Reviews - Contemporary

Mistletoe Mishaps
Tracy
Broemmer

Scott Woodrow, who loves all things Christmas—especially lights—helps Nic Collier to put up her Christmas Lights. Nic does the decorating begrudgingly, only because Hallie, her co-worker and the host of the TV show Nic produces, challenges her to participate in the station's decorating contest. Nic isn’t a big fan of Christmas or Christmas lights since the break-up with her last boyfriend.

Shae, diagnosed at age fourteen with an incurable disease, is now a wild, young-adult social media star traveling the world to fulfill her bucket list before she dies. Her entourage of travel-companion friends stay quiet about her condition, knowing that Shae keeps busy to avoid any chance of long-term romance.

Italian opera singer Giada Fioricelo is excited to be cast as the female lead singer in the production of “The Magic Flute” at the Sydney Opera House. Soon afterward, she will marry Marco, a man of patience, good looks, and great wealth. If only her mother, also her opera career manager, would allow her some freedom to enjoy her visit down under.

Addalyn Reed is tired of living someone else’s dreams and trying to make her parents happy. She’s stuck between the place of wanting to realize her own dreams, and being afraid to try. The small mountain town of Krysset has touched something within her, and she’s determined to make a life for herself there.

Maureen O’Dowd, owner and proprietor of Inn Heaven, loves to cook and bake for her friends and family. Unbeknownst to everyone, she has been in love with Lucas Alexander, who is now the Police Chief and a single dad, since she was nine years old. Lucas grew up with her family and is her oldest sister’s best friend.

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