But guests are expecting a Christmas Eve wedding...!
What could be more romantic than a Christmas wedding at a ski lodge in Lake Placid? Well, if there actually was a wedding, for one thing! Three stories about getting love right over the holidays by USA TODAY bestselling author Kristine Rolofson and award-winners Karen Rock and Jennifer Snow.
The Kiss: A bride runs into her ex...and takes the ultimate gamble!
The Wish: An event planner sprains her ankle...and the chef asserts control.
The Promise: A maid of honor dodges an ex-boyfriend out to right a past wrong...
USA TODAY bestselling author KRISTINE ROLOFSON has written more than forty books for Harlequin. She and her husband call Rhode Island, Texas and Idaho home, depending on the time of year. When not writing, Kristine quilts, bakes peach pies, and plays lap steel guitar and fiddle in a country blues band. She collects vintage cowboy boots and is learning to yodel in order to sing “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart.”
KAREN ROCK is an award-winning young adult and adult contemporary romance author. She holds a master’s degree in English and worked as an ELA instructor before becoming a full-time writer. Currently she writes for Harlequin Heartwarming and has published five novels with them. Her first novel for the line, Wish Me Tomorrow, won the 2014 Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence and the 2014 Golden Quill Contest. Her novel A League of Her Own is currently a finalist in the 2015 Booksellers’ Best and National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award contests.
JENNIFER SNOW lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with her husband and five-year-old son. She is a member of the Writers Guild of Alberta, the Romance Writers of America, the Canadian Author Association and shewrites.org. A regular columnist on Working Writers and Writer’s Fun Zone, she is also a contributing author to Mslexia magazine, WestWord magazine and RWR. Her Brookhollow series books have been finalists in the 2014 Golden Quill Contest, the 2014 Heart of Denver Aspen Gold Contest, the 2015 Booksellers’ Best Award, the 2015 Still Moments Magazine Review Awards and the 2015 Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence. Check out jennifersnowauthor.com.
HEARTWARMING
Winter Wedding Bells
USA TODAY Bestselling Author
The Kiss
Kristine Rolofson
The Wish
Karen Rock
The Promise
Jennifer Snow
Table of Contents
The Kiss
Dear Reader
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Wish
Dedication
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
The Promise
Acknowledgments
Dear Reader
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
To Greg, the one who didn’t get away. You’ve had my heart for twenty years and always will.
At the end of fifth grade, my father got a promotion that meant relocating from our Long Island home to Rouses Point, a town in upstate New York. My teacher pulled down a map and grabbed her pointer. She said, “Let’s start where Karen lives now.” Our eyes followed along with the pointer as it trailed up, up, up along the Hudson River, didn’t stop at Albany and continued alongside Lake George and then Lake Champlain, stopping at the very top right corner of New York state.
The class gasped. I held my breath. “Whoa,” “Wow,” “Far out” (it was the late ’70s) exploded in the classroom as my friends crowded the map while I sat frozen at my desk. We weren’t just moving. We were falling off the face of the earth. Little did I know that my suburban sprawl of a life would be transformed into a lush, verdant wilderness filled with otherworldly outdoor beauty. I fell in love with the Adirondacks and have lived here ever since. When we contemplated where to set this anthology, a gorgeous hotel and spa, The Mirror Lake Inn, came to mind, as it’s a veritable winter wonderland on Mirror Lake complete with sleigh rides, skating on the lake, dog-sled rides, snow-covered spruce-tree-lined paths, a roaring fire and cocoa at the ready. I hope you enjoy “living” in my hometown while reading our stories as I do!
Karen Rock
JULIE BARRETT STRUGGLED in a net of white tulle, snared like a winter rabbit.
“I can’t breathe.” She threw back her veil, avoiding her reflection in the hotel suite’s mirror as a local seamstress executed Julie’s final wedding-dress fitting. Everything about the gown seemed wrong. Too