Christmas Stories

[AMBASSADORS PICKS 2025 - DECEMBER DREAMS] Amelia Garner is a small-town bakery owner with too much sweetness in her heart and too much flour on her hands. When an anonymous order for twelve Christmas cookies arrives, she thinks it's just another delivery. But behind the wrong address and a guarded stranger's door, Amelia's life begins to change, one cookie at a time. ♡ A Christmas story about love, healing, and the gentle magic of kindness. Twelve cookies. One winter. A love that melts the cold. (UNDER EDITING) _______ #1in christmas #1in december #5 in cookies #9 in kindness #1 in bakery #3 in simple

Kelly just wants her business to succeed, and getting involved with a bodyguard is not part of her plan - but he is the only one who can keep her safe... ***** Kelly Harris is determined to make her antiques business a success. She won't let Tanner, a bodyguard who likes first edition poetry books, interfere with her life. But winning a mystery box at an auction changes everything. With Tanner working alongside her, they decipher the code in a forgotten journal, uncovering a young girl's journey to freedom and a powerful family's secret. Working for a high-profile security company, Tanner has seen the worst that humanity can do. He doesn't believe in love. But when disaster strikes, he finds himself doing everything he can to keep Kelly safe - even if that means letting her into the most vulnerable part of who he is. Leeanna Morgan is a USA Today Bestselling Author.

What would you do if your worst enemy broke your only rule? And what would you do if your frienemy won't speak to you because of it? ~ Nathaniel "Nate" Quinn and Samuel "Sam" Watson are the pinnacle of Brookfell Academy excellence. For the past five years, they've been locked in battle of teasing and one upmanship to the joy and entertainment of the student body. They have one rule - they don't mess with friends and family. This is between them and them alone. So when Nate breaks their rule by accident on Brookfell's 'Family Night', everything falls apart. Sam shuts him out with quiet vigor, their rivalry dead to him. Nate, desperate for their back-and-forth to return, proposes something drastic: to make things right, Nate will be at Sam's whim for a month, doing anything and everything he says within reason. Sam begrudgingly accepts, with serious consequences if Nate fails. And as their arrangement plays out, and Brookfell Academy gets let out for winter break, the line between 'rival' and whatever they could've been starts to blur. As high heels, snowstorms, and music pass between them, it becomes apparent that their feelings have been ignored or left unchecked, and things start bubbling to the surface. ~ All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976

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As a brutal winter settles over Albuquerque in November 2004, eighteen-year-old archaeology student and gifted burglar Therese Monet would rather spend her days buried in forgotten history than talking to people. She found an unlikely home among the residents of the Juniper House in Nob Hill. When a celebrated local developer threatens to force everyone onto the street, a confrontation ends with the man dead. Enter Keziah Darkholme, a nineteen-year-old reanimated corpse who would prefer not to draw attention to the fact that he technically died and came back wrong. As he rents a room in the Juniper House, Keziah is focused on keeping his head down and questions. Unfortunately, staying invisible becomes much harder when he witnesses what Therese did. As the two scramble to stay ahead of the police, they discover the developer's death has attracted the attention of powerful people far more interested in what he left behind than in how he died. Every clue leads deeper into New Mexico's forgotten past, where stolen antiquities, buried secrets, and dangerous folklore refuse to stay buried. What began as a desperate attempt to save the Juniper House becomes a fight to survive a conspiracy that has hidden in plain sight for generations. And the closer Therese and Keziah come to the truth, the more they suspect their home is somehow part of it.

A collection of snapshots set before, during, and after the events of the completed novel The Long Summer. While many can be enjoyed on their own, they expand the world, characters, and history of the Romanov family, revealing the moments that shaped their lives-and the legacy they leave behind.

Tracy is a small town girl with modest ambitions. She bumps heads with her boss, Duncan, a privileged techie when she gets an internship in San Francisco. The two do not see eye to eye until a surprise business trip to Tracy's hometown gradually turns things around. Or, at least, that's what Duncan thought until Tracy's odd relationship with Winter comes forth. Could twelve days of Winter festivities melt the ice between them?

(Cover image not mine, belongs to Katogi Mari. I'm a HUGE fan of the Nutcracker since childhood and would like to write my own version someday. For now, I want to write this fanfic because I'm not the only one who wants this.) Long before Clara Stahlbaum was born, Drosselmeyer had another goddaughter from the Silberhaus family. One eerie night, when she was very little she heard the chanting of mice. That was many Christmases ago and has completely forgotten about it. Now a beautiful young lady of age 17, who pitifully grew ill and weak in her legs. How she envies her female cousins, who dance elegantly every year at their Christmas party. She yearns for a suitor who will carefully guide her weak body. This year, however, the Mouse King has his sights on her . . . A tale that resembles the classic yet with an alluring, dark twist. (This isn't for a specific version of any "The Nutcracker" just something in general if that makes sense. It's an original story with references to other versions of the classic ballet tale.)

