Christmas For One by Amanda Prowse
This could be you!
All Meg wants is a perfect Christmas- since she was little that is all she has craved.
This year, she wants to give her little boy the best Christmas yet, despite being without her husband- his father and her estranged mother.
While in New York she meets handsome architect and begins to wonder if all her Christmases have finally come at once.
Maybe This Christmas by Sarah Morgan
In Maybe This Christmas the hero and heroine have been friends for most of their whole lives. When a sudden flurry of winter visitors descend on the beautiful winter wonderland of Snow Crystal Resort, Vermont, single dad Tyler and his best friend Brenna find the constraints of their friendship tested to the limits.
Cold Feet at Christmas by Debbie Johnson
Cold Feet at Christmas tells the story of Leah Harvey, who finds her fiance in a compromising position with the bridesmaid just before her fairytale Christmas Eve wedding in a remote Scottish castle. Understandably annoyed, she flees the scene - and ends up stranded in a blizzard in the middle of nowhere. She manages to stagger to the nearest cottage, which is inhabited by a mysterious stranger so handsome she thinks she's died of hypothermia and gone to heaven! Rob is a man with a painful past, hiding away from the world - a world that is turned upside down with the arrival of Leah. The story follows on from their initial meeting, and the way their lives become entwined almost against their will - sometimes for the good, sometimes not.
The Christmas Surprise by Jenny Colgan
The Christmas Surprise is about Rosie Hopkins, an ex- nurse who runs a sweetshop in rural Derbyshire. So Christmas is always a busy time of year! And there's usually a lot of snow.
A Nightingale Christmas Wish
is the fifth in the Nightingale series (although it also stands alone, so you don't have to have read the previous books to enjoy it). The story begins at Christmas 1938, when the shadow of impending war hangs over the country. The nurses and doctors of the Nightingale Hospital in East London are all doing their best to celebrate the festive season, but there's also a fear for the future. They're aware that over the coming months things are going to be changing, and by the time the following Christmas comes they could well be at war. The story follows three nurses at the hospital as they come to terms with their uncertain future, and how they deal with it. It's a story about love, and friendship, and finding a ray of light and hope in the most unexpected places.
The Christmas Party by Carole Matthews
The Christmas Party is the story of a young, single mum, Louise Young, who's just got back into the world of work and is about to go to her first office Christmas party. It turns out to be a riotous night that will change her life for ever.
This is Harry's first visit to earth and he arrives as a junior college literature teacher who is faced with an entire classroom full of students in need of a bit of divine intervention.
Christmas at Claridges by Karen Swan
The main character in Christmas at Clardiges , Clem, is my favourite to date: she's funky, feisty, and seemingly living the ultimate girl-about-town lifestyle. I set the initial action of the book in Portobello - so there's lots of references to the market, the royal parks, heritage sites like the Electric cinema - but then we relocate to Portofino where Clem's brought face-to-face with her past and things become a lot darker. Why Portofino? Partly because I loved the linguistic echoes between both settings: Portobello and Portofino sound so similar but they're vastly different from one another in terms of culture, vibe, scale etc, and the book hinges around why and how Clem can belong to both.
Wish Upon A Star by Trisha Ashley
In Wish Upon a Star Cally is a single mum with a life that revolves around her little girl, Stella, who was born with serious health problems. When Stella's condition suddenly worsens, she sells up her London flat and they move to the village of Sticklepond in West Lancashire to live with her mother, while Cally tries to raise enough money to take Stella to America for a potentially life-saving operation.
Cally only realises quite how tough shouldering everything alone has been when all the villagers - and especially laid-back and charming baker Jago - rally round to help. All Cally wants for Christmas is a miracle to save Stella and the story is very much about following your star wherever it may lead and however tough the going might be, with hope in your heart.
Just For Chrismtas by Scarlett Bailey
'
Just For Christmas'
is the story of Alex Munro, who when she discovers that the love of her life is getting married to someone else, decides to leave her home and job in Scotland and go and live as far away as possible in the Cornish harbour town of Poldore, where she will be the town's first ever female Harbour Master. Alex is naturally a loner, but finds it impossible not to be drawn into the heart of the community has it prepares for its world famous Christmas Pageant, making friends amongst the locals, and even with the very stinky mutt that's already a sitting tenant in the Harbour Master's cottage....
Christmas at the Crescent by Veronica Henry
Christmas at the Crescent
is a heart-warming and romantic
Christmas tale about Josie, a single mum who is bringing up her baby, Titus, but is finding it tough. Although she adores Titus, she's lost sight of who she is a little bit and her ambition has been put on hold. When Harry, a screenwriter, moves into the flat upstairs to rewrite a script, Josie starts to live a little. Her ex, Giles, is not best pleased, but as he was the one who abandoned her in the first place, he doesn't have the right to interfere. Does he . . . ?!
A Cinderella Christmas by Holly Kingston
A Cinderella Christmas is set backstage in a theatre and follows our heroine Lucy as she tries to catch the eye of Ryan Aspall, the famous star of the show. Lucy has a bit of a hard time of it though. She's not exactly been given her ideal role, and this Christmas is turning out to be quite tough for her...Oh, and there's a really cute dog in it too...ooh...and a couple of rather attractive men.
In Melting Ms Frost , London restaurant manager, Annabel Frost, has a reputation for being as chilly as her name implies. Independent and career focused she has no problem with that at all; people can either respect her authority or keep their distance - preferably both. But when her new barman arrives, he's intent on doing neither. Darkly handsome and shockingly sensual, Aidan Flynn makes it clear from the start that he wants her surrender. On his terms. With the heat of his passion sparking more than her temper, and threatening to set the wintry festive season ablaze, Annabel faces a battle of wills like no other…and with his compelling grey gaze and persuasive Irish lilt, Aidan proves a force to be reckoned with.
Christmas at Carringtons by Alexandra Brown
Christmas at Carrington's is ultimately a comedy, with lots of snarky one-liners and cringe-inducing moments, and covers some serious topics too. It's set in the run up to Christmas and there's a surprise in-store when retail guru, Kelly Cooper, arrives to film her hot new reality TV show. Georgie is shown in a far from flattering light and ends up becoming a very reluctant reality TV star, and then when Tom, her new flame disappears; Georgie fears this could be the worse Christmas ever…. It's a warm funny Christmassy read with plenty of sparkle and lots of heart.
Calling Mrs Christmas by Carole Matthews
Calling Mrs Christmas is a story about Cassie Smith who's been out of work for a while and then has the idea of drawing on her love of Christmas to start her own business - Calling Mrs Christmas - helping other people to plan their Christmas. The idea takes off faster than she'd imagined and she has to call on her partner, Jim, to help her out. But when she's called in by a millionaire to help plan the Christmas for his children, their relationship is tested to the limit and Cassie faces a heart-breaking choice.
The underlying theme of the book is about the differences between those who have everything and those who have nothing at Christmas.
White Christmas by Emma Lee Potter
White Christmas is a very light-hearted novella and I hope it will get readers in the festive mood in the run-up to Christmas.
It's the story of two rival weather forecasters who meet just a few weeks before Christmas. Hal Benson is an out of work actor who has been hired as a stand-in weather presenter by a ratings-chasing TV news channel. Meanwhile Lizzie Foster is a scientist who works for a more serious rival station. She is bright, determined and fascinated by meteorology - and she can't believe that Hal is completely clueless about the weather and just goes on his gut instinct.
The pair become friends and as Christmas Day approaches Hal persuades Lizzie to have a bet on whether it's going to be a White Christmas or not. Which of them will turn out to be right?
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