Holiday Ghost

I never thought it would happen. He promoted me at last! My boss, to put it lightly, is one of those bad boy dragon shifters who took over the restaurant I work at. His clan father beforehand almost wrecked the business, and he’s trying to keep it afloat. It’s not working, and he’s becoming desperate. Desperate enough to finally listen to me, and take on my ideas. I’ll get this place shipshape for Christmas. Fill it with holiday cheer. I’ll prove to him I’m worth the effort. In the meanwhile, it’s difficult not to grow more and more attracted to him. To see past that alpha ...

Horse lovers,rejoice! When the MAPLE DALE Equestrian Center is sold to a developer, Leah as its headmistress is so determined to prevent its imminent destruction, not even death will stop her. Fiercely independent, but lost and alone, for the first time in her life she must rely on others, learn how to trust, and ultimately to forgive. Compelling and heartwarming, Maple Dale is the story of her relationship with her students and the family she never knew she had. A family as diverse and troubled as you've ever met, and yet who must come together in singular purpose, for Leah's sake. MaryAnn...

A selection of short stories for the dark ,cold nights of the Christmas season.Full of warm tales,all set on Christmas Eve, to be read on a comfortable armchair in a cosy living room beside the fireside as the special ambience of Christmas surrounds us and engulfs our hearts.The stories include among them a guest at a B & B who recognises another guest as an old neighbour as he tries to rekindle a Christmas of his childhood..Someone journeying home through the frosty countryside encountres a Mother and Daughter in need of help.A boy spends Christmas with his Grandmother at their snowbound, ...

My family doesn’t want me. They’re prioritizing my brother’s wife again. She hates my guts, and I don’t know why. On top of that, I broke up with my boyfriend. However, I met a handsome stranger in my favorite bar. Tall, muscled, with a gentle, magnetic smile. He’s more than just a man, though. I found out not too long into knowing him that he’s a bear shifter. He turns into a bear to protect me from his ex. I’m being introduced to a world I’ve never known, with a man I could easily fall in love with. And I’ve been invited to his family’s thanksgiving. Author's Note: ...

I never thought I’d find love. Don’t get me wrong, my parents are wonderful. But there was a part of me that wished to have the same love as them. To find someone who’d love me as much as my father did my mother. My parents are shifters. I am not. Wanting to know more about my heritage, I sought a shifter to speak to. Someone who might be able to explain the mystery of the world. He came in the form of a man called Arven. A powerful panther shifter, with an old clan. Someone who knew secrets. Someone who I might grow to love, should the cards fall right on Valentine’s Day… Trouble...

My fortune’s been down, lately. Right until I met the dragon shifter. My family’s not well off. They’re the nicest people you’ll ever meet, but a lot of bad luck fell on them. They try their best though, and I want to help them. For me, that means risking it all. Going into the fight pits. A forbidden place of supernaturals, feral fighters, and people like me betting on the outcomes. A place normally off limits to humans. One person catches my eye. One name among the others. An alpha fighter with a cursed form, with a craving to win fights. A man with a heart of gold lurking under ...

Ellen should have known that a gathering in America's last castle would entail a few uninvited guests. During a Christmas Eve wedding at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, Ellen and her friends are visited by multiple ghosts. The spirits have come to tell their stories, to right the wrongs that history has done to their memories. Each of them died in Asheville with their voices stifled.

Nine ghost stories that capture the spirit of Christmas. The Christmas tree lights, the carol singers, and the shadows that wait out in the snow. Traditional ghost stories written in the true spirit of Christmas. Chilling tales with a twist that will kindle the true spirit of Christmas in your hearts. Ghosts that emerge from the snow, doors that eat you, spirits that beg you to do them a service. Perfect to listen to on a dark winter's night. This book will convince you that the dead do return, and they do so on Christmas Eve!

In a thrilling and poignant sequel to the world’s most beloved Christmas tale of love and redemption, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, a reformed Ebenezer Scrooge finds that his newfound mental and spiritual peace of mind cannot solve his remaining enduring problem: loneliness. Scrooge knows a pair of adopted kittens playfully named Julius and Caesar cannot make up for the love of a woman.

Escaping death twice in sixteen years? Now, that’s real luck. Then again, it means I’m accident-prone. Not exactly the type of gal you’d ask to the Valentine’s Day dance. I just wish my high school crush had asked me… Before we fell through the ice and he disappeared forever. Was I a goner when my plane crashed on Frost Mountain sixteen years later? Nope. Bumping into him was the real shocker. This sizzling dragon shifter can’t possibly be the same guy I lost in high school… Except it is. He’s bigger, hotter, darker. A real survivor. But crashing on Frost Mountain couldn’t...

