Whispers of Winter

Winter may be rolling in, but that doesn’t mean your days and nights must be cold. 

Before you get snowed in, grab yourself a copy of this limited-edition collection. With heroes and heroines of all kinds, you’ll be sure to find some that you just can’t help but fall in love with. 

These romantic reads can be read as stand-alone stories. But, why would you want to do that? Read them all! Immerse yourself in this wintery ensemble from Romance Collections.

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STORIES BY: Nicole Morgan; Stephanie Morris; Caitlyn Lynch; Maya Bailey; Donna R. Mercer; Jan Springer; Livia Quinn; Amber Skyze; Rebecca Fairfax; Jane Blythe; Suzanne Jenkins; Marie Mason; Karen Cino, Joann Baker & Patricia Mason and our featured authors ... 


CHRISTMAS CHOICES
by Sharon Coady
Amazon   Twitter  @srcoady
All Rhian St Claire wants is to escape from under her father's control, go to Italy to paint and find herself. When her grandfather's cafe  catches fire her father hires Kellen Slade to rebuild the cafe. Rhian finds herself in a panic when she is instantly drawn to him because she knows her father would never approve of the Harley riding bad boy. As her attraction grows for Kellen he tells her he is interested in her too. She buys her ticket and runs, only to complicate her life further by meeting the smooth talking, handsome Italian artist Dante Barone. When Rhian returns home just before Christmas she finds herself wondering if Kellen can forgive her for running, if her father will ever allow her to be her own woman and if her relationship with Dante will destroy everything.

FINDING LOVE
by Krista Ames
 Amazon   Twitter  @kristaames

The Great Fruitcake Bake-off
by Vicki Batman
Amazon     Twitter @VickiBatman

When a five-time champion Samantha Greene teams up with her new neighbor, Dixon Roberts, for The Great Fruitcake Bake-off, they discover baking a prize-winning entry is complicated, bad guys are plotting to take the crown, and first prize isn't just about a ribbon.

Touchdown Dance 
by Carma Haley Shoemaker
Amazon    Twitter @carmicwords

Raised by her grandfather, Peyton Brooks hasn’t had an easy life. After a career-ending accident, she steps away from her love of dance and opens a tea shop with her best friend. She soon realizes the thing she is most missing in her life is love. But who could ever love a broken dancer with OCD?

Austin Mathey’s career is over. After an injury on the field, he’s looking for a quiet life and someone real to share it with. Meeting Peyton at physical therapy caught him by surprise, but he’s determined to open her eyes to her true worth, and to the possibility of love, no matter what her doubts. 

When Austin’s past interrupts their holiday season trying to convince him to re-enter the game, Peyton distances herself. She can’t compete with his fame, or his fans. But having lost her own dream career, she refuses to be the reason Austin resigns his. Will Austin convince Peyton that she’s the only woman he wants? Or will Peyton’s past keep her from the future she’s dreamed of?

Mistletoe Fantasies
by Stacy Eaton
Amazon   Twitter: @StacySEaton

Reba St. James would prefer to serve the drinks or play hostess to the businessmen and their guests at Pleasure Your Fantasies, the gentlemen’s club where she’s employed. Unfortunately, when she needs extra money to pay off an urgent debt, the only position that pays her enough is dancing on stage with barely anything on.

Wallie has been a bodyguard at the club since it opened four years ago, and over the last year, he’s developed quite a crush on Ms. Reba. He might have thought he had a chance with her, except the club has a strict rule: No dating between guards and dancers.

When the attraction between Wallie and Reba reaches undeniable levels, Reba is ready to walk away from dancing altogether and try to find another way to help pay the bills, but when a final notice shows up, she’s forced to go from part-time dancing to full-time, and any chance of a relationship between them is put on hold.

Everything changes on Christmas Eve when Reba and another dancer get into a fight, and Reba is let go from the club. Will Reba lose everything, or will Reba and Wallie get more for the holidays than just their Mistletoe Fantasies?

by Rene Webb
Amazon   Twitter @ReneWebbAuthor

Keeping warm has never been this hot! 
“How the hell did I get here?” 

It's Christmas morning, and June Evans is wondering how a solo vacation in search of a white Christmas has led her to having a hot and hard man moving between her trembling thighs. 

Tom Allen, a mounted police officer, was meant to be spending a quiet holiday with his family, but a freak snowstorm traps him with what he wanted most this year, a chance at love. 

VICKI: I don't like to be cold at all. When UGGS boots came out, I was on board and now, my feet stay warm.

STACY:  This year won’t be a problem! I recently started early menopause and the hot flashes could melt a snow bank! But normally, I don’t go outside! I’m not a lover of cold weather or winter sports, so I tend to hibernate during the colder months and write more. If I do have to go out, I have an incredible hubby who warms me up, inside and out. 😉

CARMA: I stay warm in the winter by drinking hot chocolate, wearing my favorite sweater, and snuggling under Harry Potter blanket with my cat Mystic.

KRISTA: Literally, sleeping beside my husband is like having a furnace in my bed. Most of the time I don't even use blankets, while he is covered up to his chin lol.  Now, if we're talking in my dreams or my books...that's another story.  I'm all about those animal instincts and a roll in the sheets to heat up the room!!

SHARON: I love winter and Christmas is by far my favorite holiday. I stay warm snuggled beside my loving husband whom our grandchildren know is secretly the real Santa. You can't get much better than that!

RENE: I snuggle up with my preferred beverage, hot cocoa, a naughty romance and a warm blanket.

VICKI: All I want for Christmas is lots of laughs and good food with my family and plenty of chocolate.

