Love Me This Christmas: A Sweetgrass Springs Small Town Christmas Romance Collection


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"Jean Brashear's distinctive storytelling voice instantly draws in the reader. She writes with warmth and emotional truth.” ~ #1 NY Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber Come home for the holidays to Sweetgrass Springs, the small town where hope never fades and love never dies. Four heartwarming Christmas romance novels in one bundle, stories of finding family and finding home. Texas Christmas Bride The rebel has come back to town, and the only gift he wants this Christmas is the girl he thought he’d lost forever. Be Mine This Christmas The famous and successful man he’s become is not the boy she loved so deeply—and he may never forgive her, once he knows the secret she’s been concealing. Be My Midnight Kiss When a woman with no faith in love meets the quintessential nice guy determined to breach her mile-high walls, unwanted sparks fly. This New Year’s Eve, will these two stubborn hearts take the risk? Cooking Kissing and Cowboys What is home, and how do you know when you’ve found it? A snarky sprite and a celebrity jock get glimpses beneath the other’s veneer, and what they find surprises them




Sweetgrass Springs Boxed Set Books 13-15


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Welcome to the very small town with a very big heart! More stories from New York Times and USA Today bestselling Texas romance author Jean Brashear’s much-loved Sweetgrass Springs contemporary western romance series that make readers say “I want to go live there!” TEXAS MAGIC: One billionaire…one tomboy…one night of magic. What is truth, and who is real…and is love a luxury neither can afford? BE MY MIDNIGHT KISS: It's New Year's Eve...and now or never for these two hearts COOKING KISSING AND COWBOYS : What is home, and how do you know when you’ve found it? A snarky tattooed sprite and celebrity jock get glimpses beneath the other’s veneer, and what they find surprises them




Sweetgrass Springs Boxed Set Books 10-12


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Take a trip to beloved, welcoming Sweetgrass Springs with more warm and romantic stories filled with colorful characters and a small town setting that will grab hold of your heart! TEXAS SWEET: When a stranger who holds the keys to her identity arrives in town, will the girl everyone knows as Brenda come to terms with her past or run again? BE MINE THIS CHRISTMAS: The man he’s become is not the boy she once knew—and he may never forgive her, once he knows the secret she’s been concealing TEXAS CHARM: He’s a country superstar; she’s a small town waitress. When the real world slams into their stolen dream, whose heart will be the one to break?




Sweetgrass Springs Boxed Set Books 7-9


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Stories that feel like a warm embrace from New York Times and USA Today bestselling Texas romance author Jean Brashear’s much-loved Sweetgrass Springs contemporary small town romance series that readers say they “just can’t put down.” THE BOOK BABES: Five friends share life and laughter and love…until unexpected temptation changes everything. And then there’s the surprise Sweetgrass Springs connection… TEXAS HOPE: Can two brothers who never knew each other existed overcome the secrets of a woman who abandoned one son and lied to the other? TEXAS STRONG: Can a man who’s never trusted anyone and a woman who’s trusted all the wrong men defy the odds and open their hearts to each other?




Be Mine This Christmas


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The man he’s become is not the boy she once knew—and he may never forgive her, once he knows the secret she’s been concealing "Jean Brashear's distinctive storytelling voice instantly draws in the reader. She writes with warmth and emotional truth.” ~ #1 NY Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber In this Christmas story set in beloved Sweetgrass Springs, two young lovers torn apart years before come face to face unexpectedly in this emotional reunion romance by New York Times and USAToday bestselling Texas romance author Jean Brashear… Gib Douglas has been on the road a long time, with no place to really call home. When he pays a Christmas visit to relatives in Sweetgrass Springs, the last person he expects to encounter is the girl he loved with all his heart, the girl who’d promised to marry him and love him forever…until she betrayed him and married someone else. Dulcie Maguire gave up her dreams so that Gib could follow his all those years ago. She made a decent life for herself while watching him soar to success with great pride, never expecting to see him again. Now widowed, she's in dire straits with four children depending on her, when into her life walks Gib again—and she realizes that she’s never gotten over him. But the man he’s become is not the boy she once knew—and he may never forgive her, once he knows the secret she’s been concealing. “Wow!! What a way to bring us back to the Texas Heroes series. Every time I read one of Jean's books about Sweetgrass Springs it makes me want to find this town and become a member. Catching up with the characters in the past books and seeing how new ones are written into the story lines is what keeps me coming back.” ~Reader review “I love taking trips to Sweetgrass Springs! The characters and the story draw you in and won't let you put the book down until you've read the happily ever after. The writing is excellent and I really love the small town setting!” ~Reader review “Sweetgrass Springs, Texas embodies a special place for hearts that need healing. This warm and romantic series only gets better with each story, as all the characters we have come to love, from the beginning, move forward with their lives.” ~Reader review




