Enchanted Holidays

HAUNTED HEARTS by Kim Cox Lana Malloy embarks on a new career as a private investigator when she sets out to solve the twenty-year-old double murder of her great aunt and her great aunt''s fiancé. If Lana can solve the crimes by Valentine''s Day (the anniversary of their deaths), the ghosts will be as they should have been in life - together for eternity. Two ghosts, a hysterical neighbor and the handsome grandson of Lana''s aunt''s fiancé make for a series of comical events. MISTLETOE MEDIUM by Elizabeth Delisi When Lottie Baldwin''s love relationship goes sour, she impulsively pulls up stakes and moves to Cheyenne, North Dakota, home of her best friend, Janet Randall. She thinks the worst challenge she''ll have to overcome is fitting into her new small home town; after all, her Tarot cards and psychic abilities make some people think of her as...well...eccentric. But before long, Lottie''s up to her neck in robbery, assault, and an ex-boyfriend bent on revenge. Can she and the handsome new man in her life, deputy sheriff Harlan Erikson, pool their talents and solve the mystery before the bandit strikes again? VALENTINE''S INN by Chris Grover After being badly injured in an auto accident that killed three of her friends, Rianna Gordon has given up on life. Then she meets Josh Byford, unaware that Josh is a ghost. Rianna is a lawyer, not a hotelier, but rather than sell the country inn her family has owned for over a hundred years, Josh not only convinces her to reopen and run it, but he finds her what he hopes will be her perfect partner as well. As a result, Rianna discovers the perfect answer to her prayers on the most romantic day of the year: Valentines Day. THE CURSE OF OSIRIS by Elaine Hopper Alexis Hart''s grandparents send Zane Ryan to Egypt to rescue her. Unbeknownst to Alexis, she wears the mark of Osiris, an ancient curse. If Osiris is allowed to wed, and then sacrifice her at the birth of the true new Millenium, it will be the end of the world as we know it. Dangerously exciting Zane is the only being, mortal or immortal, that can save Alexis. Or can he? GHOSTS OF AULD LANG SYNE by Maureen McMahon In an independent sequel to McMahon''s modern gothic romance, RETURN OF THE GULLS, Stacey Christian and Peter Mansfield pair up again to solve another mystery. Set at a secluded lake in the remote New England countryside, Stacey and Peter join a diverse cast of characters to celebrate the New Year holiday. From the moment Stacey sets eyes on the imposing old mansion, recently inherited by her childhood friend, Holly Purcell, she knows there''s more to the house than meets the eye. What begins as an innocent gathering soon turns sinister as a series of suspicious accidents occur. To add to the confusion, Stacey is irrevocably drawn into the tragic intrigue surrounding Clementine Kreen, the resident ghost. The mystery behind the accidents, and Stacey''s eerie experiences and visitations, culminate in a nail-biting finale on New Year''s Eve, the anniversary of Clementine''s unsolved disappearance decades before. FATE''S LITTLE TRICK by Sheryl Hames Torres Gemma McKinsey Fuller wouldn''t celebrate Christmas again if you paid her. Twice she lost everything to a greedy Christmas Eve. She survived the first time when her fiancé chose his boss''s daughter instead of her. Five Christmas Eves later, Gemma walked away from an auto crash without her husband, her baby, and her hearing. Although the doctors said there was nothing physically wrong with her, she could hear nothing until she touched another human being. Then all their sorrow and pain would wash over her like tortured screams. The psychiatrists called it empathy. Gemma called it insanity. Finally, unable to take it any longer, Gemma escapes to her Grandfather''s Smokey Mountain camping retreat. Here, she can make a living renting out the cabins without ever having to connect with another human being. Peace at last! - or so she thinks. Everything changes the morning she''s awakened by a voice inside her head - the voice of a little girl pleading for help. With the dreaded holiday only a couple of weeks away, and a snowstorm threatening, she''s suddenly catapulted into the midst of this strange child''s dilemma. Now, not only must Gemma deal with her own survival, but that of a little girl who reminds her all too much of her own lost child. More difficult still, she must deal with the confusing feelings that erupt when she''s forced into close contact with the child''s handsome father, the fiancé she lost so many years ago. How can Gemma possibly survive another Christmas Eve?