During this busy season take a break to relax with Romancing the Holidays, Vol.2, a collection of 14 short romances released by the members of First Coast Romance Writers of Jacksonville, Fla.
* A warlock, dressed as Buzz
Lightyear, is confronted by a witch in a Little Red Riding Hood costume in Melody
Johnson’s paranormal, Fated by Fire and the fun begins.
* Sparks fly, in more ways
than one, when a busy OB-GYN battles a TV set designer for the last can of pumpkin
in Elise Darby’s Oh My Pumpkin Pie.
* Barbara Whitaker takes us
back to a different time and place in her World War II romance, Thanks for
the Doughnuts. There’s nothing like a little shellfire from enemy forces to
teach a timid Red Cross worker and a brash, pushy soldier lessons in life and love.
* Maggie Fitzroy uses an
historic lakeside lodge in Maine for the setting of Christmas Peril, featuring
a travel writer and a PI, who while posing as husband and wife, set out to get
the goods on a potential gold-digging fiancé and end up with a dead body on
their hands.
* San Diego is the setting for
a contemporary military romance by Leah Miles. Stolen Christmas features
a struggling widow with an intrepid five-year-old who steals the heart of their
landlord: a macho US Navy SEAL. Bring on the tissues.
* For those who enjoy a good attorney
bash joke, Karen Renee shows a new side of the law in Holiday Fixation.
Nothing brings out the hero in a group of hard-charging lawyers when one of
their own is threatened by a stalker.
* For a touching story of a family
reunited in post-Civil War Georgia, Sara Walker’s Miracle de Noel is the
one for you. War injures more than those who fought; the family left behind is
equally harmed—and Walker shows those injuries very well.
* Vickey Wollan displays an
obvious talent for snappy dialogue with The Secret Santa Surprise when two
teens, in need of community service hours in order to earn a college scholarship,
are forced to walk in each other’s shoes. The question ends up: which is more
fun, the ‘breaststroke babe’ sitting high on her pity pot or the dorky superhero
Inviso-Man? What a treat.
* Just Four Days offers
new meaning to wedding cruise from Hell when Maid of Honor Hailey runs slam bam
into Best Man Don. Author Gloria Ferguson poses the ultimate problem: can two
exes bury the hatchet long enough to see their best friends married without
shoving each other overboard?
* When Dustin Biggs tells his
ex-wife “I know you’d rather sled down a mountain on an ironing board than let
me in but it’s freezing in here!” we were hooked by Abigail Sharpe’s second
chance contemporary romance, New Year’s Ex-Pectations. A beauty of a fun
story.
* Laura Salas gives readers a
treat with an inside look into the celebration known as Three Kings Day in Love
on Calle Ocho. Set in Miami, Carlos Flores has moved on after a serious betrayal;
teacher Maddie Jones, also betrayed, has not. Together the two help each other
in remarkable ways.
* In True Love Found, P.K.
Brent brings enchantment fairy Marielle Charmaine face to face with her first crush,
electromancer Alan Corben. As teenagers they helped each other survive loneliness,
bigotry and misunderstanding. As adults, after finding each other again, new
possibilities come to fruition.
* Winding up the series is The
Matchmaker’s Valentine, a love story among shapeshifting werewolves. Jax is
looking for a mate but where to find one? Those inside his pack find him too
big, too broody, too crazy. And, as pack enforcer his reputation has gone out
of control. In the middle of a noisy bar he finds Cece, a matchmaker self-described
as ‘she’d walk through Hell with gasoline panties on before she ended up like
her mother’. Laugh out loud.
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