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Unforgettable Christmas Dreams
The Unforgettables Book 14


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As they seek peace, joy, and family life, these dedicated heroes and heroines struggle to heal wounded hearts, reveal dangerous secrets, travel to find a loved one, hide from danger, and work to save desperate patients. But their greatest wish is to bring holiday happiness to those around them. To you, our dear readers, we offer these gifts of joy at Christmas time. New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors have mingled Christmas dreams and composed beautiful love stories that range from sweet to spicy, with romance and suspense, to keep you entertained and dreaming in Unforgettable Christmas Dreams.

Firelight Confession: .Rebecca York, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: Mail order bride hiding a secret that can destroy her marriage before it has a chance to succeed.

Christmas Delivery: .Patricia Rosemoor, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: He “returned from the dead” seeking revenge...only to reconnect with the girl he loved, and the daughter they conceived thirteen years ago.

A Rancher in her Stocking: .Leanne Banks, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: When a holiday-happy school teacher gets stuck staying with a sexy, grumpy rancher at Christmas time, can she persuade him to embrace the season – and her?

Please Keep Me: .Mimi Barbour, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: A homeless pup adores the child & his new master falls for her Mom.

Christmas Miracle: .Patrice Wilton, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: Can these two wounded people, an ex-marine sniper and a broken heart nurse, open their hearts to the miracle of Christmas?

Secret Santa By The Sea: .Traci Hall, USA Today bestselling author: Now back in her small town, Serenity faces the man who’d broken her heart. She finds out the truth behind why he’d once set her free.

Christmas in the Sand: .Jen Talty, USA Today bestselling author: Not only could her dreams go up in smoke, but if she’s not careful, she’ll end up giving her heart away.

Lost and Found Family: .Dani Haviland, USA Today bestselling author: Sometimes it takes decades to find your true family …but only a moment to lose them.

A Complete Family: .Mona Risk, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: Her hands full with a little daughter, a ferocious German Shepherd, a meddling sick neighbor, and a charming but nosey boss, Nurse Melody dreams of a happy family.

Three French Hens: .Nancy Radke, USA Today bestselling author: When you find something precious —like love— you give everything you own to keep it.

Sparkles of the Season: .Susan Jean Ricci, USA Today bestselling author: Two unlikely couples rediscover love and commitment, after a magical meeting with Saint Nick.




Firelight Confession
Author: Rebecca York

Mail order bride, Carin Tully, arrived on the frontier planet, Palomar, hoping for a better life—with her new husband Gabe Cooper.

Like all the guys on Palomar, he hadn’t seen a woman for fifteen years—since the plague that had sent men and their sons fleeing to this outpost on the edge of civilization.

Carin wants to seduce Gabe and prove she’s up to the job of farm wife, but she’s hiding a secret that could destroy their marriage before it has a chance to succeed.


Author: Rebecca York

Author: Rebecca York
Author Genre: Paranormal Romantic Suspense Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Cooking, Food & Wine

Website: Rebecca York - New York Times Best Selling Author
Twitter: @RebeccaYork43
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Author Description:
A master of paranormal romantic suspense, Rebecca York is the author of over 150 books. A New York Times and USA Today best-seller, she has written paranormal romantic thrillers for Berkley and romantic thrillers for Harlequin Intrigue. Her romantic-suspense series, Decorah Security, is set at a detective agency where agents have paranormal powers or work paranormal cases. She also writes an Off-World series where each story is a science fiction romance taking place on a distant planet in the far future.

The first of her Berkley Sensation paranormal romantic suspense novels, KILLING MOON, was a launch book for the imprint.

She also wrote the popular 43 Light Street series for Harlequin Intrigue. In addition, as Ruth Glick, she has authored or co-authored 15 cookbooks.

