Three couples. Three Stories. One Holiday. Pretty Near Perfect by Jolene Perry The last thing Norah needs is to be attracted to anyone – especially in her deceased fiancé’s parents’ home. Collin’s starting a new career, and has no business getting involved – especially while staying with his roommate’s family, who very kindly offered to take him in for the holidays. Unfortunately, you just don’t […]
Randolf and Elizabeth Hudson were barely into their teens when they left the persecuted city of Nauvoo with their mother, Mary, and relocated to booming St. Louis. Mary had lost faith in the restored gospel after the deaths of her dear husband and the Prophet Joseph Smith. For the rest of her life, bitterness prevented Mary from ever again speaking of the Church. But now, […]
Slowly Jason raised the glass to his face and peered through it carefully. He shook his head in disbelief. The image was inside the glass. He lowered it again, perplexed. After his father’s death, sixteen-year-old Jason wants to make the holidays extra special for his mom. With the help of his best friend, his brother, and a mysterious stranger who offers him a glimpse of […]
Kris Kringle is often in trouble for his beliefs. But in a world where elves are slaves, he is determined to make things right, even if it means standing alone. With the help of his friend Rebecca, Kris starts with the children. But can a pile of gifts on Christmas Eve really change anything? Told from Rebecca’s perspective, Kris Kringle’s Magic is the story of […]
I’ve had several requests to post information on the Christmas booklets. I’ll be grouping them together by publisher. These are all from Cedar Fort. As far as I can tell, they are new fictional releases for 2012. Title: The Candy Cane Queen Author: Janice A. Sperry Size: 16 pages, booklet Susan Winters has a secret. Every year at Christmastime, she abandons her solitary lifestyle […]
Jeremy sat in his bedroom, scowling as he gazed out the window at the children. To him, being stuck inside, staring through the window, was like looking through the bars of a prison—a prison he so desperately desired to escape. For Jeremy, Christmas is just another reminder that he’ll never be able to enjoy the things that come so easily to others. Unable to use […]
With a Christmas wish this big, a big adventure is bound to follow! Stoney, Tyler, and Sam are three kids on a mission—to capture a wild desert stallion in time for Christmas. But when their adventure takes a dangerous turn, they’ll have to outsmart, out-wrangle, and out-lasso the bad guys to save a truly magnificent horse. Read excerpt Title: A Horse for Christmas […]
Pastry chef Tess Crawford thought moving from Chicago to quiet Silver Springs, Arizona would simplify her life. That was before she found the body of a woman with whom she had traded heated words the previous night, left her fingerprints on the murder weapon, and came under attack for trying to clear her name. When her cheating ex-fiance shows up, intent on convincing her to […]
It isn’t every day an impoverished young gentleman inherits a sizable fortune and an estate. Nickolas Pritchard, not only impoverished and young but a gentleman as well, felt his luck acutely the day just such a remarkable inheritance fell upon him. The future has never looked brighter for once penniless Nickolas Pritchard. Now in possession of an unforeseen legacy from a distant cousin, he can […]
Who are you calling a princess? Heather MacLean is in a new world. She’s always been happy to be a Mormon but now, at age sixteen, she’s moved to a small town where Mormons are mainstream instead of a minority. It’s a shock to her system—and her love life. Though she doesn’t feel like she fits in at her new school, Heather finds friends at […]