Peppermint Twist Kisses

By Sarita Leone

All Amia wants is to deliver her special peppermint twist cookies to her beloved Baba Sophie. Unfortunately, Mother Nature isn't cooperating!

Holiday from the holiday? That's what businessman Luke has planned--a quiet Christmas alone at his cabin north of New York City.

But when the two become seatmates on a snowy flight they are forced to return to the city--cookieless-- in a blizzard. Holiday magic means there's more than snow in the air on Christmas Eve!

• Language: Unknown
• Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
• Release date: Dec 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9781509246090

Book preview

When she turned her head, her hair brushed his shoulder. First Class afforded extra passenger room, but she leaned his way while he tilted hers. The way he saw it, this was the optimal situation for getting to know a beautiful woman better.

Okay, I can go for that. Sending good vibes out beats worrying about being jammed in here during a snowstorm with all the holiday travelers. You know they’ll be super annoyed if the planes stop flying.

A stream of boarding passengers stood in a line down the center of the plane, no longer moving but jostling each other and those who sat in aisle seats. A large man bumped the back of the seat ahead of him with a bulging gray backpack while the traveler standing at his shoulder hit him with her handbag, so he angled his body closer to the woman beside him.

Luke agreed. There would be more discontent inside the airport terminal than he wanted to deal with if people were stranded over the holiday.

Yeah, there might even be a unicorn uprising.

Amia tilted her head back and laughed, and the sound came so fresh and pure it swept every other bit of plane boarding noise away. An elderly man in the aisle met his eyes and winked, approval of his choice of companion.

Oh, you saw that, did you? She tapped his shoulder with hers and sent a tingle dancing along his spine.

He grinned. Hard to miss a service unicorn.

Praise for Sarita Leone

Christmas in Wylder - Again, author Leone treats the reader to a story filled with non-stop action as well as a deep and touching romance as it develops between two people who, while brutalized in the past, come to find in each other a balm for more than just a broken heart. Well done!

~Wild Women Reviews

A Wylder Christmas - This was a great Christmas story. It keeps the reader interested all the way through to the end. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. If you love Christmas and romantic westerns, then you will definitely want to read this book.

~Sherrie Lea Morgan

Peppermint Twist Kisses

by

Sarita Leone

Christmas Cookies Series

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.

Peppermint Twist Kisses

COPYRIGHT © 2022 by Sarita Leone

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the author or The Wild Rose Press, Inc. except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

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Cover Art by Tina Lynn Stout

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Publishing History

First Edition, 2022

Digital ISBN 978-1-5092-4609-0

Published in the United States of America

Dedication

For Vito

Sempre per sempre

Chapter 1

Queens, New York

Amia Grinche handed the driver a fifty-dollar bill and stepped from the taxi onto the sidewalk, holding the bakery box filled with peppermint twist kiss cookies close to her chest. She turned, leaned in, and reached for her carryon bag. A touch of her thumb sent the luggage handle sliding upward so she rolled it toward the back of the vehicle and waited for the driver to open the trunk.

Instead, the man pulled out into traffic. He’d taken the big, fat Christmas Eve tip she’d just handed over and dashed.

Stop! Her voice cracked