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Candles and Honey Cookies: A Tale of Hanukkah by Shari Elder $1.99 Tamara is trapped. Her father betrothed her to a man she does not like, let alone love. And she can't forget the brazen shepherd who dared to look in her eyes. Natan fell in love with Tamara the first moment he saw her. But the daughter of the high priest cannot marry a shepherd. Read More

Magic and Midnight Mint Bars by Iona Morrison $2.99 Months after a bitter divorce, Sally Mansfield is spending Christmas with her best friends at the Blue Iris Inn. Fifty pounds thinner than the last time they were together, she is excited for her friends to see the change. She might still be wounded, her self-esteem at rock bottom, but Sally is determined to have a fun holiday with her friends. Read More

Gingerbread Knight by Pam Binder $2.99 Graham, a mysterious, enchanted knight, is skilled at finding lost things. His latest assignment is to find a woman and her cookbook—if he wants to win his mother's freedom. Read More

Macaroons by Moonlight by Annette Miller $2.99 When Joanna Robillard's car breaks down in front of the Heavenly Bites cookie shop, it's just another part of the string of bad luck since she started her trip west. Her money's almost gone, now she needs repairs and a place to stay. When the owner of the shop comes out, she's struck by his resemblance to the tall elves in fantasy movies. Read More

The Starlight Mint Surprise Murder by Marla A. White $2.99 After injuring herself on the job as a Los Angeles cop, Mel O'Rourke leaves the force battered both physically and mentally. Looking for a fresh start, she moves to a quiet mountain town and opens the Babbling Brook Inn. Excited for her new life, Mel decides to participate in the town's holiday cookie contest, but her newfound joy crashes when one of her guests turns up dead in her lobby. Read More

Merry Little Wishing Spritz by Cherie Colyer $2.99 Modern-day witch Cassie Moore's cozy life turns upside down when her friend foresees the wrecking ball that threatens to destroy Cassie's home and workplace. But Cassie isn't giving up without a fight. She casts a well-intended spell meant to save her apartment and her job. But magic is unpredictable, especially when her friend casts a little charm of her own that has Cassie lusting after the man she desperately wants to despise. Read More

Snowdrop Cookie Wishes by Laura Strickland $1.99 It's been a difficult year in Lissi Johansen's sixteenth-century Danish village. As Christmas approaches, she longs for holidays past when her parents visited their neighbors, distributing cookies and good wishes to all. She hopes to bake a single batch of her mama's Snowdrop Cookies and tuck a gift of magic wishes inside. But she will need help to make the miracle come true. Read More

Coconut Macaroon Scandal by Virginia Barlow $2.99 When Emma Davis is summoned to her hometown on negligence charges her world turns upside down. She faces losing everything she worked so hard for, her bakery and her inheritance. She's met all the conditions of the will but one--a fiancé. Jilted and mistrustful, Emma cannot face her family alone. When Gran's ghost recommends a particular customer for the job, Emma closes her eyes and proposes. Read More

Linzer Tarts and Broken Hearts by Carol Henry $2.99 Christmas cookie baking isn't the only thing that's heating up in the kitchen. Amber Talbot's daughter, Beth, has invited her new best friend, Joanna, to bake Christmas cookies this year. Officer Jace Gunderson, single dad, insists on checking out the family first. Read More

 

