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Spirits of the Season
Eight Haunting Holiday Romances
2015
First Published
3.77
Average Rating
461
Number of Pages

Let the ghosts of Christmas romance past, present and happily-ever-after gift your holiday season with haunting passion, poignancy, chills, laughter and a touch of spice. These eight novellas and shorts stories by USA Today, national bestselling, and award-winning authors, are filled with lively and sexy spirits, sweet kisses and naughty trysts under the mistletoe, feisty heroines, dream heroes and devastatingly handsome alphas. From Victorian England to the quaint and haunted inns of contemporary Vermont, Florida, and Savannah, Georgia; from a ski resort in Lake Tahoe to Japan’s snowy mountaintops and even a gypsy wagon, there’s no place the Spirits of the Season can’t find their way into a hero’s or a heroine’s heart. And yours, too! Upon a Ghostly Yule: A Victorian Christmas Short Story by Amanda DeWees, Daphne du Maurier Award–winning author of historical romantic suspense. When the ghost of a willful 18th-century beauty takes possession of spirited young Felicity Reginald at a Victorian Christmas house party, mystery and danger follow... but so does romance. Saving Laurel by Raine English, USA Today bestselling author and winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award. A ghost from the past helps a tortured actress find love at Christmas. In the Holiday Spirit by Angeline Fortin, award-winning author of time-swept Highland romance. Fate and a hauntingly helpful hand combine to bring Alice a Christmas gift she never dreamed of, wrapped in a New York Christmas. Romantic fiction that takes the road less traveled to happily ever after with Kaidan: Snow Bride by Athena Grayson. It’s 1969 and Yukiko wants a modern man, but her nature only grants her one night. Can the snow witch break her curse to find love with an American soldier who has a life of his own? Sapphire Ridge by Aileen Harkwood, bestselling author of paranormal romance and the Breens Mist witches. What does it take to lay her Christmas ghosts to rest? A sexy Scotsman with a mission. Mistletoe & Magic: A Hidden Coast Holiday Romance by Lynda Haviland, multi-series author of paranormal romance. A small-town girl, a handsome actor, a romantic old inn–and a ghost trying to destroy the season. Her Ghost of Christmas Past by debut author Afton Moss. Emma is sure she’ll finally get an engagement ring for Christmas this year. But the handsome ghost of a Civil War captain searching for his lost love has other plans for her and a Savannah bachelor. Bandits Hollow: A Holiday Romance Novella (Robbin' Hearts Series) by Diane J. Reed, bestselling author of contemporary romance with a magical touch. What happens when a fortune teller can heal everyone's heart but her own? Leave it to a spirit who haunts Evangeline Tinker on Christmas Eve to show her how eternal his love really is.

Avg Rating
3.77
Number of Ratings
43
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
28%
2 STARS
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Author

Amanda DeWees
Amanda DeWees
Author · 21 books
Amanda DeWees received her PhD in English from the University of Georgia and wrote her dissertation on 19th-century vampire literature—the perfect training, although she didn’t know it at the time, for writing Victorian gothic romance novels. Her books include With This Curse, winner of the 2015 Daphne du Maurier Award in historical mystery/suspense, and the Sybil Ingram Victorian Mysteries series.
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