Just in Time for Christmas Synopsis:
Nobody does Christmas like Miranda Hamilton, and now that she finally has her chance to chair Magnolia Bay's tree lighting and the cotillion, which benefits her late mother’s breast cancer foundation, this Christmas is shaping up to be the best ever. That is until her childhood nemesis Logan Mauldin buys his way on her committee and starts making plans of his own.
Logan Mauldin loves to get under Miranda's very sexy skin, and it's only fair. She's been getting under his since long before their first kiss at 13. Logan’s the last man interested in co-chairing a Christmas committee or participating in a sexy bachelor auction, but since that night he interrupted Miranda on a date and cornered her under the mistletoe, he can't stop thinking about her. Or vying for her attention and bugging the hell out of her.
Christmas cheer isn’t the only thing that heats up between the Miranda and Logan, but, thanks to a lie that is as much her fault as it is his, he loses the woman he’s loved since forever. Logan will need a Christmas miracle for Miranda to forgive him. A grand gesture to melt her heart and win her back just in time for Christmas.
Kim Boykin Bio:
Kim Boykin is a women's fiction author with a sassy Southern streak. She is the author of The Wisdom of Hair, Steal Me, Cowboy, and Palmetto Moon (Summer 2014.) While her heart is always in South Carolina, she lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, 3 dogs, and 126 rose bushes.
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The Trouble With Christmas Synopsis:
At 35-years-old, Cole Stanton is burned out. His high-paced, uber-successful career has left him yearning to start over. He finds Indigo Island, buys a restaurant and settles into an uncomplicated life. But Christmas is a mess. He has over-committed the small restaurant’s resources again, and is over his head. He finds himself longing for everything he has left behind, until a chance encounter with gorgeous Lily offers a spark of salvation to his business and, perhaps his life.
Beautiful pastry chef Lily Edmonds is thirty years old and heartbroken. It’s just before Christmas and she’s just been dumped by via telephone by her fiancee. Her best friend Avery Putnam invites her to Indigo Island, hoping to add joy back into Lily’s life. A chance encounter with the sexy owner of a local restaurant makes Lily feel an attraction she thought she’d never feel again, and offers her a business challenge to keep her mind focused on something other than her broken heart.
Cole Stanton and Lily Edmonds are both starting over. Will the joy of the holiday season bring them together or will the troubles with Christmas push them apart?
EXCERPT 2
Cole Stanton
thought the chill in the air felt great as he stretched for his morning jog.
Compared to the summer months when he’d been sure he’d given himself heat
stroke a couple of times, this was the perfect weather for a run. Since he’d
moved here a few months ago to start a new life, Cole was now in the best shape
of his life, as long as no one looked too closely at his hands, covered with
cuts and blisters, and the hair on his right arm had been singed off as well as
his eyebrows in a freak flash over fire two days ago. If Sally Ann hadn’t been
there with a fire extinguisher, the entire restaurant would have been consumed
in flames.
He ran along the
flat, firm sand at the edge of the ocean, enjoying the views over to Hilton
Head, and along the south to the tip of the island, a development called Bloody
Point after the notorious battles that had taken place centuries before. In the
far distance, he could see Tybee Island, another Sea Island that, like Hilton
Head, was connected to the mainland by a bridge ages ago.
What a difference
a bridge would make for the restaurant. He stopped at a tangled pile of
driftwood that blocked the rest of the beach. A bridge would bring in more
diners, which the restaurant desperately needed, but it would also ruin the
seclusion and peace of the island, a place his grandmother introduced him to
when he was a child. He needed to find an answer to the dwindling profits. As
he jogged back home, his mood dark, not improved by the quick five-mile run. For the first time in his life, Cole had
failed. His embarrassment still rankled.
As the new owner of Marshside Mama’s restaurant, he’d overpromised and under
delivered on his first major holiday, Thanksgiving. What had he been
thinking? He didn’t know the restaurant
industry, nor did he know the island that well, but he had jumped in anyway,
investing in Sally Ann’s Marshside Mama’s with a lot of ideas fueled by
arrogance and enthusiasm and not a lot of knowledge or foresight.
What
the hell had happened to his brain? He’d
been determined to improve people’s lives, not destroy them. His jaw hurt because he’s been clenching it
so often, but as he ran past the Putnam Plantation, he had a whole different
hurt. Christmas had arrived. The porch
glowed with white lights, wrapped in garland and cheery red ribbon bows. Christmas.
The trouble with Christmas? It was a family holiday, but his family was
far away. His parents had begged him to
come home to New England for the holidays but he couldn’t leave Sally Ann with the
mess he had created. So he’d promised his mom he’d make it next year. She hadn’t been happy, and he felt even
worse.
