Bramble House B & B is booked for the Christmas season, and new owner Amy Arden and her husband Chet Hardwick are excited to spend their first Yuletide season as a married couple. To spread the joy of the season, they have carefully selected their guests for the week before Christmas including two very special people.Oliver Rivers is coming to Marietta to fulfill his mother’s deathbed wish…to locate the daughter his mother gave up when she was fifteen. When that doesn’t go as planned, he finds himself gravitating to another guest at Bramble House.Everyone calls Gemma Granger the runaway bride, but they don’t know she was deceived by her fiancé and fled to Bramble House to nurse her broken heart. Instead, Gemma finds herself feeling an instant connection with Oliver and helping him bond with his long-lost family.Oliver suspects Gemma is taking on him and other projects to avoid dealing with her heartbreak. But the truth is that with each passing day, Gemma is discovering that her real life and her real love might not be where she thought it was.

The girl next door is now the woman he’s falling for. As her ten year high school reunion approaches, Becca Thompson feels the pinch of not accomplishing enough since graduation. Romance has been an even bigger bust. Longing for more, she decides to organize a fall harvest festival and community fundraiser on her family’s orchard. But Becca gets more than she bargained for when she asks her childhood friend to help. Suddenly her bestie is making her knees weak and her heart flutter.
Jason Fox is dedicated to his veterinarian practice and raising funds to make his dream animal shelter a reality. When he’s sidelined by an injury, he takes a break and returns home to Cupid’s Corner. But from the moment he sees Becca, everything's different. She’s no longer the young girl he picked apples and pumpkins with—she’s a self-reliant, beautiful woman.
Jason helps Becca with the festival, but the more time they spend together the harder it is to ignore the sparks. Can leaving the friend zone end in love or will it ruin everything?

Ivy Lancombe:Age: 25Looks: Short, chestnut brown, and buxomFavorite Food: Blackberry PieStatus: Single, but secretly in love with her best friendShepard Lund:Age: 26Looks: Tall, blond, and skinnyFavorite Food: MeatloafStatus: Single, but secretly in love with his best friendShep and Ivy are the biggest dating disasters of Bells Pass. They’ve spent years ignoring their feelings for each other, but this Christmas, the townspeople of Bells Pass, Michigan have a plan. It won’t be easy, but they’ll work together to teach Ivy and Shep to stop ignoring their hearts’ desires and explore their love. It will take an old spinster, an infamous diner, a mysterious man, and a hefty dose of Christmas wishing to get them under the mistletoe. Once there, they’ll let a dash of good old Christmas magic do the rest.Inclusions: Hero is a brittle asthmatic

INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FINALIST and KIRKUS FEATURED REVIEW RECIPIENT!My parents abandoned me a decade ago to the walls of this institution. They believed my troubled childhood mind was something sinister instead of homegrown or explainable. The truth is that my condition is complicated. It's messy and often misunderstood.I've worn all types of labels over the years: Non-believer, pariah, deranged, orphan... It's all in my file if you care to understand me better. However, the label that implanted the deepest and garnered the most attention is the one I wear, like a Scarlet Letter. It precedes me when I enter a room and gets whispered about like a schoolyard crush.Paranoid Schizophrenic.Dr. Sutton has some lofty ideas about my condition and claims mental illness is only one aspect of hundreds that make me who I am. Not one to shy away from a challenge, he thinks he can help me. His confidence is legendary, but I've carried this burden for a long time. Despite what he thinks, I can't be fixed.He doesn't realize I'm falling for him or that I have some lofty ideas of my own. He should know better because people like me deserve a hero, too.What Readers are saying:"Sexy, smart and addictive! Oh my God. I need all future romance books to be this good. I was hooked from the very first page. It was sexy, smart, and addictive. Mercy is the most complex character I have come across in a while. I love how her mental illness doesn't define her, it's just one part of her. Their romance is hot, forbidden, and very very sexy. I loved this book!" -Cranky TBC"One quick glance at the blurb of Mercy is all I needed to know that I had to get my hands on it! A religious cult, a doctor/patient taboo romance, and a paranoid schizophrenic heroine? Yes, please!" -Jessica ChatterBookBabe"This story jumped to my #1 story of the year. It is one of the best written stories I have read in a long time.""Heart-rending, stunning, and truly talented story-telling. "Story stayed with me...... This was one of the best books I have ever read. Raw, gritty & emotional, with great depth, fabulous characters & thoughts that will stay with you long after the book is over.""Mind blowing story that kept me on the edge of my seat throughout. Fingernail biting, breath holding suspense to make this the best book ever.""I felt what Mercy went through & that's the sign of a good writer. To get the reader so consumed with a character, you're emotionally connected from the first chapter! Excellent read.""It is refreshing that an author takes the time to build characters and make a reader fall in love with them. A taboo romance and some off the charts chemistry thrown into the mix along with some hot, hot scenes. I read this book in a day because I just couldn't put it down!!""I love every word K.C. Decker has ever put down. When I read this blurb I was absolutely sold on the forbidden/taboo romance aspect and the intrigue of Mercy & Sutton. This book left me breathless." -RocknRead719"Read this phenomenal book now. Mercy and Sutton will take you on one heck ride through Mercy's life and you need to hear it. Their story will give you all the feels with some naughtiness. This book is so different from my normal reads, which makes it refreshing. I have never read KC Decker before and I think I have been missing out on her fantastic storytelling. You must read this book.Amazing look into the human soul.Impossible to put down. KC Decker's writing is phenomenal and right on point to bring the characters in Mercy to life. There is an intuition here that makes Mercy not only believable but had me feeling that I was right there. The candor and frankness of mental health is inspiring.” Book nerd.

A young widow must learn to love again in this heartfelt romance from the New York Times–bestselling author.  At twenty-nine, the widowed Sloan Tallett thought her best chance at love was gone. It takes every ounce of her strength and concentration to balance her work as a dance teacher at the local college with her responsibilities as a single parent to her three young children. If she was lucky, Friday nights would be free for the occasional date. The dates never added up to much, but her bills did. When Wesley Adams, a handsome, retired all-American quarterback comes to town on business, Sloan is slow to acknowledge his obvious attention to her. When she realizes that this wealthy catch is attracted to her, though, Sloan glimpses what could be a very comfortable life. Desperate to make a better life for her children and herself, Sloan decides to seduce him. She’s convinced he’ll never discover her love is just an act! But she soon finds herself falling for him and his natural charm. Is it possible for Sloan to truly love again? This ebook features an illustrated biography of Heather Graham including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Moving to a new town offers a new chance for love in this contemporary romance series opener by a New York Times–bestselling author.Jason Guthrie has no time for entanglements—between helping his widowed brother and teenage nephew and getting his hometown back on its feet, his days are spoken for. But his nights are another story . . . And when his lovely new neighbor, Honor Brown, reluctantly accepts his help in remodeling her house, Jason finds himself wishing his handyman skills could knock down the defenses she keeps building around herself.Martial arts teacher Sullivan Dean knows real danger when he sees it—even when it takes the form of the gorgeous blonde helping her friend move in across the street. After putting his wayward past behind him to focus on teaching control to troubled kids, Sullivan has learned to avoid party girls like Lexie Perkins. But Sullivan can’t seem to keep his hands off the real woman behind that flirty charm—or keep his heart from landing at her feet . . . Praise for Don’t Tempt Me“I would definitely suggest putting this in your TBR pile. Not only do you get double the dose of romance, but there are quite a few hotties in this book to ogle and swoon over.” —Under the Covers Book Blog