Author: Marsha

Secret Prince’s Christmas Seduction by Carol Marinelli

Posted November 25, 2019 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin / 0 Comments

Claimed by the prince

For Christmas or forever?

Sicilian chambermaid Antonietta prides herself on her discretion, so she’s mortified by her inappropriate reaction to her hotel’s newest guest! Antonietta has no idea Rafael is the notorious prince of Tulano. All she knows is that his touch lights her up more brightly than a Christmas tree.

Their unexpected connection floors cynical Rafe. All he can offer is a temporary festive seduction before resuming his royal duties. But unwrapping the precious gift of Antonietta’s virginity changes everything. Rafe must choose—his crown, or Antonietta.

There is a connection to a previous book, The Silcilain’s Surprise Love Child

The Christmas Husband Hunt by Kate Moore

Posted November 25, 2019 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Series / 0 Comments

When a husband is needed by Christmas, a trusted slender volume for ensuring a merry match is indeed a gift!

Behind her seemingly dependent role as an unpaid caretaker—of both children and dogs—Harriet Swanley has in fact astutely avoided a forced marriage.

But hers is not the only secret under wraps: Charles Davenham is working covertly to unmask a Russian agent—until the younger sister he’s always protected comes to him, recently rejected and clutching The Husband Hunter’s Guide to London.

The little handbook would be a godsend—if only the distraught girl didn’t mangle all of its good advice! If Harriet can help Charles find a love match for his sibling, perhaps, in this season of good tidings, a long-buried attraction can set their own hearts aflame.

Titles in the Husband Hunters series include – The Husband Hunter’s Guide to London – A Lady’s Guide to Passion and Property – A Spy’s Guide to Seduction – The Christmas Husband Hunt –

Dancing to the Altar by Christi Bortner

Posted November 25, 2019 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

An independent woman with no plans for the holidays, a billionaire in need of a hostess for his reality show, and twelve Santas wanting to make their holidays the merriest ever!

Elle Richey is having the worst day ever. Her boyfriend dumps her, she loses her job and maybe even her wits, given that she just shared the hottest kiss with a stranger in an elevator. As she laments her life to her best friend, a woman offers Elle a unique proposition — host a nationwide search for Mr. and Mrs. Claus at Holliday Islands Resort, Alaska. What she didn’t count on was running into her handsome stranger again or that he would become her new boss!

Billionaire Dancer Holliday is known throughout the entertainment industry for creating action-filled reality shows. When his father decides it is time to retire, Dan wants to host a live search from his home island, for America’s Mr. and Mrs. Claus. He is shocked to find out that the show’s hostess is none other than the woman he can’t get out of his mind after their hot elevator kiss.

Can twelve couples be the catalyst to show Elle and Dan that perhaps it is time to revisit that kiss? As the reality show picks up in ratings, what happens when Elle’s past calls to her again? Will Dancer realize that perhaps the search for American’s holiday couple is closer than he ever imagined? Can he convince Elle to Dance to the Altar with him?

Titles in the multi-author Holliday Islands Resort series include – The Dashing Groom by Jo Grafford – Dancing to the Altar by Christi Bortner – Love Came Prancing by Danni Roan – Her Christmas Vixen by Ginny Sterling – Comet’s Blazing Love by Jenna Brandt –Cupid Takes A Wife by Marie Higgins – Donner Let Her Go by Amelia Adams – Blitzen the CEO by Lisa Prysock – Rudolph’s Runaway Bride by George McVey – Mommy’s Kissing Santa by Kit Morgan

Christmas on the Isle of Skye by Kirsty Ferry

Posted November 24, 2019 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

How far would you go to be with the one you love at Christmas?

The Isle of Skye is a magical place, especially at Christmas, and there’s no place Zac Fallon would rather be. But whilst Zac has everything he needs on Skye, there’s still something missing – and that something is somebody called Ivy McFarlane.

Ivy used to work with Zac but then spread her wings and moved to Glastonbury. He’s missed her ever since. Now it’s almost Christmas and Zac realizes that the Ivy shaped hole in his life is too big to bear. So starts his festive mission to the mainland – but will he be back in time to spend Christmas in Skye? And, more importantly, will Ivy be with him?

Titles in the Tempest Sisters series include — Summer at Carrick Park – Spring at Taigh Fallon – Jessie’s Little Bookshop by the Sea – Christmas on the Isle of Skye

Christmas with You by Nan Reinhardt

Posted November 24, 2019 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Series, Tule Publishing / 0 Comments

She’s loved him all her life… but will he be there when she needs him the most?

