Coming Home for Christmas

Not Quite Christmas by Sharon KleveAfter years of being away during the holidays, all Adair Hutton wants is to spend Christmas with her family. As a travel nurse, she's been all over the country and enjoyed every minute of it, but it's time to come home for good.It becomes more difficult than Adair has anticipated when she has to rely on a handsome stranger, a taxi, Greyhound bus, an Uber, and an airplane to make the journey home. Because the road home isn't always as easy as planned.Easton is a cartoon artist and can work from anywhere and isn't in any hurry to reach Seattle. There's no family waiting for him. When a beautiful stranger needs his assistance to get home for the holidays, he jumps in with both feet and maybe his heart too.Gingerbread Christmas by Jennifer ConnerChristmas has not been filled with happy memories since Emilyn Owens left her small town of Berry Grove. She comes home to visit her sister who has taken over the family's bakery, Sugar Street Treats. Thary Murray has been riding across country to outrun the tragic memories of his past. He's taken a short-term job at the bakery and makes the best pastries anyone's ever eaten.When Emilyn's sister becomes ill she and Thary must work together to finish a gingerbread village promised as a fundraiser for a children's home. As they begin to open up to each other about the pains of their pasts, will this draw them into something deeper for the holiday season? Possibly love?Choosing Heart or Home by Chris KarlsenChristmas, 1889The widowed Victoria reigns over an empire the "sun never sets on," and London is bright with holiday decorations. Detective Rudyard Bloodstone is Holborn Station's lead investigator. With his career moving along well, Rudyard's year got even better after meeting London music hall star, Honeysuckle Flowers.As he and his lady begin to celebrate the holidays, Rudyard grows homesick for Wales and for his family there. He makes plans to see his parents and thinks it is the perfect time to introduce Honeysuckle to them.His joyful vision of how the visit will go fades, when to his unhappy surprise, his mother paints Honeysuckle with a trollop's brush. His mother is firm: he is loved and missed and most welcome to the family home but not his lady. Loyalty to his parents is challenged by his love for Honeysuckle. He must choose between them, and to choose one means the risk of losing the other. Christmas Back Home by Angela FordAndrews wanted nothing more than to leave her small town. She's hesitant to come back home for the holidays. Tori knows her meddling-mother will be up to her old tricks to find her a husband and keep her in White Cove. Between her career and her match-making-mom, she's thought as little as possible of finding the one. Until she meets her mystery bartender with compassionate eyes, a calming voice, and good advice. But when she discovers he'd already been propositioned by her mom to ask her out on a date; she no longer wants to know who he is. Alice prays for fate to take over. Little does she know that fate began without an introduction.Small Town Christmas by Tammy TateBrandy blames herself when her husband brings their marriage to a screeching halt. The breakup traps her in a dark, cynical place and two weeks before Christmas her mother convinces her to move back home. Once she gets to Wauchula Florida, she's greeted by Connie, a high school acquaintance. Connie's brother is flying in and has just underwent a nasty divorce of his own.To Brandy's surprise, he's no longer the tall, geeky kid she remembers with black rimmed glasses. He wears contacts and sports an eight pack instead of six.One day at the zoo changes their life forever.


Genre: Romance