The Goddess of Fried Okra


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Pea O'Brien is filled with grief and regret, low on cash, and all alone. Headed down the hot, dusty back roads of central Texas, Pea is convinced she'll find a sign leading her to the reincarnated soul of the sister who raised her. "The depth of [Brashear's] understanding of human nature marks her as a writer to watch, to read, and to enjoy."--Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times-bestselling author.




Keeper


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When Lainey Styles, an SAT whiz and bookworm, discovers she’s a Keeper—a witch with the exclusive ability to wield a powerful spell book that has been stolen by a malevolent wizard—she is forced to leave her life of college prep and studying behind to prepare for the biggest test of all: stealing back the book.




The Stand-In


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Featured in USA Today's "Best Rom-Coms" of May 2023 and one of the Washington Post's best romances of the year! "The Stand-In is a charming, engaging rom com that drips in glamour and sparkles with banter. Chu's exploration of multi-racial identity was resonant and nuanced. The Stand-In is truly a stand out romance." — USA Today bestselling author Andie J. Christopher Gracie Reed was just fired by her overly "handsy" boss at the worst possible moment. She's been scraping together every extra dollar to get her mother into a top-notch memory care center. To make matters worse, a paparazzo has mistaken her for a famous Chinese actress in town for a new project and the resulting snapshot's gone viral. Gracie's barely holding it all together...until a mysterious SUV rolls up beside her on the street, and she's offered the opportunity of a lifetime. Gracie can't believe what she's hearing: due to their uncanny resemblance, gorgeous actress Wei Fangli wants Gracie to be her stand-in. The catch? Gracie will have to be escorted by Sam Yao, the other half of Chinese cinema's infamous golden couple. Problem is, Sam is the most attractive—and infuriating—man Gracie's ever met. But if it means getting the money she needs for her mother, Gracie's in. Soon Gracie moves into a world of luxury she never knew existed. But resisting her attraction to Sam, and playing the role of an elegant movie star, proves more difficult than she ever imagined—especially when she learns the real reason Fangli so desperately needs to step out of the spotlight. In the end all the effort in the world won't be able to help Gracie keep up this elaborate ruse without losing herself...and her heart. Readers will delight in this glamourous, swoon worthy enemies-to-lovers romance that is as hilarious as it is heart-wrenching.




Last Light over Carolina


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Last Light Over Carolina Every woman in the sultry South Carolina low country knows the unspoken fear that clutches the heart every time her man sets out to sea. Now, that fear has become a terrible reality for Carolina Morrison. Her husband, shrimp boat captain Bud Morrison, is lost and alone somewhere in the vast Atlantic fishing grounds, with a storm gathering and last light falling. Over the course of one terrifying, illuminating day, Carolina looks back across thirty years of love and loss, joy and sorrow: How she rejected a well-to-do upbringing to marry Bud and embrace his extraordinary lifestyle by the sea . . . how hard times and loneliness have driven them apart . . . and how, with one mistake, she may have shattered their once-unbreakable bond forever. While their the close-knit community rallies together to search for one of its own, Carolina knows their love must somehow call him home, across miles of rough water and unspeakable memories. New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe explores a vanishing feature of the southern coastline, the mysterious yet time-honored shrimping culture, in a compelling tale of a strong woman struggling to prove that love is a light that never dies.




Off to the Races


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