• Christmas or Holiday

    Flotsam and Jetsam by MS Spencer @msspencerauthor #ChristmasRomance #Read

    Flotsam and Jetsam by MS Spencer @msspencerauthor #ChristmasRomance #ReadIt’s #ChristmasRomance Saturday on RLFblog! Join us for a collection of free reads and downloads. All genres and heat levels. This week’s featured book is Flotsam and Jetsam by MS Spencer. Bookmark this site so you don’t miss a thing.

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    Each week, you’ll find Christmas Romances to download and read. Take a peek at each one and check out their other books. Thank you, and enjoy the books!

    Flotsam and Jetsam: the Amelia Island Affair BY MS Spencer

    Who’s littering the park with corpses?
    State Park Rangers Simon Ribault and Ellie Ironstone are used to dealing with messy campers and ravaging raccoons, but when three bodies wash up on the beach, they mobilize all their powers of deduction. Who are they and how did they get to the shore of Amelia Island? Are they connected to the secretive League of the Green Cross? Or linked to a mysterious Jamaican drug ring?
    Ellie, new to Amelia Island, must penetrate a close-knit community if she wants to find answers to the mystery, all while deciding between two rivals for her affection: Thad, the handsome local idol, and Simon, the clever, quirky bookworm.
    Simon, for his part, will have to call on both his well-honed research skills to solve the case and his not-so well-honed skills as a Don Juan to lure Ellie away from Thad.

    Buy link https://catalog.thewildrosepress.com/all-titles/6345-flotsam-and-jetsam-the-amelia-island-affair.html

    Yule Tied: Oops! by Anne KaneYule Tied: Oops! by Anne Kane #ChristmasRomance #Read

    Stephanie, Jackie and Caroline. The three women have been friends for years, and they’ve built themselves a nice bed and breakfast /ranch operation. But with less than a fortnight to Christmas, a ruthless banker has swindled them out of their beloved home. What will they do?
    Well, kidnapping him and holding him hostage until he decides to do the right thing sounds like a good plan. Unfortunately, it all goes hilariously wrong when they discover they’ve kidnapped the wrong man. Bondage, obedience classes and more are needed to make sure there’s a Merry Christmas this year!

    Buy link https://www.changelingpress.com/oops-yule-tied-1-b-2538

    Christmas Dreams and Santa Schemes by Barbara Lohr

    Christmas Dreams and Santa Schemes by Barbara Lohr #ChristmasRomance #ReadCan the young widow make her family’s Christmas dreams come true? Sarah’s scheming little boys might have the answer.
    Christmas season in Gull Harbor is Sarah’s chance to fill her bakery cases with holiday cookies and pastries. Recently widowed, she needs brisk sales to catch up on late taxes. Her brother-in-law Ryan volunteers to help, although her husband’s handsome younger brother has always been trouble. But her two little boys, Nathan and Justin, adore Uncle Ryan and scheme to make him the man of Mom’s dreams.
    Ryan’s motorcycle accident changed his life. So did the loss of his brother, and he made Jamie a promise he intends to keep. Mastering lemon bars and gingerbread men begins as a duty and ends as a mission. He didn’t count on sweet Sarah stealing his heart. Can she see him as more than a man with a history of bad decisions?
    Touched by his efforts, Sarah wavers. Would Jamie approve of this growing attraction? After tromping through a snowy woods, Nathan and Justin pick out the most pathetic Christmas tree ever. Maybe they see what the tree can become, not what it is. And maybe that’s the lesson of hope and love Sarah will learn this Christmas season.

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JQ39BJF/

    Once Upon a Christmas Kiss by Cathy MacRaeOnce Upon a Christmas Kiss by Cathy MacRae #ChristmasRomance #Read

    Step away from the Christmas rush this season and fall in love again with this amazing set of Historical Christmas tales by USA Today and bestselling authors.
    Step away from the Christmas rush this season and fall in love again with this amazing set of Historical Christmas tales by USA Today and bestselling authors! This set includes
    One Knight Under the Mistletoe by Catherine Kean
    Kissing Lord Renfred de Vornay under the mistletoe was the last thing Lady Liliana Thornleigh expected days before Christmas. When she learns Ren’s dangerous secrets, will her hatred of him intensify, or will she accept his love?
    Mhairi’s Yuletide Wish by Cathy Macrae
    What MhĂ iri and Michaell receive this Yuletide season could prove more than they had ever dreamed.
    Plus many more!

