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.  Book Summary: Two old friends, a snowed in cabin, and a mission to save Creekville’s Christmas… Taylor Bixby is content running her café and watching her customers fall in love, even though she’s dodged Cupid and mistletoe for years. It helps that the love of her life—her best friend—has no idea how she feels. he’s been gone for four years reporting from war zones, so she’s never had to risk him finding out.Until he walks into her café without warning.Levi Barrett is back in Creekville to fix what he broke four years ago. Even though Taylor doesn’t share the feelings he’s fought since college, he misses his best friend too much to let their friendship fade. Small she's going to sitcom level lengths to avoid him. But he sees his chance to make things right when catastrophe threatens the town’s most beloved holiday tradition.It’s simple. They just need to outrun the blizzard of the decade to wrangle eight grumpy rental reindeer…and escape a snowbound cabin in a forest riddled with...

Book Summary: Grace Ebert is focused on graduating college and launching her career as a recreational therapist, but one monumental challenge stands in her math. Desperate for help as she struggles to complete her final college course, she hires Noah Jennings to tutor her. Naturally outgoing, Grace is determined to get to know the surly math whiz, but when she pushes too hard for connection, Noah makes it painfully clear that they will never be friends and cuts ties with her. Noah feels his rejection of Grace’s friendship is perfectly justified, but when he’s unexpectedly stuck working with her again, he can’t help but admire her caring heart and determination. As Noah addresses his mental health and Grace confronts her guilt, they form an undeniable bond over the similarity of their haunting grief; still, they must resolve the volatile past that stands between them if they hope to build a future together. My Review: Tutored in Love is a contemporary Christian fiction novel set on a co...

Book Summary: Dania Black is bursting with excitement: after years of disappointment, she’s just learned she and her husband, Matthew, are one step closer to having their dreams come true. Eager to tell all about it, she returns home from her nightshift at the hospital—but what awaits her is no dream. It’s a nightmare. Matthew has been murdered, and Dania is the only witness to the masked intruder who is just leaving the house when she arrives. But with no one to corroborate her story, she is the prime suspect.  When U.S. Marshal Brett Rollins’s best friend, Matthew, was murdered, Dania was convicted of the crime. But it has never added up for Brett. Now, three years later when Dania escapes prison and Brett finds her, he is faced with a life-altering choice: send a woman he believes to be innocent back to prison or help her find his friend’s killer. Determined to see justice done, Brett goes rogue. The unlikely allies embark on a dangerous quest to uncover the truth. But what they...

Book Summary: High school teacher Brooklyn Briggs has always been great with chemistry but terrible with relationships. When a guy drops into her life—literally—and offers to coach her into getting a date with her longtime crush, she's willing to accept any help she can get. Even if her new flirting coach is her brother Houston's best friend, the guy who drove her crazy all throughout high school. Jordan Torres never expected to see Brooklyn again. After the way he teased her in high school, she has every right to hate him. But despite warnings from her brother, he's drawn to her in a way he's never been before and can't seem to remember that she's in love with someone else. Neither can she. Both of them value their relationship with Houston too much to risk things going wrong, but they may not have a choice. The heart wants what the heart wants. Besides, Brooklyn can't turn a blind eye to perfect chemistry. Books in the Love in Sun City series are tied toge...

  Book Summary: Could an innocent fling turn into the real thing? I only want two things out of life: a career as a wedding planner extraordinaire and for Mom to stop treating me like a kid. Is that too much to ask? Probably. That is, until I get the chance to plan a televised, Christmas-themed wedding a thousand miles away from Mom in Paradise, Idaho. It seems like all my dreams might be coming true. Until I encounter the one thing that threatens to sidetrack me: a smoking, hot smolder. Sebastian Sparks has all the swagger and smirk to back up his smolder, and I know I’m in trouble the minute he saunters up to me. But underneath his bad boy image is a surprising vulnerability that’s evident the minute I climb onto the back of his bike. His e-bike. He’s supposed to be a fling. Now he wants more. But he has no idea what he’s getting into with me, and the whole town seems to be conspiring against my efforts to keep a safe distance from him. When we have to work together to plan Parad...

  Book Summary: A love match would not do. She would make an advantageous match—a brilliant match! At the age of nineteen, Lady Dorothea Rowlandson was practically on the shelf. Had she not suffered her father, the earl’s, untimely death weeks before last year’s season, she would surely by now be a married lady—the established wife of an illustrious peer. With such a regrettable delay, time was ever more of the essence if she wished to secure her own future and that of her sisters. Miles Shaw holds an encumbered estate. It is only logical, therefore, that he commence the London Season on the hunt for a well-dowered wife. His personal code of honor requires he be upfront about this goal, so that he deceives no one. And as he fully intends to love and cherish the wife of his choosing, he will naturally bring as much to the union as he receives. After all, he is a landed gentleman with no shortage of charm. When chance forced Miles and Dorothea to partner one another for the first dan...

Book Summary: After spending a busy holiday season putting drug smugglers behind bars, CIA operative Cole Bridger is looking forward to spending a quiet Christmas in Vienna with his girlfriend and fellow operative, Isabelle Roberts. But when Isabelle is tasked with investigating a string of suspect financial transactions and redirects a suspicious package to a museum in Amsterdam, she inadvertently places Cole’s cousins in the crosshairs of a drug smuggling ring. Lars and Marit have no desire to be drawn into the deadly dealings of the criminal underworld, but when Lars’s sister, Tess’s, life is placed in danger, they willingly join Cole and Isabelle in their efforts to uncover the mastermind behind the drug smuggling ring. Unfortunately, the two couples’ involvement does not go unnoticed. And though each step brings them closer to the truth, they also reveal a startling picture of greed and corruption at the center of a dangerous organization that will stop at nothing to retrieve what...