New Romance and Fiction Click on covers for more information Found Christmas by Jeanette Collins $4.99 Newly orphaned Bia Greenway and her sister visit a rustic country cottage left to them by their grandmother. Outside early one morning to cut Christmas decorations in falling snow, they find a wounded, half-frozen man and bring him inside. Who is he? Who shot him and his horse, and why? Read More The Nutcracker Nibbles Christmas Case by Jeanne Kern $.99 Police Chief Julia Dunnigan tries to crack the toughest case of her career—and the closed heart of Lieutenant Phil Riley, who has resented that she walked in from another state and took the job he wanted. Read More   Death by Gingerbread Drops by Jo A Hiestand $1.99 Rona Murray, owner of Linn House Bakery, enters the town's charity Christmas cookie auction, never expecting the evening to end in the death of last year's winner. Had someone baked to kill Angela, or had she just been sick? Read More   Red Velvet Crinkles and Christmas Sprinkles by Maria Imbalzano $2.99 Competitive, work-obsessed Bella Simonetti has just been fired from her high-paying job at a Manhattan law firm. At an all-time low, she returns home and helps her parents at their small-town gift shop, but the business is failing and may not make it past the Christmas holidays. Read More   Peanut Blossoms and the Matchmaking Kitten by Claire Davon $1.99 Oriana's first Christmas away from her family promises to be a lonely one—until a two-pound bundle of kitten trouble shows up! When the kitten's owner, her neighbor Jet, takes Oriana under his wing, she tries to tell herself that he would do this for anyone, but she can't help but hope for more. Read More   Let it Snowball by Margot Johnson $2.99 Divorced, empty nester Merilee is on a roll. Filled with scrumptious cookies and old-fashioned fun, her Christmas bus tours aim to add festive spirit to her hometown and new meaning to her lackluster life. Too bad her reserved driver slams the brakes on fun. Read More   The Hope Chest by M. Kate Quinn $4.99 Megan Harris regrets her foolish, margarita-fueled hookup with a cute guy at a party. Needing to forget her unhappy youth, she concentrates on realizing her dream of opening a thrift shop in her small town. But capricious fate throws her in the path of her one-night stand at every turn. Read More   Cookie Collision by Darlene Deluca $2.99 Before she can let up and enjoy some holiday cheer, real estate agent Alana Drake has work to do. With Christmas moving in fast, she has clients to meet with, houses to show, and cookies to bake. Every open house deserves her special touch—homemade and hand-decorated sugar cookies for a warm welcome. And she needs several dozen for upcoming holiday events and open houses. Read More   The Gingerbread Lodge by Vicky Burkholder $2.99 Gisele Reid returns to the Gingerbread Lodge to help her aunt, but without paying guests, she's afraid the lodge will have to be sold. An event she vows to stop. When an old friend shows up, she is astonished to find Max has turned into a man who makes her knees and heart tremble. Read More   Snickerdoodle Snowmen by Sarita Leone $2.99 Baker Kris Kringles sends snickerdoodles from North Pole, Alaska, across the globe, spreading holiday cheer like confetti. But she has a secret not dusted with sugar, and an incentive to speak with a slick journalist that isn't half-baked. Read More

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Oy Vey, Maria! A Mrs. Kaplan Mystery $2.99 Rose Kaplan and her sidekick Ida are at it again. It's the holiday of Purim, and almost everyone at the Julius and Rebecca Cohen Home for Jewish Seniors is in costume for the Purim play. All except one, who will instead have to be fitted for a shroud. Once again, "Mrs. K" and Ida are called upon to solve the puzzle of a mysterious death at the Home. Described by Chanticleer Book Reviews as "at times more Lucy and Ethel than Holmes and Watson, with a soupcon of Miss Jane Marple," these geriatric amateur sleuths will keep you laughing, guessing, and maybe even learning a bissel Yiddish!

Krampus and the Kolaches Christmas Cookies Series $2.99 Khalie, an avid Krampus-ofile, finally has her chance to sing at a Christmas Caroling Competition. With her loser boyfriend dressed as Krampus and her ghost-hunting friends at her side, what could go wrong? Except, her friend's juvenile delinquent kid keeps running away and messing everything up for Khalie, and it looks like a forecast of snow might put a damper on things. It's going to take a little bit of magic and a strong belief in fairytales for Khalie to find her Happily Ever After.

Werewolves Prefer Shortbread Christmas Cookies Series $1.99 Callum McAllister is not a bad guy. Not really. He doesn't want to evict the nice old lady who lived on his property for the last forty years. But he has to. Trust me. He can't explain his reasons because they involve things like Werewolves. And now everyone in town seems to hate him. Especially the beautiful young baker, who under any other circumstances, would be his kind of girl. Except now that's never gonna happen because that 'nice old lady' he's evicting...that's her Grandma. He knows he's not welcome but he's finding it awfully hard to stay out of her kitchen. The last thing Lily Harris wants for Christmas is a man who cares more about things than he does about people. But Santa has other ideas and Lily's about to wind up with one very handsome, Scottish Werewolf under her tree. If she's willing to risk her heart she may wind up with the best Christmas gift in the world: true love.

Gingerbread Men and Toad’s Wart Christmas Cookies Series $1.99 Life isn't easy for a witch who bakes cookies instead of brews potions. It's a lot harder for a single witch living with a cranky basilisk. But Cresella's life is upended when a new client, Walter, comes looking for a batch of gingerbread men—and asks her to a Christmas party he's throwing. He's handsome, charming, sweet, but oh so human. Their worlds don't mesh, so a relationship between a human and a witch is foolish. She's also had bad luck in love, and with her floundering cookie business, does she have time for a romance that seems doomed from the start? But Walter offers her a tempting new world she finds hard to resist…

The Great Christmas Jelly Cookie Hunt Christmas Cookies Series $1.99 For some women, having a gorgeous Irishman come for Christmas is like getting an unexpected gift. For Gina St. Ives, it was just another complication. Facing the loss of the family homestead, she wants to have a traditional holiday for the sake of little sister Emma. That includes finding a lost cookie recipe from their childhood. Donal O'Brien is dismayed to find himself in the midst of sibling discord. Despite her brusqueness, Gina attracts him. And Emma is a kindred soul who believes in the supernatural. When strange things start happening, the St. Ives sisters and their handsome house guest have a mystery to solve. Is Nana's missing recipe the answer?

