Resting Scrooge Face
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Narrated by:
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Carly Robins
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Aaron Shedlock
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By:
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Meghan Quinn
About this listen
From USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a festive short romance about old flames and mistaken identities.
After a bad breakup, Nola wants nothing to do with Christmas, especially in her quaint hometown of Bright Harbor, Maine. Infuriatingly charming and cheery, Nola’s surroundings only worsen her sour mood.
To make matters worse, Caleb, the boy who broke her heart years ago, is all grown up and still living in town. While doing her best to avoid him, Nola bumps into the local mailman, who gives her a mysterious letter. And when she finds that the writer is a fellow Scrooge, she can’t help but feel her spirit lifting.
Nola writes back to her new pen pal—who, unbeknownst to Nola, is none other than Caleb. When Caleb gets a response hand delivered by the mailman, he’s intrigued by the mystery sender. A friendly correspondence develops—and quickly turns flirtatious.
Although Nola and Caleb claim they can’t stand each other, they can’t deny the simmering attraction that brought them together in the first place.
Can these nameless pen pals write their own love story—or will they be too caught up with the ghosts of their Christmases past to find a future together?
©2022 Meghan Quinn (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Interior designer Tessa McKenzie has built a good life far from her Washington hometown. She intends to get back to it - as soon as she sells the cluttered Victorian house and antiques shop she inherited from her sister, Emily. But leaving Apple Valley a second time won't be so easy. There's her grieving nephew, Alex, to consider. And there's Sheriff Cade Cunningham, the adolescent crush who could easily break her heart again if she let him.
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good story
- By Amanda Palmer on 02-28-20
By: Shirlee McCoy
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Just Look Up
- By: Courtney Walsh
- Narrated by: Matilda Novak
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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After tirelessly climbing the ranks of her Chicago-based interior design firm, Lane Kelley is about to land her dream promotion when devastating news about her brother draws her back home - a quaint tourist town full of memories she'd just as soon forget. With her cell phone and laptop always within reach, Lane aims to check on her brother while staying focused on work - something her eclectic family doesn't understand.
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Look up, Let Go, Live, Love
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By: Courtney Walsh
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Painting Kisses
- By: Melanie Jacobson
- Narrated by: Aubrey Warner
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Lia Carswell is good at what she does - even if it isn't as glamorous as her old life in Manhattan. The popular waitress works hard in a small Salt Lake City diner, with the goal of easing her sister's financial strain. And with her witty personality and good looks, she's something of an enigma to the male customers who vie for her attention. Ever the professional, Lia keeps her distance - with one exception.
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Scenic Love Story
- By C. Lee on 10-25-23
By: Melanie Jacobson
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Sugar Rush
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- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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When baker extraordinaire Leilani Trusdale left the bustle of New York City for Georgia's sleepy Sugarberry Island, she didn't expect her past to follow. Yet suddenly, her former boss, Baxter Dunne, aka Chef Hot Cakes, the man who taught her everything pastry, wants to film his hit cooking show in her tiny cupcakery. The same Chef Hot Cakes whose molten chocolate-brown eyes and sexy British accent made Lani's mouth water and her cheeks blush the color of raspberry filling - stirring all kinds of kitchen gossip....
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Predictable formula romance.
- By Maggie May on 09-10-14
By: Donna Kauffman
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Kissing the Maid of Honor
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Sela Sullivan is resolved to be the best maid of honor ever, even if it means tolerating the best man. Insufferable, too-handsome Luke Watters is not only the guy who humiliated her at a kissing booth in high school, but he also happens to be her best friend's older brother. Positive he's the same arrogant jock, Sela vows to focus on her duties and steer clear of the frustrating - and frustratingly tempting - Luke.
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Great story but.....
- By Anonymous User on 02-10-21
By: Robin Bielman
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Life Is Strange: Steph's Story
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Setting the stage for her appearance in Life Is Strange: True Colors, this official Steph Gingrich novel sheds light on the Drugstore Makeup years and the story of how Steph crash-landed in Haven Springs, Colorado. Steph Gingrich has finally run out of couches to surf. Now she’s back at her dad’s place in Seattle to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life. When running an RPG session for her local gamer café, Steph meets Izzie. Izzie is electric: a punk, a girl who likes girls, and a hella good guitarist.
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Steph!!!!!
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By: Rosiee Thor
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Happily Ever Afters
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Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She’s rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she’s a true leading lady is in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend. When Tessa is accepted into the creative writing program of a prestigious art school, she’s excited to finally let her stories shine. But when she goes to her first workshop, the words are just...gone. Caroline has a solution: Tessa needs to find some inspiration in a real-life love story of her own.
