When Lesley Ackerman meets Alex Randall, she’s smarting from the recent breakup with her long-time boyfriend. She isn’t interested in a rebound romance, but his sweet kids steal her heart. Alex Randall has moved to Hallburg to take a position as the high school basketball coach, and he hopes moving to a new town will help him get over his wife’s death. He’s not interested in the standoffish young woman their mutual friends keep pushing at him. But he’s desperate to find someone to watch his kids while he’s away at a basketball tournament. She fits the bill, but she comes with a confession that shakes both of them. Can Christmas cookies, a cute puppy, and two matchmaking children help Lesley and Alex overcome hurts from the past and find love?

How can you make cakes, cookies, and candy even MORE fun? Award-winning blogger Heather Baird, a vibrant new voice in the culinary world, has the answer: Cook like an artist! Combining her awesome skills as a baker, confectioner, and painter, she has created a gorgeous, innovative cookbook, designed to unleash the creative side of every baker. Heather sees dessert making as one of the few truly creative outlets for the home cook. So, instead of arranging recipes by dessert type (cookies, tarts, cakes, etc.), she has organized them by line, color, and sculpture. As a result, SprinkleBakes is at once a breathtakingly comprehensive dessert cookbook and an artist's instructional that explains brush strokes, sculpture molds, color theory, and much more. With easy-to-follow instructions and beautiful step-by-step photographs, Heather shows how anyone can make her jaw-dropping creations, from Mehndi Hand Ginger Cookies to Snow Glass Apples to her seasonal masterpiece, a Duraflame(R)-inspired Yule Log..

After the first taste of her Christmas cookies I wanted to shove the whole thing in my face. The whole plate of cookies, that is. Not...you know. Christmas is bad enough without one of The Great Christmas Bake-Off contestants all wrapped up in a bow under my tree. Er...I meant...Christmas is horrible, right?! Holly Christmas is like the perfect sugar cookie--it slowly melts in your mouth, sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever. I love Christmas! I love the cheerful music, the fun sweaters, and the holiday lights. Most of all I love Christmas Cookies! Grouchy billionaire Owen Frost is a begrudging bake-off judge, and I refuse to let him hate Christmas. The man is overworked, his employees are uninspired, and his life is seriously lacking in Yuletide cheer. I want to stuff his stocking with sugary goodness to put him in a very festive mood. But I'm not looking for holiday romance--just to spread a little Christmas cheer. After all, along with being the queen of baking, I am also the princess of bad decision making skills, complete with a failing business and a mound of student loan debt. And sleeping with Owen, with his washboard abs and big Christmas package would be my worst idea yet. But when he unwraps me like a perfectly decorated Christmas present and says in that deep, sexy voice, "Can I have another taste of your Christmas cookies?" Well, let's just say Christmas is coming early this year! Tasting Her Christmas Cookies is a standalone holiday romantic comedy. If you love Christmas desserts, like to laugh out loud at holiday innuendoes, and want Santa to put a tall, good-looking guy under your tree, then pick up this full-length, steamy romance novel! There are no cliffhangers but there is a very happy (Christmas!) ever after!

Christmas Cookies for Dogs has delicious tasty treats recipes your dog will love. Imagine how happy your furbaby will become when you give them freshly handmade cookies! You’ll be able to bond with your dog by treating them with delicious Christmas cookies specifically made for them. In this book, no longer will you be aimlessly searching the internet for cookies for dogs. We have compiled some of the best known Christmas Cookies for Dogs recipes that will satisfy your furbaby taste buds! These recipes are simple to make, and best of all, great for any holiday occasion. Are you looking for delicious holiday cookies recipes for your furbaby? Our pets are our family. This means we should extend our healthy lifestyle and beliefs to include them. We believe that treating your dog doesn’t have to include a long list of unmentionable and unrecognizable ingredients. If we can’t eat it, why should they? That’s why we made sure to include only the BEST healthy recipes that would be beneficial to your furbaby health. Download: Christmas Cookies for Dogs: Share the Holiday Spirit with Your Beloved Furbaby with 20 Tasty Cookies Recipes They’ll Love. Inside You Will Discover... *20 Christmas cookie recipes *Essential tools to get started *Step by step recipe instructions *Cookies recipe ingredient list *”Bonus” 5 Thanksgiving cookies recipes *Plus much, much, more! Click “BUY NOW” at the top of the page, and instantly Download Christmas Cookies for Dogs: Share the Holiday Spirit with Your Beloved Furbaby with 20 Tasty Cookies Recipes They’ll Love.

Each Wednesday morning they take the bus--the lonely graduate student, the Marine trying to start a new life in the corporate world, the elderly woman on her way to the senior center, and the exhausted single mother and her daughter--but they never interact. Not until the day tragedy strikes and brings these five strangers together. This story is part of the Puppy Love series of short stories about puppies bringing two people together to find their happily ever after. keywords: holiday romance, christmas romance, christmas short stories, puppy love, clean romance, wholesome romance, sweet romance

Eight years should have been long enough to overcome the hurt and humiliation of being left at the altar, but when Jillian Rodgers walks back into Sam Lawson’s life, he has to grapple with those feelings again. Worse yet, he can’t stop thinking about her. Jillian has returned to her hometown to help care for her mother. Facing Sam again is hard, but Jillian wonders if her return could mean a second chance for them. In a small town their paths often cross, and despite Sam’s vow not to make the same mistake, he finds himself falling for her all over again. But Jillian hasn’t been completely honest about her life. When that comes to light, can he still forgive and forget? Can they have a second chance at love?

Whitney Hamilton wants to put her past behind her and make the best of her current circumstances, a high demand job and caring for her mother, who has dementia. But Whitney’s newest coworker, Jeremy Cunningham, is a constant reminder of her foolish past. Jeremy wants to show the world he is his own man, but that may prove difficult as he steps into his brother's old job. The biggest obstacle to his success is Whitney, his brother’s former girlfriend, a source of discord for his family. When Whitney and Jeremy find themselves attracted to each other, there are so many reasons, old and new, to keep them from revealing their feelings for each other. Will a long-kept secret finally bring them together?