Disheartened and adrift after being written out of a hit TV show, actor Aidan Flaherty returns to his family’s historic winery, where he’s invested some of the fortunes he’s made. As the holidays approach, Aidan becomes intrigued with the old showboat that’s dry-docked just east of town… and even more intrigued with the daughter of his former mentor, who now owns it. He decides to buy the boat and restore it to its former glory.

Single mom Holly Santos is back in River’s Edge after her divorce and she is over men in general and actors in particular. If she could only get rid of her father’s old showboat, a source of fascination for her son, Mateo. She never expects her old crush to walk into her tea shop or the fireworks that happen every time they’re in the same room.

Can Aidan convince her that he is determined to restore their shared heritage on the showboat and that he’s home to stay?

Titles in the Four Irish Brothers Winery series include — A Small Town Christmas – Meant To Be – Christmas With You – The Baby Contract –

Every Time A Bell Rings by Barbara Ankrum

Posted November 23, 2019 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Tule Publishing / 0 Comments

Once upon a time, he was everything to her, except for one thing: her future

Christmas sparkles from every bough and window at the cozy Four Winds Ski Resort, where single mother Eden Kendall and her eight-year-old son are spending the holiday. A surprise marriage proposal from her boss’s son wasn’t on her Christmas list, but it’s the perfect excuse to get away and weigh her options. She never imagined her son’s ski instructor/Santa impersonator would be the gorgeous, charismatic dreamer she left behind years ago, the one who still owns a piece of her heart.

Cole Hagan has never stopped loving Eden and he’s spent the last eight years proving her wrong on every count about his potential. While he fights to save the resort that he helped to build by organizing a holiday concert, he decides it’s about time that Eden puts aside her list-making pragmatism so that she and her skeptical son can experience the true magic of Christmas.

Can this unlikely pair get a second chance at happily ever after?

Thank Goodness This Week Is A Wrap! #1

Posted November 23, 2019 by Marsha in Discussion Post / 2 Comments

In the six years (or so I forget the exact day I officially started the blog) that I’ve been reading and sharing my thoughts about those stories through reviews, I’ve never done my own “Wrap-Up” posts. I don’t actually know why. Perhaps early on I thought I was too new for anyone to be the least bit interested in, I dunno. I do know that I’ve a check-list of things I intend to change or add next year and a Wrap-Up was part of that. Yet today – well, after the week it’s been around here I figured why wait? Just jump in and see how it flies. 🙂

To be frank, the blog suffered this past week — and a nasty, contagious, insidious stomach virus is at the heart of the bad stuff of this week. This bug ran through my family and friends for a week now (and counting) and it’s only this morning that I’m starting to feel somewhat human again. Somewhat – the day’s not over yet.

Fortunately, I’d read quite a bit in the days right before this hit so I could get out a few reviews, and scheduled reviews are a life-saver I hope you know that and use them well. My scheduled posts are winding down for the year, and this is a really good wake up call to keep up with that scheduling. I’ll be writing like crazy this weekend trying to get caught up a bit (and I hope it doesn’t come across as spammy to those who get email notifications) but honestly, I’m behind and these books need their reviews up right now. I’m a fast reader and a note-taker, so I’ll soon be where I should have been all week – I just hate dropping in all those reviews at once.

The saddest realization of this crazy, messed-up week? I haven’t cracked the Kindle cover on a single title that I BOUGHT!! Not One. There’s been no time for pleasure reading – and I seriously think that’s something that has to be added to that list of changes for 2020. Sometimes it’s the craziest things that make you sit back and go “Hmmm… that needs to change.” Well, I certainly got that wake-up call in November. It’s probably too late for 2019 but the planning for 2020 isn’t done yet so there’s time and hope.

My week has been crazy, fighting a stomach virus, trying to do something normal like wash clothes but for the most part it was a wash of a week spent mostly in naps and quick moments of activity (until the exhausted hit and then back to the naps). I hope yours was so much better. 🙂

The SEAL’s Christmas Baby by Katie Knight

Posted November 23, 2019 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Lila never expected to have a whirlwind romance with a Navy SEAL, and she certainly didn’t plan on falling in love. Something else she didn’t expect? Finding out she was pregnant not long after Preston Lawson deployed. Worse yet, when she tries to tell him he’s about to be a daddy, she’s informed that Preston was killed in action, leaving her alone and desperate. But after years of struggling to get by, she’s finally created a stable life for her and her son and plans to celebrate Christmas in a big way: by heading to the very lodge where she met Preston. The lodge is decorated perfectly for the Christmas spirit, and Lila is content—if not a little lonely. Until Preston, the I’m-supposed-to-be-dead Navy SEAL shows up out of the blue.

