Author: Margaret Lorine
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595296033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Just what IS a Kissing Bough? Why do we love Santa Claus so much? Where do all those treasured customs and rituals come from? The Kissing Bough is a wonderful collection of stories that explore the meaning of the holiday season. Some of the stories remind us why the spirit of Christmas is so important to families. Other stories remind us that human nature is what it is, no matter what the holiday says it should be! Long buried secrets will out. Murder happens even during this time of good cheer. Envy, jealousy and loneliness will rub shoulders with seasonal feelings of good will and brotherly love. The Kissing Bough gives the reader insight into the ancient customs and traditions that make modern day Christmas what it is. For its annual publication, The Queens Writers Group has selected twelve of its most engaging and diverse stories. Coming from all walks of life, the group is centered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Kissing Bough
Author: Margaret Lorine
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595296033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Just what IS a Kissing Bough? Why do we love Santa Claus so much? Where do all those treasured customs and rituals come from? The Kissing Bough is a wonderful collection of stories that explore the meaning of the holiday season. Some of the stories remind us why the spirit of Christmas is so important to families. Other stories remind us that human nature is what it is, no matter what the holiday says it should be! Long buried secrets will out. Murder happens even during this time of good cheer. Envy, jealousy and loneliness will rub shoulders with seasonal feelings of good will and brotherly love. The Kissing Bough gives the reader insight into the ancient customs and traditions that make modern day Christmas what it is. For its annual publication, The Queens Writers Group has selected twelve of its most engaging and diverse stories. Coming from all walks of life, the group is centered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595296033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Just what IS a Kissing Bough? Why do we love Santa Claus so much? Where do all those treasured customs and rituals come from? The Kissing Bough is a wonderful collection of stories that explore the meaning of the holiday season. Some of the stories remind us why the spirit of Christmas is so important to families. Other stories remind us that human nature is what it is, no matter what the holiday says it should be! Long buried secrets will out. Murder happens even during this time of good cheer. Envy, jealousy and loneliness will rub shoulders with seasonal feelings of good will and brotherly love. The Kissing Bough gives the reader insight into the ancient customs and traditions that make modern day Christmas what it is. For its annual publication, The Queens Writers Group has selected twelve of its most engaging and diverse stories. Coming from all walks of life, the group is centered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Mistletoe and Mayhem
Author: Kate Kingsbury
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101445084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In this Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas mystery, guests and staff alike are coming together under the kissing bough—only to fall victim to a cold-blooded killer… At the Pennyfoot Hotel, Cecily Sinclair Baxter and her staff are hustling and bustling more than ever. Cecily’s dear friend Madeline arrives with her new baby and adds a kissing bough to the festive decorations. Cecily gets in the spirit by kissing the precious baby beneath the bough, believing that the holiday couldn’t be getting off to a better start. But after a footman and a new maid are seen kissing under the bough and turn up dead, the staff is convinced a serial killer is spending the holidays at the Pennyfoot. And when Madeline’s baby disappears, Cecily has her hands full desperately trying to find the child. If she doesn’t catch this killer in time, everyone’s cheer will quickly turn to fear…
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101445084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In this Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas mystery, guests and staff alike are coming together under the kissing bough—only to fall victim to a cold-blooded killer… At the Pennyfoot Hotel, Cecily Sinclair Baxter and her staff are hustling and bustling more than ever. Cecily’s dear friend Madeline arrives with her new baby and adds a kissing bough to the festive decorations. Cecily gets in the spirit by kissing the precious baby beneath the bough, believing that the holiday couldn’t be getting off to a better start. But after a footman and a new maid are seen kissing under the bough and turn up dead, the staff is convinced a serial killer is spending the holidays at the Pennyfoot. And when Madeline’s baby disappears, Cecily has her hands full desperately trying to find the child. If she doesn’t catch this killer in time, everyone’s cheer will quickly turn to fear…
Under the Kissing Bough
Author: Shannon Donnelly
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821771044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Shy Eleanor Glover agrees to a marriage of convenience--and a Christmas Eve wedding--to Geoffrey Westerly, Lord Staines, to please Westerly's dying father. But the only wedding gift Eleanor desires is the only thing she thinks he won't give her--his love.
