Holidays

After uprooting her life in the States, Irene Steele has just settled in at the villa on St. John where her husband Russ had been living a double life. But a visit from the FBI shakes her foundations, and Irene once again learns just how little she knew about the man she loved....

Kira North hates Christmas. Which is unfortunate since she just bought a Christmas tree farm in a town that’s too cute for its own good.

The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room two days before Christmas.

Innkeeper Holly White is decking the halls this Christmas season, but someone is on the naughty list when a body is discovered in the fifth installment in the Christmas Tree Farm mystery series from bestselling author Jacqueline Frost.

Molly the Maid has a whole new mystery to solve in this heartwarming novella from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest.

The next installment in David Rosenfelt’s bestselling Andy Carpenter series brings a lone pup to his doorstep, but when it comes to dogs, The More the Terrier.

In best seller Elin Hilderbrand's first Christmas novel, a family gathers on Nantucket for a holiday filled with surprises. Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray....

Fake date a grumpy boss for Christmas. Enjoy some forced proximity with a flirtatious best friend for Valentine's Day. Wake up married to an Irishman in Vegas for St. Patrick's Day.

Twas the night before Hogswatch and all through the house...something was missing....

With snow falling over the redwood forests, secluded Virgin River is the ideal place to spend the holidays. Each year, the close-knit community gathers in the town square to decorate and light a massive tree....

It’s Christmas Eve and Stella Hansen is broke. She is so broke that despite working two jobs, she can’t even afford a present for her husband on their first Christmas as man and wife. But then a mysterious storekeeper at a pawn shop offers Stella an intriguing trade....

Christmas comes early—far too early—to McCredie’s little Old Town bookshop in Edinburgh. It’s summer, but an American production company has decided that McCredie’s is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie....

Sea Isle, Scotland, is magical during the holiday season, and Dr. Emilia McRoy can’t wait to enjoy everything her village has to offer. But when the lead singer of a famous band is murdered in the village, just as they were about to launch a world tour, her holiday instantly comes to a halt.

Christmas on Nantucket finds Winter Street Inn owner Kelley Quinn and his family busily preparing for the holiday season....

Melody Gallard may be the daughter of music royalty, but her world is far from glamorous. She spends her days restoring old books and avoiding the limelight (one awkward tabloid photo was enough, thanks)....

With the holidays fast approaching, Claire, Roxie, and their families are all anticipating the big day. There are gifts to buy, parties to attend, trees to decorate, and festivities to prepare for.

Adored by all, Britta is an ambitious waitress working at Sluggers. The popular bar holds a special place in her heart and is a regular hangout for the Bridgeport Bandits, the local hockey club....

It's Christmas Eve, and Delia's family is finally together again. All is quiet and still, yet Delia can't help but feel a sense of foreboding. After all, an ancient dragon has just awakened and stronger magic is pulsing through the veins of the Myrtlewood Crones.

Clark Griswold was onto something...at least with his annual holiday meltdown....

Bells are ringing and alarms are sounding in Donna Andrews' latest cheery addition in the New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow series.

Spring has sprung, and I'm finally getting out of town with my monster-hunting boyfriend. However, our cozy little rental cabin in the woods turns out to have a serious problem—an angry leprechaun infestation....

My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones.

It’s a few days before Christmas and despite her efforts to keep her life from crumbling, fate isn’t on her side. Just as she wrangling her five-year-old into her car, the wind picks up and her car door scratches the paint of the Jaguar next to her....

From Richard Paul Evans, the New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Promise and The Christmas Box—“the most popular holiday tale since Tiny Tim” (Newsweek)—a new novel celebrating the holiday spirit.

When the Chambers sisters receive an invitation from their jet-setting aunt to spend the entire month of December at the family's cabin in Asheville, North Carolina, they have one question—why? The retreat may be the site of happy childhood holidays and summers, but it also holds sad memories....

Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt: She’s the new Queen of the Cozy Mystery. He’s Mr. Big-time Thriller Guy. She hates his guts. He thinks her name is Marcie (no matter how many times she’s told him otherwise.) But when they both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting their host to be the most powerful author in the world: Eleanor Ashley, the Duchess of Death herself.

