becoming a screenwriter. She hasn\u2019t been home in years to avoid her ex, but this winter she finds herself back in drab, suburban Illinois for the holidays.<\/em> After one very hazy night, Jill wakes up to a hometown that’s filled with jolly neighbors, covered in pristine white snow, and seasoned with the smell of peppermint. She realizes that this is more than just a bad hangover\u2026 she’s stuck in a Heartfelt movie. One set in her town, starring real people from her life, including her family, her high school crush (uber perfect, owns a bakery, and definitely a Christmas Person), and of course, her ex \u2014handsome as ever and now exclusively clad in plaid flannel.<\/em> The only way out of this bizarro world is to complete the plot of the movie, including a holiday bake off and a cookie-sweet love story. To get home in time for Christmas, Jill must act out a picture-perfect holiday romance with the one that got away, all while her ex watches on. Fa la la la freaking la\u2026.<\/em> – St. Martin’s Griffin<\/p>\n ‘Tis the season for second chances in this charming and delightful festive romcom\u2014perfect for fans of Maggie Knox and Jenny Bayliss.<\/em> He has one month to make a Christmas miracle happen.<\/em> Laney Reynolds knows there\u2019s only one place that can help her heal a broken heart: Cherrywood Creek. The small town where she grew up, with its holiday festivals and snow-covered streets, is exactly where she needs to be this December. It feels good to leave the bustling city, where her husband was too busy climbing the corporate ladder to notice the growing distance between them. But she\u2019s got his attention now . . .<\/em> Connor received his wake-up call loud and clear when Laney left, and there\u2019s no way he\u2019s giving up on his marriage. If that means dropping everything and trading high-rises for gingerbread houses to sweep his wife off her feet in her hometown, then so be it. This time, he\u2019s listening; but it\u2019ll take more than hot chocolate dates and even hotter nights to win Laney back. Can he prove that being a CEO is nowhere near as important as being her husband?<\/em> – Forever<\/p>\n The USA Today bestselling author of Business Casual, B.K. Borison is back with a whimsical new holiday romance\u2014this time with a magical twist\u2014that will have everyone falling in love with the Ghost of Christmas Past.<\/em> He\u2019s the Ghost of Christmas Past. She\u2019s not exactly Scrooge.<\/em> Ghost of Christmas Past Nolan Callahan intends to spend this holiday haunting like every other\u2014get in, get out, return to his otherwise aimless existence as a ghost awaiting the afterlife. But when he\u2019s faced with Harriet York, the sweetest assignment he\u2019s ever had, he suddenly finds himself wishing for a future.<\/em> Harriet York has no idea why she\u2019s being haunted. She\u2019s a good person\u2014or, at least, she tries to be. A people pleaser to her core, she always does what\u2019s expected of her. But as she and Nolan begin to examine her past, they discover there are threads that bind them together\u2014 and realize there might be more to moving on than expected.<\/em> With the deadline of Christmas Eve fast approaching, will they find the key to their futures in each other\u2019s pasts? Or will they stay firmly in the present, indulging in their unexpected, spirited connection?<\/em> – Avon<\/p>\n The twelve days of Christmas have never been hotter! Spice up the holiday season with this sizzling enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy by an internationally bestselling author.<\/em> Valencia<\/em> After calling it quits with my cheating fianc\u00e9, I\u2019m definitely not feeling the Christmas spirit this year. But when my best friend invites me to a holiday dance party, I show up ready to shake my ass.<\/em> Except I must be on Santa\u2019s naughty list, because who do I run into? My infuriatingly sexy high school archnemesis, Gideon Noble.<\/em> The pulsing music, red and green strobe lights, and Gideon\u2019s bitable bottom lip make me reckless, so I drag him onto the dance floor.<\/em> And then? I take him home with me.<\/em> Gideon<\/em> If this is my second chance with Valencia, I\u2019m not wasting it.<\/em> We\u2019re both alone this Christmas, so we create a naughty and nice list that would make Santa blush: twelve days of wholesome yuletide cheer, and twelve nights decking each other\u2019s halls.<\/em> As Christmas Eve, and the end of our list, approaches, I realize that twelve days with Valencia Torres isn\u2019t enough.<\/em> I want forever.<\/em> But does she?<\/em> – Montlake<\/p>\n Holly Sinclair has hated Christmas for as long as she can remember. Who names their Christmas baby Holly in the first place? She was teased mercilessly growing up. Holly Berry, Holli-days, Holly Jolly . . . not to mention the fact that her birthday is often totally overlooked amidst the season.<\/em> To make matters worse, instead of getting the promotion she was expecting, Holly\u2019s been downsized\u2014which is just fancy holiday talk for fired. Now Holly has to go home single, unemployed, turning thirty, and only a tinsel strand of faith. Bah, humbug.