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821771044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Shy Eleanor Glover agrees to a marriage of convenience--and a Christmas Eve wedding--to Geoffrey Westerly, Lord Staines, to please Westerly's dying father. But the only wedding gift Eleanor desires is the only thing she thinks he won't give her--his love.
A Yuletide Kiss
Author: Madeline Hunter
Publisher: Zebra
ISBN: 1420152297
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
When we finally kiss good night: "When Flora Younger first met Konrad Juncker, she thought she'd found her match, only to have her hopes dashed is now a famous playwright whose plays Flora has secretly panned in reviews. But a chance meeting in a secluded inn may help them rewrite this star-crossed romance"--
Publisher: Zebra
ISBN: 1420152297
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
When we finally kiss good night: "When Flora Younger first met Konrad Juncker, she thought she'd found her match, only to have her hopes dashed is now a famous playwright whose plays Flora has secretly panned in reviews. But a chance meeting in a secluded inn may help them rewrite this star-crossed romance"--
Punch
Author: Mark Lemon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Secrets
Author: Heather Cullman
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504010078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Following on the heels of Heather Cullman’s acclaimed Regency romance Scandal, the saga continues as an Englishman with amnesia struggles to uncover his true identity—and falls in love with a woman harboring secrets of her own Ever since Gideon Harwood rescued Christian English from brutal captivity in India, Christian can remember nothing of his former life. Indeed, the only thing he knows for certain is that he loves Gideon’s sister, Bethany. But before they can wed, he must find out who he really is. Bethany can’t hide from her past forever—and she knows that any future with Christian is an impossible dream. She can’t risk the scandal of her shameful secret coming out, and the sooner she leaves Critchley Manor, the better. Everything changes when a chance encounter reveals Christian’s true heritage. But reclaiming his rightful place in London society will have consequences neither he nor Bethany could have imagined. With Christian facing danger from an unexpected adversary—and Bethany forced to confront her own unresolved history—can she find the courage to choose love?
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504010078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Following on the heels of Heather Cullman’s acclaimed Regency romance Scandal, the saga continues as an Englishman with amnesia struggles to uncover his true identity—and falls in love with a woman harboring secrets of her own Ever since Gideon Harwood rescued Christian English from brutal captivity in India, Christian can remember nothing of his former life. Indeed, the only thing he knows for certain is that he loves Gideon’s sister, Bethany. But before they can wed, he must find out who he really is. Bethany can’t hide from her past forever—and she knows that any future with Christian is an impossible dream. She can’t risk the scandal of her shameful secret coming out, and the sooner she leaves Critchley Manor, the better. Everything changes when a chance encounter reveals Christian’s true heritage. But reclaiming his rightful place in London society will have consequences neither he nor Bethany could have imagined. With Christian facing danger from an unexpected adversary—and Bethany forced to confront her own unresolved history—can she find the courage to choose love?
A Very Special Christmas
Author: Mary Balogh
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984802178
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Revisit the magic of New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh's classic Christmas stories--together for the first time in one volume. In A Christmas Bride, a very wealthy Edgar Downes promises his aging father that he will finally wed a suitable bride by Christmas. London is full of pretty, proper, and eligible misses, but it's the widow Helena, Lady Stapleton, in a shocking red dress, who captures Edgar's attention. Helena is intrigued by the seductive stranger--but he's simply not in her class. Marriage, of course, would never do. But in a season of miracles, something wondrous is about to happen.... Enjoy the warmth of the holiday season with this Christmas tale along with five other cherished holiday stories from Mary Balogh's Under the Mistletoe collection.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984802178
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Revisit the magic of New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh's classic Christmas stories--together for the first time in one volume. In A Christmas Bride, a very wealthy Edgar Downes promises his aging father that he will finally wed a suitable bride by Christmas. London is full of pretty, proper, and eligible misses, but it's the widow Helena, Lady Stapleton, in a shocking red dress, who captures Edgar's attention. Helena is intrigued by the seductive stranger--but he's simply not in her class. Marriage, of course, would never do. But in a season of miracles, something wondrous is about to happen.... Enjoy the warmth of the holiday season with this Christmas tale along with five other cherished holiday stories from Mary Balogh's Under the Mistletoe collection.
