A Highlander's Christmas Kiss


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A STRANGER'S SMILE Christmas may be coming to Linavar, but Temperance Menzie is far from joyful. Grief-stricken over the death of her father at the hands of the Black Riders, she almost didn't see the wounded stranger in the woods. And now she's determined to give this braw, brooding Highlander the help she couldn't give her father. But there's a secret lurking in the depths of his blue-gray eyes. And Temperance won't rest until she uncovers it . . . A LOVER'S KISS A killer for hire. It's the last thing Cailean Grant ever thought he'd become, but being part of the Black Riders was his only way to survive. Now, his guilt grows day by day, along with his desire for the beautiful, brave lass nursing him back to health. As Christmas, the season of miracles, draws near and the truth of his identity threatens to come out, Cailean must risk the only thing he has left to lose-his heart.




A Christmas Kiss for a Highlander


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He's a prisoner of his past until she offers him freedom and a future...but can he pay the price? A man who scorns heritage and kin...Haunted by a vile family secret, Highlander Quinn Catherwood leads a dangerous, covert life. Until he encountered the vivacious and captivating Skye Hendron, he'd never considered marriage. Now, however, he's contemplating accepting his inheritance and putting aside his wanderlust ways. Except...his best friend is Skye's guardian, and because of Quinn's shadowy past, he forbids him to court her A woman who cherishes family and traditions...Sent to the Highlands to live with her Scottish cousins, Englishwoman Skye Hendron is completely out of her element. Homesick and lonely, she doesn't understand Scottish customs, especially why they don't celebrate Christmastide-her favorite time of the year. When a frequent house guest of her guardian's arrives for an extended visit, she cannot deny the dashing and mysterious Quinn Catherwood makes her heart flutter in a most unmaidenly way. A Highland holiday house party...Skye persuades her guardian to host a Christmastide and Twelfth Night gathering. She has less than a month to convince him to allow Quinn to ask for her hand in marriage. Quinn fears his secrets are too dark to overcome, and even the legendary magic of Christmas can't grant him his dearest wish...to make Skye his bride.Read free in Kindle Unlimited!Heart of a Scot SeriesBook 1 - To Love a Highland LairdBook 2 - To Redeem a Highland RogueBook 3 - To Seduce a Highland ScoundrelBook 4 - To Woo a Highland WarriorBook 4.5 - A Christmas Kiss for a Highlander - NovellaBook 5 - To Enchant a Highland EarlBook 6 - To Defy a Highland DukeBook 7 - To Marry a Highland MarauderBook 8 - To Bargain with a Highland Buccaneer(Note: This story was first published as part of the Bestselling Boxed set Stars are Brightly Shining, November 2019)




A Christmas Kiss for the Highlander


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She can save him from his haunting past?if he lets her?Highlander Quinn Catherwood wants no ties to his family's dark history. That's why he was more than happy to reject his inheritance. He didn't need it, anyway. It's not like he planned to ever marry or start a family of his own. But then he encountered the vivacious and captivating Skye Hendron, and everything changed. If only she wasn't completely off limits to him?Englishwoman Skye is lonely, homesick, and out of her element. Scottish customs are a mystery to her. The lack of Christmastide celebrations is particularly upsetting. But if she could convince her guardian to host a holiday gathering, maybe it would give her a chance to spend more time with Quinn-the only person who does make her feel like she belongs in the Highlands?Can Skye and Quinn overcome all that stands between them and find their way to happily ever after? It might just take a Christmas miracle?




A Highlander Christmas


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Follow one of the beloved MacKeage sisters in New York Times bestselling author Janet Chapman’s popular Highlander series as she deals with a career crisis and the sexy man sent to snap her out of it in this “romantic, magical tale” (Romantic Times Book Reviews) during the holiday season. Camry MacKeage has absolutely no intention of telling her parents that she left her job as a NASA physicist for the small-town life of a dog-sitter—which is why she’s spending the holidays alone in coastal Maine with some furry friends. Unfortunately, her irresistibly handsome rival, scientist Luke Pascal, accidentally spilled the beans to her family. Now he’s on a mission from her mother to tempt Camry home for her family’s annual winter solstice celebration. But Luke is hiding a secret of his own, and he’ll need a little bit of magic to earn Camry’s trust...and a whole lot of mistletoe to seduce his way into her heart.




