TEN fun, romantic holiday novellas by ten New York Times & USA Today bestselling authors
An all-star gathering of some of today’s most popular NYT and USA Today bestselling romance authors in a fun-filled collection…holiday style! With the overwhelming response to the chart-topping summer boxed set, we’ve brought together even MORE of your favorite authors for a winter compilation, and this time, we’ve giftwrapped TEN stories for you all. From the funny & sweet, to the steamy & heartfelt, each novella is packed with a whole lot of romance, and hand-picked to infuse perfectly-portioned holiday cheer into your busy days this season…along with hot bursts of holiday steam for those winter nights.
And at just ***99 CENTS*** that’s a huge savings of over 95% off retail for the individual books sold separately! This is an extremely limited edition bundle available for just 5 weeks so get your copy today!
THE BOXED SET INCLUDES:
IF I RETURN — by USA Today bestselling author Sawyer Bennett
WILD IRISH CHRISTMAS — by New York Times bestselling author Mari Carr
SEDUCING SANTA — by New York Times bestselling author Janelle Denison (aka Erika Wilde)
DECKING DREW — by New York Times bestselling author Violet Duke
FAIRIES & WISHES — by USA Today bestselling author Karen Erickson (aka Monica Murphy)
TWELVE DATES OF CHRISTMAS — by New York Times bestselling author Jessie Evans (aka J. Evans)
HOLIDAY SPIRIT — by New York Times bestselling author Cathryn Fox
UNWRAPPED — by New York Times bestselling author Melody Grace
A CHRISTMAS HEAT WAVE — by New York Times bestselling author Alannah Lynne
HIS CHRISTMAS WISH — by New York Times bestselling author Marquita Valentine
Who doesn’t love a good Christmas book around the holidays? 😉
Lily is a holiday fairy, but this Christmas season she’s given a new assignment–teach a lonely doctor how to love again. Tim finds the holidays depressing and always throws himself into his work to forget the pain. One night he runs into a beautiful redhead and knocks her to the ground. His new patient is a little odd, but totally sexy. He starts a relationship with the mysterious Lily but things don’t add up. Is she what she seems? Does he want to fall in love with a woman he knows nothing about? Oh, yes he does?
“I’ve never been kissed like that before,” she said, her voice tinged with wonder, quaking fingers still pressed to her mouth.
Tim frowned. What did she mean by that? Surely she’d been kissed before. At least he hoped.
Her other hand still clutching at the front of his jacket, she shifted, bringing her body closer to his. Amazing, he thought, considering the cramped quarters of his sports car. “I want you to kiss me again.”
He started to protest, but she shushed him with a single finger pressed against his lips. “Please?” She drifted the tip of her index finger across his lower lip in the subtlest of caresses.
Tim felt that touch as if she’d stroked the tip of his cock.
His lips met hers and this time he took it slower. Brushing her mouth again and again with his own, until he heard a tiny sound of frustration come from her. Her lips opened beneath his, and he slipped his tongue tentatively between them, her luscious taste filling his head, heating his skin.
“Mmm,” she murmured, her mouth opening even wider, her shy tongue brushing against his. Her fingers fumbled with the zipper on his leather jacket, and then she lowered it, hands diving inside to press against his chest.
Tim slid his hands into her hair, cupping her head, drinking from her lips. She tasted sinfully sweet, her tongue twining with his, hands greedily sliding up and down his chest. She seemed to want to get closer to him, her lower body shifting restlessly as she squirmed in her seat. He grabbed the lever at his side and slid his seat back, then cupped her shoulders and hauled her onto his lap, his mouth never leaving hers.
A coo of delight escaped from her, and she pressed her chest to his, her breasts soft and tempting nestled against him. Her hands moved up to wrap around his neck, clutching at him as if she couldn’t get enough and he could relate. Little moans sounded low her throat as she thrust her pelvis against his, driving him out of his mind with lust.
“Goodness, you’re a wonderful kisser,” she murmured against his mouth.
He chuckled, skimmed fingers across her soft cheeks. “Thanks. You’re not so bad yourself.”
“I don’t want you to stop.” She pressed another lingering kiss to his lips and sighed. “I want you to keep doing it.”
“Lily, we’re in my car in the driveway in front of my house. I can think of somewhere a lot more comfortable to continue this. Like inside the house, on the couch.” His couch would be a hell of a lot more comfortable than the front seat of his too small car.
She smiled, her little pink tongue darting out to lick at the corners of his lips. “I don’t care where we are as long as you keep on kissing me.”
Well hell, he couldn’t resist that. He pressed his open mouth to hers, their tongues sliding lazily against each other’s, hands roaming. If he allowed himself, he soon wouldn’t care where they were either, as long as they were still lip locked.
Karen’s Favorite Holiday Recipe
Okay, I’m a total cheater. When I make sugar cookies with my kids, I use the Betty Crocker sugar cookie pouches. It’s just so much easier! We can bust those cookies out in no time. But I do make homemade frosting and the secret I learned from my grandma to make the frosting taste extra delicious? Include a splash of coffee. Yes, coffee! Sadly, she doesn’t make sugar cookies during the holidays anymore but I do. Trying to keep up the tradition!
Frosting recipe:
2 cups powdered sugar
1 stick salted butter
1-2 tablespoons of milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Splash of coffee
Stir until desired thickness/consistency. Taste test to make sure it’s sweet enough to your liking! Then get to frosting all those cookies. 😉
Here’s a link to a photo from a couple of years ago – me making all the cookies and various holiday goodies and the mess I leave behind (note the diet Coke in the photo, too funny):
Karen Erickson lives in central California with her husband, three kids, one dog and too many cats. Being a romance writer and bringing her characters to life is her greatest dream come true.
