The two things that can make any day brighter -- chocolate and hugs -- are combined for a book that is as touching as it is sweet. This book provides morsels and nuggets of stories, quotes, and messages and is tailor-made for the chocolate lover in your life. Filled with love and laughter, Hugs for Chocolate Lovers is the perfect way to show caring without calories.

If you can't live without a daily bite of chocolate, have visions of chocolate truffles dancing in your head, you will savor the decadence of this collection of stories.

If you are a longtime fan of our Hugs books, thank you for your support over the past ten years. If this is your first purchase, welcome to the family. The Hugs series has touched the lives of more than seven million people nationwide. It's brought countless hours of love and encouragement to moms, dads, aunts, sisters, brothers, daughters, and everyone in between. Its message is really simple -- you are loved and appreciated for what you do! While it's our anniversary, we share it with you for making this dream come true.

Christmas is just around the corner but the women of The Chocolate Lovers' Club have more to worry about than present shopping . . . Lucy loves running Chocolate Heaven but she hasn't spent time with her boyfriend, Aiden, in weeks. And then her ex-fiance turns up and things become even more complicated. Nadia hasn't let herself get close to a man in a long time, yet she can't help feeling drawn to Jacob. Will he be her last chance for a happy ending? Chantal and her husband, Ted, are besotted with their baby daughter Lana - but she's not sure that's enough to base a marriage on. Autumn is dealing with a tragedy that has hit too close to home. But when she doesn't get the support she needs from her fiance, will she look elsewhere for comfort? Can friendship overcome all in . . . The Chocolate Lovers' Christmas.

Soul searching is a process that happens to most of us without one even giving it a label befitting of this very necessary lifetime phenomena. It is essential to human growth and involves self- exploration, trial and error providing an opportunity to find one's groove in life. Chocolate lovers love sweet things which can be symbolic for almost anything including a sweet lie or some sweet lovin'. I hope you, the reader, get to see yourself in some of the same places and spaces in time whether it be love, lust, or levitation and elation through divine inspiration. Love, laugh and live a little. Do a little soul searching.

A sweet and delicious treat from the multi-million-copy-selling Carole Matthews. Perfect for fans of Milly Johnson and Jill Mansell. For Lucy Lombard, there's nothing that chocolate can't cure. From heartache to headaches, it's the one thing she knows that she can rely on - and she's not alone. Fellow chocolate addicts Autumn, Nadia and Chantal share her passion and together they form a select group known as The Chocolate Lovers' Club. Whenever there's a crisis, they meet in their sanctuary, a cafe called Chocolate Heaven. And with a cheating boyfriend, a flirtatious boss, a gambling husband and a loveless marriage, there's always plenty to discuss . . .