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    Under The Mistletoe
    Vermont Valentine
    Where There's Smoke
    Ebook series5 titles

    Holiday Hearts Series

    By Kristin Hardy

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    About this series


    Had his ship finally come in?

    For Christopher Trask, it was beginning to look that way. Though his professional life might be a shambles, his Valentine's Day family reunion on the high seas was looking most promising especially once he met fellow passenger Larkin Hayes. The beautiful "it" girl was there to keep an eye on her often remarried father. But Christopher couldn't keep his eyes off her.

    Larkin was suspicious of Christopher from the start and her father falling for his aunt was certainly complicating matters! Still, a cruise ship wasn't real life and Christopher could kiss her senseless. So what was the harm in a little holiday fun? Surely her common sense would return once she was back on dry land.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateDec 1, 2002
    Under The Mistletoe
    Vermont Valentine
    Where There's Smoke

    Titles in the series (5)

    • 1

      Where There's Smoke
      Where There's Smoke

      Where There's Smoke

      Kristin Hardy
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      ONCE BURNED If Sloane Hillyard's invention saved the life of one fire–fighter, it would be worth everything even if it was too late to save her own brother. But her biggest hurdle lay ahead: To convince sensual, sceptical Captain Nick Trask to give it a chance without getting burned herself . As for Nick, he could walk into a burning building, no problem. But the inferno that Sloane ignited presented a different type of challenge. Still, he was up for it. Now all he had to do was convince Sloane it was possible to enjoy the warmth of the fire without getting consumed by the flames .

      ONCE BURNED If Sloane Hillyard's invention saved the life of one fire–fighter, it would be worth everything even if it was too late to save her own brother. But her biggest hurdle lay ahead: To convince sensual, sceptical Captain Nick Trask to give it a chance without getting burned herself . As for Nick, he could walk into a burning building, no problem. But the inferno that Sloane ignited presented a different type of challenge. Still, he was up for it. Now all he had to do was convince Sloane it was possible to enjoy the warmth of the fire without getting consumed by the flames .

    • 2

      Under The Mistletoe
      Under The Mistletoe

      Under The Mistletoe

      Kristin Hardy
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      HE GAVE NEW MEANING TO THE TERM TURNDOWN SERVICE The devastatingly handsome manager of the Hotel Mount Jefferson, Gabe Trask, was all too eager to offer a wide array of amenities to Hadley Stone when he thought she was just a holiday guest. But once he learned that she was really there as a representative of the cost–cutting management company that had just acquired his hotel, Hadley expected Gabe to really be on her case. And he was just not in the way she'd imagined . For Gabe knew that despite all her down–to–business, cost–cutting talk, Hadley was a romantic at heart one whom he was inexplicably finding hard to resist. And he could see in her eyes that the feeling was becoming mutual. Now all he had to do was convince her to check her business instincts at the door and focus on the personal .

      HE GAVE NEW MEANING TO THE TERM TURNDOWN SERVICE The devastatingly handsome manager of the Hotel Mount Jefferson, Gabe Trask, was all too eager to offer a wide array of amenities to Hadley Stone when he thought she was just a holiday guest. But once he learned that she was really there as a representative of the cost–cutting management company that had just acquired his hotel, Hadley expected Gabe to really be on her case. And he was just not in the way she'd imagined . For Gabe knew that despite all her down–to–business, cost–cutting talk, Hadley was a romantic at heart one whom he was inexplicably finding hard to resist. And he could see in her eyes that the feeling was becoming mutual. Now all he had to do was convince her to check her business instincts at the door and focus on the personal .

    • 3

      Vermont Valentine
      Vermont Valentine

      Vermont Valentine

      Kristin Hardy
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      ?IN EVERY GENERATION OF TRASKS LIVES ONE MAN BORN TO BE ALONE .? And Jacob was clearly his generation's representative. Because while his brothers sought their livelihoods and loves elsewhere, he knew he had to stay where he belonged. Where he was needed. And where eligible women were as rare as an eighty–degree day in January And then came a possible danger to his beloved family farm. The bearer of bad news? A petite, gorgeous, non–stop talker named Celie Favreau. And though captivated by Jacob's rugged good looks and piercing blue eyes, she had to stay on track. She'd come to warn of a threat to his trees. The threat to his heart was merely incidental .

      ?IN EVERY GENERATION OF TRASKS LIVES ONE MAN BORN TO BE ALONE .? And Jacob was clearly his generation's representative. Because while his brothers sought their livelihoods and loves elsewhere, he knew he had to stay where he belonged. Where he was needed. And where eligible women were as rare as an eighty–degree day in January And then came a possible danger to his beloved family farm. The bearer of bad news? A petite, gorgeous, non–stop talker named Celie Favreau. And though captivated by Jacob's rugged good looks and piercing blue eyes, she had to stay on track. She'd come to warn of a threat to his trees. The threat to his heart was merely incidental .