Rebecca's many awards include two Rita finalist books. She has two Career Achievement awards from Romantic Times: for Series Romantic Suspense and Series Romantic Mystery. NOWHERE MAN was the Romantic Times Best Intrigue of 1998, and the book was selected as one of their Reviewers' "all-time favorite 400 romances." In addition, she received the 1998 Affaire de Coeur's Critics Choice Award for Best Contemporary Novel, also for NOWHERE MAN. Ruth's book, KILLING MOON, won the 2003 New Jersey Romance Writers Golden Leaf Award for best Paranormal. AMANDA'S CHILD won the 2001 Golden Leaf Award for Long Contemporary and was nominated for Best Intrigue of 2000 by Romantic Times. She is one of a small group of authors to have won the Romance Writers of America Centennial Award.

Ruth and her husband travel frequently to research settings for novels and taste new dishes for cookbooks. Her many unique experiences are apt to end up in her books--like the time she encountered a coral snake in the Guatemalan jungle or took a flight in a glider plane.




Christmas Delivery
Author: Patricia Rosemoor

Haunted by ghosts, Jenkins Cove will now have to deal with Simon Shea who has “returned from the dead” seeking revenge...only to reconnect with Lexie Thornton, the girl he loved, and the daughter they conceived thirteen years ago.


Author: Patricia Rosemoor

Author: Patricia Rosemoor
Author Genre: Romance, Suspense, Paranormal

Website: Patricia Rosemoor
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Twitter: @Prosemoor
E-Mail: patricia@patriciarosemoor.com
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Author Description:
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Patricia Rosemoor has had 100 novels with 8 publishers and more than 7 million books in print. Patricia is fascinated with "dangerous love" and writes romantic suspense or paranormal romantic thrillers.

Patricia has won a Golden Heart from Romance Writers of America and two Reviewers Choice and two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times BOOKreviews, and in her other life, she taught Popular Fiction and Suspense-Thriller Writing at Columbia College Chicago.




A Rancher in her Stocking
Author: Leanne Banks

When a holiday-happy school teacher gets stuck staying with a sexy, grumpy rancher at Christmas time, can she persuade him to embrace the season – and her?

When a fire renders her temporarily homeless, pretty school teacher Amy Winslow finds herself sharing the home of grumpy rancher Lucas Bennet for the holiday season.

Lucas has plenty of sad Christmas memories, but can Amy get him to open his heart to holiday joy – and to love?


Author: Leanne Banks

Author: Leanne Banks
Author Genre: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction

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Twitter: @LeanneBanks
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Leanne Banks is a national #1 best-selling author with over fifty romance novels to her credit. Leanne was born and raised in the wonderful town of Roanoke, Virginia. Growing up in "the star city of the south" had a huge impact on her outlook and her writing. Her B.S. in Psychology only qualifies her to treat fictional characters and she began writing when her two children were very young. Leanne believes in the transforming power of love, so writing romance novels comes naturally to her. Her muse is a 4.5 lb Pomeranian who is happy to snooze beside Leanne while Leanne creates. Leanne loves travel and trips to the beach, but what's most important to her is family.




Please Keep Me
Author: Mimi Barbour

In this beautiful holiday love story, Belinda Page, a single mom of a very intelligent four-year-old daughter, is at her wits end trying to keep up with the baby genius. When the child throws herself into a lake to rescue a puppy, Belinda is frantic. Turning to the man who saves both babies, she seeks his support - until she finds out he’s one of those hated Carltons. After all, it was at their home where she’d gone to a party, been drugged, raped and left to deal with the consequences.


Author: Mimi Barbour

Author: Mimi Barbour
Author Genre: Romance, Paranormal, Suspense

Website: Mimi Barbour Believe
Author's Blog: Mimi Barbour Believe
Twitter: @MimiBarbour
E-Mail: mimibarbour66@gmail.com
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NYT & USA Today, best-selling, award-winning author, Mimi Barbour, has nine romance series to her credit.

The Vicarage Bench Series
Angels with Attitudes Series
Elvis Series
The Vegas Series
Holiday Heartwarmers Series
Undercover FBI Series
Mob Tracker Series
Single Title Series
The Best in Romance Series

She also has many single titles and a huge number of box sets - her own and multi-author collections.

Mimi lives on the East coast of Vancouver Island with her new puppy, Charli, and writes her various romances with tongue in cheek and a mad glint in her eye. She's been known to say: "If I can steal a booklover's attention away from their everyday grind, absorb them into a fantasy love story, and make them care about the ending, then I've done my job."