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The longest disappointment
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By: Elise Bryant
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Ready to Run
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Jordan Carpenter thinks she's finally found the perfect candidate for Jilted, a new dating show about runaway grooms: firefighter Luke Elliott, a known player who's left not one but three brides at the altar. She ends up on a flight to Montana to recruit him in person. It's not Manhattan, but at least the locals in Lucky Hollow seem friendly...except for Luke, who's more intense - and way hotter - than the slick womanizer Jordan expected. Eager to put the past behind him, Luke has zero intention of following this gorgeous, fast-talking city girl back to New York.
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I Fought to Finish This, Took Me Days!
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By: Lauren Layne
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The Bride Wore Chocolate
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Life couldn't be more perfect for Candace Woodrow. Her gourmet gift basket company is thriving, and she's set to marry steady, dependable Barry. There's just one wrench in the fairytale. Two weeks before her wedding she wakes up in the wrong man's bed. Candace thinks she'll be able to run out the door and forget all about Michael Vogler, but the Boston millionaire has other plans for the jittery bride.
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The Author Wore Prejudice
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The Hollow
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When Abbey’s best friend, Kristen, vanishes at the bridge near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, everyone else is all too quick to accept that Kristen is dead, and rumors fly that her death was no accident. Abbey goes through the motions of mourning her best friend, but privately, she refuses to believe that Kristen is really gone. Then she meets Caspian, the gorgeous and mysterious boy who shows up out of nowhere at Kristen’s funeral, and who keeps reappearing in Abbey’s life. Caspian clearly has secrets of his own, but he’s the only person who makes Abbey feel normal again.
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Slow
- By Messerschmidt on 09-08-11
By: Jessica Verday
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Nola Bisley and Caleb Butler were high school sweethearts, an unspecified number of years ago. At the time, they both thought they had what it takes as a couple to go the distance and eventually marry. Unfortunately, Caleb’s view of their potential future was for the two of them to settle down where they grew up, in the fictional town of Bright Harbor, Maine, population 800. This, as it turned out, was not what Nola’s envisioned. Soon after graduation, she declared that she wanted to seek her fortune in New York City. Caleb couldn’t face the potential massive culture shock of moving from their backwater burg to one of the most massive cities in the world. But instead of talking to Nola about his provincial needs, and at least attempting a long-distance relationship, he decided unilaterally that it would be wrong for him to hold her back from her Big City dreams, and callously dumped her, in order to enable her to leave him behind without regret. Naturally enough, since Caleb broke her heart, Nola has strongly resented him all these years. But, unknown to Nola, Caleb broke his heart as well when he rejected her, and he has never ceased to lament the loss of the love of his life.
In the present day, Nola has just been dumped again, this time by her NYC boyfriend who, instead of offering her the marriage proposal she strongly expected, kicked her out of their shared apartment and out of his life. Because she had no place to live, and she is a freelance designer who can work remotely from any location, Nola decided to move back to Bright Harbor. She is currently staying in her childhood home, but it is a huge, gutted mess, because her parents are in the midst of renovating it. They have moved out of the house into a small cottage off the coast of Maine and have turned over the whole renovation project to her. This means her only close relative currently living in Bright Harbor is her Grandma Louise. If it were up to Nola, she would hardly leave the house for two main reasons: (1) She is determined to avoid Caleb at all costs because, even though her parents have lived in tiny Bright Harbor all these years, she has managed to never run into him when she came home for brief visits over the years. (2) In December, Bright Harbor goes all out for Christmas, and Nola is feeling anything but open to holiday cheer. But Grandma Louise puts paid to Nola’s plan to live in Grinch-like seclusion. She insists on dragging Nola out Christmas shopping and, just as Nola feared, she spots Caleb. But before he can see her, too, forcing her to actually speak to him, Nola hides behind a big trash can.
Caleb’s source of income is his father’s hardware store, where he worked all his life, and which he inherited when his father died. It is centrally located on the main street of town, and the highly efficient local grapevine has made him well aware that Nola is back in town for a protracted stay. His conscience has been nagging him that he owes her a long-overdue apology but, so far, he has been unable to bring himself to the sticking point. As a result, guilt and dread have dragged down his mood, to the point that all of the local Christmas jollity scrapes on his nerves. One day, while sitting behind the counter in his store and listening to the Christmas carols relentlessly blasting outside his door, he impulsively writes a letter addressed to “Christmas,” in which he describes everything he dislikes about it. He signs the letter, “Resting Scrooge Face,” then tosses it into the trash. Unknown to Caleb, the town’s busybody mailman, seventy-year-old Arden, retrieves Caleb’s letter from the bin where he threw it, places it in a Christmassy, green envelope, and delivers the letter to Nola. She is so delighted with the fact that the sentiments of her anonymous pen pal exactly echo her own, that she writes a reply on fancy, gold stationary, and gives it to Arden to deliver to RSF. And thus begins a fun, anonymous correspondence between the two exes.
