Sellwood Novella

"Deck the halls with boughs of holly..."It's time to put down roots, and all Victoria Cahil wants is to keep the promise she made to her eight-year-old niece, MacKenzie. They would spend Christmas Eve in their new Queen Anne colonial home. There was only one hitch in her plan. The house needs more work than she anticipated, and Chief Deputy Gavin Stevens has put the derelict house on his "dangerous buildings" list. Okay with his bachelor status, Gavin hasn't given a second thought to finding a family of his own...or the love of a good woman. He's survived being orphaned at a young age, Marine boot camp, three tours in a war zone, and is not often taken by surprise. But when a fiesty house renovator calls him on the carpet for condemning the sow's ear she's determined to make into a silk purse, he begins to wonder. Can he survive the provocative Tori Cahil with his heart...and bachelorhood intact during a holiday season when Christmas miracles are practically the norm? Heartwarming stories about family...community...and the journey home

When friends become lovers, is there a chance friendship can turn into something more? Cyber security consultant, Sloane Cooper is dumped by her wanna-be politician boyfriend, his parting shot-not only are you the worst girlfriend I've ever had, but you're a lousy kisser, too! So she turns to game developer Miles Preston for "kissing lessons", but very quickly realizes, though there's a surprising attraction there, playing kissing games with her safe, easy-to-talk-to best friend isn't the solution to her problem. Who is the real Sloane Cooper? For two years Miles has been Sloane's best friend while he watched her playhouse with another guy. Secretly he's wanted more, but never once thought he'd catch her on the rebound. How does he convince the enchanting woman steamy kisses are not enough? Helping her open a cyber cafe is a start, but the real fun begins when he hires her to alpha test his new game. Traditional wooing won't work. Can a few well chosen gaming obstacles do the trick instead?

Romance versus Science. Which one will win? The love of Lacey Daniels life is her comic strip, Love Lessons 101, with principle players, Georgette and Frank, more like real people than made-up characters. Georgette wants a man. And not just any man. A real man who can weather life's storm. Lacey just wants to make the old-fashioned idea of courtship look sexy and fun for her readers, and she wants national syndication. Two things stand in her way. A contrived contest pitting her romance against the science of a new book, The Power Of Pheromones. And the book's author, hunky, catch-your-breath Zane Tyler. Zane Tyler's mission is to give his sister and niece a stable, comfortable life. When he literally bumps into a beautiful stranger on the way to giving a lecture on how women choose their mates by smell, he's surprised to learn she makes a living by promoting old-fashioned romance as the primary ingredient to finding that one special person. Before he can get out of the line of fire, he's caught up in a battle of words that quickly escalates into a hokey competition where he has to come out the winner or lose everything he's worked so hard to build.