holiday matsuri 2022

Author: Cindy Spencer Pape firmly believes in happily-ever-after and brings that to her writing. A multiple award-winning author, she has published almost sixty novels and stories. When not hard at work writing, she can be found restoring her 1870 house, dressing up for steampunk parties and Renaissance fairs, or with her nose buried in a book. Visit her website: www.cindyspencerpape.com. Holiday Hearts Follow the five Holiday siblings as they find romance one by one. Between holiday magic and scorching passion, each of them find and fight for the loves of their lives. Yuletide Enchantment: Noel Holiday doesn’t like Christmas. When he finds himself trapped in a magical Christmas village with sweet and steamy Shelby Carter, the season suddenly becomes spicy. While they figure out the magic, they also discover passion like they’ve never known. Like Bunnies Star Holiday wants some time alone, so she heads to her family’s cabin for a few days. After a car accident, something changes. Star is suddenly a rabbit—four paws, fluffy tail and all. When she doesn’t check in, her brothers send her ex-boyfriend to check on her. Veterinarian Theo Morgan picks up the injured bunny and carries it into the cabin, only to discover the rabbit in his arms turns into Star as soon as they cross the threshold. The Holiday family agic forces the two to stay together. They have plenty of time to talk about their relationship. If they bother to spend time talking instead of making love. Valentine’s Heart Computer guru Valentine Holiday doesn’t have time for love. When a computer dating service sets him up with overworked social worker Corazon Lopez, Val can’t figure out what’s going on. Neither can Cora. They meet to discuss it and the sparks fly—all the way to a tropical paradise perfectly designed for passion. Midsummer Dreams Summer Holiday has had dreams of Matt Warren since she was six years old. The dreams aged along with her, taking her and Matt from childhood friends to voracious lovers. Matt knows Summer is real, and now that he’s out of the military, he comes to Charleston looking for his soulmate. Once they meet in the flesh, Summer has to decide if Matt really is the man for her. All Hallow’s Evie Sam Holiday’s new house is haunted. Soon he meets the ghost—a beautiful woman named Evie Bonnell. Evie’s unfinished business is that she died a virgin. Over the days leading up to Halloween, Sam agrees to teach her about the pleasure she missed in her lifetime. His only problem is that he doesn’t want her to disappear after her wish is granted.

When Omega Lily Evans returns to her hometown for Christmas after five years away, she brings more than just gifts; she is parenting Alpha Dominic Stone's secret kid, the man who destroyed her heart. Everyone knows Dominic never sleeps with the same woman again, but he couldn't get away from Lily until he unexpectedly married someone else. Lily has forged a new life as a respected defense attorney, but fate has other plans when she realizes her true match is Dominic's cousin, Ethan, a charming hockey star with his own holiday traumas. As the holiday season pulls them together, Dominic learns about Lily's return and the child he never knew existed. With two men vying for her heart - one by former passion and one by genuine mate link - Lily must pick her path while protecting her daughter. Will Christmas magic mend old wounds, or will ancient werewolf traditions rip them apart?

It’s the holiday season and while Jasmine, is shopping for presents, she accidentally bumps into a handsome and charming Jasper. She breaks the expensive crystal glass swan he had just purchased! Unable to pay him back, they make a deal. she will pretend to be his girlfriend and accompany him home to meet his parents. But what if his parents aren’t human? and what if she's isn't ordinary too?.

When Wynter almost lost everything, and the only thing that's holding her together is a promise to someone she holds dear in her heart, then someone comes along and sweeps her off her feet in a whirlwind romance, will she choose her heart or her mind?

Roset only planned a short holiday abroad. But when bombs destroy her homeland overnight, she becomes a refugee in a country that is not her own, grieving, lost, and with no family left. The government offers her one impossible choice: enter a program that matches refugees with citizens seeking wives, move to a remote town, and help rebuild the future… or face a life of uncertainty and exile. Her new husband, Hino, is kind but a stranger. Their marriage begins as survival but slowly, through shared meals, quiet traditions, and the birth of their daughter, something deeper begins to grow. Just as Roset begins to believe she has found a new home, a single message shatters her world again: her brother, thought to be dead, is alive. Bringing him into her fragile new family means confronting old grief, new bonds, and the challenge of blending the past with the future she is building. From the ruins of loss to the quiet peace of a rural life, this is a story of resilience, love born from necessity, and the family you create when the world takes everything away. What does it mean to start over when your past still lingers and can a heart scarred by loss truly learn to feel whole again?

Her life is suffering at sixes and sevens yet, In her guise, those eight years, she thought the life she lead was already measured , visualising the future possibilities of being maverick and headstrong. Shana Mish, an average teenage girl, demanded an intense drastic change from her life and became far more resilient than her divorced parents could realise. Natheless, those imperishable truths cause continual troubles to her. Her old days are comparable to an indelible marker pen, making marks that cannot be removed. And a little more to spill the beans, those are just the scenes depicting her nostalgic sketches. Her life turned out to be restyled after she met two boys. Will there be a fortunate stroke of serendipity or deal with some more life-threatening consequences. Read 'Autumn Days' to find out more.

Tracy is looking for the perfect holiday gift, but instead finds something she never expected... A collide, a shatter, and a sexy stranger with a proposition. James is tired of his parents never-ending requests to find a bride, but this time they're bringing all eligible girls to their pack and demanding he chooses by Christmas. What will they do when he shows up with a date of his own? Will he be able to convince his parents that this human girl is the one he has chosen? What happens when a lie becomes truth and then frightening secrets are revealed? Does love conquer all?

It’s the holiday season and while Jasmine, is shopping for presents, she accidentally bumps into a handsome and charming Jasper. She breaks the expensive crystal glass swan he had just purchased! Unable to pay him back, they make a deal. she will pretend to be his girlfriend and accompany him home to meet his parents. But what if his parents aren’t human? and what if she's isn't ordinary too?.

Christmas is just a trap designed to sell candles and make single people feel bad about themselves." — Clark Vega Cole, Lawyer. She doesn't do Christmas at all. Feelings, small towns, and guys on motorcycles are also not her thing. For some reason, she has to let a rough, charming, and incredibly good-looking biker named Ryder Kane help her when her car breaks down in the middle of Millbrook on Christmas Eve. Millbrook is the state's most over-the-top holiday town. He's more than just a man with a motorcycle and a nice smile. He runs Millbrook's well-liked shop and is kind of like the town's guardian, but he has secrets as deep as the December snow. When a blizzard locks Vega in town and a case she's been chasing for months suddenly ties directly to Ryder's past, the lines between enemy and friend begin to blur in the most dangerous way. As Christmas lights shine, secrets come to light, and sparks fly through the cold winter air, Vega has to make a choice: Will she fight this feeling with all her might, or will she finally let someone in? One car that isn't working. One small Christmas town. One biker who sees right through her armor. Love doesn't wait for the right moment — sometimes it arrives covered in snow and motor oil.

Three superheroes in love! Or one superhero, one former sidekick, and one redeemed supervillain, at least.<br><br>Ryan, John, and Holiday have been partners -- in every sense of the word -- for two years. They’ve saved the world, fallen in love, and remodeled the secret base to include bookshelves and a bigger bed.<br><br>But Ryan and John have always been the public face of the team. The world still believes Holiday’s a villain. And he’s been using that reputation to stay undercover and share information. Tonight, though, Holiday comes home injured, and his partners aren’t sure the mission’s worth his life.<br><br>Caution: this story also contains lasagna, superhero theatrics, home renovation, a thunderstorm, and very enjoyable use of superpowers in bed.