This romantic comedy is written as partly, typical, on-stage dialogue and action, and partly as letters—actual, hand-written letters, not texts or emails, which has almost never been used as a plot device in epistolary romance novels since the dawn of the email and texting eras. This is a short story rather than a complete novel, but the author does full justice to its homage to the 1998 Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movie, “You’ve Got Mail.” (Which is, by the way, a remake of the 1940 movie with Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, “Shop around the Corner,” which had another remake in 1949 with Judy Garland and Van Johnson, “In the Good Old Summertime.”) The premise of this popular, “enemies to lovers” plot is that the two protagonists can’t stand each other in person, but they fall in love via an anonymous correspondence. Neither protagonist is aware, until the very end of the story, that their beloved pen pal and their obnoxious enemy is one and the same.
For humor, this romantic comedy relies on multiple instances of slapstick. The main conflict keeping Nola and Caleb apart is that each behaves in a childishly antagonistic manner that causes them to heartily dislike each other, until they finally decide, at the very end of the story, to have a mature, honest, vulnerable conversation with each other that allows them to clear up their past, disastrous misunderstanding and move forward into the HEA that is an expected, crucial trope of the romance genre.
I gained access to this story through the Amazon Prime Reading Library. It was offered to me simultaneously in both Kindle and Audiobook format, via Whispersync. The audiobook version is narrated by two talented, voice actors, Carly Robins and Aaron Shedlock. They do an excellent job bringing this story to life.
Finally, there is no sex in this Hallmark-style, small-town romance, only a mild, passion-free kiss at the very end. There is also no cussing, no drinking and no smoking. Romance fans looking for a low-angst, G-rated, Christmas romance will very likely enjoy this pleasant, lightly entertaining story.
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- Heidi
- 12-24-22
Cute little Christmas romance
Aaron Sherlock and Carly Robins did an excellent job narrating this novella by Meghan Quinn. It is like a Hallmark movie mated with Shop Around the Corner (the original You've Got Mail). It doesn't have the romance scenes we usually see from a Quinn book; this is really a cute, clean, anonymous letters type story. Not my favorite ever, but there was also nothing wrong with it!
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- Kristin L.
- 12-09-22
Fun holiday novella
Such a fun and quick read. Caleb and Nola aren’t feeling the Christmas spirit. When someone plays a little matchmaker in the form of a nameless pen pal, they soon realize their feelings for one another are still strong . Carly Robins and Aaron Sherlock did a great job portraying these characters.
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- Kristen Stepp
- 12-11-22
Short and Sweet
Cute, short, and sweet! Prefect Christmas Novella. And the best of Meghan Quinn’s writing as expected.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-12-22
Excellent!
This Christmas story actually had the season as a near constant backdrop. I’ve listened to a lot of Christmas books that giving a passing nod to the season, but really could have taken place anytime. Since I use the stories to try to boost that Christmas feeling, I’m often disappointed. Not with this story. It’s quick, but great! No spice, but very sweet. I usually don’t like squeaky clean books, but this one was enjoyable. Narrated were perfect!
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- Nathalia Panesi
- 11-30-22
super cute
this one was lovely.
i wish he had a bit more about them.
quick, sweet and fun.
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- jenn_loves_2_read
- 12-05-22
Short and sweet holiday story
This was a cute second chances friends to enemies to lovers story done in dual narration. The narrators brought this story to life! If you’re short on time, this is a great choice!
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- Nikki Yoder
- 12-02-22
So cute
I live MQ and Aaron and Carly rocked it as usual. A great, quick listen to start off Dec.
It has all the aspects you’d expect from a MQ novel. Sweet, funny, and heart warming.
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- Elizabeth
- 12-01-22
Hilarious & Sweet Holiday Romance
I love Meghan Quinn’s writing, so this was a one-click audio for me. Resting Scrooge Face is a clever, hilarious, cheeky second-chance romance! The premise was sweet, the romance is cute AF, and the narration is perfection! Aaron Shedlock and Carly Robins bring this novella to life with sweet holiday charm and lighthearted fun! This is a Christmas must-listen!
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- Jena Hay
- 12-31-22
Entertaining
Entertains . Light easy to listen to story about the holiday season . Will make you smile .
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