Valentine’s
Day is only ten days away. What better time to remind our readers of Love,
Valentine Style, a very special holiday anthology of novellas by six
bestselling and award-winning authors. Whether you’re sharing the day with
someone special or still in search of that special someone, take a break and
lose yourself for a few hours in Love, Valentine Style. You won’t be
disappointed.
Stories
include:
In this
mini-sequel to the award-winning Hooking Mr. Right by Lois Winston
(writing as Emma Carlyle,) editor Grace Wainwright, has taken over the role of
bestselling author and romance guru Dr. Trulee Lovejoy. Thea Chandler, the
original Trulee, is now married to her Mr. Right and is a successful cookbook
author. She and Grace host the top-rated Love Recipes cooking show. When
producer Becket Delaney announces the first two shows in February will have a
Valentine’s Day theme, Grace freaks out. The worst day of her life occurred on
Valentine’s Day ten years ago, and she wants no reminders of it.
Beck has his
own reasons for hating the holiday, but the show must go on, and he absolutely
refuses to deal with an uncooperative prima donna. When a citywide blackout
traps him and Grace in his thirty-fourth floor office, their adversarial
relationship really begins to heat up.
Grace is a
baker and Sugar & Spice Bakery is her life. Five years ago she was given a
sacred duty to perform by a mother dying of cancer: Every Valentine's Day,
Grace must deliver one of her beautiful cake creations to a little girl named
Valentine, and it must be addressed from the girl's mother up in heaven. But
this Valentine's Day, Grace's delivery truck might finally give up the ghost
before she drops off her precious cargo.
Brian lost
his wife five years ago, and their little girl Valentine is all he has left of
her. But what Brian has forgotten is that very special gift Valentine receives
every year on Valentine's Day, and he's moved his daughter to a new house with
no way to contact the mysterious baker who has followed his wife's wishes all
these years.
In their
quest to fulfill a dying woman's last request, can Grace and Brian find their
own Valentine?
After being
jilted at the altar by her fiancé, Virginia Montgomery quit her job and moved a
thousand miles away to manage Hotel Amore on Little West Cay, hoping she’d
never see that no-good coward Thomas Bennet again. But Fate and Mother Nature
conspire together and whip up a little Valentine’s Day magic to bring Virginia
and Thomas back together.
You know
what they say; Fate doesn’t take no for an answer, and it isn’t nice to mess
with Mother Nature.
Recently
divorced museum curator Charlie Bristol comes to Seattle to set up a display at
the Fine Art museum chronicling the history of Valentine’s Day. The director of
the museum surprises her with a package of Civil War valentines from an
anonymous donor. She reads the heartfelt messages and is touched by his words.
Does such powerful love still exist?
During a nap
she dreams she’s alive during the Civil War and meets Elliot Lowery, the author
of the valentines who mistakes her for his fiancée Charlotte. She and Elliot
negotiate the murky waters of wartime romance. When she wakes she’s still under
the dream's spell and Valentine’s Day love is in the air, but Charlotte has no
reason to celebrate. The man she loves died 150 years ago. Unless love works
some miracle even time and death cannot overcome.
She left
him... He loves her... A snowy Valentine's gives them a second chance.
Returning
home after a disastrous job relocation, Miranda is determined to avoid the man
she left behind—and whose heart she broke. Until she finds a hidden treasure in
a music box. An engagement ring engraved with a decades’ old date. And the only
man who can help reunite the precious ring with its owner is the last man she
wanted to see.
When Ian
sees Miranda walk into his antique shop, his defenses go up. She walked away
from him once without a backward glance. Since then he’s given up on love. But
when their eyes meet and sparks fly, he wonders if maybe there’s a Valentine’s
Day miracle in store for them.
A snowy
night’s journey to bring the ring to its elderly owner turns into a second
chance at romance for Miranda and Ian. But as the frost melts from around their
hearts, it exposes old hurts and deceptions. This Valentine’s Day could be the
start of something wonderful. Or the proof that their love was never meant to
be.
What started
out as an innocent assignment for work –accompanying a popular actress fresh
out of rehab on shopping trips – has gained Gemma Kent regular makeovers by
said actress and a sidebar photo on People magazine’s cover! All
the attention would be flattering, except she’s become famous as a mystery
woman with the Twitter handle: GlitterfrostGem. Everyone, even the
local gossip column, is speculating about her identity. In real life,
Gemma wears combat boots, poindexter glasses, and a prickly attitude. Now
Randy Farrell, the man she can’t get out of her head, wants a date with
Glitterfrost Gem! Which would be great if he realized that invisible
Gemma Kent and Glitterfrost Gem were one and the same.
