By Leigh Riker
I’m so thrilled—A Heartwarming Christmas has made the USA Today Bestseller List!!
This holiday season, warm your heart with 12 sweet holiday
romances from 12 Harlequin Heartwarming authors who are USA Today, national
bestselling, and award-winning authors.
There are four connected anthologies in A Heartwarming Christmas. That means
each set of three novellas shares characters and storylines all set in
Christmas Town, a location introduced in the 2014 Harlequin Heartwarming
release, Christmas, Actually. This
year’s A Heartwarming Christmas will
bring you laughter, tears, and happily-ever-afters (no cliffhangers), for more
than 1200 pages. Foreword by small town lover and New York Times bestseller
Kristan Higgins.
In my
novella, His Christmas Gift, Cara
Crawford, who runs a tree lot, doesn’t want to have Christmas this year. But
park ranger Brady Sullivan has other ideas. And determination is his middle
name.
After a scandal
years ago ended Brady’s dream to play in the NFL, he left Christmas Town. Now
twelve years later, he’s back to clear the record. Unfortunately, his estranged
family is nowhere to be found. And Cara, the sister of the woman Brady
supposedly destroyed years ago, still blames him for what happened then.
It’s up to Brady to tell Cara too the truth at last. Can he
convince her he was innocent all along? And win not only Cara’s trust—but also,
this time, her love?
Here’s
a brief excerpt from the story:
A sharp rap at her front door made
Cara almost drop her cup.
Who could be here this late at
night?
“Delivery,” Brady said in her
doorway. “Got your tree for you. A rescue.” He shouldered his way inside with a
gorgeous, bushy seven-foot scotch pine.
“Do you know what time it is?” Cara
asked.
“Time to pretty up this baby. Go
get your decorations.”
“Has anyone ever told you you’re
pushy?”
“You need pushy.”
Cara glanced at her teacup on the
table. He wasn’t taking no for an answer. She didn’t really want him to.
“You wait any longer,” he said,
“Christmas will be over.”
And Brady would be gone. She had to
remember that as well as the heartache he’d caused her sister years ago.
Yet Cara couldn’t deny they had fun
while Brady set the tree in its stand then helped her hang ornaments—so many
she’d loved in years past—and, finally, sprinkled the pine with old-fashioned
tinsel.
Before she knew it, he’d playfully
tossed a few strands at her hair. His laughter warmed her heart and Cara
couldn’t help but join in. She had no choice but to return the favor until they
both looked as glittery as the tree.
“You actually like this,” she said, feeling
breathless. “Some men don’t. My father never put the lights on our tree without
having a meltdown.”
“Christmas has always been my
favorite time of year.” He grinned. “Snow, presents, wreaths and candles…family
all around. What’s not to like?”
Cara wondered why Brady was staying
then at the Pine Tree Inn instead of at his parents’ home, but she hesitated to
ask and break the mood they’d shared. And Brady had stopped laughing. The
moment hung between them like the silver star he’d fastened to the top of the
tree. With a slightly shaky hand, he reached out to pull a piece of tinsel from
her hair, his touch lingering.
“I like you all…sparkly,” he
murmured, his voice husky. “I like you, Cara.”
Buy Links for A
Heartwarming Christmas
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Google Play: http://bit.ly/1J0Qg08
Bio:
Leigh Riker can’t imagine anything better than to curl up with a good
romance novel to read—unless it is to write one! She loves being a Harlequin
Heartwarming author. When not working, she likes to garden, play the piano, and
travel. At home in the Southeast, with her Maine Coon cat perched on her desk
for inspiration, she is at work on her new HW novel, Lost and Found Family, to be published in April 2016.
For
more, here’s where to find her:
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