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A fake holiday date shouldn't feel this real. Or this right. PIPER: When celebrity chef Buzz Romano cancels on my "12 Days of Christmas Challenge" at the last minute, I'm desperate for a replacement judge for our charity cookie contest. Enter Dr. Everett "Rhett" Thornton—distinguished surgeon, devoted son, and the grumpiest (yet somehow hottest) man in Starlight Bay. When I overhear him complaining about needing a date for the hospital's Christmas gala, the perfect solution presents itself: I'll be his plus-one if he'll judge my contest. Simple, right? Except nothing about the way his ...

The only game he’s playing this Christmas is getting her out of those stockings... EVE: Hiding in Promise Ridge after my broken engagement, I stumble into the local bar's Stocking Pull tradition—tiny stockings filled with dares. First night? Kiss a stranger under the mistletoe. That stranger? The impossibly sexy bar owner with bedroom eyes and a talent for making me forget why I swore off men. Each night brings a new stocking, a new dare, and new ways Deacon makes me melt faster than snow on the tavern’s roof. Who knew Christmas could be this hot? DEACON: When the gorgeous newcomer ...

"When you're on the naughty list, sometimes you need a mountain man with a very big...cabin." PEPPER: Working as the head elf at North Pole Village was supposed to be festive fun—until I caught my ex embezzling from the charity toy drive. Now I'm on the run in a snowstorm, with evidence stuffed in my pointy hat and nowhere to hide except the cabin of the broodiest mountain man I've ever seen. Pax Forrester is six-foot-four of silent intensity who clearly wants me gone, but the blizzard and my vengeful ex have other plans. I need to lay low until I can expose Nolan's scheme, but hiding out...

🍂🦃🍂 𝑨 𝒗𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏, 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒘𝒃𝒐𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑... 𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐘: I'm a vegetarian public defender who accidentally committed grand theft turkey. Now I'm fake dating my ex's older brother—the one who caught me red-handed trying to stuff his prize breeding tom into my Prius at 2 AM. Heath McGraw is six-foot-three of surly cowboy who's making me pretend to be his ...

This Christmas, the rescuer is about to be rescued... National Guard helicopter pilot Truitt Briggs has spent the last eighteen months flying medevac missions in conflict zones. Now he's home on leave with one mission: avoid his family's legendary Christmas celebrations while he figures out who he is beyond the uniform. The last thing he needs is to play hero again. Charlie Willoughby is determined to make this Christmas perfect, even if it kills her. After her father's heart attack, she's desperate to prove she can run Willoughby Pines, their third-generation Christmas tree farm, without ...

👻 He ghosted her once. This Halloween, he’s back—and hotter than ever. RAINEY: Midnight Springs is my home, my sanctuary, and the stage where I’ve built a life after heartbreak. I manage my grandmother’s antique shop, I act in our theater, and I don’t look back. Not since Ransom Hollis vanished without a word ten years ago. But now he’s back—cast as the “ghost cowboy” in our Halloween festival—and suddenly I’m face-to-face with the man who once shattered me. Every stolen glance stirs old wounds…and dangerous new desires. And when sabotage threatens both the ...

Her candy isn’t the only thing he wants to taste this Halloween... CINN: Opening my candy shop in Woodbridge Falls was supposed to be my sweet new start. Winning the Halloween candy competition could finally put me on the map—if I can get my hands on the one ingredient that makes my grandmother’s recipe shine. Trouble is, the only man who makes the syrup I need is a grumpy mountain recluse with shoulders as broad as his scowl. My solution? Show up on his doorstep and dare him to say no. SAWYER: The last thing I need is a candy maker barging into my sugar grove. But Cinnamon Moretti ...

A beautiful injured girl. A brutish orc hunter. When they're snowed-in for Christmas, will their forbidden passion be enough to warm cold enemy hearts, or will it prove too hot to handle? RUE: I’m promised to my father’s enemy to pay off his debt. However, I detest Azrael and could never be his bride. I run away into the forest to think, where I fall into a ravine and injure my leg. A giant, green brute of a man finds me. He tells me he tends a reindeer farm and is searching for one of his reindeer who got lost. I’m sure he’s going to kill me. However, instead he takes me to his ...

Caught in a snowstorm on Christmas Eve, Hope has no choice but spend the holiday at the Starlight Inn. Will she be touched by the magic of Christmas with a little help from a handsome stranger? Hope Garland is at a crossroads. Nothing she does feels like it’s getting her to where she wants to be in life… It's time for a change. Leaving everything in Dallas behind was a difficult choice, but she’ll have to make sacrifices to get the life she’s always wanted, even if that means being away from home for Christmas in order to show up on time for her new job at the prestigious firm in ...

Will a little meddling from Granny Mae and a touch of mistletoe magic be enough to turn enemies into lovers in time for a merry Christmas? Meredith: Returning to Kings Valley was supposed to be simple: revive my family’s beloved café and keep our town’s traditions alive. I never imagined my biggest challenge would be Kris Knight, the smooth-talking developer with grand plans to modernize our historic inn. From the moment we met we were at odds—our visions for the future couldn’t be more different. But a surprise kiss under the mistletoe has turned everything upside-down. Suddenly, ...