Christmas Miracle
Author: Patrice Wilton

Mick Johnson, USMC—ex-Marine, sniper, has lived in Heaven for just under two years. Suffering from PTSD, he wants peace, a normal life, and lives without hope. He has everyday struggles and his future is dim --until he meets Sarah.

Nurse, Sarah Shaunnessy’s heart is broken when the separated doctor she’d been seeing goes back to his pregnant wife. He’d been lying to Sarah all along. Turning her back on the hospital where they’d both worked, Sarah decides to spend the holiday with sister, Meghan in Heaven, PA. Her plans to relax and unwind go awry when she realizes she too is pregnant. Can these two wounded people open their hearts to the miracle that Christmas in Heaven offers them?


Author: Patrice Wilton

Author: Patrice Wilton
Author Genre: Romance

Website: Escape into Romance with Patrice Wilton
Twitter: @PatriceWilton
E-Mail: patricewilt@yahoo.com
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Author Description:
Patrice Wilton was born in Vancouver, Canada, and knew from the age of twelve that she wanted to be a writer. She became a flight attendent for 17 years, then moved to Australia, and England, before settling in West Palm Beach, Florida. She is a USA Today best selling author of more than twenty books, including her successful romantic comedy, "Candy Bar series", and Serendipity Falls series, and returning war heroes, published by Amazon Montlake.

When she's not writing, you might find her on the tennis court, or hitting golf balls with her PGA pro husband.




Secret Santa By The Sea
Author: Traci Hall

Now back in her small town, Serenity faces the man who’d broken her heart. She finds out the truth behind why he’d once set her free.

True love is meant to last forever, at least that’s what Serenity thought. But after her high school sweetheart, Ryker, broke up with her, she was no longer a believer. Ten years later, they meet again in their small town and Serenity discovers the truth behind why he’d once set her free.


Author: Traci Hall

Author: Traci Hall
Author Genre: Romance, Paranormal, Young Adult

Website: Traci Hall
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E-Mail: Traci@TraciHall.com
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Author Description:
With an impressive bibliography in an array of genres, USA Today bestselling author Traci Hall has garnered a notable fan base. She pens stories guaranteed to touch the heart while transporting the reader to another time and place. Her belief in happily ever after shines through, whether it's a romantic glimpse into history or a love affair for today.




Christmas in the Sand
Author: Jen Talty

Someone is sabotaging Eliana Quinn’s grand holiday opening of Castaway’s on the Inlet bar and restaurant. Determined to make it work, she hires her gruff neighbor to help with the construction. Not only could her dreams go up in smoke, but if she’s not careful, she’ll end up giving her heart away.


Author: Jen Talty

Author: Jen Talty
Author Genre: Romance, Suspense

Website: Jen Talty
Author's Blog: CRAFTY WORD SLINGERS BLOG
Twitter: @JenTalty
E-Mail: jen@jentalty.com
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Jen Talty is a USA Today Bestseller author of Romantic Suspense. Dark Water hit #10 in Barnes and Noble and her books have been in the top 50 on Amazon. Jennifer grew up in Rochester, New York. She recently retired from being a full-time hockey mom as her children hung up their skates. She and her husband still live in Rochester while her children travel globe. Jen was the co-founder of Cool Gus Publishing with NY Times Bestselling Author Bob Mayer.




Lost and Found Family
Author: Dani Haviland

Sometimes it takes decades to find your true family…but only a moment to lose them.

Separated at birth, these twins find they have more than genetics in common: they’re both the target of killers who are willing to risk everything to take them out.


Author: Dani Haviland

Author: Dani Haviland
Author Genre: Time Travel, Romance

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USA Today Bestselling author and publisher Dani Haviland has bounced from New Haven, Connecticut to the Valley of the Sun in Arizona, to the Knik Arm of Alaska, and to the Willamette Valley in Oregon, soaking up life along the way, processing the experiences into works of fantasy and romance, packaging them as singles, series, and box sets with other authors via Chill Out! Books, the company she established as a vehicle to share the many works with readers around the world. Kick back and enjoy the diversity!




