Cynthia Eden delivers her trademark dark-tinged love story in A Vampire’s Christmas Carol, her holiday novella offered to readers for just $0.99. Eden’s romances – both paranormal and contemporary – always make me ponder her characters as their motivations and lives are usually rather complicated. And this novella is no exception. And don’t I love this about her!

A Vampire’s Christmas Carol, which does take a nod from Dickens’ classic, is a really interesting story. I was hooked from the beginning as we meet vampire Ben in a seedy alleyway as he attacks and almost totally drains his …

Chocolate and Paris – who wouldn’t love this winning combination? Summer Corey, that’s who. Summer is author Laura Florand‘s newest heroine in her Amour et Chocolat series, which is as addictive as the chocolate her chocolatiers and pastry chefs create.

In book five of the series, The Chocolate Heart, Summer is given a five-star Parisian landmark hotel by her father in order to compel her home from her South Seas idyll. Well really not an idyll as she is the lone teacher there for the island’s native inhabitants, but everyone sees her as just a party girl – …

Kentucky Christmas by Sarah Title is a charming holiday novella that has a features a quirky hero and heroine that you know are somehow going to find their happily-ever-after – no matter how impossible it seems at first.

I really enjoyed this book as it didn’t follow the standard formula, but had a few bends in the road – like the one that Andrew met when he crashed his car in the side of the bar. If you add in all the fun animals, a snowstorm, and some Christmas cheer along with vet tech heroine, Billie, it adds up to …

If you’re looking for a heart-warming holiday romance novel that has just a touch of A Christmas Carol, you should definitely checkout Robyn Neeley‘s new book, Christmas Dinner. I really loved it from the Scrooge-like defensiveness of television news anchor, Amanda, to the fun-loving sincerity of hero Tate. And their on-air chemistry has nothing on what’s possible off-air!

I was hooked from the beginning when Tate in a gesture of goodwill seems to steal Amanda’s scoop, to the accidental meeting of sleigh and car, and finally when we meet Amanda’s fabulous Christmas card family who live in upstate …

Shannon Stacey once again offers a solid romance in her The Kowalskis series with the seventh installment, Love a Little Sideways. These stories of Boston and Maine-based cousins is one that I really enjoy. I’d marked book seven’s 1 December release date on my calendar and was quite pleased that the publisher shared a review copy recently.

Love a Little Sideways picks up the story of Kowalski sister Liz and police chief Drew, her brother Mitch’s best friend. Yes, they had that quick and dirty hook-up at her brother’s summer wedding to Paige, but nothing more was supposed to …