    Amazon https://www.amzn.com/dp/B07J1CWS9X

    The Dread Hannigan Christmas Party by CS Myers #ChristmasRomance #ReadThe Dread Hannigan Christmas Party by CS Myers

    Who said you can never go home? What a load of malarkey.
    Sam had to go home and she had to go to the neighborhood Christmas party.
    Now that Sam had returned home, her mother’s sole mission in life seemed to be fixing her up. And this Christmas party was only the start.
    Could it get any worse?
    Don’t even ask…

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F9JKYX3/

    Bustles and Bells: A Holiday Steampunk Anthology by Erin HayesBustles and Bells: A Holiday Steampunk Anthology by Erin Hayes #ChristmasRomance #Read

    Wishing you Steampunk’s Greetings and a Happy New Gear!
    Join New York Times, USA Today, bestselling and award-winning speculative fiction authors as they celebrate the holidays this December in steampunk style. Tinsel and trains, tinkers and time-machines, garlands and gaslamps grace the stories in this limited-time anthology.
    Corseted ladies and cloaked lords fill your holidays with Christmas cheer—and a touch of Yuletide magic, too—in this collection full of tales of wonder set in alternate landscapes of Victorian style and steam-powered technology.
    So deck the skies with dirigibles, gather ’round the clockwork tree, and settle in with your eggnog and goggles for a steampunk celebration like never before!

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J3CXGDT/

    A Romance for Christmas by Kayelle Allen

    A Romance for Christmas by Kayelle Allen #ChristmasRomance #ReadAlone at Christmas. What a sad thing! When your loved one will never be home for Christmas again, what do you do? In the sweet holiday romance, A Romance for Christmas, a widow with a small child answers a knock at her door late on Christmas Eve. When she answers, everything about her holiday — and her life — changes. Love, loss, and the spirit of giving — this book is what Christmas is all about…

    Universal book link https://books2read.com/u/31MNPw

    Untangle My Heart by Maria K AlexanderUntangle My Heart by Maria K Alexander #ChristmasRomance #Read

    When her marriage ended in tragedy, Kate DiFrancesco rebuilt her life, but has never gotten over the pain of what she lost. Seeking the help of an ex-lover ignites feelings she’s promised never to have again. She’ll need to untangle herself from dangers in her past in order to break the hard shell around her heart.
    Edward Weston has a lot to prove, both to his stuffy upper-crust British family, and to himself. Working alongside Kate, a woman he had a casual relationship with, stirs unexpected feelings. Helping her family makes him realize what he’s missing. For the first time, he wants more than a one-night stand. When Kate is threatened, Edward must overcome feeling unworthy to protect the woman he loves and fight for the family he never thought he’d have.
    Untangle My Heart, a second chance contemporary holiday romance.

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0153Q7NZK/

    Cowboy Christmas by Margaret Tanner

    Cowboy Christmas by Margaret Tanner #ChristmasRomance #ReadZac Goodman is a gunslinger who is haunted by an injustice from his past. Jailed for a crime he did not commit because a conniving woman lied, he wanders from place to place, but always ends up returning to the cabin where he lived as a boy.
    On Christmas Eve, he finds heavily pregnant Holly O’Leary in an abandoned wagon, her cheating husband lying dead a few yards away.
    Reluctantly he takes Holly to his cabin to give birth. After delivering her little girl, he waits until she is strong enough then takes her into town and leaves her and the baby with a friend. He is shocked to find how hard it is for him to ride off without them.
    After surviving an ambush, Zac realizes that he loves Holly and wants to make a life with her and the baby, but fears his tainted past will always stand between them.
    Will this miracle Christmas baby unite two tortured souls? Or will it forever keep them apart?

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Cowboy-Christmas-Margaret-Tanner-ebook/dp/B01564ZJPU/

    A Secret Scottish Christmas by Regan WalkerA Secret Scottish Christmas by Regan Walker #ChristmasRomance #Read

    Spies and Scots and Shipmasters, oh my!
    Scotland 1819 ~ Twin brothers Nash and Robbie Powell of Powell and Sons Shipping, London, sail with their fellow Agents of the Crown to Scotland for a secret celebration of Christmastide, a holiday long frowned upon by the Scottish Kirk. But more than Christmas is being kept secret. The two brothers have accepted an assignment from the Home Secretary Lord Sidmouth to ferret out a fugitive fomenting rebellion among the Scots.
    Aileen Stephen, the only daughter of an Aberdeen shipbuilder, had to be clever, devious and determined to gain her place in the family business. She succeeded to become a designer of highly coveted ships. One night, a man’s handsome face appears to her in a dream. When two men having that same face arrive on a ship full of Londoners, Ailie wonders what her second sight is telling her. Is the face she saw a portender of the future, a harbinger of danger, or both? And which of the two Englishmen is the one in her dream?
    Older than Nash by a mere five minutes, Robbie has always been protective of his twin. When he realizes Nash is attracted to the sister of their Scottish host, he thinks to help matters along. But Nash wants no help from his brother, not where Ailie Stephen is concerned because Robbie is attracted to the girl himself!
    Two brothers vie for the affection of the Scottish lass but only one stirs her passion. Which one will it be? And what will she do when she learns they are spies?

