When Santa decides he cannot make the trip, Christmas is saved by the sharing and caring among the children of Small Town that day.

Wrap the gift in love… When Isabella found her forever mate in shifter Leo Mitchell, she shoved aside memories of her feckless parents and her past. Her inability to have children was more challenging, but she stashed those emotions, too. That’s until someone leaves a kid in a basket, right on their doorstep… Leo adores his strong, bad-ass woman, and when the mystery behind their Christmas keepsake creates danger for the small town of Middlemarch, he isn’t about to fail his mate. Together, they’ll fight this hidden threat while adjusting to life with an active child. The boy might bring them even closer—if they survive the experience. Reader advisory: this stand-alone series romance features oodles of shapeshifters, seasonal festivities and rituals, family life in a small rural town, an adorable kitten keen on Christmas tree baubles, and a puppy. Oh, and sweet, steamy loving between mates. What’s not to like?

Unleash your inner elf and get into the Christmas spirit with three festive tales set in New Zealand. Unwrap the magic of a warm summer Christmas and fall in love. Three spicy romances featuring matchmaking and suspense, small towns, curvy heroines and military heroes, and pure cuteness. Holiday Shenanigans features: Festive, Fancy Free Billionaire businessman Gray Te Whare recognizes grandmotherly meddling when it stares him in the face. And okay, he’s not the real Santa, but he did have a plausible reason for breaking into the pretty newcomer’s house… Badge of Confidence, Clare Instalove A Clare Instalove romance featuring a hot military man returning to the small town where he grew up and a curvy single mother. Oh, and a magical Christmas wishing tree that has all the people talking… Rob I enjoy my single life and army career. And love—bah humbug. My best friends might’ve found love in this small town, but I’m not so easily convinced until I see her—confident, curvy, and charming. My world turns topsy-turvy, and I can’t help thinking that fate has a way of striking right to the heart. Maybe a military life isn’t my sole path. My Precious Gift, Middlemarch Shifters Wrap the gift in love… When Isabella found her forever mate in shifter Leo Mitchell, she shoved aside memories of her feckless parents and her past. Her inability to have children was more challenging, but she stashed those emotions, too. That’s until someone leaves a kid in a basket right on their doorstep…

A revealing examination of small-town life More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to more lucrative careers and convenient shopping, a wider range of educational opportunities, and more robust health care. But they have opted to live differently. In Small-Town America, we meet factory workers, shop owners, retirees, teachers, clergy, and mayors—residents who show neighborliness in small ways, but who also worry about everything from school closings and their children's futures to the ups and downs of the local economy. Drawing on more than seven hundred in-depth interviews in hundreds of towns across America and three decades of census data, Robert Wuthnow shows the fragility of community in small towns. He covers a host of topics, including the symbols and rituals of small-town life, the roles of formal and informal leaders, the social role of religious congregations, the perception of moral and economic decline, and the myriad ways residents in small towns make sense of their own lives. Wuthnow also tackles difficult issues such as class and race, abortion, homosexuality, and substance abuse. Small-Town America paints a rich panorama of individuals who reside in small communities, finding that, for many people, living in a small town is an important part of self-identity.

If Katy Cross can’t clear an innocent mother of a crime she didn’t commit, Christmas will be canceled for one special little boy. Skeeterville’s annual Christmas in the Park nativity scene is the holiday event of the season, but things turn more murderous than merry when a stranger is found face down in the straw, fatally stabbed with a broken shepherd’s staff. The only evidence points to the victim’s battered wife. With nothing else to go on—the sheriff makes the arrest, leaving the woman’s little boy homeless—right as the Christmas festivities kick off. Nothing about the dilemma makes sense, and Katy Cross realizes it is up to her to find the real killer before the holiday is completely ruined. Join Katy, along with her best friend Misty, and husband John, as they attempt to solve this Christmas crime before Skeeterville’s favorite celebration is brought to a screeching halt, leaving the town anything but merry and bright. As always, this Christian cozy mystery is free of sex, gore and foul language and full of fun, small town holiday spirit.

"Taking the Hard Road" is an engaging history of growing up in working-class families in France and Germany during the Industrial Revolution. Based on a reading of ninety autobiographical accounts of childhood and adolescence, the book explores the far-re