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A Mistletoe Vow: A Cold Creek Christmas Story / Falling for Mr December / A Husband for the Holidays
RaeAnne Thayne
Kate Hardy
Ami Weaver
A Mistletoe VowA Cold Creek Christmas StoryMillionaire Flynn Delaney has moved back home to help his little girl heal from losing her mother. Children’s author Celeste holds some indefinable magic for them both. Can Flynn find a family, and true love, in the one who got away?Falling for Mr DecemberPhotographer Sammy Thompson has learnt the hard way to protect herself. After surviving cancer, she’s not about to risk her emotions on just anyone! But meeting buttoned-up barrister Nick Kennedy at a charity calendar shoot a feeling the sparks between them…A Husband for the HolidaysFor Mack Lawless, the first Christmas snow brings regret and confusion when his ex-wife, Darcy Kramer, returns to Holden’s Crossing. But could a sprig of mistletoe help them revisit the past?
About the Authors (#u2f75bc29-2f75-5a37-b22e-990bf425a700)
RAEANNE THAYNE finds inspiration in the beautiful northern Utah mountains, where the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author lives with her husband and three children. Her books have won numerous honours, including RITA® Award nominations from Romance Writers of America and a Career Achievement Award from RT Book Reviews. RaeAnne loves to hear from readers and can be contacted through her website, www.raeannethayne.com (http://www.raeannethayne.com).
Award-winning author KATE HARDY lives in Norwich with her husband, two children, one spaniel and too many books to count! She’s a fan of the theater, ballroom dancing, posh chocolate and anything Italian. She’s a history and science geek, plays the guitar and piano and makes great cookies (which is why she also has to go to the gym five days a week. . .)
Two-time Golden Heart Award finalist AMI WEAVER has been reading romance since she was a teen and writing for even longer, so it was only natural she would put the two together. Now she can be found drinking gallons of iced tea at her local coffee shop while doing one of her very favourite things—convincing two characters they deserve their happy-ever-after. Ami lives in Michigan with her four kids, three cats and her very supportive husband.
A Mistletoe Vow
A Cold Creek Christmas Story
RaeAnne Thayne
Falling for Mr December
Kate Hardy
A Husband for the Holidays
Ami Weaver
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ISBN: 978-1-474-08176-4
A MISTLETOE VOW
A Cold Creek Christmas Story © 2015 RaeAnne Thayne Falling For Mr December © 2015 Pamela Brooks A Husband For The Holidays © 2015 Ami Weaver
Published in Great Britain 2018
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Table of Contents
Cover (#u806922b6-2d3d-5cde-9d2a-283721585b03)
About the Authors (#ue78e456c-34cc-5b92-bcd9-c025c5ba9120)
Title Page (#uf52384a9-a809-5a0b-b592-8944ecc8228c)
Copyright (#u9c72bb85-a627-552a-9e9a-847f83b6fb22)
A Cold Creek Christmas Story (#u3a148986-874a-5982-a007-a2797d32a858)
Chapter One (#uf06ccf2b-1e94-5bc9-b3a4-0dfa93dee873)
Chapter Two (#uc19961b5-1aae-53eb-835d-69d045168edc)
Chapter Three (#uc5d675a0-c143-5c40-a6ec-ad6c77f3999b)
Chapter Four (#u99a5cc32-086c-533d-af1e-ce65e15ecb57)
Chapter Five (#u72ad5b15-9985-5dfd-9cef-a64808dac4a8)
Chapter Six (#ud9767e71-a936-50d6-86f8-c06253d844b5)
Chapter Seven (#u55a8fd95-13ca-5bd7-8f4a-bbb3e768011b)
Chapter Eight (#uda263ba9-95d4-5e50-8d54-b04874508f23)
Chapter Nine (#u2cd36447-36c6-5896-a1c7-ff1afe32f0b0)
Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)
Falling for Mr December (#litres_trial_promo)
Dedication (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ONE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWO (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THREE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FOUR (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SIX (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER EIGHT (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER NINE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ELEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
A Husband for the Holidays (#litres_trial_promo)
Dedication (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter One (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Five (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
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RaeAnne Thayne
Chapter One (#u2f75bc29-2f75-5a37-b22e-990bf425a700)
If she didn’t have thirty children showing up in the next half hour, Celeste Nichols would have been tempted to climb into her little SUV, pull out of the Pine Gulch library parking lot and just keep on driving.
She shifted the blasted endlessly ringing cell phone to the crook of her shoulder while she sorted through the books scattered across her cubicle in the offices of the library to find what she would be reading for story hour.
“I told you earlier in the week, I’m not ready to make a decision about this yet.”
Joan Manning, her and Hope’s long-suffering literary agent, gave a low, frustrated sound of disapproval. “We can’t hold them off much longer. We’ve already stalled for two weeks. They want to start production right after the holidays, and they can’t do that without signatures from you and Hope.”
Celeste gazed down at a copy of Dr. Seuss’s perennial holiday favorite, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. She had a feeling she was the one being the Grinch here. Hope was completely on board with the extraordinary offer one of the leading animation companies had made for movie rights to their book, Sparkle and the Magic Snowball.
Celeste was the one who couldn’t quite be comfortable with the idea of someone else taking control of her words, her creation, and turning Sparkle into an animated movie, complete with the attendant merchandising and sublicensing. A fast-food chain was already talking about making a toy for its kids’ meals, for crying out loud.
The whole journey of the past twelve months seemed like a bizarre, surreal, completely unbelievable dream.
A year ago she had known exactly who she was—an unassuming children’s librarian in the small town of Pine Gulch, Idaho, in the western shadow of the Teton Mountain Range.
Now, to her immense shock, she was a celebrated author about to see the release of her second children’s book with several more scheduled in the next few years. Along with that had come things she had never imagined when she’d been writing little stories for her niece and nephew—she had a website, a publicist, a literary agent.
Her quiet, safe world seemed to be spinning out of her control, and this movie deal was the prime example.
“A few more days, Celeste,” Joan pushed. “You can’t keep stalling. You have to make a decision. Hollywood has a short attention span and an even shorter supply of patience. Do you want your story made into a movie or not?”
She liked Joan very much, as brash and abrupt as the woman could be, but everything with her was an emergency and had to be decided right now. Pressure pains stabbed with little forks behind her eyes and her shoulders felt as if someone had jammed them in a vice and was cranking down hard.
“I know. I just need to be sure this is the right choice for Sparkle.”
“Sparkle is a fictional character. You need to be sure it’s the right choice for you and for your sister. We’ve been going over this for weeks. I don’t know what else I can say to convince you this is the best deal you’re going to get.”
“I know that. You’ve done a great job with the negotiations. I just need...a little more time.”
“A few days,” Joan said, her voice clipped with frustration. “That’s all, then I have to give them some kind of an answer.”
“I know. Thank you. I’ll get back with you tomorrow or the day after.”
“Just remember, most people would see this as a dream come true.”