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076BBG6HV

    The President’s Daughter by Seelie Kay

    The President's Daughter by Seelie Kay #ChristmasRomance #ReadBe careful what you wish for because it just might send your life into a tailspin from which you may not recover.
    When presidential candidate Jamisen Powell meets volunteer Sarah Lee Pearson, he is shocked to discover her eyes mirror his own. But Sarah was raised by two loving parents and has no questions about her heritage. Instead, after their death, she merely longs to find an extended family. She becomes convinced that Powell could be a distant relative. Powell, on the other hand, has spent twenty-five long years haunted by the memory of a daughter kidnapped from her bed. He suspects Sarah could be his long-lost daughter. As both launch separate covert searches for the truth, Sarah is found by the estranged parents of the man who raised her. Suddenly, the truth will no longer set her free. It could destroy the happy memories of her childhood. Hang on to your seat, and more importantly, hang on to your heart, as one woman discovers the true meaning of family.

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MNJFV8M/

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  • Christmas or Holiday

    Christmas Wishes by Livia Quinn @liviaquinn #ChristmasRomance #Books

    Christmas Wishes by Livia Quinn @liviaquinn #ChristmasRomance #BooksIt’s #ChristmasRomance Saturday on RLFblog! Join us for a collection of free reads and downloads. All genres and heat levels. This week’s featured book is Christmas Wishes by Livia Quinn. Bookmark this site so you don’t miss a thing.

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    Each week, you’ll find Christmas Romances to download and read. Take a peek at each one and check out their other books. Thank you, and enjoy the books!

    Christmas Wishes: Not just a holiday romance (Calloways of Rainbow Bayou Book 4) by Livia Quinn

    Not just a Christmas book. . .when the Calloways and Larues get together things just happen. New relationships, engagements and miracles abound in the first Christmas novel of the Calloways of Rainbow Bayou. Revel in the ongoing lives of couples from the first three books and get a glimpse of new characters in upcoming books.
    Love happens when you least expect it and sometimes delivers surprises and long-awaited second chances.
    As the Calloways and Larues gather at the Romanos’ on Christmas Eve, Buffy prepares some surprises for her husband. Meanwhile, her cousin Beau is home from Hollywood and Maddie is nervous about seeing him again. Samantha’s baby is over due and no surprise to Buffy, her ex-boyfriend Jed shows up unexpectedly. Then there’s Luc, who’s is starting to believe maybe Delilah has changed her mind about spending the rest of her life with him.
    But with the first Christmas miracle, Buffy knows eventually her friends will get their happily-ever-afters. Because a Calloway always knows.

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GNS81D8/

    Christmas in Meadow Creek by Katy Eeten

    Sarah Laughlin left her big-city life and dead-end relationship behind for a fresh start as a fourth-grade teacher in the small, Wisconsin town of Meadow Creek. And it feels like home, too, despite the persistent troublemaker in her class and the lack of familiar faces. But the holidays are going to be lonely this year. Until she meets firefighter Lincoln Thompson. Suddenly, the hope of spending Christmas with someone she cares about is within reach.
    Lincoln loves his home town of Meadow Creek, but ever since his long-time girlfriend left him for a better life in the city, he wonders if he’ll ever find love in this small town where everyone knows everyone. Then he meets Sarah during her class’s field trip to his firehouse, and a spark is lit. But when they discover that Sarah’s troublemaking student is none other than Lincoln’s beloved nephew, their newfound relationship is put to the test. Can they navigate through the complexities of family dynamics to find a love that will last?

