Inspirational Christmas Romance

When Mary Taylor agrees to marry wealthy Jack Arden and move West, she’s very clear on her reasons for marrying: her family’s farm is struggling badly, and she’s marrying to be able to help out her parents. Jack readily promises to let her send money home each month. But when Mary meets Jack, handsome and charming as he is, things don’t add up at all. Why is the wealthiest man in town living in squalor? And why, when she asks him for the promised money, does he put her off and tell her to wait a little while? Though Mary is deeply in love with Jack, and is willing to stay with him ...

Amelia Jenkins struggles to understand why her father has been picking suitors who look quite handsome, but have nothing underneath that to facilitate a courtship. She wants to marry for love and passion, not because the man looks good. However, it seems men who look good are the only suitors left in Boston for a woman of twenty-one years of age. Amelia refuses to marry someone she cannot carry a conversation with. Ethan Wyman lost his wife in childbirth. With his child now a year old, he decides that it's time to find someone else to help him around the ranch. Especially so that his son ...

When Dolly Christal, a refined bride-to-be from the East Coast, steps out of her train for a breath of fresh air at a whistle-stop in Colorado, little does she imagine that the doors will close on her, leaving her stranded in the middle of nowhere right before Christmas and unable to reach her fiance in Denver. Fortunately, Yule Harken, a stranger with problems of his own, takes pity on the devastated young woman and invites her to stay with him and his sister at, of all places, a reindeer ranch. Country life is hardly a welcome experience for the cultured Dolly, who frets over what her ...

Will a blast from the past derail Merry's future? When Daniel Bell surprises Merry with a Thanksgiving proposal, it seems that all she’s hoped could come true. Not only will she have the joy of celebrating Christmas with the family she’s come to know and love. She’ll also be planning the Yuletide wedding of her dreams. But everything changes when a man who says he’s Merry’s long lost father suddenly comes into their lives. While Merry is thrilled at the prospect of having family to call her own, Daniel isn’t so sure. Is this man really everything he claims to be? Or could his ...

Lady Caroline had always been aware that her dearest friend, Lady Harriet’s twin brothers, Lord Dundee and Lord Erasmus, were handsome, but seeing them for the first time in years when she visits their father’s state for the summer, left her feeling overwhelmed. Even more so when Lord Dundee pays her more attention than usual. Lady Caroline knows of his reputation as a rake, but is drawn in by his charms. Lord Erasmus had admired and adored Lady Caroline from afar for a very long time, and is furious when she leaves her intellectual ways for frivolous shenanigans with Lord Dundee, but ...

It’s 1930. Nola Levitt has more than most, living with her family and working in her parents’ general store in Nazareth, Iowa. She can’t risk marrying and having a family they can’t support in these depressing times. With no joy in his heart after losing everything, including his parents, and having to drop out of medical school after the stock market crash, Jerome Walcott has come to Nazareth to care for his uncle and run his drug store/pharmacy during the man’s lengthy recovery from serious injuries sustained in a car wreck. He doesn’t count on having a lovely storekeeper’s ...

Can a Christmas rewrite bring two broken hearts back together? Find out in this touching and tender novella, the first in the new Finding Love Series, by 1 bestselling author Jennifer Youngblood. After a bad breakup with her boyfriend Gunner, playwright Kinsley Preston has avoided going home for Christmas for five long years. She has no intention of going home this Christmas but then gets the extraordinary opportunity to meet with an elusive author about turning adapting a worldwide bestselling book into a play. The only snag? The meeting is to take place in Kinsley’s home town over the ...

An injured athlete returns to the town he swore he’d never call home again—only to discover he has a child with the one woman he couldn’t forget Chase Huxley has spent years avoiding Orange Valley. His soccer career took him far away, and that’s exactly how he wanted it. But an unexpected injury and a legal matter force him back to the hometown he swore he’d never return to—only to discover the biggest surprise of his life. Whitney Mitchell never expected to see Chase again, let alone tell him the secret she’s kept for twelve years. Their one night together was supposed to be ...

Welcome to Christmas, Colorado, a charming small town where the beloved sheriff will need a Christmas miracle to convince a hotshot city girl to believe in the magic of the holidays. Resort developer Madison Lane is about to lose the one thing she loves most in the world - her job. Dubbed "The Grinch Who Killed Christmas", Madison spoiled a deal that would turn quaint Christmas, Colorado, into a tourist's winter wonderland. Now the citizens want her fired but the company gives her one last chance, sending Madison to the small town to restore the holiday cheer.

A former pro football player and a small-town single mother... A new beginning or a new heartbreak? Let this feel-good opposites-attract holiday romance warm your heart! Kelly Young wants to heal after losing her husband and to raise her little girl the best she can in her hometown. But her new neighbor, former wide receiver Brandon Carmichael, seems to intend to demolish his fixer-upper and her hopes for peace and quiet. When he helps her to repair her home, keeps her flower shop business afloat, and makes her hope and love again, could it be that Brandon is exactly what she needs? After a...

