Four Aussie authors bring a collection of swoon-worthy and heartwarming holiday reads for lovers of Christmas romance in four different locations around Australia. Coming Home to Your Pining For a Point Perry Christmas by Joanne Speirs City girl Annie has pruned off more than she can deal. Leaving her accounting career behind, she heads to Point Perry to take over a Christmas tree farm on a whim. Pivoting from spreadsheets to rows of pine trees, she discovers a rugged retired cowboy is technically squatting on her property. Could opposites really attract and heal wounded hearts? Nothing is Im-popsicle by Louisa Duval Work forces Mia to return to Byron Bay just before Christmas for the first time in years. A fling won’t hurt while she’s there … right? She’s about to swipe left on a profile when Mia realises the man on the dating app, CJ, is sitting beside her in the airport lounge. Maybe she’ll swipe right after all. As their fling turns into something so much more and vigilante activist group, the Knitting Nannas, stage protests on the waterfront, Mia uncovers dodgy dealings centred around the old ice-cream kiosk. Giving in to her heart's desires will cost her everything she’s worked so hard for. Can Mia and CJ find the perfect mix of business, pleasure and love? Merry Hot Mess-mas by Clarissa Morgan Ronnie is coming home for her brother’s Christmas wedding with one lost job, one little white lie and one best man she definitely shouldn’t be kissing. The status quo is just fine with Rhys. Until his best mate’s little sister blew back into town, all sun-kissed curses and chaos. She’s off limits, or so he tells himself. But Ronnie is the kind of trouble that would land a man at the top of the naughty list. This holiday is shaping up to be one big hot mess or their dream come true. From Snow to A Circle of Friends and Calgary Mounties Christmas story by Allison A. Surfer girl Kylie gave up sunny Brisbane after falling in love with tall, dark and handsome Canadian NHL player, Seth, captain of the Calgary Mounties. Now married with twins, Kylie longs for an Aussie Christmas, but the demands of Seth’s job have kept them away. What happens when he sends her and the twins home without him? For readers of the Circle of Friends and Calgary Mounties series, this is an extended happily ever after with characters you love.
Authors
Allison A. Andrews is a wife and mother of one based in Brisbane, Australia. Having always been an avid reader with an overactive imagination, when she isn't writing, she loves spending time with family and friends, travelling the world, and dreaming of the next story she can tell.
Joanne Speirs is an award-winning romance author who grew up on a farm in a small rural community on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia. Scouring the school library shelves for Sweet Valley High novels and sneaking a read of her mum's Mills & Boon books became a favourite pastime in her teens and fuelled her passion for reading and writing romance. She lives in Adelaide with her two grown sons, husband and border collie named Zeb. When not writing, she works as an editor, specialising in editing manuscripts for other romance authors. Her debut, Second Chance Love in Point Perry, was runner-up in the prestigious Romance Writers of Australia Valerie Parv Award in 2019 and was longlisted for the Romance Writers of Australia Emerald Award in 2020. Voted: Favourite Debut Romance Author 2023 (Australia Romance Readers Assoc—ARRA) Finalist in the Romance Writers of NZ Koru Award 2024 for Best Long Romance and Best First Book To find out more, visit Joanne at https://www.joannespeirs.com.au Sign up for Jo's newsletter here: https://www.joannespeirs.com.au/newsl... Follow me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jo.speirs_r... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joannespeirs... BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/joann... Happy reading!
Louisa Duval is an Australian author who writes small town, contemporary romance set in Ballydoon, where the heroes are rugged as the landscape around them, and the stories steamier than an Aussie heat wave. Louisa has worked in radio, recruitment, education, freelance writing and corporate communications, and once traipsed around a national park looking for wombat burrows. When she isn’t working in the city, she spends as much time as possible with her family at their riverside acreage watching the wallabies and drinking the local wine. She is a proud supporter of her local rural fire brigade and hopes she will never be in the front line of a bushfire and admires those who have. She lives with her husband, two kids, a lazy cattle dog-Kelpie cross, three chickens, and many indoor plants.