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K6XLK8B/

    Once Upon a Christmas Feast: Stories, Menus, and Recipes for a Victorian Christmas Feast (Once Upon a Wedding) by Kelly McClymer

    Have you ever wanted to attend a Victorian Christmas celebration? Well now you can, in Once Upon a Christmas Feast you not only get an original story, but menus, recipes, favorite Victorian Christmas stories and songs.
    What’s in this jam-packed Victorian Christmas celebration of a tome?
    First: an original Once Upon a Wedding short story. “Once Upon a Fairytale Christmas.”
    The Duchess of Keystone is an unconventional woman who loves fairytales and happily ever after endings. When it comes to Christmas, she loves nothing better than to have her family gathered at her estate enjoying Christmas joy, food, games, and entertainment.
    This year, her niece Margause arrives to view the wonder of a fairytale Christmas celebration. At three, Margause loves to slip into the library of the ducal estate, where her parents fell in love, and peruse the books she hopes to read one day soon.
    Observant and advanced for her age, Margause notices that her aunts and uncles are not as happy as they should be about her Aunt Kate’s upcoming Twelfth Night wedding to a handsome, charming Irish rogue. She also doesn’t understand why her mother’s former governess Katherine tries so hard to cheer up Scroogish Sir Robert. It seems obvious to Margause that Sir Robert would need Mr. Dicken’s three ghosts to make him feel any Christmas joy.
    But then, what else does the Duchess of Keystone offer everyone, but a chance at a fairytale Christmas, where miracles happen around every corner.
    Next: An Appendix of traditional Victorian Christmas stories and essays by Charles Dickens…what? You didn’t know “A Christmas Carol” wasn’t his only Christmas story? Nope. Dickens, along with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, are actually responsible for making Christmas the holiday we celebrate today. You’ll also find it handy to have the lyrics to several Christmas favorite songs, so you can make sure to lead your family in rounds of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” without messing up the lyrics.
    All in all, Once Upon a Christmas Feast is your guide to celebrating a very Victorian Christmas.

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KZ6TB1D

    Perfectly Christmas by Linda O’Connor

    On the first day of Christmas, his true love said to him, “Sorry, I have to work.”
    That’s the life of a surgeon, and Dr. Madison Hayes wouldn’t have it any other way.
    Dr. Quinn Malone has another priority. In the countdown to Christmas, he needs to convince his old flame that there’s more to life – and love – than the job itself.
    This time, his heart is in it for the long haul. Really.
    Romantic and . . . complicated – it’s Perfectly Christmas!
    The Perfectly Series
    Perfectly Honest
    Perfectly Reasonable
    Perfectly Planned
    Perfectly Unpredictable

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MYW5T7X/

    The Christmas of a Countess by Linda Rae Sande

    A sensual tale of a couple’s first holiday away from home…
    The Year with No Summer is drawing to a close, bleeding into a harsh winter that promises snow, ice and continued hardship. London, so rich with life and bustle, is quiet beneath the ice, buried in a cold few can ever truly recall happening before. Many of the ton are taking their leave for the Christmas holiday, abandoning the soggy streets of London for even chillier country roads.
    Milton Grandby, Earl of Torrington, believes that now is the perfect time to introduce his new bride, Adele, to his ancestral hunting lodge and seat of his Earldom in Northumberland. A private getaway nestled in glistening snow can lead to all sorts of enjoyment… and hopefully, an heir.
    With excitement in the air and Christmas fast approaching, the newlyweds make plans to travel north. While no family will be invited to the Torrington lodge, the Earl will bring his valet, Alonyius Banks, and Adele will be accompanied by Alice Simpkins, her rather grumpy lady’s maid.
    Yet when The Lord and His Lady arrive at Torrington Park sans their servants, things take a decided turn and quickly become intimately awkward. While Milton is more than happy to play lady’s maid to his bride, the close confines and frigid air bring secrets to the front—and mistrust to the surface. As the duo learns more about each other’s pasts, they discover struggles and misunderstandings abound.
    Can they look beyond their flaws and allow the spirit of the season and the gift of giving to thaw the sudden ice between them? Or will their first holiday away doom their new-found devotion? The budding romance of their servants may provide the answer in “The Christmas of a Countess”.

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074PLTQHB

    Christmastime on Donner’s Mountain by Laura Strickland

    For most of her life, Becca Monroe’s been running. The urge to see what lay beyond the next horizon took her away from Donner’s Mountain and the man she loved. Now, back for what will surely be her grandfather’s last Christmas, she’s caught in a tangle of unresolved emotions that leave her torn between the impulse to flee and the desire to stay.
    Jack Donner never stopped loving Becca, even though she deserted him. Better than anyone else, he knows how cruel it would be to fetter her wild spirit, and he doubts she could ever be happy living in one place, on his mountain.
    Can memories of Christmases past remind Becca what truly matters? And can love convince Jack to give her one more chance, even if it means risking his battered heart?