A Christmas romance sprinkled with suspense! In this sweet romance, all Marilyn dreams of for Christmas is a relationship with someone who cares for her. Someone who really knows her. She’s looking for her prince charming to perfectly satisfy her wishes. Marilyn and her best friend, George, volunteer at the homeless shelter in their small hometown. The two grew up together and are nearly inseparable. George knows Marilyn better than anyone, but his love for her remains unspoken rather than risking damage to their lasting friendship. When a charming stranger volunteers at the shelter, ...

Winter is here. The cheer is spread far and wide this holiday season. Join these characters as they find love, navigate family drama, and discover what Christmas means to them. Will they all get the happy ending they yearn for? Featuring eighteen stories by Patsy Pratt-Herzog, Mimi Heverin, James C. Stewart, Ken Sutherland, Wendy Harrison, Katie Kent, Frank Lee Howe, Katie Fitzgerald, Marco Etheridge, Edgar Mahaffey, Patricia Miller, Robert Boyd, Z.M. Renick, Iren Adams, K.M. Hasling, Jennifer Strassel, Cathy Seddon and Douglas Allen Gohl.

In 1775 Prudence Ainsworth of Maryland Province is about to be married to her lifelong friend, Oliver Duke. The happy couple’s dreams are shattered when conflict between the struggling new Colonies and the Crown of England erupts in war. Four women left alone in a world gone mad. One dog and a handful of servants try to keep them safe from people Prudence should be able to trust. Where do other people’s allegiance lie? Will each of them survive the conflicts thrown at them and learn to trust in Providence for their hopes and dreams or will the dangers and the passions of others, deprive...

Two Broken Hearts, Two Warring Families. One Terrible Lie. Can Christmas bring a miracle this year? Malinda King is estranged from her family due to a painful breakup with Amos Mueller, her one true love. Returning home, unannounced at Christmas she carries the weight of uncertainty. Meanwhile, Amos, heartbroken and disillusioned by a deceptive romance during his Rumspringa, longs for solace and understanding in his Amish community. As Malinda steps back into the familiar yet changed landscapes of her youth, she faces both the warmth of familial love and the harsh judgment of those she left...

Ivy Hall has always dreamed of a Yuletide wedding. As she prepares to walk down the aisle on Christmas Eve, everything looks perfect, with the church decked out in greenery, soft candles glowing, and favorite carols playing in the background. In the final moments before she joins her true love, Blaze Shepherd, in holy matrimony before a nave packed with eager townspeople, there’s only one problem: The groom's not there! Ivy is so bereaved when the wedding is canceled that she’s packed off to a hot springs healing resort where the doctor suggests that besides a change of scenery, the ...

Being different can feel like a curse… until God turns your life upside down and shows you the true blessing that it is… Angela Parker is at odds with herself. Working at the Crazy Quilt Cabins resort in northwest Arkansas, she has seen beautiful romances unfold between several of the guests, and has been pining for her own happily-ever-after. Then her great-aunts, who own and help manage the resort, decide to take the year 1991 to fulfill their dreams of traveling the country. Angie is left alone for weeks at a time to run the resort by herself, thereby becoming convinced that she ...

In the picturesque town of Ridgefield, Connecticut, big city advertising executive Ashley Sampson returns home for the holidays, carrying the weight of a broken heart. As she navigates the familiar streets of her childhood, old memories and new feelings collide when she reconnects with her childhood friend, Myles Hickman—a talented carpenter with dreams of his own. With a community project to renovate a local park bringing them closer, Ashley and Myles rediscover the laughter and love they once shared. But as Ashley faces pressure from her career and her family’s expectations, she finds...

When Elizabeth Shaffer’s family came to the United States from Britain, she hadn’t expected to grow up to be struggling to find love. Her father, a cobbler in Washington, D.C., is as successful as he can manage alone. Elizabeth helps, but her father never puts his business above their happiness – which is more than she can say for some people in Washington, D.C. Westley Anderson is a judge for a small town in California. He put an ad out in The Matrimonial Times to find a wife before he moved to California, but it hasn’t gone well so far. Most women are searching to get away from a ...

A Big brother's best friend + A city girl that's come home + A broody big brother = An Autumn-inspired love story full of emotions and hopes for second chances! Emma: Returning to Whisper Pines was never part of my plan, but life in the city left me burnt out and overwhelmed. Now I’m back in the small town I once called home, ready to find some peace. But there’s one thing I didn’t prepare for—running into Nathan, my brother’s best friend and the boy I never quite got over. The boy who let me walk away. I promised myself I wouldn’t fall for him again, but with autumn leaves ...

When Jasmine Mayhew learns the Kentucky horse farm on which she lives will be sold, she replies to a mail order bride ad from a man in Glory, Montana Territory. Thomas Pullman falls in love with his bride the minute he first meets her, and it seems Jasmine feels the same affection for her new husband and his kind, loving family. But Jasmine’s headstrong nature poses some challenges to Thomas’s way of thinking. On Christmas Eve, an accident suddenly challenges the young couple to look at each other in new ways and to seek the true reason for the season. Read all the books in Christmas ...