Mistletoe wishes...
Police officer Brody Taggert has his reasons for hating Christmas. But Lila Grainger's arrival in Snow Mountain tilts his carefully balanced world sideways.
Candlelit kisses...
When they are snowbound in a log cabin, beautiful and vibrant Lila begins to break down the armor around Brody's heart...but the glimmer of sadness in her eyes makes Brody want to rescue her right back.
A Christmas Eve proposal?
As Lila and Brody help heal each other's hearts, they realize they don't ever want to leave their snowbound shelter....
"You can get through to him. I know you can."
Though he heard her words, Trent Marlowe knew he had to be dreaming. What were the odds that Laurel would just reappear after vanishing seven years before? She'd turned his heart to stone and he wanted to keep it that way. Then he learned the real reason for her visit....
Laurel would regret leaving Trent until the day she died. She'd disappeared with a litany of secrets too shameful to confide in a man she'd never stopped loving. But now she desperately needed him to help her troubled young son. Yet how could she fight the desire Trent was reigniting? And the bittersweet yearning for a second chance?
The warm, close-knit community of Mistletoe, Georgia, is the ideal place to raise a family. But after four years, Rachel and David Waide have just about given up hope.
Until they get the news: They're pregnant!
With less than nine months to get their marriage back on track, David comes up with a plan. He'll prove to the woman he loves they have what it takes to be a real family. And with the whole town rooting for them, how can he lose? And how can Rachel resist the charms of the sexy, take-charge father-to-be?
With a wedding in the family and another baby on the way, it looks like it's the season for miracles in Mistletoe after all....
Pilot Sophie Madigan practically drools when her last-minute client walks in on Christmas Eve. Wealthy Trey Shelton III has bedroom eyes, a wicked grin and a body to die for! Sophie can't think of any Christmas gift she'd enjoy more...until they're forced to make a crash landing.
Finding himself on a deserted Pacific island isn't exactly the Christmas Eve Trey had in mind. At least, until he and Sophie leave their inhibitions--and their clothes!--behind.
It should have been nothing more than a holiday fling--island-style. Too bad nobody told either of them....
Old loves rekindled, new loves found, and family bonds strengthened are the themes of these stories from the beloved, multiple-award winning author Mary Balogh. The four classic stories included here are The Star of Bethlehem, The Best Gift, Playing House, and No Room at the Inn. The new story exclusive to this trade collection is A Family Christmas.