STACY: All I want for Christmas is to have my family here to celebrate. I love huge family gatherings at Christmas. Love the cooking, love the hugs and smiles of my grandson, and I love knowing they are all around me. The only thing that would make this better, was if we were all celebrating Christmas on a Disney Cruise! 

CARMA: All I want for Christmas is a Supernatural tattoo. 

KRISTA: All I want for Christmas is a warm vacation and happy kids...lol 

RENE: All I want for Christmas is a sexy Santa! 

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Get Lost With Krista Ames!

Happy Monday, folks! I'm back with another awesome author for you! Please help me welcome Krista Ames to our site!

 

WHO IS KRISTA?

Born and raised in Northern Indiana, Krista now resides in Northern Lower Michigan.  She is married to a very supportive man who allows her to follow her true passion of writing and never complains when she is pirated away on her computer for hours.    Krista is also a mother of 4 ornery children who keep her plenty busy.  With an addition of 2 beautiful chocolate lab sisters and a playful kitty, there is never a dull or spare moment in her household. 

Krista has always loved to read and would often sit up for hours into the night not able to put down a book until she was finished.  She still reads when she can but her main focus is creating her own stories to share with the world. 

She loves to communicate with her readers so please feel free to drop her a line anytime at krista@kristaames.com or visit her at http://www.kristaames.com   or http://www.apassionforromance.blogspot.com.

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THE STORY

Christmas is supposed to be a joyous time of year, but for Harper Donaldson it’s just another day.  Orphaned at an early age, she doesn’t have a single good memory of Christmas.

But, when a Santa’s Mailbox mysteriously appears in the lobby of the post office where she works as postmistress, Harper wonders what it could hurt to send her own letter to Santa.

Could he bring her the family she’d always wanted?

EXCERPT

I really didn’t think our meeting went that bad yesterday.

Except, she still hadn’t shown up and he’d made sure to drop the note off plenty early, too. No way Mrs. Whiddamore wouldn’t give it to her. She just didn’t seem the type.

“Hey, sugar, how about you let me warm up that coffee? It’s gonna be a chunk of brown ice pretty soon.” Not bothering to wait for his approval, Bonnie grabbed the cup, plopped a fresh one down in front of him, and filled it with more of the steaming brew.

“Thanks. Guess it’s just not holding my interest today.”

“Are you sure I can’t get you anything else, —a piece of pie, maybe?”

“No, it’s okay, I’m kind of waiting on someone. You know, like a late lunch date.”

 
Her jaw dropped in surprise, but within seconds she again became the bubbly flirtatious waitress he was used to.

“Well, sugar, if you need anything at all, you just give me a shout, okay?” She winked, tapped her red nails on the Formica tabletop and sashayed away.

As Fin picked up the hot cup, someone knocked on the café window.  He glanced up to find his brother standing there, face plastered to the glass. He shook his head.

“I knew I should have gone somewhere else.”

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Alexa: How often to you get lost in a story?

Krista:  Oh gosh, every time or as often as I can, whether it be in reading or writing.  I think it’s my favorite thing about books, being able to get lost in them.  Takes me away from my own day to day grind, even for an hour or two.
 
Alexa: What’s the first book you remember reading?  
Krista:  The first romance book that I read that virtually hooked me into this genre was a Linda Lael Miller book.  She writes fantastic westerns and that pretty much sealed the deal for me.  I then went in search of every book she’d ever written.

Alexa: What’s your favorite cartoon character?

Krista:  My favorite cartoon is Scooby Doo so Scooby and Shaggy share the top billing of my favorite character!

Alexa: What turns you off like nothing else?

Krista:  hmm that’s a good question.  As far as appearances go (talking men here) that would be a beard.  I guess I don’t have anything against them, my dad had one for as long as I can remember but as far as getting me all giddy and hot, that’s totally not it lol.  The other thing would be a man calling me DEAR.  I despise that word as my ex used it often.

Alexa: Can you tell us about a real-life hero you’ve met?

Krista:  That’s an easy one…it’s my hubby.  He came to me after I’d taken my children and left a failing marriage.  He treats me all the ways I always wanted and thought a wife should be treated and he loves my children.  Plus he lets me be a stay-at-home mom and author.

Alexa: Fairy Tale or Action Adventure?

Krista:  Can I say both?  Most of the time I’m in for the fairy tale but I also like a good action adventure as long as it has a happy for now or happily ever after ending.

Alexa: What sound or noise do you love?

Krista:  I love the sound of my children giggling.

 Alexa: What was the first story you remember writing?

Krista:  The first story I remember writing was actually a series I started before I was ever published so I’m guessing maybe at most, 2006.  It was a series that centered around my 2 sisters and I.  I can’t even imagine how awful that thing is.  I even got to about 40,000 words but I haven’t looked at it in years.

I might be a bit different from a lot of other authors out there in that I didn’t start writing when I was super young.  When I was in school, I hated to read.  Mainly because it was homework and that’s how I looked at all reading.  Even in high school, I would get the CliffNotes (remember those yellow notebook things? lol)versus reading the book.  For heaven sake, I passed my senior English class with a D- because I refused to do an oral book report.  Yeah, I was one of those kids. lol.

Alexa: What’s your favorite movie of all time?

Krista:  I have lots of ‘favorite’ movies but the one I’ve been watching since childhood without it ever getting old is The Wizard of Oz.

Alexa: What’s your favorite kind of story to get lost in?

Krista:  Romance all the way, with a happily ever after, a must!

Alexa: Krista, thanks for spending time with us today. Folks, Krista has a great giveaway for you so be sure to jump in!

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