<\/em> Holly\u2019s big brother, Ryan, has dragged his best friend, known holiday-hater Nick Kinsley, home with him. But when Holly discovers that Nick\u2019s here to be her pity date, she decides the best revenge is to play along . . . and Christmas like she\u2019s never Christmas\u2019d before. Commence Operation: Naughty List. The fact that she\u2019s attracted to Nick is totally not the point. She\u2019ll teach him a lesson, one ho ho ho at a time.<\/em> The holiday grows more complicated when Holly and Ryan find out their parents asked all the siblings to come home for Christmas this year, but refuse to say why. The rest of the Sinclair siblings descend, each with their own sleigh full of secrets. Rumors spread as everyone tries to guess the reason for their parents\u2019 demand\u2014and Nick turns out to have a secret of his own. Will this be a Christmas to forget? Or will Holly and Nick discover there is so much more?<\/em> – WaterBrook<\/p>\n There are two things that Ruby Dhanji loves with her whole entire heart: Christmas and anything to do with the UK. For Ruby the holiday season means joy, generosity, and warm memories with her late mother. And now she\u2019s on the verge of realizing the dream she and her mom always had: moving to England and opening a cozy inn. The only problem, Ruby needs some hotel experience first. <\/em> Rashid just doesn\u2019t get all the holiday hype. But when he meets a woman dragging home a Christmas tree alone from the Winter Market, he has to offer to help\u2014even if he soon finds Ruby adores all the things he dislikes. When Ruby discovers that Rashid\u2019s family owns a luxury boutique hotel chain in Britain, she offers him a proposition: she\u2019ll help him give his young nieces an amazing Christmas if he\u2019ll facilitate an introduction to his family. <\/em> As Ruby and Rashid get closer, she realizes that the great big grump loves his large, eccentric family fiercely. And when their friendship turns to something more, she\u2019s afraid she\u2019s falling for someone weeks before she moves across the Atlantic and she\u2019ll soon have to decide which dream she wants to<\/em> chase. – Forever<\/p>\n A Christmas romance for Barbie fans who wished Ken and Allan got their own love story.<\/em> Henry Aster swears he is unlucky when it comes to love. He thought he\u2019d finally found The One, but a sudden break-up has left him hopeless right before the holiday season.<\/em> Facing another family Christmas alone, Henry makes a wish for \u201cThe Perfect Man.\u201d The next morning, when he arrives at the Jersey Shore vintage shop he manages, he finds one of the male display mannequins has sprung to life and entirely wrecked the place.<\/em> The magicked man is gorgeous, of course, but he comes with a Cinderella-style caveat: If he doesn\u2019t experience true, human love before the midnight chime on New Year\u2019s Eve, he will turn back into a mannequin for good.<\/em> Now Henry doesn\u2019t have to show up to family Christmas alone. The catch? This new man\u2014self-named Aidan Smith\u2014knows nothing about being a human. Henry has one month to teach Aidan how to be a functioning person in the modern world and the swoony boyfriend that will win over his family. It\u2019s an arduous task that draws them close together… but can human love ever really be true?<\/em> – St. Martin’s Griffin<\/p>\n A holiday romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely, with spice and fake dating that follows a fiery designer who teams up with her charming billionaire boss for a week-long Christmas competition, and their pretend holiday romance soon starts to feel all too real\u2014now with a never-before-published short story.<\/em> \u201cWanted: hot billionaire to pose as my Christmas boyfriend. Must be willing to make my cheating ex jealous by kissing me under the mistletoe at holiday parties. Bonus if you make him cry.\u201d<\/em> To Fable\u2019s surprise, her billionaire boss, Wilder Blaine, is more than willing to take on the challenge of playing her holiday boyfriend. The sexy single dad desperately needs a plus one for a Christmas Eve wedding, where he\u2019s the best man and she\u2019s the maid of honor. With her ex also in the wedding party, the two team up as a pair of insta-lovebirds for the holiday season. Their partnership includes participating in the annual week-long Christmas competition leading up to the snowy destination wedding.<\/em> What starts as late nights crafting the best popcorn balls for the contest soon turns into a passionate night together, where the sparks between them are impossible to ignore. But when the holidays end, can their winter wonderland romance turn into something real back at the office? Or are they destined to go the way of a Christmas tree on New Year\u2019s Day?<\/em> – Atria Books<\/p>\n ‘Tis the season for a little white lie\u2026<\/em> Christmas has always been single mom Holly Goodwin Moore\u2019s favorite time of year. The twinkly lights on the tree, the cookies in the oven, the snow on the ground. But she\u2019s just not feeling it this year. The wedding in her ex\u2019s family is almost here, her daughter, Lydia, is bursting at the seams to be a flower girl\u2026and Holly couldn\u2019t be dreading it more. She told a little white lie about having a new boyfriend as her plus-one, hoping to save face. She needs a date for the wedding\u2026and she needs it now.