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075XFHNQ8/

    Northern Magic by Laura Strickland

    When Santa asks his worker, Olja, to help make another elf’s Christmas wish come true, she believes the job calls for a love potion. Brewing it up will require her to travel all around the North Pole gathering unusual supplies, and to take a few dangerous risks. But she’s never failed Santa in the past and doesn’t intend to now.
    Elf Runi’s in the business of guiding Santa’s sleigh and making other people’s wishes come true. This year he’s dared make a wish of his own, one from the heart. When he meets Olja, he hopes he’s found his forever. But it will take assistance from a reindeer, a generous helping of love and a whole lot of magic to make his wish come true. That is, if Olja and Runi can just outwit the three troublesome trolls who decide they’d make a fine winter’s snack.

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0763CYY57/

    The Twelfth Night Wager by Regan Walker

    The Redheaded Rake
    It was a dull day at White’s the day he agreed to the wager: seduce, bed and walk away from the lovely Lady Leisterfield, all by Twelfth Night. But this holiday season, Christopher St. Ives, Viscount Eustace, planned to give himself a gift.
    The Virtuous Widow
    She was too proper by half—or so was the accusation of her friends, which was why her father had found her a husband. But Lord Leisterfield was now gone a year, and Grace was at last shedding the drab colors of mourning. The house felt empty, more so during the coming Christmastide, and so tonight would begin with a scandalous piece of theater. The play would attract rogues, or so promised her friend the dowager countess. Rogues, indeed. The night would preface the greatest danger—and the greatest happiness—that Grace had ever known.

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GG2DALC

    The Lawman’s Christmas Proposal by Barbara White Daille

    A husband for Christmas?
    Mitch Weston’s back in Cowboy Creek, and self-proclaimed matchmaker Jed Garland has his single granddaughter Andi on his mind. Mitch is a lawman, good with the little ones and easy on the eyes. He and Andi were high school sweethearts, for heaven’s sake! Why can’t they see they’re perfect for each other?
    Because Andi already lost one husband to a dangerous job, and now she’s all about playing it safe, for her sake and her children’s. Being a cop is everything to Mitch. After discovering Jed’s plan, Mitch and Andi come up with their own: they’ll pretend to get engaged and then break up due to irreconcilable differences. Jed’s got his work cut out for him—because this match needs a Christmas miracle!

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WARV1R2/

    His Holiday Cat Daddy by WM Kirkland

    Jude returned to Wyoming looking reunite with his former lover Payton. A chance to play a cowboy at the 2 Hearts Rescue holiday event brought him face to face with…Santa? Underneath that costume, Payton was as hot as ever and when a tiny stray shows up on Patyon’s doorstep, Jude realizes he has a ready made family. If only he could convince Payton that he’s back for good.

    Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D5M4SFT

    A Romance for Christmas by Kayelle Allen

    A cop at the door on Christmas Eve brings an unexpected gift.
    A sweet holiday romance showcasing love, loss, and the spirit of giving.
    It’s Christmas Eve, and the end of a year in which everything Dara loves has been lost. Everything but her little girl and a fierce determination to survive. When a cop brings Christmas to her door, he also brings a gift she never expected to get.

    Universal book link https://books2read.com/u/31MNPw

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  • Historical

    Tame the Wind by @RegansReview #RLFBlog #Historical

    To Tame the Wind 
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    contacts for the author. Today’s featured book is To Tame the Wind by Regan Walker.

    About the Book

    Title: To Tame the Wind
    Genre: Historical Romance
    Author: Regan Walker
    Book heat level: PG13
    Paris 1782…An Innocent Is Taken
    All Claire Donet knew was the world inside the convent walls
    in Saint-Denis. She had no idea her beloved papa was a pirate. But when he seized
    Simon Powell’s schooner, the English privateer decided to take the one thing his
    enemy held most dear… her.
    A Battle Is Joined

    The waters between France and England roil with the clashes of
    Claire’s father and her captor as the last year of the American Revolution rages
    on the sea, spies lurk in Paris and Claire’s passion for the English captain rises.

    Buy This Book

    Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Tame-Wind-Agents-Crown-Book-ebook/dp/B00VO4DZYE

    About the Author

    Bestselling author Regan Walker loved to write stories as a child,
    particularly those about adventure-loving girls, but by the time she got to college
    more serious pursuits were encouraged. One of her professors suggested a career
    in law, and she took that path. Years of serving clients in private practice and
    several stints in high levels of government gave her a love of international travel
    and a feel for the demands of the “Crown.” Hence her romance novels often
    involve a demanding sovereign who taps his subjects for “special assignments.”
    Each of her novels features real history and real historic figures. And, of course,
    adventure and love.
    Regan lives in San Diego with her golden retriever, Link, who
    she says inspires her every day to relax and smell the roses. 

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