Eat More Dessert


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Keller shows you how to keep desserts simple-- yet star-quality-- with batch recipes and by doctoring boxed cake mix to easily bake a whole table full of treats. She'll also show you how to design the perfect dessert table, choose a theme, and style your sweets.




Sugar Cookie Country House: He Falls First Sports Romance (Sweet & Clean)


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Get ready for a heartwarming Christmas romance where he falls first in this grumpy sunshine sports novel featuring a curvy small town heroine and a hockey player hero! Because sometimes love doesn't follow the playbook… When sunshiney Jenny wished for more adventure in her life, she never thought she’d be sent a grumpy hockey player. But could Dylan’s gruff exterior be nothing more than an act? Does this hockey hunk secretly enjoy their spirited debates that upset their friends at Thanksgiving? (Oops.) Of course, men like him don’t go for curvy, small town women… Or do they? Dylan can’t help but be captivated by Jenny's feisty, direct charm. The catch? Despite being benched for an injury that might end his career, he’s deep in trade talks that could send him across the continent. But since meeting Jenny, the idea of a life off the ice isn’t nearly as unsettling. Then again, maybe his foot will heal, he’ll get the girl, stay with his team, and have it all. Either way, he needs to convince Jenny that all this big-shot wants this holiday season is her. Note: All of the books in this hockey romance series can be read as standalones.




The Cowboy's Sweet Elopement: A Best Friends to Lovers Cowboy Romance


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A single mom, best friends to lovers cowboy romance that's sweet and clean and written by NYT bestselling romance author Jean Oram. The cowboy and his best friend... April MacFarlane wishes her best friend, veterinarian, Brant Wylder would see her as more than another rescue. Someone he might choose for his own happily ever after. Can she convince him the only thing in need of rescue is her heart? Brant knows April’s life is a mess, and figures the last thing she needs is her BFF hitting on her. After all, he just extracted her from a loveless marriage, gave her a job, as well as a home for her and her four-year-old son. Plus, she’s got to be freaking out over the sudden return of her first love, the man everyone believes came to win her back… There’s no way April’s ready for love. But when Brant and April find themselves on the doorstep to the local chapel on New Year’s Eve, ready to say “I do” for reasons of practicality, will this cowboy find a way to move out of the friend zone and into the husband zone? Find out in The Cowboy’s Sweet Elopement, a single mom, friends to lovers sweet romance which can be read alone or within The Cowboys of Sweetheart Creek, Texas series.




Hockey Sweethearts: Complete Series Box Set: Books 1-8 (Hockey Romances)


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An 8-book box set that includes the complete Hockey Sweethearts series by New York Times bestselling author Jean Oram. A sweet hockey series with all the "feels." Laugh, cry and fall in love with these charming hockey players and the small town women who knock them off their feet. Read the Hockey Sweethearts series if you like: • Heartwarming Romances • Sports Romance • Friends to Lovers • Secrets! • Curvy, strong heroines • Heroes who treat them right! And add in some single moms, single dads and Christmas romances on top of that! BOOKS INCLUDED IN THE HOCKEY SWEETHEARTS COMPLETE SERIES BOX SET Book #1: The Cupcake Cottage Hockey player Maverick's crushing on his best friend's ex and she wants to fake date him to fix his bad reputation. Can he keep his feelings a secret? Book #2: Peach Blossom Hollow Violet Granger is crushing on the new recruit. A hunky, former bull-riding champion who’s joined the NHL hockey team she mascots for, surely won’t help her break that curse that has kept her single for years. Book #3: Chocolate Cherry Cabin The last thing Hannah needs is her hunky old nemesis moving in next door. But he has. And not only do her young sons adore him, but she’s finding it difficult to remember why he’s the enemy. Book #4: The Peppermint Lodge When life hands you a hunky, rich hockey player…say yes. Especially when he wants to help you solve your son's medical problems... But can Cass and Landon act like a family unit without falling in love? Book #5: The Huckleberry Bookshop Athena and Mullens butt heads at work, but what happens when they get stuck on a project together. Can they find their way to friendship…or more? Book #6: Sugar Cookie Country House He falls first in this sweet Thanksgiving & Christmas romance. She's curvy. He's an injured, professional hockey player. She's sunshine and he's grumpy. She's small town and he's always on the road. How could they possibly have anything in common? Book #7: The Gingerbread Cafe Miranda and Dak both have secrets. But will their secrets break them apart? Book #8 (BONUS NOVELLA): A Tiny House Christmas This is a BONUS novella with a Christmas runaway bride! Can Karlene overcome the age gap between her and her crush--her older brother's best friend? Go ahead—binge read this feel good series!




