Cookies, Coffee, & Christmas Short Story
Emery just survived another breakup and already her mother, sister, and friends are pushing her to find a new man. Holidays fill the streets of her small mountain hometown with shopping visitors and vacationing families. A stranger at the town coffee shop catches her eye, but she can’t stay and chat. The holiday festival is tomorrow, and she has to bake cookies to sell as a fundraiser for the food bank.
Rumor spreads that their town’s iconic sawmill has been bought up by someone from the city. The official announcement will be made at the festival. No one in town wanted the property to sell, especially not Emery. It’s the last standing memory she has of her father.
Can Emery save the mill and find love?
Christmas at the Peppermint Inn Novella
Divinity wants out of her suffocating relationship. When a new man appears in her small, Idaho town, to stay at the bed and breakfast she works at, a surge of hope gives her the courage to move on. But his trip is for business, and Collin can’t stay.
With Christmas quickly approaching, Divinity takes a chance that the magic of the season will show him all of the reasons he belongs with them—with her. Except Collin has a few surprises of his own.
A short and sweet story with a few curses.
The Christmas Light Keeper
Kaci Paisley is on assignment as an interior design assistant for a new hotel being built in a small mountain town in the Oregon Cascades. Overworked and stressed, Kaci isn’t prepared for the brutal force of winter. Thank goodness, Lee Branton, a local power lineman is nearby to help her pick up her things. He’s the rugged kind of handsome that makes Kaci forget all about her deadlines and snow-soaked tablet.
A simple look turns into a date stringing up Christmas lights for others. Lee reminds Kaci of her father, always remembering to slow down, enjoy life, and help those in need. But Lee’s job has him braving elements she’s not familiar with.
When a storm rolls in Christmas week, burying everything in white, Lee gets called out into the night.
Can Kaci cope with the worry and stress?
Or is love with a lineman too much risk?
Sweet romance, some cursing and tense situations.