A Complete Family
Author: Mona Risk

Nurse Melody Parker is continuously late at work. She doesn’t seem sorry about it and has the gut to ask for an increase. Although she’s an excellent nurse, Dr. Aidan Olson gives her a reprimand, but later faces a scolding from his own boss about his lack of managerial capability. Mortified and determined to find out the reason for Melody’s tardiness, he visits her house, scares her little daughter, and is attacked by her German Shepherd. Melody works a second job to pay for her neighbor’s medical bills and leaves her daughter with the dog as she can’t afford a sitter or daycare. Feeling guilty for depriving her of an increase, Aidan signs up the little girl in a reliable daycare center and visits the sick neighbor.

His attraction to his pretty nurse escalates but the meddling neighbor complicates his life to no end, and manages to spoil everything for everyone with her advice and orders, her many secrets and crazy decisions.

Can Aidan help Melody create the complete family she’s been dreaming to have?


Author: Mona Risk

Author: Mona Risk
Author Genre: Romance

Website: Mona Risk
Author's Blog: Mona's Blog
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Twitter: @MonaRiskS
E-Mail: mona@monarisk.com
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Author Description:
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Mona Risk, received an Outstanding Achiever Award from Affaire de Coeur Magazine. She's a two time winner of Best Contemporary Romance of the Year from Readers Favorite; a winner of Best Romance Novel of the Year from Preditors & Editors Readers Poll; and an EPIC Award finalist.

Mona Risk's name has often been posted on the Amazon.com 100 Most Popular Authors in Romance list, and her books have garnered: Top Pick, Outstanding Read, Sweetheart of the Week, and Best Book of the Week from various reviewers, and received two mentions in Publisher's Weekly. Mona lives in South Florida and has traveled to more than eighty countries on business or vacation. She writes contemporary romances, medical romance, romantic suspense, and paranormal fantasy. Sprinkled with a good dose of humor, her stories are set in the fascinating places she visited or more simply at home.

If you like to travel and love to read, come and enjoy her international romances. Meet the spirited heroines and special heroes who share irresistible chemistry in stories that simmer with emotion. www.monarisk.com




Three French Hens
Author: Nancy Radke

“Four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.”

Ranching is dangerous enough without someone trying to kill you. When heavy snow collapses the roof on Carlton Mann, he walks to the nearest home for shelter. He stays to help the owner and her son. Love grows as they struggle to stay alive and keep her Montana ranch.


Author: Nancy Radke

Author: Nancy Radke
Author Genre: Romance, Mystery, Children's

Website: Nancy Radke
Author's Blog: Show and Tell Bible
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Nancy Radke grew up on a wheat and cattle ranch in SE Washinton State. She attended a one-room country school through the eighth grade. She learned to ride bareback at age 3 (Really! It was a common practice.) and when she got off or fell off, she would pull her horse's nose to the ground, get on behind its ears, and the horse would lift its head so she could scoot down onto its back. She spent most of her childhood exploring the Blue Mountain trails that bordered the ranchlands. She and a friend once took a trail that turned out to be a two day trip. They always rode with matches and pocket knives, so made camp and returned the next day. These long rides worried her parents, but provided plenty of time to make up stories. Her first novel was set in the Blues, and is entitled APPALOOSA BLUES. TURNAGAIN LOVE was the first one published. It rated a four star review from Affaire de Coeur. Scribes World said "Turnagain Love has some fascinating twists and turns, unexpected complications, and charming scenes." It is light and humorous.

Her next book was CLOSED DOORS, a novel about a man who couldn't read. This was especially interesting to Ms. Radke, as she taught remedial reading, sixth grade, and other classes as a school teacher. All her stories are linked by characters who know each other from book to book. For example, Zack and Jennel show up in two more books besides TURNAGAIN LOVE. Also her books have a theme, such as the theme for TENNESSEE TOUCH, which is that just being alive is dangerous, so you can't be so cautious that you miss out on life. Her favorite character is Hugo, who is the hero in SONGS FOR PERRI. Hugo shows up in SPIRIT OF A CHAMPION and in the first book of the new BROTHERS OF SPPIRIT series that she is writing with her son, Nolan Radke, entitled HEIGHT OF DANGER.

