Wicked Winter

Echoes From Heaven Mackenzie McKade Celena, a Christmas angel, has been given the devil of an assignment to teach Lon Townsend how to love again. But the man is bad to the bone, a playboy to the nth degree, with no desire to change his wicked ways. Not to mention he makes her incorporeal body burn with desire, which is wrong on so many levels. The redheaded beauty in Lon's bed is surely the present his friends promised. When she explains she's been sent down from Heaven to find him a mate, he knows she must be a fantastic actress or certifiably insane, but she's the sexiest little nut he's ever seen. Christmas Help Her Isabo Kelly Paige Rogers is overworked and exhausted from trying to make her dream of running an art school come true so exhausted she hasn't even managed a sexy thought in longer than she can remember. Then she finds a mysterious present under the Christmas tree a book containing erotic pictures of a man who looks suspiciously like her upstairs neighbor, Ethan Jackson. Suddenly sexy thoughts are no longer a problem. But when the real Ethan Jackson shows up at her front door looking for his new cat, Paige realizes she wants more than just the fantasy. With a little help from some mysteriously placed mistletoe and an unusually clever cat, Paige learns just how far her Christmas fantasy can go. North Pole Naughty Nina Nash The holidays aren't starting off the way Liz hoped. Arriving in Wyoming the month before Christmas, she finds refuge on her sister's couch while she waits for her boyfriend Rob to come to his senses. She takes a job as an elf at Santa's cottage in the local park and as she focuses on getting her life back in order she notices something. Someone, actually. Someone wearing a red velvet Santa suit. Someone so hot he could melt the polar ice cap. Someone named Steve who is all she ever dreamed of finding beneath her sprig of mistletoe. Can working as an elf for a few weeks bring Liz a holiday gift that will last a lifetime? Santa s X-Mas Lani Aames Revising a Christmas standard, Chelsea Lowell employs The Twelve Ways of X-mas to bag her very own Santa Rob Sinclair who is taking a sexy turn in the red velvet suit. With playful light bondage mixed into the magic of the holiday season, lust returns to Sinclair's Department Store to heat up Santa's winter chills and put the X in Christmas! Decking the Hollisters Anna J. Evans Nine months ago, Darby's in-laws stole the most important thing in the world to her her unborn baby. Whether it means destroying her mother-in-law or taking down Gareth, the husband who helped betray her, Darby vows to get her baby back. Gareth has spent the past nine months in a containment unit, held prisoner by the very people who claimed to love him. As the snow begins to fall, he makes his move, only to find the wife he'd feared lost to him forever blocking his path. Darby and Gareth quickly discover that there's no passion quite like that of two soul mates reunited. And now they'll risk everything to reclaim their lives for the chance to wake up on Christmas morning together, as a family. Smooth Ride Cash Cole Horse trainer Leo Castle has long had his eye on two prizes Smooth Ride, the most perfect thoroughbred he's ever trained to race, and Dane Robinson, the blue-eyed jockey who rides him. But after horse and jockey took a nasty fall, Dane disappeared into the shadows with injuries to his leg and his pride. Now that he's back, Leo's determined not to let him get away twice. Dane enjoys his passionate reunion with Leo, but he's about as ready to trust as he is to ride again. With no place to go as winter rolls into eastern Oklahoma, Dane must ultimately accept the warmth Leo off