A Highlander Christmas


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A festive paranormal romance anthology featuring three enchanting stories, three sexy Scotsmen, and a magical holiday setting. For centuries, a mystical family heirloom—the MacDonald clan pin—has been passed down through the generations, helping each owner find her heart’s desire... A lost beauty melts the cold heart of a Jacobite warrior in Dawn Halliday’s Winter Heat. Stranded in a blizzard, Maggie MacDonald is rescued by Highland warrior, Logan Douglas. But a tempest of another kind brews when Logan discovers that Maggie has been promised to a cruel suitor. Sophie Renwick brings two strangers together with an unexpected Victorian Yuletide Enchantment. Isobel MacDonald is spending Christmas at her ancestral Highland estate when she loses her treasured clan pin in the woods. The enigmatic Prince Daegan offers his help in finding it—but the stranger’s charms are more powerful than she imagines. And the haunts of the past bring new meaning to the holidays in Cindy Miles’s contemporary A Christmas Spirit. Paige MacDonald’s Highland tour takes a surprising turn when a storm forces her to take refuge in a foreboding castle—already inhabited by the dead-sexy spirit of Gabriel Munro.




The Laird's Christmas Kiss


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Down with love! Ever since she was fifteen, shy wallflower Elspeth Douglas has pined in vain for the attentions of dashing Brody Girvan, Laird of Invermackie. But the rakish Highlander doesn't even know she's alive. Now she's twenty, she realizes that she'll never be happy until she stops loving her brother's handsome friend. When family and friends gather at Achnasheen Castle for Christmas, she intends to show the world that she's all grown up, and grown out of silly crushes on gorgeous Scotsmen. So take that, my gallant laddie! Girls just want to have fun... Except it turns out that Brody isn't singing from the same Christmas carol sheet. Elspeth decides she's not interested in him anymore, just as he decides he's very interested indeed. In fact, now he looks more closely, his friend Hamish's sister is pretty and funny and forthright - and just the lassie to share his Highland estate. Convincing his little wren of his romantic intentions is difficult enough, even before she undergoes a makeover and becomes the belle of Achnasheen. For once in his life, dissolute Brody is burdened with honorable intentions, while the lady he pursues is set on flirtation with no strings attached. Deck the halls with mistletoe! With interfering friends and a crate of imported mistletoe thrown into the mix, the stage is set for a house party rife with secrets, clandestine kisses, misunderstandings, heartache, scandal, and love triumphant.




The Highlander's Christmas Bride


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In bestselling author Vanessa Kelly’s irresistible Clan Kendrick series, Christmas in the Highlands means family, celebration—and for one brother, the beginning of a passionate adventure . . . Being thrown over by the man she expected to marry was humiliating enough. Now that Donella Haddon, grandniece of the Earl of Riddick, has also proven a failure as a nun, she has no choice but to return to her family’s estate. The brawny Highlander sent to escort her is brash, handsome, and the only thing standing between Donella and a gang of would-be kidnappers. But the scandal in her past can’t be so easily outrun . . . Wealthy widower Logan Kendrick was expecting to meet a plain, pious spinster—not a gorgeous, sharp-tongued lass who can hold her own in any ambush. Though she’s known as the Flower of Clan Graham, Donella is no shrinking violet. In fact, she might be the perfect woman to bring happiness back to his lonely little son’s life, just in time for Christmas. But first he must protect her from ugly gossip and a mysterious threat—and convince her that their wild, unexpected desire is heaven sent. Praise for The Highlander’s Princess Bride “A thoroughly satisfying Regency romance.” —Publishers Weekly