I just met my new son-in-law . . . And he’s my ex-husband. They’re here. I watch them arrive from the kitchen window. My pregnant daughter and her new husband. They’ve barely known each other six months. I greet him with a tight smile that he recognizes as fake. Luke is no good for my beautiful, fragile Cerys. He’ll break her heart. I know that because he broke mine — when he was married to me. I don’t know what he’s after. But I’m going to make it my business to find out.

To the outside world, Imogen is a marketing dynamo. Her colleagues don’t know that while her high-achieving professional image is real, the happy childhood stories she spins are as fake as her pretend enthusiasm for Christmas. Working 24/7 has always been her solution to surviving the festive season—until burnout leads to a catastrophic blunder.

Being a hitman is the loneliest of jobs. We don't have many friends. Some don't even have family. Lovers? Try explaining to your boyfriend why there's blood on your shirt. Christmas is the worst time to be alone. This year, love is in the cards for me, all thanks to a letter I found in the street. It reads, "Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is revenge…"

When Anais receives a near-derelict Paris hotel in her divorce settlement, her first thought is to tidy it up and sell it immediately. All she wants is to move on and forget her disaster of a marriage ever happened. But selling it proves impossible, so she has only one option: to make it gorgeous and open by Christmas… when her funds will almost certainly run out. She’s not counting on the grumpy American bar-owner next door, Noah, coming and interfering at every moment though.

When Hay-on-Wye’s only queer bookshop is threatened with closure, its owner Quinn Oxford is determined to do whatever it takes to save it. That is until romantic novelist Noah Sage arrives. Gorgeous, brooding and clearly unhappy to be there, Noah is the distraction Quinn doesn’t need. Noah has a history with Hay and it’s one he’d rather not face. But when the snow leaves him stranded, he’s left with no choice. Hay is a small town, meaning Quinn can’t help but bump into Noah wherever he goes. And as the two grow closer together, is it possible that Noah’s feelings towards Hay will thaw?

Benched with a career-ending injury, NFL wide receiver Jahleel Walker is forced to return to his hometown of Peachwood Bay, Georgia, during the holidays to heal, despite his rocky relationship with his father. Nothing shocks him more than running into Lucille “Bebe” Gordon.

Starting over in the little town of Occoquan, Katie Young finds solace in small-town life with best friends at their thriving gallery and a deepening romance with the town’s resident scientist. Her college-age daughter bakes up holiday memories in their river house. And Katie can’t wait to captain the boat parade and deliver Santa to the town dock on her new ferryboat. But when the holiday-averse Deke flies south for the season and Santa goes swimming, Katie wonders if she needs a survival suit—or just a really strong cocktail—to weather midlife mayhem.

For wedding singer Mel Hart, the holidays have always retained a certain magic. Her mother, Connie, always managed to pull off spectacular Santa hijinx that convinced Mel to keep believing in Santa way longer than other kids. Those moments meant everything to Mel because the rest of the year, life was unpredictable because of her mother’s alcohol use. But two weeks before Christmas, Mel gets a call from the hospital: her mother has died.

Caroline isn't a Scrooge, but the weeks leading to Christmas are not her favorite. The personal shopping department where she works is insanely busy and the clients have crazy requests. Plus, this is her first holiday being single after a bad breakup. When her last appointment of the day is a gorgeous, blue-skinned alien, she isn't too surprised. After all, everyone knows that aliens are real since a species of interstellar warriors revealed themselves and the fact that they'd been defending Earth for decades.

When I'm forced to spend the holidays at home with my family in Strawberry Hollow, I have no idea how I'm even going to survive the week, let alone make it through my least favorite holiday… Christmas. That is until I run into my childhood crush and my brother's best friend, Parker Grant. Now, he's the sexy, off-limits doctor in our small town and nothing like the man I left behind six years ago.

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Three years ago, I threw my cap in the air and left Lincoln University behind with a degree to prove I was job-worthy, a trophy saying I was one hell of an athlete, and enough experiences in love to know I'd never truly been in it. I'm successful in every aspect of my life. So why does the thought of spending a holiday with my college friends make me want to stoke the fire, curl up with a bottle or two of wine alone? Two names: Dean Costello, owner of the Brooklyn Bears professional Ice Hockey team, and Cody Warren, superstar quarterback for the New York Knights, under the same roof… again.

