Accompanied by recipes from the authors' kitchens, a collection of Christmas stories including "The Christmas Stocking," in which a high-powered businesswoman finds unexpected love during her quest to raise money for a new seniors' center.

Tall, fit, and with a large house on considerable acreage, Thor Spicer was exactly the same man Pepper had been looking for when she placed her ad--for a dog sitter. But Thor senses it's Pepper herself who really needs his attention. For beneath her globe-trotting, adventure-seeking lifestyle, Pepper is running. And for the first time in a long while, she realizes that it just might be possible to stop and face what she fears the most ... losing her...

Globe-trotting photographer Danielle doesn't think she'll survive six weeks in New Orleans, babysitting her sister's five children. She needs help-- and tall, dark, Cajun Remy Doucet is convinced she needs more than a nanny ...

Headstrong heiress Sharisse Hammond wants no part of the New York society marriage that has been arranged for her. So she heads west across a vast and dangerous land -- with no intention of honoring her agreement to become the mail-order bride of a rugged Arizona rancher. But Lucas Holt needs a wife -- any wife -- if his plan to destroy his most hated enemy is to succeed. And this gullible Eastern lady would do quite nicely. However, their separate...