All I Want....is You! A Christmas Bundle USA Today and Award-Winning Authors Three Authors, Two Short Novels, Two Novellas, One Excerpt Got time for a few romantic Christmas reads? You'll enjoy these. A little romance, a romantic suspense, a Christmas puppy, an abandoned baby, a cozy mystery with ghosts, Christmas in New York City. We hope to make you smile at the end of each one of them! Two Short Books December 32...and Always by Marie Ferrarella-150 pages=45,000 words Pat thought her life was over once her engineer/entrepeneur husband died but Blaise made her feel like the most desirable woman on earth. Inflamed by his warm caresses, Pat soared to heights she'd never imagined, opening herself to emotions she'd thought buried with her late husband. But not everyone was on their side, and the fight to produce the jet of her late husband's dreams was wrenching and dangerous. Christmas came, and then the end of the year. Time seemed to be running out and yet—for the two of them, would ALWAYS be long enough? A Ghost for Christmas: A Destiny Bay Cozy Mystery by J. D. Winters-135 pages=31,000 words (Helen Conrad writing as J. D. Winters) Mele Keahi wasn't looking for excitement when she came to Destiny Bay. She'd just lost her man, her job and her self esteem, and she needed comfort. Instead, she found herself involved in a murder, sparring with a suspicious detective and coming face to face with a ghost from her Hawaiian childhood. Not what she'd bargained for—but then—sometimes you just have to deal with what the cat dragged in. Two Novellas A Christmas Ghost Puppy by Dakota Kahn-45 pages=10,000 words When the unexpected puppy, from a kennel long ago shut down, appeared on Kate Becker's doorstep, she joked it had to be a ghost - how else could the bundle of fur not trigger her world-class allergies? Besides, a little mystery was a good excuse to rope boyfriend/local Sheriff's deputy Blake Spanner into spending Christmas time with her, since, like a Grinch, he'd signed up for double shifts while the rest of the town enjoyed their holiday. But the closer the two get to finding out the secret behind the surprise puppy, the more it looks like Kate's joke might be the reality... and the truth might be more surprising, and dangerous, than they could have imagined. A Carrington Christmas by Helen Conrad—Novella-80 pages=21,300 words Fun in Sin City or diapers at home? Mason Ames isn’t cut out for the corporate business style-no matter how hard his sister Charity tries to get him into it. He’s done with that and heading to Las Vegas for Christmas Eve when he finds a baby abandoned in his condo and his life changes forever. Melody Carrington drops in from next door to help him cope and the next thing he knows, she’s helping him change his outlook as efficiently as she changes the baby's diapers. Las Vegas or true love? Is he going to be man enough to make the right choice?
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aka Jena Hunt and Raye Morgan. Helen Conrad was born on April 11, 1945 in Pasadena, California, U.S.A. and grew up between Holland, Guam, and California, and spent a few years in Washington, D.C. as well. She obtained a B.A. in English Literature. Helen was working toward a Master's in Library Science when she dropped out to have her first son. "One look into those baby blue eyes and I knew it was going to be a long time before I went back to school. But with young ones, you do have time to read, and the more I read, the more I learned about writing". She started writing because she felt guilty about spending so much time reading. "Through writing I figured I could still immerse myself in the stories I love, but I could actually claim I was working! The amazing thing was when I sold my first book and the excuse was justified. Dreams really do come true!" After years of writing romantic suspense in the style of Mary Stewart and children's books in a lot of styles, she finally sold a romance to Jove's Second Chance at Love and there was celebration all around-at least in her ever-patient family of husband and four boys. She published four more romances for Jove under the name Jena Hunt, then began writing Silhouette Desires. A few sales to Bantam Loveswept and Harlequin Romance, Temptationand SuperRomance under the name Helen Conrad followed, as well as to Harpers, Dell Ecstasy, Mills & Boon, and even an historical with Zebra. Today, she is concentrating on Silhouette Romance, completely captivated by the breezy fun and touching poignancy of their compact, to-the-point form. She feels the perfect "quick read" should make the reader smile, sigh and put the book down feeling better about the state of love in the world. Now, she lives in the Los Angeles area now with Nick, her geologist-computers cientist husband and the two of her four sons who still live at home."Having the boys around helps keep me up on the current trends," she says with a laugh. "But writing helps keep me in touch with the romance that weaves through the everyday lives we all live."