    • 4

      Under His Spell
      Under His Spell

      Under His Spell

      Kristin Hardy
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      5/5

      BEWITCHED Sure, Lainie Trask had a crush on J. J. Cooper. When she was twelve! But growing up, Lainie had watched the sexy athlete narrow his focus to World Cup skiing and women, not necessarily in that order. So her interest in J.J. was a thing of the past. Because Lainie of all people knew the dangers of being under someone's spell. But now the long–time Lothario was changing with the autumn leaves. Sidelined by an injury, J.J. had downtime to figure out his next step and evidently Lainie was it! With Halloween approaching, he prepared to take offthe mask and show her how loving and sensitive the real J. J. Cooper could be . HOLIDAY HEARTS Because there's no place like home for the holidays

      BEWITCHED Sure, Lainie Trask had a crush on J. J. Cooper. When she was twelve! But growing up, Lainie had watched the sexy athlete narrow his focus to World Cup skiing and women, not necessarily in that order. So her interest in J.J. was a thing of the past. Because Lainie of all people knew the dangers of being under someone's spell. But now the long–time Lothario was changing with the autumn leaves. Sidelined by an injury, J.J. had downtime to figure out his next step and evidently Lainie was it! With Halloween approaching, he prepared to take offthe mask and show her how loving and sensitive the real J. J. Cooper could be . HOLIDAY HEARTS Because there's no place like home for the holidays

    • 5

      Always Valentine's Day
      Always Valentine's Day

      Always Valentine's Day

      Kristin Hardy
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      4/5

      Had his ship finally come in? For Christopher Trask, it was beginning to look that way. Though his professional life might be a shambles, his Valentine's Day family reunion on the high seas was looking most promising especially once he met fellow passenger Larkin Hayes. The beautiful "it" girl was there to keep an eye on her often remarried father. But Christopher couldn't keep his eyes off her. Larkin was suspicious of Christopher from the start and her father falling for his aunt was certainly complicating matters! Still, a cruise ship wasn't real life and Christopher could kiss her senseless. So what was the harm in a little holiday fun? Surely her common sense would return once she was back on dry land.

      Had his ship finally come in? For Christopher Trask, it was beginning to look that way. Though his professional life might be a shambles, his Valentine's Day family reunion on the high seas was looking most promising especially once he met fellow passenger Larkin Hayes. The beautiful "it" girl was there to keep an eye on her often remarried father. But Christopher couldn't keep his eyes off her. Larkin was suspicious of Christopher from the start and her father falling for his aunt was certainly complicating matters! Still, a cruise ship wasn't real life and Christopher could kiss her senseless. So what was the harm in a little holiday fun? Surely her common sense would return once she was back on dry land.

    Author

    Kristin Hardy

    Kristin has been book-crazy her entire life. When her mom would tell her to go to bed, she'd hide in the bathroom just so she could read a few more pages. In the afternoons, she'd play with her dog, Misty, in the backyard and tell her elaborate stories of princesses and Indians, dressing the dog up to play the part. She grew up in Anaheim, California, home of Disneyland. When she was 12, Kristin started her first novel about a boy growing up with a racehorse. She managed to get only about 10 pages into it, but the seed of ambition was planted. She wrote short stories throughout junior high and high school, and entered college as a creative writing major. Unfortunately, the pressure of writing literary short stories for a weekly college course was far different than writing one story a semester in high school, and that was the end of that. Shortly after, now as a geology major, Kristin read about category romance in a Sunday supplement and decided to give it a try. Her first effort brought together an aviatrix and a cowboy and had a great scene in which the heroine airlifted a sick ranch owner in the midst of a thunderstorm. Unfortunately, it didn't have much else. A few years later, now as an engineering major, she decided to try again with a book about a lady architectural engineer and the gorgeous owner of a shipping company. This time, she had a cute meeting scene and a great kiss scene, but still no real plot or conflict. She tossed it after three chapters. The next year, this time as a physics major, she came up with a plot about a firefighter and an engineer. Things were looking good when she thought about plot points and conflict and actually developed a solid story line. A couple of chapters later, though, she moved away to attend grad school in Orlando, Florida, home of Disney World. (Are we seeing a pattern here?) The manuscript moldered in her closet. After graduation, Kristin worked in Connecticut on the mirrors for a NASA X-ray telescope now orbiting the earth. Writing kept calling to her, though. She quit engineering and moved to New Hampshire to join the editorial staff of an engineering trade magazine. There she met and fell in love with her husband. Suddenly all those romance novels made a heck of a lot more sense. Plot possibilities followed her when she left the editing job to join a business-to-business dot-com (where she was an on-paper millionaire for a heady 30 seconds). Around that time, a publisher tried to recruit her to launch a print magazine for an engineering society. Driven by the conviction that it was time to finally finish one of those danged books, she took the job and negotiated a four-day workweek that would allow her time to write. Her ambition coincided with the announcement of the creation of the Harlequin Blaze line. Inspired by a presentation at a writers' conference, she plotted out a Blaze novel on the plane home and wrote the draft of chapter one that night. Ten months later, she typed the words The End and did victory laps around her living room. My Sexiest Mistake sold to Harlequin's Blaze line for publication in June 2002. In 2004, My Sexiest Mistake became a made-for-television movie on the Oxygen network! Kristin lives in New Hampshire with her husband, also a magazine editor, who is her critique partner, copy editor, web master, and master of her heart.

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