She has gone through survival and outward bound training, including long-distance ocean swimming. Facts from this training shows up in COURAGE DARES and SPIRIT OF A CHAMPION. Her western ranching background shows up in the pioneer series, The Traherns, and APPALOOSA BLUES, which is now available. Her critique group used to say that she talked and wrote backward. This really helped when writing the Traherns, as the dialect seemed very natural. APPALOOSA BLUES, an AMAZON TOP 100 BEST SELLER, is the common book for both the Trahern series and the Sisters of Spirit Series.

Ranch life gives a person a can-do attitude, so when she decided to write and produce a children's Bible on DVD, she never doubted she could do it. Never mind that she had to learn to use a Mac, Photoshop, and the Final Cut Studio programs. The first volume of the SHOW AND TELL BIBLE took eight years to complete. It is two hours long, contains 650 hand-drawn pictures, and gives the impression of a picture book being read by a well-loved parent or grandparent. Little children are absolutely enthralled by it. The second volume is three hours long, 850 pictures, concluding with Esther. It was finished in three years, so she really did manage to speed up.

The feedback from parents and kids has been tremendous. Nancy is working on the third volume now, which will complete the Old Testament. When the entire Bible is finished, she plans to do other children's books on DVD. And for her romance fans, there are more of those coming. For people who love cookbooks, those on Amazon are written by a different lady with the same name.




Sparkles of the Season
Author: Susan Jean Ricci

Sparks fly in all directions as the bells of the Holiday season ring, when the romance fairy sprinkles stardust on this family foursome.

During his son’s visit with Santa, the instant attraction between an injured football player and the widow turned photographer seems to change everything.

Sonia and Lars’s flirtation is encouraged by both of their single parents, but will a hot kiss in the backseat of a limo inspire the young couple to move forward without the parents’ intervention?

Embrace the fun when Sonia’s mom and Lars’s dad alleviate their yesterdays and prove by example that happily ever after’s do exist - Complete the equation with the lure of the Holidays as these four people rediscover the magic of Christmas, with a New Year’s surprise.


Author: Susan Jean Ricci

Author: Susan Jean Ricci
Author Genre: Romance

Website: Susan Jean Ricci
Author's Blog: Susan Jean Ricci
Twitter: @Susanjeanricci
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An Award-Winning, From Women's Pens Author and Humorist, Best Selling Author Susan Jean Ricci is best known for her Cindy's Crusades Series, starring the hilarious duo Cindy and Jay DeMatteo. These cherished characters are first introduced in the novel Dinosaurs and Cherry Stems, and return to entertain you in the sequel The Sugar Ticket. Their mischief making continues in these shorts: Two Miracles for Christmas, A Valentine's Day to Remember, Falling for Niagara, Christmas With Niagara, and The Blind Seer.

Most recently, Ms. Ricci's stories have been included in the Sweet and Sassy at the Beach Collection, Enchanted Romances - Magical Passion Collection, the Sweet and Sassy Weddings - A Time for Romance Anthology, Sweet and Sassy Valentine Collection, Sweet and Sassy Christmas - A Time for Romance Collection and the Unforgettable Christmas - Gifts of Love (The Unforgettable Book 3) Collection. Her novella When Sailors Play was part of Uvi Poznansky's Bestselling Anthology Love in Times of War. Her other titles are offered in the following anthologies: Unforgettable Heroes - Unforgettable Passion, and Sweet Heat - Where Love & Suspense Meet.

Ms. Ricci's Christmas stories and novellas have been published in the beloved Annie Acorn Christmas Treasuries 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. Other selections appear in Annie Acorn's 2015 Valentine Treasury, Annie Acorn's 2016 Romance Treasury, and Annie Acorn's 2015 Spirited Tales. All may be purchased as stand alone stories, as well as other her titles, including those smoking, hot novellas available in Ms. Ricci's catalogue, The My Sexy Chef Series.

Susan and her husband Joe live in a beautiful town near the sea, and when time allows, they love to travel. Together they have seven children and ten grandchildren.


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