Luring the Lykan with Almond Macarons Christmas Cookies Series $1.99 After waking from a healing sleep of seventy years, Joanna Kourakis doesn't fit in anywhere, not with her fellow dryads in their Florida Grove, and certainly not with humans and their technology. When she's sent to a small town in Northern Ontario to be a camp counselor for shifters who won't shift, Jo decides to make the best of it, and keeping to herself is what she does best. But it's awfully hard to ignore the handsome lykán wolf shifter who runs the camp, or the human hunters who want to bag themselves a wolf or two for Christmas.

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MacIan's Gift Tartan Threads Series $4.99 A bard, Jamie MacIan believes in ghosts and family curses. Nothing else explains the loss of his clan years ago. His wife and newborn son were slaughtered, and he wasn't there to stop it. When he sets out to restore his ancestral home, he finds more than the reputedly haunted tower. He finds a woman as beautiful and innocent as an angel and more trouble than he ever imagined. Sarah Clinton tries to be obedient and dutiful, but it's difficult when one finds oneself in hell. Rather than wed her step-father's son, she flees and hides in a ruined castle. Discovered by a Scotsman as gorgeous as sin, she can't trust her savior with the truth. Her uncle, known as the Devil of the Highlands, destroyed Jamie's clan. Lying in his arms is heaven, though, and she learns more about love than she ever thought possible. Can Jamie and Sarah learn from the past and trust in love, or will the sins of their ancestors destroy all hope of heaven on earth?

I'll Be Home for Christmas Broken Wings Series $2.99 A mysterious key left by her murdered sister takes Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Betty Palmer on a journey of discovery and danger. Her estranged parents force themselves back into her life, motivated purely by greed and self-preservation. Penny's life is unexpectedly turned upside down by a potentially life-changing situation that causes her wounded husband to question their marriage. No one seems safe in the turmoil of the middle years of the war, and some relationships face a breaking point whilst others become stronger. Kidnap, crashes, and dogfights—the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary Mystery Club have never faced such dangers before. To survive may not be enough. They must find the strength to rise above their most trying times yet.

As Above, So Below $3.99 A search for information about his grandfather's mysterious death leads Army physician, Carter Balan, to the town of Ancient Oaks. Fiona Moon has a secret. Her magical abilities have been fading since her 40th birthday and with Halloween only a week away, the witch fears that her powers are gone for good. When Carter walks into her bookshop, Fiona knows exactly who he is—the first boy she ever kissed. Carter has no memory of Fiona or the fact he comes from a long line of vampire hunters. When a vampire is discovered in the woods Fiona and Carter must work together to destroy the creature. Can Carter recover his stolen memories before it's too late? Will he accept his family history and pick up where his grandfather left off? Can Fiona find a way to harness her powers and save the town?

Healing Magic The Witches of New Mourne Series $4.99 Eva Grace Connelly is a witch and a beloved healer. Rodric McGuire, paranormal expert and descendent of faerie warriors, adores the flame-haired beauty. But their future is on hold as a family curse threatens her life. Centuries ago, the Witches of New Mourne struck a dark bargain with the Woman in White. In exchange for peace, the malevolent spirit takes a Connelly witch from each generation. Eva Grace is convinced she can heal the ghost's troubled spirit and end the reign of terror. But violence and family heartbreak challenge that resolve. As Samhain approaches, the Woman and her vile demon have control. Is sacrifice the only road to peace? Can Eva Grace and Rodric uncover the secrets and lies at the heart of the curse?

Spellbooks and Shortbread Christmas Cookies Series $1.99 Juniper Whitethorn is a faerie, a thief for hire, and kind of a scrooge. So when the Order of Magicks needs a last-minute job done on Christmas Eve, of course she's the one they'd call. Stealing a book from an unsuspecting human bookstore owner is child's play for her. Until she steps into a small town filled with twinkling lights, carolers, an annual cookie contest, and Magnus MacDougal, her devilishly handsome mark. Circumstances force her to play the innocent tourist at the town's holiday festivities. But the more time she spends with Magnus and his daughter, the harder it gets to steal the book and walk away.

The Three Widows of Wylder The Wylder West Series $4.99 Three women on the run. After the death of her husband, Clara flees a hanging judge and seeks refuge with her brother in Wylder, Wyoming. With secrets of her own and good reasons to flee, spoiled and vain Mary Rose joins Clara on the trek to Wyoming. Surely a suitable man exists somewhere. Emma is a mystery. A crack shot and expert horsewoman, her harrowing past seeps out in a steady drip. She's on the run from something, but what? After the three women descend on Wylder, a budding romance leads to exposure of their pasts. As disaster looms, will any of them escape?