Betrayed by her childhood crush who married her best friend behind her back, Gemma flees from her village into the night. Winter is near, she expects the blizzard to be her end, but instead, she wakes up in the sanctuary of a mysterious, winter kingdom. She didn't know that she was rescued when she is asleep by a Snow Prince named Kairan.. Can a heart that's once shattered like glass.. Find warmth and most impossibly, love.. In a realm where Winter reigns?..

After Maya Abadi and her school deal with a shared traumatic experience, she decides to form an optional group where they share thoughts and attempt to stop this from happening again. Little does she know, only a few people would want to join, and this might form a new unbreakable bond between them. Could this be the start of something?

A Rewrite of PJ masks Vivi and Emily save Christmas: Vivi's having trouble plucking up the courage to ask a Certain hero something While Emi is hiding something from her, can These two twins talk and sort out their differences in Order to Save Christmas from Romeo? Find out in: PJ masks: A Gem of a Christmas.

It's that time again Sonic and his friends are getting together for the holiday. Bertram breaks up with his girlfriend Jemima he's had enough of her lack of maturity. They are doing secret Santa this year. Sonic and friends are hoping their Christmas doesn't go wrong like the Griswold family from Vacation.

Un año después del trato bajo el muérdago, él vuelve por Navidad... con una vida nueva, alguien a su lado y un silencio que duele más que la distancia. Ella intenta seguir adelante, pero algo entre ellos sigue ardiendo bajo la superficie. Y esta vez, la Navidad traerá verdades, choques, decisiones... y una sorpresa capaz de cambiarlo todo.

They say the best chemistry can't be faked. Eric Winter and Melissa O'Neil have spent years proving it, Tim and Lucy's slow-burn romance spilling over into interviews, behind-the-scenes laughs, and that effortless way they lean into each other on red carpets. Fans eat it up and the internet calls it "Chenford magic." But magic has a shadow. What happens when the kisses stop being just for the script? When one of them pulls away to protect the other? When a convention in a cold German city forces them face-to-face with everything they've been avoiding? A hallway that's too quiet. A panel where tears fall and a hand reaches out. A word that changes the air between them forever.

It was a Christmas Crisis, Scott Calvin had unknowingly agreed to become Santa after he fell off his roof, but he wasn't alone that night, an elf fell with him and Scott's eldest child, Abigail, also unknowingly agreed to become Santa's Helper and Guardian of Wonder. For a year, the two go through ups and downs as they make the changes into Santa and his Helper, and along the way, Abigail falls in love.

Isabella is an ex marine who just accepted a job offer the minute her feet touch civil ground. She accepts it seeing that this gig is for the one and only Taylor Swift. Isa is struggling with what she witnessed out at war. She refuses to sleep, her muscles always aching from training always. Taylor is a world renowned pop star who finds herself crushing hard on the military bodyguard who refuses to show any other emotion that stoic. What happens after Taylor's friends decide to play match makers? One night they decide to put the idea into Taylor's hands and dare her to ask the bodyguard on a date. Will the pop star and military guard make it work? Or will this be a fire untamable?

The Christmas Holidays are back and so is Draco! He returns from college expecting a nice holiday at home but in fact his home as been invaded by Harry Potter. The strange boy with the most beautiful smile. Draco is afraid of change but maybe this one just might be worth it.

Transferring to Hogwarts in the middle of her fourth year was never part of Eliza Nightshade's plan. Quiet, brilliant, and far more comfortable with books than people, Eliza quickly finds herself navigating a castle full of moving staircases, curious classmates, and one particularly insufferable Slytherin. Draco Malfoy is arrogant, infuriating, and exactly the kind of person she'd rather avoid. Professor Snape, unfortunately, has other ideas. When a year-long Potions Championship forces Hogwarts' most infuriating Slytherin and its quietest witch (Eliza) to work together. Between late-night study sessions, anonymous violin music, snowy walks through the castle, and a black cat that refuses to tolerate Draco's existence, they discover that some of the best friendships begin with terrible first impressions. Hogwarts had a curious way of pairing strangers until they became friends 💚🧪✨

Miraculous Luka/Viperion and Zoe/Vesperia romantic fan fiction that fell in love similar to the original love square. Vesperia liking Viperion, while Luka likes Zoe. Both united to help Luka's friend (a new made up character), who couldn't get Chloe out of his head. There will be fighting crime scenes and mysteries like an anonymous designer, fashion show, music and Christmas vibes. 🚨Cover made by: @WonderPrincess2🚨

Previously titled The Snow Globe. Mistletoe, a young ice elf, holds the key to a magical snow globe in the Valley of Stars, which also happens to be the home of many ice elves and a white palace engulfed with pink roses and a green clearing. There is also a quest to complete with a golden crested sword, a missing prince and an evil twisted plot to destroy the kingdom. Every Christmas Eve, she makes a wish upon her snow globe, and hopes it comes true. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. However, one day the snow globe goes missing and a scavenger hunt begins to look for it... However, when the Snow Globe goes missing, The Sugar Plum Fairy enlists the help of Mistletoe and a young girl named Clara who is destined to find the missing snow globe before midnight on Christmas Day.