The Cowboy's Surprise Return: A Fake Relationship Cowboy Romance


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--> This sweet and clean second chance cowboy romance by NYT bestselling author Jean Oram is about returning home and secret crushes. <-- Cole Wylder has sworn off women. But what’s a cowboy to do when the key to rebuilding bridges with his family means faking something serious with the town sweetheart, a pretty spitfire named Jackie Moorhouse? Jackie’s waited for Cole to return home for five long years. Surely the crush she’s been sporting since she was knee-high to a grasshopper no longer means anything. There’s only one way to find out, and that’s to date Cole—even if it’s something fake. But what will Jackie do when their ruse starts to feel real? And what will she do when family circumstances force her to cut things off with the only man she’s ever loved? Can Cole figure out how to keep the woman his heart belongs to—the one woman who refuses to keep it? This is a sweet small town romance set on the beautiful Sweet Meadows Ranch in Hill Country Texas. Come fall in love in this heartwarming fake cowboy romance that’s full of true love.




Eggnog and Candy Canes


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Sometimes enemies make the best boyfriends. Nurse Katie Reiter’s nemesis, Dr. Nash Leham is back in Blueberry Springs and he came for one thing—Katie. Will their battles turn to stolen kisses in the midst of a Christmas storm or will Katie find her happily ever after in the arms of another? Katie loves to be in control, and so does Nash. And while the two may have butted heads in the past, when a family member falls ill on Christmas Eve, Katie knows there is only one doctor in Blueberry Springs that she trusts to help the Reiter's pull through in the midst of the blizzard. But what she doesn't count on is how her heart begins to sing for the man she's always considered an enemy... This romantic comedy is a snowed-in Christmas romance set in the small town of Blueberry Springs--with a nurse heroine and a doctor hero! A feel good sweet romance! Missed a Blueberry Springs Story? (Jump in anywhere with these standalone romantic comedies): Whiskey and Gumdrops (Book 1) Rum and Raindrops (Book 2) Eggnog and Candy Canes (Book 3) Sweet Treats (Book 4) Vodka and Chocolate Drops (Book 5) Tequila and Candy Drops (Book 6) Companion Novel: Champagne and Lemon Drops--now available in audio! "Jean's subtle senses of humor really brings the characters to life and pulls the reader into the story." --reader review from D. "The story is well developed and a joy to read. If you need a good love story to fill an evening, this will certainly fit the bill." --reader review from Luv2Read. "Jean Oram has a gift for putting couples together and letting them find their way to each other. I found myself smiling and laughing while reading Katie and Nash's story." --reader review.




A Tiny House Christmas: A Runaway Bride Christmas Romance


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A beautiful bride with cold feet. Feet that are running straight out the small town church doors and away from the wedding she didn’t plan. With her wedding gown flapping in the cold December wind, Karlene gallops to the town’s limits on a “borrowed” horse. Only one person anticipates her next move: her steady-as-a-rock childhood crush—her brother’s best friend. He’s six years her senior, and a man who’s never minded her tagging along. Instinctively, Joey knows where Karlene’s going and what she needs. He sets her up with a fresh horse to a bed roll so she can hide out at their old camping cabin far from what will surely be a very dramatic Christmas with her parents and almost-in-laws. However, her plans hit an unexpected snag, but, once again, Joey comes to the rescue, offering her safe haven on his ranch. As Karlene spends the holidays with her secret-crush cowboy, will he begin to see her as more just a grown-up version of that tag-along kid she used to be? And will the magic of the season bring her heart its deepest wish as well as a second chance at love? This is a sweet Christmas romance novella with a runaway bride, a cowboy, an older brother's best friend, an age gap, and of course true love!




