A workaholic woman finds holiday warmth and a spark of romance in a "beautiful story full of fantastic characters, steamy chemistry, and Christmas spirit" (Smexy Books, Grade A). Once upon a time, Christmas was Kayla Green's favorite time of year. Now all she wants for Christmas is for it to be over! So when duty calls her to snowy Vermont to close a deal with a new client, Kayla is grateful for an excuse to avoid the holidays for another year. Jackson...

A timeless collection of holiday tales from the legendary Charles Dickens.

This is no ordinary Nutcracker! This time, it's Fritz's story. The traditional Nutcracker tale gets turned on its head in this rollicking Christmas adventure, based on the hit musical A Nutty Nutcracker Christmas by the popular family music rock star Ralph Covert and playwright G. Riley Mills. Includes a bonus CD of songs from the musical, featuring a read-aloud track with the music and story woven together.

Right before Thanksgiving, a freak tornado drops down into the town of Larkspur in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains and destroys the house where matriarch and candy magnate Loretta Cisco has lived for fifty years. Thanks for nothing, Mother Nature! As if that's not enough, 'Cisco' sees that her beloved triplet grandchildren, Hannah, Sara, and Sam--each a newlywed--are having marital problems and yet they refuse to tell her what's going on. So as...

Arthur finds a way to enjoy his Christmas cookies even after he discovers they can't be eaten.

"Christmas is coming, but Savannah antique dealer Weezie Foley is doubly distracted--both by her upcoming wedding to her longtime love, chef Daniel Stipanek and also by the fact that her best friend and maid-of-honor BeBe Loudermilk is due to give birth any day--and is still adamantly refusing to marry her live-in-love Harry. Readers have come to love these characters in Mary Kay Andrews' three previous Savannah novels: Savannah Blues, Savannah Breeze,...

"... Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences...." The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, a Fancy for Christmas-Time, bookends the series of five Christmas stories by Charles Dickens (1812—1870) that began in 1843 with A Christmas Carol. Originally published in 1848, this dark yet redemptive...

"The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain" is one of Dickens' Christmas-time novellas, written in the vein of his most popular one, "A Christmas Carol". Professor Redlaw is brooding over his past misery and mistakes, when he is suddenly visited by a ghostly apparition. The spectre comes with a bargain – the professor can be free from his past anguish, but there is a heavy price to be paid. What starts as a festive tale about the spirit of Christmas...

After a few false starts, Teeka discovers the best way to get Santa's reindeer ready for Christmas Eve.

Bestselling author Fern Michaels kicks off this enchanting collection of holiday tales with "Silver Bells," in which a glamorous movie star gets a second chance with her high-school boyfriend. In JoAnn Ross' "Dear Santa," mystery writer Holly Berry and hotelier Gabe O'Halloran are brought together when his five-year-old daughter plays matchmaker. Mary Burton's "Christmas Past" features a widowed policeman who helps an emotionally fragile photographer...