SWEET CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE – SHORT STORIES
LIGHTING THE TREE
Brenda Davis is resigned to climbing into bed and shutting out thoughts of happy family gatherings. Twenty-four years ago she gave her baby up for adoption. Every year since, she’s placed a present under an unlit Christmas tree, waiting until the time they can be reunited. It’s Christmas Eve, and Brenda’s heart is heavy for she’s going to spend it alone—again.
But her friend, Dave Kingsdale, has other plans. He convinces Brenda to go to dinner with him. What he doesn’t tell her is that dinner will be at his parents’ home. For a long time, the widower has been longing to tell Brenda he wants more than friendship from her. What he doesn’t know is that she has the same feelings for him. And what neither of them know is a Christmas miracle is about to happen—delivered by an unlikely Santa.
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LOVE NEVER FAILS
A COLLECTION OF THREE SHORT CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE STORIES
“The Faded Photograph”
Widower James Carter is about to become a grandfather at the young age of forty-nine. And he’s not ready. A faded photograph, kept hidden in his wallet over the years, brings memories of his first love. What has happened to her? Does she ever think of him? Does she remember the dreams they once shared?
With a determination to move out of his lonely existence, he embarks on a journey to fulfill lost dreams and find the woman in the faded photograph.
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“Twisted Spell”
Dora is a preschool teacher who has a nasty neighbor she wishes she could cast an evil spell over. On Halloween she points a finger at him and mutters a meaningless string of words. When he runs away, frightened by her witch’s costume and supposed spell, she figures it serves him right for being so grouchy.
But when she returns home to find him injured, she is amazed to find how handsome he is when he’s not yelling at her. Will she be able to resist the spell he seems to be casting on her?
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“The House Next Door”
Kaylene Daniels is awakened in the dead of night by the sound of a moving van arriving at the house next door. With mixed emotions, she watches the mysterious stranger standing in the shadows.
All Kaylene’s attempts to meet her new neighbor are ignored. He refuses to acknowledge the knock at his door, choosing only the darkest hours of night to emerge from his dwelling. Determined to unravel the mystery, Kaylene enters his unlocked house. She hears a voice drifting down the stairs and her heart races. The voice is that of her fiance, Donovan. But Donovan is dead. Isn’t he?