It's Halloween. The trees are ablaze in fiery reds. Excited children don colorful costumes. And there's mystery and fun around every corner! When Addy, Michael, and Karl finish trick-or-treating, their bags are brimming with treats. But the fun isn't over yet. Their good friend Stillwater the panda has one more special surprise in store for them. A mysterious visitor is about to tell them a spine-tingling story - one that will fill each and every listener with wonder.

Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England’s Lake District, each time on Halloween. Just before the First World War, a young woman’s corpse was found, with a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face. Her ghost - the Faceless Woman - is said to walk through Ravenbank on Halloween. Five years ago, another woman, Shenagh Moss, was murdered, and again her face was covered to hide her injuries.

What if you discovered an ancient gift that could bring back the dead on Christmas Day? On Christmas Eve, a desperate young boy, Ben Whillips, searches for a special gift to purchase for his dad. Reflecting the unexpected downturn in the economy, his family has fallen on difficult times and Ben truly believes the perfect gift will help restore their spirits, if for only one day. In his attempt to return the holidays to an event of cheer and delight, he may have taken on more than he expected when the gift possesses the unearthly power to provide a Christmas Day visit from his long deceased ...

She’s a castaway fourteen-year-old orphan, all alone in the world, sigh! Nobody notices! Moan! Nobody cares! Groan! Heavy pout, mugging for pity! Hey! Step-off her uterus! She knows where she’s going, because she knows where she’s been! Nobody can tell her anything she hasn’t already heard! Except... this guy... this older guy... Sure, he wears cheap leisure suits and something resembling clown-shoes, but he makes such sweet promises! He tells her only what she wants to hear and nothing that bugs her... until one night... the night of Halloween and her fifteenth birthday.........

Getting exiled from my family was bad enough. Getting murdered was just plain unnecessary. But now I’m back to life. The problem is, a hundred years have passed. Osten isn’t what it once was, especially this Halloween. If the sizzling dragon shifter hadn’t rescued me that night... I might’ve found myself in major trouble. But I already am in trouble. I’m not the only one who came back to life. The woman who murdered me isn’t resting in peace, either... And she won’t until she makes sure she kills me... Again. Author's Note: This is a stand alone steamy romance with an HEA ...

Imagine yourself shapeshifted not into a wolf or a giant eagle but into a 1959 MG Roadster convertible, all while the guy you’re crushing on is driving his date through your hometown. ~~~Christmas Creek’s favorite son, Nick Jolly, and its beautiful wallflower, Hayley Brockman, are so far in the friend zone that she’s picking his dates for him. When Hayley selects three social media mavens to help Nick promote Christmas Creek, everything backfires, including the antique convertible Nick picks up to drive them around. Unbeknownst to Hayley and Nick, they are being watched over by their ...

Due to a traumatic family event on a past winter, Ivy doesn’t do emotions, love, or Christmas. Unfortunately, this year her best friend is having a destination Christmas wedding in Lapland, Finland—a winter wonderland full of holiday spirit. There, the air is fresh, crisp, and full of magic. Additionally, Ivy is the maid of honor, and she’ll be walking down the aisle with her best friend’s brother, Saint. He’s the only man in this world that has been able to warm her cold heart. Somehow, she’ll try to avoid this wretched holiday and her feelings for Saint.

John could give up drinking to the limits of his dangerously anti-social levels; but he's no quitter. Expectations run low for our functioning drunk, acutely aware that sobriety brings with it a certain duty of care and obligation to 'do the right thing,' that drunkenness does not. With the easy conscience of a man swimming in a butt of whisky our hero embarks upon a 'fishy' burglary in order to finance his friend Lady Hester's madcap search for Alexander the Greats' lost treasure. Along with his faithful buddy Tom, the three set off to Rhodes, Greece, deluded and undeterred in their quest ...

Ebenezer Scrooge - and his faithful greyhound, Carl - are visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley. What follows is the story you know, but with a twist. With faithful Carl by his side, Scrooge experiences the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, taking away a lesson that will forever change his - and Carl’s - life forever.

13 tales that will have you reaching for the nightlight before you go to bed tonight. Do you dare sleep without one? Do you dare enter the darkness without a little bit of light? A Zombie Christmas 3 Men. One solid plan to bring joy to children during a Zombie Apocalypse. A risky plan that could end their lives, but they are willing to sacrifice them in order to save Christmas for the children. Need to Feed Another year. Another massacre looming. When the sun rises on the old west town of Saltwater Junction its residents will come face to face with two savage and lethal predators. Vampires ...