Cole imagined
his family’s home in Lincoln, elaborately decorated for Christmas with colorful
lights, a tree filled with the handmade ornaments Cole and his brother had made
through elementary school. His mom’s spiced apple cider always simmered on the
stove, filling the house with the scents of family and the holidays. He imagined the snow was already blanketing
the ground, and his mom would have a roaring fire in the fireplace. And he was here. Alone.
He shook his
head and pushed the sadness away. He’d chosen to change, to move far away and
start over. He decided that after the
lunch rush, he’d head to the General Store to find a few Christmas
decorations. That would get him in the
spirit.
Kaira Rouda Bio:
Kaira Rouda is an award-winning and bestselling author of both fiction and nonfiction. Her books include: Real You Incorporated: 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs; Here, Home, Hope; All the Difference; In the Mirror; and the short story, A Mother's Day. She lives in Southern California with her husband and four children and is at work on her next novel. Connect with her on Twitter, @KairaRouda, and on Facebook at Kaira Rouda Books. And of course, on Pinterest! For more about Kaira and her books, please visit her website KairaRouda.com.
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Holidays at Magnolia Bay Synopsis:
After a mission goes terribly wrong, ending in the death of a teammate, Navy Seal, Drew Lanham, is forced to take a leave from active-duty. Retreating to his godmother’s beach house in coastal Magnolia Bay, Drew plans to spend the three weeks R&R licking his wounds and catching some rays while the nightmares from his failed op fade. The last thing he wants to do is mingle with the locals. What he doesn’t count on is an early morning encounter with a goddess rising from the sea. His interest is piqued and his body put on alert when he finds out that same woman may or may not be after his godmother’s money.
Marine biologist, Jenna Huntley, has been searching her whole life for a place to call home and Magnolia Bay is that place. Unfortunately, she’s underutilizing her education giving tours at the town’s turtle rescue center. With the help of an octogenarian patroness, she maps out a proposal to develop a turtle hatchery on-site. Everything is going as planned until the older woman’s godson arrives. Suddenly, nothing is as it seems and Jenna’s future is hanging in the balance, with a sexy warrior pulling all the strings. Her natural tendency is to help the damaged hero, but she’s sworn off letting military men in her life ever again.
Will Drew and Jenna be able to put their pasts behind them and learn to trust their hearts long enough to enjoy their Holiday at Magnolia Bay?
Tracy Solheim Bio:
Tracy Solheim is the international bestselling author of the Out of Bound Series for Penguin. Her books feature members of the fictitious Baltimore Blaze football team and the women who love them. In a previous life, Tracy wrote best sellers for Congress and was a freelance journalist for regional and national magazines. She’s a military brat who now makes her home in Johns Creek, Georgia, with her husband, their two children, a pesky Labrador retriever puppy and a horse named after her first novel. Her fifth book for Berkley, Back To Before, will be released in January. She also has a digital holiday novella for Tule Publishing's Southern Born Books comingOctober 20. See what she’s up to at www.tracysolheim.com. Or on facebook at Tracy Solheim Books and Twitter at TracyKSolheim.
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A Very Married Christmas Synopsis:
Cookbook author Marley Chambers can’t think of a more festive way to spend Christmas than at a friend’s holiday wedding in her hometown of Magnolia Bay. If only her soon-to-be ex-husband, all-star pitcher, Beckett “Beck” Chambers wasn’t bringing his new girlfriend—and if only he wasn’t still the sexiest man to ever walk out onto the mound…
Beck never wanted the chaotic life of a sport star—especially not at the cost of his marriage to the only woman he’s ever truly loved. But his career is a runaway train—and he’s afraid it’s too late to hit the brakes.
But when a mix-up leaves Beck and Marley stranded together for Christmas Eve on the barrier island where Beck proposed years before, old memories burn bright—and sparks fly hotter than a bonfire on the beach.
Could the magic of the season bring the gift of a second chance, just in time for Christmas?
Erika Marks Bio:
Erika Marks is a women's fiction writer and the author of LITTLE GALE GUMBO, THE MERMAID COLLECTOR, THE GUEST HOUSE and IT COMES IN WAVES (July, 2014). On the long and winding road to becoming published, she worked many different jobs, including carpenter, cake decorator, art director, and illustrator. But if pressed, she might say it was her brief tenure with a match-making service in Los Angeles after college that set her on the path to writing love stories (not that there isn't romance in frosting or power tools!) A native New Englander, she now makes her home in Charlotte, NC, with her husband, a native New Orleanian who has taught her to make a wicked gumbo, and their two little mermaids. For more on Erika’s books, visit her website at http://www.erikamarksauthor.
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