A Rancher's Christmas Kiss


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The final stand-alone story in the HOLIDAYS IN HEART FALLS series by New York Times Bestselling Author Vivian Arend. While this book can be enjoyed on its own, series readers will delight to discover all sorts of Heart Falls easter eggs, past and present! ------- This rancher wasn’t looking for love—but she’s been right there the entire time. In their mid-forties when they first met, widow Sonora Fallen and vows-to-stay-single rancher Ashton Stewart both felt a spark but agreed being friends was more important than becoming lovers. For many years that decision held firm, and other than one time, their grumbly-in-public, friends-in-private arrangement has stuck. Now sixteen years later, the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future seem determined to change these friends to lovers to…something else? All of Heart Falls is watching, suspicions on the rise as Sonora and Ashton’s secret slips into view. Can two people used to standing on their own find a way to admit they want more? Or will stubbornness and fear keep them from forever? -- Keywords: Canadian Author, cowboy, western, contemporary, small town, holiday romance For readers who enjoy: Jennifer Ryan, Joan Johnston, Kate Pearce, Linda Lael Miller, Lindsay McKenna, Diana Palmer, Maisey Yates, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Lorelei James.




Christmas in Kilts


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Tis the season to fall in love! These five bestselling authors bring you great tiding of highlanders and romances this holiday season! A HIGHLANDER'S HOPE by Terri Brisbin A village harlot who would never dream she could have a different life meets a Highlander who visits for the holidays and brings with him an offer and hope. A HIGHLAND CHRISTMAS WAGER by Lecia Cornwall When a snowstorm forces a charming lass hiding a broken heart to take shelter in a castle with three fine Highland lairds just days before Christmas, there’s a game afoot—who will be the first to win a kiss and maybe her heart. A SCOT FOR CHRISTMAS by Bronwen Evans She's ready to embrace her life and future as a spinster, he's trying to have one last hurrah before he gives into his family's wishes and proposes marriage to his neighbor, but fate has other ideas when the lady and the Scot meet at a holiday house party in the wilds of Scotland. LEFTOVER MISTLETOE by Lavinia Kent What happens when a highlander finds himself stranded, maybe kidnapped, with an English lady around Christmas... maybe the mistletoe will help answer that question. SWEET HOME HIGHLAND CHRISTMAS by May McGoldrick An encounter between an English officer and a desperate aunt trying to keep custody of her young niece leads to a little magic during the holidays.




Highlander's Christmas


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He’s a Highland mercenary. She’s the noblewoman he abandoned. Can the child he never knew about and the woman he never forgot save him from a dark fate this Christmas? The Scottish Highlands, 1308. Infamous mercenary Hamish Dunn betrayed a powerful clan leader and is now pursued by killers almost as ruthless as himself. After a deadly duel, a Highland faerie convinces him to travel to Carlisle for a job that will provide enough gold to escape and live in peace. Deidre Maxwell has a dangerous secret. She’s not a widow but a disowned noblewoman with an illegitimate daughter. After being cast aside by Hamish nine years ago, she’ll never let herself or her daughter, Maeve, be hurt again. When Hamish visits the warden of the West English March, he finds more than the job he’s looking for. He finds the love of his life working as a wet nurse. How did she fall to this fate? And will she ever forgive him when she learns he has been hired to kill her father? A Christmas romance and a child’s love could heal their wounded hearts and give Hamish and Deidre the family they both crave—if they can beat the corrupt warden at his own game. Highlander’s Christmas is a historical novella connected to the enthralling Called by a Highlander time travel romance series. If you like reunion romances, secret babies, and dark alpha heroes, then you’ll devour Mariah Stone’s passionate tale of forbidden love. Buy Highlander’s Christmas and warm up with a spicy romance today! Keywords: Highlander Romance, Historical Romance, Outlander, Scottish Highlands, Medieval Romance, Time travel, time travel romance, strong heroines, Highlander, alpha hero, steamy romance reads, historical romance read, historical romance series, enemies to lovers, paranormal romance, fantasy romance, paranormal fantasy romance