Preston never thought about settling down. His unit was his family. His life was the Navy. So three years ago, when a clerical mistake left him officially dead and he was offered the opportunity to use his new anonymity to participate in Black Op missions, he accepted. But when he’s given leave right before Christmas, he gives in to nostalgia and heads to the lodge where he and Lila—the woman he’d fallen in love with—first met. He was hoping for some Christmas spirit, but he never expected to find Lila. Or learn that he has a son. Preston knows in that instant his life will be unalterably changed—for the better. But while he and Lila grow closer, it soon becomes clear that someone is trying to harm her, and Preston will do everything in his power to keep her safe. In the end, Preston will have to decide whether protecting Lila and their son safe means staying with them or leaving them behind.

Watching the Wrangler by Kit Morgan

Posted November 23, 2019 by Marsha in Connection to another series, Multi-Author Series, Series, Western Historical Romance / 0 Comments

A Wrangler

A Beauty

And one fussy angel …

Callan Jones came to work for the Whites with no expectations, a little money in his pocket and a good work ethic. It was all he needed. After losing his family back in Texas, this was his chance to make a fresh start. Then he showed up. Some dandy claiming to be his guardian angel!

Arabella Simpson’s family moved from place to place as they meandered west. Now they were in Creede and it was no different than other place they’d stayed and high-tailed it out of. But, she had to admit, the scenery was beautiful and in more ways than one. If Arabella didn’t stop watching the wrangler at the neighboring ranch, they might have to vamoose for a reason other than her father’s gambling habit.

Can two people determined not to fall in love find it? Maybe with a little help from a certain guardian angel they can.

Watching the Wrangler is the 42nd title in the multi-author series, Cowboys and Angels For a complete list of titles and authors in this series please visit the Cowboys and Angels page.

(Now that the Cowboys and Angels series has ended with the 49th title – I need to binge read to catch up – be sure to look for the spin-off The Matchmaker’s Ball series)

Bittersweet by C. J. Carmichael

Posted November 23, 2019 by Marsha in Mystery, Romantic Suspense, Series / 0 Comments

Murder in a small town is always personal.

Local longtime librarian, Sybil Tombe, is missing, abducted from her home on the outskirts of the isolated ranching town of Lost Trail, Montana. An elderly neighbor reports seeing a gray-haired, bearded man driving up to Sybil’s house the night she disappeared. Newly-minted Sheriff Zak Waller can’t think of a less likely target for a crime.

When an older man is reported lurking around a young girl at the local grade school, Zak wonders if this man could also be Sybil’s abductor? The descriptions of the men are similar—but what could be the possible link between a young girl and 60-year-old Sybil?

Peeling back the layers of Sybil’s life, Zak discovers Sybil is a master at keeping secrets, especially her own, and these secrets may now be threatening her life as well as the life of an innocent child.

As Zak and his team work to uncover the truth, he also has to deal with issues in his romantic relationship with deputy Nadine Black, and mete justice to a respected town citizen who has been sheltering his criminal past for too long.

Titles in the Bitter Root Mysteries series include – Bitter Roots – Bitter Truth – Bitter End – Bittersweet

The Christmas Cookie House by Jennifer Griffith

Posted November 22, 2019 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Christmas, love, and a batch of cookies.

Leela Miller’s mom passed away last spring. Now, Leela is desperate to fill Mom’s shoes in the Ladies’ Auxiliary by chairing the Cookie House fundraiser. The hitch: mean-eyed Mrs. Coldicott refuses to host the event at her Society Row home as planned.

Leela must find a new venue big enough and fancy enough to draw in customers, or Mom’s event might get canceled. There’s only one perfect place: the Layton Mansion.

New vet school graduate Jay Wilson has been remodeling the Layton Mansion since he inherited it this summer. It’s almost Christmas, and the house is nearly ready to flip!

If he can get a good price for it, he can buy a partnership at a veterinary clinic out of town.

However, by stipulation of the will, Jay can’t sell the house until he cleans out the attic.

Jay needs help completing the enormous task before his deadline. The beautiful Leela will eagerly help—if he agrees to allow her to use the house for her event.

But, when Jay learns that the Cookie House event is the same day as his sale deadline, will he sell the house out from under the girl he might just be falling in love with?

Titles in the Christmas House Romances series include – The Christmas Cookie House – The Sleigh Bells Chalet – The Holiday Hunting Lodge –