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It's Christmas Eve, the night of the grand reopening of Ruby's Place. But the Christmas spirit is nowhere to be found.
Anticipation should be soaring as Ruby's Place, the beloved supper club, prepares for its grand reopening. Carols should be ringing, glasses clinking, and joy filling the air. But the tinsel is looking tarnished and trampled-on to everyone in the town of Sullivan. No one seems to be in the mood to
...4) Ruby's Story
How Ruby returned to Sullivan, opening the supper club that became the stuff of Christmas Eve legends.
On Christmas Eve, Ruby Westbrook finds herself alone in an empty train car, no longer the wide-eyed, ready-to-take-on-the-big-city dancer she'd once been. On a whim, she arrives back in her girlhood hometown of tiny Sullivan, Missouri. Against the backdrop of a city navigating mid-century social and technological
...Called out to rescue a stranded driver on a snowy night, rancher Ted Baker is surprised to find his old high-school friend, Veronica Hernandez, at the wheel—with her pet pig, Bacon, riding shotgun. Ten years after leaving Morgantown, Veronica is as warm, lively, and lovely as ever. If she and Bacon...
"Lucky" Lucy Callahan can fix anything, which is why her boss sent her to the Dew Drop Inn. The neglected hotel sounds like the perfect challenge for a woman who likes to bring things to their full potential. It's a shame that the cute bar owner who asked her out doesn't seem to appreciate her efforts.
Roy Wagner's family feud with the business next door is older than he is. He'd happily see the hotel go up in flames—he'd even
...7) Rare Gems
The Story of Ruby's Favorite Regular—Her Best Friend, Elizabeth
The best Christmas present Elizabeth Rossi ever received was given to her by a complete stranger—plucked from the folds of a desperate woman's tattered winter garment during the height of the Depression. Forty years later, the stranger is back, her face popping up outside the dress store Elizabeth owns in Sullivan, Missouri. As Elizabeth fights
...★★★★★ "...heartwarming... great story to read if you have or have ever had a heart."
- Jessyca Garcia (Readers Favorite)
A Feline Holiday Surprise
Fred finds himself alone at Christmas time again until a stray cat, cold and hungry, enters his life. Fred soon finds his life turned around by this gift of a Christmas cat. A gift he needs to end his solitary
...Working full-time, going back to school, and raising a high school senior, Brooke Portman's schedule in Holiday Beach is a whirlwind of obligations. As she turns the page into October, the few blank spots left on her calendar are filled with the lawman who's determined that she should have a life with him in the picture.
Sheriff Aaron Gillespie thinks he and Brooke can go the distance. They just have to get past all the obstacles
...Bob "Mac" Mackenzie has finally started construction on the house of his dreams. The lakeside paradise is everything he imagined, with the exception of the nightmare next door. The pretty project manager apologizes for the inconveniences her own build is causing, but the accidents keep happening.
The Holiday Beach mansion she designed was supposed to be the diamond in architect Lori Baker's crown, but instead she's wearing dirt on
...12) Christmas Ahoy!
How does it feel to turn a year older? A child runs through a spectrum of emotions on the best day of the year, their birthday!
A child runs through a spectrum of emotions on the best day of the year—their birthday! Early-morning excitement gives way to shyness at the arrival of guests, hunger for cake, a craze for arts and crafts, and some real piñata problems. So how can a kid possibly answer that
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