Christmas Belle
Author: Mary Balogh
Publisher: Class Ebook Editions Ltd
ISBN: 1944654305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Jack Frazer is resigned to spending Christmas in the country with his family, even knowing that his grandmother has invited a young lady and her family with the specific intention of matchmaking for him. His grandmother has also invited the newly widowed Isabella, Comtesse de Vacheron, an acclaimed actress, and her two children. The whole family is delighted to have the comtesse among them to enliven their traditional family theatricals. All except Jack, that is. He once lived with Isabella for a whole year and has been unable to forget her in the nine years since.
Publisher: Class Ebook Editions Ltd
ISBN: 1944654305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Jack Frazer is resigned to spending Christmas in the country with his family, even knowing that his grandmother has invited a young lady and her family with the specific intention of matchmaking for him. His grandmother has also invited the newly widowed Isabella, Comtesse de Vacheron, an acclaimed actress, and her two children. The whole family is delighted to have the comtesse among them to enliven their traditional family theatricals. All except Jack, that is. He once lived with Isabella for a whole year and has been unable to forget her in the nine years since.
Now You Know Christmas
Author: Doug Lennox
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459718097
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
From oversized socks filled with treats to firs in living rooms and strange stories and songs, Christmas makes us all scratch our heads now and then. Now You Know Christmas will help everyone make sense of the holiday season, with answers to questions like: How fast would Santa have to travel in order to deliver toys to all the children in the world in one night? Why are Christmas songs called "carols"? Why did the Wise Men bring gold, frankincense and myrrh as gifts?
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459718097
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
From oversized socks filled with treats to firs in living rooms and strange stories and songs, Christmas makes us all scratch our heads now and then. Now You Know Christmas will help everyone make sense of the holiday season, with answers to questions like: How fast would Santa have to travel in order to deliver toys to all the children in the world in one night? Why are Christmas songs called "carols"? Why did the Wise Men bring gold, frankincense and myrrh as gifts?
The Christmas Foundling: a Christmas Regency Romance
Author: Martha Keyes
Publisher: Paradigm Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A babe in a manger once saved the world. Can this one save a failing marriage? Lydia Blakeburn, Baroness Lynham, wants nothing more than to present her husband with an heir, but after five years of marriage, she has all but given up on doing so. What started as a love match has since begun to sour, yet there is nothing Lydia can do to free Miles from a marriage she is certain he regrets. The future they had envisioned together is slipping farther and farther away. Miles Blakeburn is at his wit's end. Not only has he failed to produce an heir to the family's ancient title, his wife has withdrawn from him entirely. The one thing in the world she wants, he has thus far been unable to give her: a child. He is a failure in every regard. When they happen upon an abandoned baby at the Frost Fair, Miles simply can't resist the light he sees sparked in his wife's eyes as she holds the child. He agrees to take the foundling in until Christmastide is over, when they will find the babe a permanent home. But, for a couple who's been yearning for a baby for years, the infant can't help but expose all the feelings Lydia and Miles have long been trying to bury, feelings that have the power to bring them back together—or estrange them forever.
Publisher: Paradigm Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A babe in a manger once saved the world. Can this one save a failing marriage? Lydia Blakeburn, Baroness Lynham, wants nothing more than to present her husband with an heir, but after five years of marriage, she has all but given up on doing so. What started as a love match has since begun to sour, yet there is nothing Lydia can do to free Miles from a marriage she is certain he regrets. The future they had envisioned together is slipping farther and farther away. Miles Blakeburn is at his wit's end. Not only has he failed to produce an heir to the family's ancient title, his wife has withdrawn from him entirely. The one thing in the world she wants, he has thus far been unable to give her: a child. He is a failure in every regard. When they happen upon an abandoned baby at the Frost Fair, Miles simply can't resist the light he sees sparked in his wife's eyes as she holds the child. He agrees to take the foundling in until Christmastide is over, when they will find the babe a permanent home. But, for a couple who's been yearning for a baby for years, the infant can't help but expose all the feelings Lydia and Miles have long been trying to bury, feelings that have the power to bring them back together—or estrange them forever.