Some stories can't be written—they can only be lived. BRYNN I came to Montana to find the passion I've only ever written about. Manhattan's suffocating walls and my publisher's cutting criticism have pushed me to the edge. They say my love scenes lack authenticity, that I know nothing about real desire. A sudden mountain storm, a slick road, and one catastrophic skid later, I'm stranded in a ditch, freezing and terrified. Just when I'm certain I'll become another cautionary tale, he appears—a mountain of a man with eyes that have seen things no one should ever have to see. MACK I didn't...

What happens when a rebellious city girl crashes into a mountain man's perfectly isolated world? Everything. SCARLETT: I had exactly two choices: marry the boring, controlling fiancé my conservative parents picked out, or run. So I did what any self-respecting rebellious daughter would do—I signed up for Mountain Mates and bolted. What I didn't expect was landing with a reclusive mountain man who looks like he'd rather wrestle a bear than deal with me. My plan was simple: lose my virginity, become unmarriageable, and finally live on my own terms. But Bodhi is nothing like I imagined. ...

She came to hide. He made her want to be found. DIDI: I fled to Hope Peak Lake with three goals: stay hidden, stay quiet, and stay away from men. After my obsessed listener turned stalker, the last thing I needed was another complication. Then I met my next-door neighbor—six feet four inches of grumpy mountain man who thought I couldn't tell a fishing rod from a selfie stick. Detective Noah Sterling was everything I didn't want: protective, persistent, and way too perceptive for my secrets. But when he caught me skinny dipping off our shared dock one moonlit night, keeping my distance ...

She came to the mountain with star charts and s’mores—he showed her how to get lost in all the right ways. SKYE: What was supposed to be a sweet overnight campout with a bunch of tweens turned into my personal version of Naked and Afraid. Okay, not naked—but pretty close after that rainstorm. Stranded in the woods with no signal, no dry clothes, and no clue what I was doing, I was fully prepared to die of embarrassment… until a brooding, bare-chested wilderness god came stomping out of the trees. Too bad he thinks I’m a walking disaster. Even worse? I can’t stop imagining ...

CAT: Thirty seconds. That's all I had to choose between marrying a man who saw me as property or jumping into the unknown. So I ran—$30,000 wedding dress, bare feet, and all—straight through Miami's marina and onto the first yacht pulling away from the dock. I never expected to land in the arms of Rafael Rivera, the sexiest captain to ever sail the Keys. Seven days in paradise was supposed to be my perfect hideout. Instead, Rafe's becoming my perfect undoing. Every smoldering look, every accidental touch, every night under the stars is breaking down my defenses. I escaped one man who ...

Snow, romance, and Northern Lights—this Christmas cruise is about to get steamy… MIRA: I never expected an Alaskan cruise to shake up my holiday plans, but that’s exactly what happened when I spilled hot buttered rum all over an ice sculpture display in front of Colt Shepperd, the ship’s infuriatingly charming cruise director. Colt’s steamy smile and naughty grin are making it impossible to keep my distance, and now my resolve to stay single is melting faster than a winter snowflake… COLT: Mira was the best holiday surprise I could have asked for. Her fiery spirit and sexy ...

I must have missed the "Santa Clause"… When I won an all-inclusive vacation to a luxury mountain resort over the holidays after entering a sweepstakes on the back of my cereal box, I assumed it was Fate announcing it was finally Merri Bianchi’s time to relax and have a little fun. But you know what they say about assumptions.... As it turns out I neglected to read the fine print, aka the "Santa Clause," and now I’m dressed as an Elf working my red-and-white striped stockings off at Santa’s Toyshop to make sure every parent finds the perfect gift for their precious little snowflake ...

Riley Ghost hunting rule #1: Don't screw the haunts. But here I am, lost in Whistling Pines with dead batteries, a useless compass, and a shadow man who can literally pass through my clothes. My podcast needs this episode, even if I have to camp in this creepy forest for a week. The locals warned me about the entity that stalks trespassers, but failed to mention he's got magical hands that can touch me in places—and ways—that should be physically impossible. Now we're being hunted by very human killers, and my sexy shadow is the only thing keeping me alive. If we survive, this will ...

I’m Jade O’Hara Raines, and I ran from my fated mate. Not because I wanted to, but because I had to… I was born to an unruly pack known for having frequent run-ins with the law. My marriage to Cronin Raines, the newly appointed Sherriff and Alpha of our biggest rival clan, was to be a peace treaty between our families. However, after my brother was accused of murder and my husband testified against him, I was left torn between the two. Bax claimed he was innocent, but I didn’t know who or what to believe. To complicate matters, I’d just found out I was pregnant with Cronin’s ...

MINDY I uprooted my life—and my twin boys—for the mountain man who promised me a new beginning. But the second I step into Skyline Bar & Grill in Hope Peak, Montana, Levi Voss stares at me like I’m a total stranger, and my kids declare they hate him on sight. Did I chase a dream that never really existed… or will the flames between us ignite something real? LEVI I had no interest in dating, let alone instant family. Then my sister posed as me on a matchmaking app. Now Mindy Barnes shows up in my bar with two rowdy boys, a moving truck, and a key to my cabin I damn sure never sent. ...