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Featured Holiday Fantasy: Ballgowns & Butterflies by Kelley Armstrong

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Featured Holiday Fantasy: Ballgowns & Butterflies by Kelley Armstrong

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The North Yorkshire moors are always a magical place, but they’re particularly enchanting at the holidays…especially if one gets to travel back in time to a Victorian Christmas. For Bronwyn Dale, it is the stuff of dreams. Fancy-dress balls, quirky small-town traditions, even that classic one-horse open sleigh, complete with jingle bells. There’s just the tiny problem of the Butterfly Effect. How does a time-traveler make a difference without disrupting the future forever?

Note: this is a holiday novella not a full-length book

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Featured Holiday Fantasy: Sinister Lang Syne by Colleen Gleason

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Featured Holiday Fantasy: Flight Before Christmas by Christine Pope

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A secret crush.
A New Year’s Eve wedding.
A decades-old curse.
What could go wrong?

Wicks Hollow favorite Iva Bergstrom has finally agreed to marry Hollis Nath. Their wedding is about to take place…but will they make it through the vows?

Event planner Callie Quigley is determined to prove that the Curse of Tremaine Clock Tower is nothing more than a legend, so she proposes Iva and Hollis’s wedding at the site on New Year’s Eve.

Unfortunately, Brenda Tremaine—the ghost that haunts the clock tower ever since she died on her wedding night on New Year’s Eve ninety years ago—has other ideas.

When Ben Tremaine—a guy Callie has crushed on since high school—comes on the scene to help Callie debunk the curse, more than a few sparks fly from the angry ghost, who is definitely her own kind of Bridezilla…

This is a short holiday-themed novel set in Wicks Hollow. It’s spoiler-free and stand-alone. The Wicks Hollow series does not have to be read in order.

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Featured Holiday Fantasy: Blood Martinis & Mistletoe by Melissa Marr

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Featured Holiday Fantasy: Blood Martinis & Mistletoe by Melissa Marr

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Half-dead witch Geneviève Crowe makes her living beheading the dead–and spends her free time trying not to get too attached to her business partner, Eli Stonecroft, a faery prince in self-imposed exile in New Orleans.

After a faery bargain gone wrong, a walking-dead relative and a deadly but well-paying job make juggling the holidays, romance, and work a lot more complicated than anyone needs.

With a killer at her throat and a blood martini in her hand, Geneviève accepts what seems like a straight-forward faery bargain. Eli’s terms might make the holidays a little more bearable, but if she can’t figure out a way to escape this faery bargain, she’ll be planning a wedding after the holidays.

“I loved The Wicked and The Dead! A sassy, ass-kicking heroine, a deliciously mysterious fae hero, and a wonderful mix of action and romance. Add that to Melissa’s usual great world-building, and I’m already looking forward to book 2!” – Jeaniene Frost, NYT Bestselling Author

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Featured Holiday Fantasy: A Karma Girl Christmas by Jennifer Estep

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Featured Holiday Fantasy: A Karma Girl Christmas by Jennifer Estep

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It’s Christmastime in Bigtime, New York, but society reporter Carmen Cole isn’t in the mood to celebrate since her husband, Sam, has to go on a business trip and might not make it home for the holiday. But Carmen has plenty to keep her busy, since she moonlights as Karma Girl, a member of the Fearless Five superhero team.

On Christmas Eve, Carmen, as Karma Girl, is assigned to guard toys, clothes, food, and more that are intended for needy children and their families. But an ubervillain also has his eye on the toys and plans to steal and then sell them to the highest bidder. Carmen will have to use all her empathic powers just to stay alive, not to mention make sure Christmas is a happy one for all the kids who are counting on her. It’s all in a night’s work for a superhero….

Note: This is a 14,000-word story that takes place after the events of Jinx, the third book in the Bigtime series. It can also be read as a stand-alone holiday story.

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Featured Holiday Fantasy: A Countess for Christmas by Anthea Lawson

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Featured Holiday Fantasy: A Countess for Christmas by Anthea Lawson

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A heartwarming Christmas tale from USA Today bestseller Anthea Lawson, perfect for anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by the season…

Miss Cecilia Fairfax dreads the upcoming holidays. Between caring for her elderly father and managing a household barely out of mourning, she has no time for the softer things in life.

Liam Barrett, the Earl of Tarrick, is certain he will not accept Marcus Fairfax’s invitation to spend Christmas at the Fairfax family’s estate – and the man’s tales of a family ghost have nothing to do with his decision.

Of all the blessings of the season, sometimes the most unexpected is love…

Heat level: SWEET
Originally published in the anthology Christmas Ghosts, A Countess for Christmas is a Regency-set story of 13,000 words (approximately 50 pages).

“A sugary Christmas treat for those who love romance… Among the standouts, Anthea Lawson’s traditional Regency story, a Countess for Christmas.” – Publisher’s Weekly review of Christmas Ghosts anthology

“A perfect Regency Christmas story.” -Award-winning author/editor Kristine Grayson

NOTE: This story also appears in the Noble Holidays anthology

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Featured Holiday Fantasy: Snowstorms & Sleigh Bells by Kelly Armstrong

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Featured Holiday Fantasy: Snowstorms & Sleigh Bells by Kelly Armstrong

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It’s a Victorian Christmas at Thorne Manor, and Rosalind Courtenay is staying far, far away from the door that leads to the twenty-first century. It took her four years to get back home, and she’s never going near the time stitch again. But her five-year-old son has other plans, and Rosalind finds herself plunged back into the modern world, where she decides to face her fears and give her family the holiday gift of a lifetime. Once again, Fate has other ideas, sending a blizzard to derail Rosalind’s cautious planning and toss them all into a whirlwind of savage snowstorms, spectral sleigh bells and, perhaps, a Christmas ghost or two.

Note: this is a holiday novella not a full-length book

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