Vodka and Chocolate Drops


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One woman. One cheating ex. One life do-over. Amber Thompson always thought she wanted a superstar boyfriend-until he kicked her to the curb on the eve of his big break. When Amber's best friend, Scott Malone, comes running in to save her once again, she realizes he's the man she truly wants. The only problem? Scott isn't interested in pursuing a woman on the rebound. Determined to prove she's ready to commit, Amber comes up with a plan to woo Scott, only to have it derailed by explosive family secrets. With her assumptions about everything-including herself-dismantled, she finds herself torn between a need for answers and protecting her mother's past. But Amber knows if she has any hope of a meaningful relationship with Scott, she needs to figure out who she is-and that means unearthing even more secrets. Will Amber find what she's looking for? And if she does, will she find it in time to help her win the man of her dreams? This is the latest standalone romantic comedy from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Jean Oram.




Hockey Sweethearts Box Set #2: Books 5-8 (Hockey Romances)


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The second box set in Jean Oram’s sweet & clean Hockey Sweethearts series. Read the final 4 books from this 8-book series. This box set contains the following books: Book #4: The Peppermint Lodge When life hands you a hunky, rich hockey player…say yes. Especially when he wants to help you solve your son's medical problems... But can Cass and Landon act like a family unit without falling in love? Book #5: The Huckleberry Bookshop Athena and Mullens butt heads at work, but what happens when they get stuck on a project together. Can they find their way to friendship…or more? Book #6: Sugar Cookie Country House He falls first in this sweet Thanksgiving & Christmas romance. She's curvy. He's an injured, professional hockey player. She's sunshine and he's grumpy. She's small town and he's always on the road. How could they possibly have anything in common? Book #7: The Gingerbread Cafe Miranda and Dak both have secrets. But will their secrets break them apart? Book #8 (BONUS NOVELLA): A Tiny House Christmas This is a BONUS novella with a Christmas runaway bride! Can Karlene overcome the age gap between her and her crush--her older brother's best friend? The books in this series can be read out of order as well as on their own—but you won’t want to stop with just one! Stay up all night reading these fun and heartwarming romances! (Low spice but will all the emotional feels!)




A Good Bake


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From the James Beard Award nominee, a comprehensive baking bible for the twenty-first century, with 120 scientifically grounded recipes for sweet and savory baked goods anyone can master. "A very good combination: Baking science all of us can understand and a splendid collection of recipes. . . . A baker’s must!” —Dorie Greenspan, author of Dorie's Cookies and Everyday Dorie Melissa Weller is the baking superstar of our time. As the head baker at some of the best restaurants in the country, her takes on chocolate babka and sticky buns brought these classics back to life and kicked off a nationwide movement. In A Good Bake, Weller shares her meticulously honed, carefully detailed recipes for producing impossibly delicious--and impossibly beautiful--baked goods. A chemical engineer before she became a baker, Weller uses her scientific background to explain the whys and hows of baking, so home cooks can achieve perfect results every time. Here are recipes both sweet (Pumpkin Layer Cake with Salted Caramel Buttercream and Brown Sugar Frosting) and savory (Khachapuri with Cheese, Baked Egg, and Nigella Seeds); beloved classics (Croissants and Chocolate Babka) and new sure-to-be favorites (Milk Chocolate and Raspberry Blondies)--as well as Salted Caramel Sticky Buns, of course . . . all written and tested for even the most novice home baker to re-create. With gorgeous photographs by the award-winning Johnny Miller, and tutorials that demystify all of the stuff that sounds complicated, like working with yeast, sourdough starters, and laminating dough Weller's book is the one guide every home baker needs.