<\/em> Ryan Caldwell wants to be free this holiday season. So even he isn\u2019t sure how he landed in Shelter Springs, looking after his niece, Audrey, with his estranged father down the road. But when he meets Holly, she makes him want to belong for the very first time. So they make a deal: he\u2019ll be her date if she\u2019ll help him give Audrey a true Christmas to remember while her mom is away.<\/em> This holiday season, escape to Shelter Springs for a heartwarming story of unexpected romance, festive charm, and the joy of finding love where you least expect it. Perfect for fans of Jill Shalvis and Susan Mallery.\u00a0<\/em> – Canary Street Press<\/p>\n In this holiday romance with an enchanting twist, a magic-averse witch returns home to save her small town\u2019s beloved winter festival in time for the holidays with the help of her estranged coven and distractingly handsome childhood rival.<\/em> Rowan Midwinter has sworn off magic after a spell gone wrong back in high school, so she\u2019s not exactly thrilled when she\u2019s guilted into returning to her quaint mountain hometown for the holiday season. But it\u2019s already Yule and much-needed snow still hasn\u2019t fallen, so Rowan decides she can put up with her former coven and unwanted memories if it means saving the town\u2019s beloved winter festival from the megacorporation threatening to buy it out.<\/em> But Rowan\u2019s plans to save the beloved tradition and make it through the holiday magic-free go awry when Gavin McCreery, prodigal son of the festival\u2019s landlord, insists on helping, and their unwanted chemistry keeps setting off holiday lights\u2026literally.<\/em> As the end of the festive season draws closer and Rowan realizes what is truly at stake, she must reconnect with what she tried to leave behind, overcome the fear of her power, and let her heart lead the way.<\/em> – Dutton<\/p>\n Under the mistletoe, a single mom and a professional athlete realize they have more in common than the lake house they unexpectedly have to share for the holidays, in this heartwarming romance from New York Times bestselling author Julia London.<\/em> All Amy Casey wants for Christmas is to paint. She needs five new paintings for the holiday show at her local art gallery, but between her two teenage sons, her needy ex-husband, and her overbearing parents, she hardly has any time for herself. Luckily, her best friend has the perfect solution: a vacant family lake house in North Texas, all hers for two weeks of distraction-free painting. Or so she thought.<\/em> Turns out professional golfer Harrison Neely also rented the lake house so he can spend the holidays rehabbing the injury that has put his career\u2014and life\u2014on hold. Despite the booking snafu, both Amy and Harrison (along with Amy\u2019s old blind dog and the army of child-sized nutcrackers residing in the living room) agree to share the festive lodging.<\/em> When an impending snowstorm has the two cozying up by the fire, sparks fly in more ways than one, and they open up to each other, unwrapping secrets and stories they\u2019ve never shared before. But Harrison is expected back on the tournament circuit after the holidays, and Amy\u2019s family needs her. As their departure date looms and her family and his manager press them for answers, they\u2019ll have to decide if this December to remember has been a fun holiday fling, or if they\u2019ve found a Christmas miracle: true love.<\/em> – Berkley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Date Night in December<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Jaqueline Snowe<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Good Spirits<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by B.K. Borison<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Holiday Hookup List<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by Alexis Daria<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Holly and Nick Hate Christmas<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Betsy St. Amant<\/p>\n
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<\/a>A Little Holiday Fling<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Farah Heron<\/p>\n
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<\/a>A Mannequin for Christmas<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Timothy Janovsky<\/p>\n
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<\/a>My Favorite Holidate<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Lauren Blakely<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Snow Kissed<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Raeanne Thayne<\/p>\n
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<\/a>A Spell for Midwinter’s Heart<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Morgan Lockhart<\/p>\n
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<\/a>While It Was Snowing<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Julia London<\/p>\n