She’s also known as New York Times and USA Today bestselling new adult author Monica Murphy, the name under which she does all her social media (leading a double life is tough!).
luvnbooks247365 says
I love baking all types of goodies with my children! <3
Linda Szymoniak says
We are big cookie bakers in our house when the holidays are here. All three of my daughters have developed my love of baking, which I got from my mother.
Lori Moore says
Homemade boiled custard
kp says
I love to make gingerbread cookies!
jodi marinich says
i love when the kids and i make chocolate cookies together
lorainediaz49 says
I love making the different loaves like ucchini bread and pumpkin breat, banana nut bread, and all types sometimes adding choc chips to some!
Brandi Defries Swendt says
Love to make no bake cookies
mrsmac19 says
I really enjoy decorating my Xmas tree and finding new ornaments. Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
mrsmac19 says
Yeah, I shouldn’t answer these things with my three year old screaming nearby. LOL! I enjoy making peanut butter chocolate chip cookies for “Santa” every year 🙂
bonnymcdevitt says
French onion soup, and pumpkin pie!
Theresa Fischer says
I love to make all kinds of Christmas candy and give as gifts!
Cheryl Rogers says
I love to make Raisin filled cookies for my family at Christmas.
Stephanie N-M. says
I like baking, but I really like making mashed potatoes. I also like making all the gifts for the family special with lots of tape and ribbon so that they have to work for it. 🙂
darholley1 says
My favorite thing to make around the holidays is homemade candies. I have lots of different recipes and only make them at this time of the year. That way everyone looks forward to them.
Cheryl H says
I love to make Italian cookies!
Mel G says
I love making hot cocoa
Hannah Webb says
I bake cookies and deliver to friends and neighbors.
Charlene E says
Cookies are my favorite to bake around the holidays…snickerdoodles and chocoloate chip are musts!
Gaby B. says
I love hearing christmas carols and reading Christmas books 🙂
Jenny Dauksa Schaber says
Potato pancakes are my specialty!
exbuffalo2001 says
Making Christmas cookies!!!
Jane Nelson says
Entered your contest. Thank you for the chance. Already pre-ordered Love, Laughter and Merrily Ever After and can’t wait to read it!
Jenny Rapp says
I love to make hot chocolate and then add Bailey’s. I’m not much of a cook or baker so this is as gourmet as I get!
Bethany Macielag (@BethanyMacielag) says
my favorite thing to make are Christmas cookies, cut out cookies are fun 🙂
marcyshuler says
I like making dips and spreads to keep on hand and love to just make a meal of them. Usually I make a salmon spread and a spinach dip. I also like to make a large batch of Chex Mix to nibble on throughout the holidays.
Brooke C says
I love baking everything, but I am usually in charge of the pumpkin pies and cookies for the kiddos!
Chanpreet says
I like making bark to eat in the winter. Every year I make a different kind.
Angie Bartley says
I make different cookies and candies as gifts for Christmas.
ekm713 says
I love making my grandma’s chocolate chip cookies and her heath bar coffee cake.
Michelle says
My kids and I love to make rice krispie treats shaped into Christmas trees and candy canes, top with white chocolate and decorations. So Yummy!!
Maria Theresa Santos says
cookies and pies
cherylsds says
Any kind of baking I can get done with my three girls, at the same time, is always the most amazing time!
Katarzyna says
I’m awful at baking so I prefer cleaning and decorating the house 🙂
Irma Jurejevčič says
Make home made decorations with my daughter.
Lisa M says
Cookies, bars, and more sweets! lol
I wish I was as good as my sister at making fun festive adult drinks though! =)
Lori H says
My kids and I enjoy cooking just about any dessert during anytime of the year 🙂
linda romer (@romer_linda) says
I love pies! I will be making a pecan pie and an apple pie for Thanksgiving.
Sue Galuska says
Cookies! There are a few cookies we only make for Christmas so it is a special treat.
Nurmawati Djuhawan says
cookies and cake are my fave 🙂
thx u for hosting 🙂
Gina says
I love making different kinds of breads with booze in them and give them out as gifts.
Vicki S. says
Christmas wreaths (basically rice crispies squares but in wreath shapes and with cornflakes, green food coloring a chewy red hots.)
DJ Sakata says
sweet potatoes
Victoria Alexander says
Gingerbread houses and chocolate chip cookies are a huge part of the holiday food in my house 🙂
Debbie Jensen says
I like making dark chocolate and peanut butter candy.
Ashleigh Downes says
Green beans deluxe, pumpkin bars and christmas cookies..oh yeah and peanut butter balls aka buck eye balls.
tinamcclay says
I love to make all kinds of cookies! Sugar, no bakes, peanut butter, chocolate chip.
Christina Riggs says
I love to bake my famous sugar cookies! I also make fudge & cinnamon hard candy! Thank You!
rluken05 says
Oh I dream all year about pecan pie 🙂
Linda Brennan says
Coffee cake for Christmas morning. Thanks for the chance to win!
lorainediaz49 says
I love it all!
Ash says
I love making side dishes and desserts.
Rachael B. says
Mississippi Mud Pie
Ashley's Paranormal says
Pumpkin pie, my favorite and always will be! Thanks for the chance!!
Ash L. says
Fairies & Wishes sounds good. I’d love to read that.
Mary Preston says
Sugar cookies are a big hit.
Gina H says
My pumpkin rolls are a holiday favorite and staple around our house!