A karácsony a jóakarat és a családi összetartás ideje, de nem a Lee családnál. Az idei év azonban lehet, hogy más lesz. A milliomos zsarnok Simeon Lee öregkorára talán szentimentális érzéseket kezd táplálni gyermekei iránt? Vagy éppenséggel aljas szándékkal hívja össze őket? Az irigység és a gyanakvás pompásan megteremtett légkörében brutális gyilkosság történik. Hercule Poirot-nak szüksége lesz minden zsenialitására, hogy megoldja a bűntettet.

Samantha liebt Weihnachten mit allem, was dazugehört - vor allem die Abende vor dem Kamin ihres Elternhauses in Aspen. Als sie sich auf den Weg von der San Francisco University nach Hause machen will, legt ein Schneesturm die Westküste lahm - ebenso wie ihr Auto. Nun gibt es nur eine Möglichkeit heimzukommen: eine Mitfahrgelegenheit bei Tristan Sterling und seinem Zwillingsbruder. Doch Tristan ist der Letzte, bei dem Sam mitfahren will, denn der Bad Boy hat ihr vor Jahren das Herz gebrochen.

Vertraue der Melodie deines Herzens. Sie führt dich selbst durch den größten Wintersturm nach Hause. Als die Stimme der achtundzwanzigjährigen Sängerin Brielle Keyes während eines Konzerts versagt, kommt sie an einem Wendepunkt ihrer Karriere an. Sie zweifelt am Musikgeschäft, an ihrem gesamten Leben, aber vor allem an sich selbst. Kurz nach der Stimmband-Operation erhält sie einen Fanbrief, der sie bereits vor die nächste Hürde stellt. Brielle wird gebeten, nach Hause zu kommen und das Weihnachtskonzert des Schulchors zu retten.

Amely freut sich auf die Hochzeitsfeier ihrer Freunde Maighread und Joshua. Callwell Castle erstrahlt im festlichen Glanz und ist voller Besucher, auch einer der ältesten Freunde von Amely ist als Fotograf angereist. Er wohnt auf einem Hausboot am nahen See. Doch während der Feier geschieht ein Unglück auf Amelys Alpakafarm. Von den Ereignissen verunsichert und zweifelnd an ihrer Entscheidung Edinburgh zu verlassen, flüchtet Amely zu Paul auf das Hausboot. Das verärgert nicht nur ihre neue Liebe Peter.

Nora Stoker has her life all planned out. Her career as an event coordinator in Boston is on the rise, and she recently got engaged… but when her fiancé unceremoniously dumps her just before the holidays, she’s left reeling as her carefully laid plans come crumbling down. Hoping to clear her head, she decides to return to her hometown of Evergreen Hollow to spend Christmas with her family.

Ein total verstrickter Fall. Es weihnachtet in Archsum auf Sylt, und die Häkeldamen unterstützen fleißig die Vorbereitungen für das Krippenspiel. Doch statt Besinnlichkeit herrschen Anspannung und Misstrauen in der Kirchengemeinde. Binnen kurzer Zeit passieren gleich mehrere Diebstähle, und dann wird auch noch die Leiterin der Jugendgruppe vom herabstürzenden Stern von Bethlehem erschlagen. Während die Kirchenverantwortlichen beharrlich auf einen Unfall plädieren, wittern die Häkeldamen einen Mord - und nehmen die Ermittlungen auf.

Weihnachten ohne Baum? Der Vater ein bayerischer Sturschädel, die Kinder in der Hochphase der Pubertät und dann noch Weihnachten? Franzis Entschluss steht fest: Heuer wird sie sich einen ruhigen, entspannten Advent machen, komme, was wolle. Kein Plätzchenbackstress, kein Dekowahnsinn und kein Geschenkemarathon. Ihr Plan scheint aufzugehen, denn Ehemann Sebastian versucht sich zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben am Backblech und die Kinder bemerken nicht mal, dass es keinen Adventskranz gibt.