15 brand-new novellas. 15 best-selling romance authors. A holiday-themed collection like no other. What happens under the kissing bough doesn't necessarily stay beneath the kissing bough.... According to lore, the origins of which date to the late 12th century, no lady should refuse a kiss beneath the mistletoe 'else she will not marry in the next year. In exchange for the kiss, a berry is removed from the spring until all of the berries are gone and no more kisses can be stolen. Some also believe that a sprig of mistletoe collected from a local church and placed beneath a maiden's pillow will inspire dreams of her future husband. What happens when fifteen daring heroines pin their...

THE BRAVEST HEART To win a wager --- and the keys to a castle from his leige lord --- Sir Angus McDougall must find a bride in three months' time. What woman would refuse so bold a knight. His slightly tarnished armor and battle scars should not matter --- and yet they all say no. Then an inadvertent handfasting binds him to Birdalane, a shy beauty and gifted healer whom some consider a witch. And Angus cannot help but to fall under her spell ... THE FAIREST BRIDE Though he is a stranger to her, Birdalane leaves her woodland home to follow her new husband over the hills and dales of Scotland. Their journey is difficult and she has neither kith nor kin to help her. But her mystical...

A ROGUE BY ANY OTHER NAME Scoundrel. Seducer. Sir Ian MacKay deserves to be called the Thief of Hearts. Yet he is a man with a mission: to return Scotland’s rightful king to his ancestral throne. But first he must find out the true identify of the mysterious woman whose beauty and wit have dazzled the court ... and why she is avoiding him. Can it be possible that Kate Templeton is an English spy? Though Ian insists that no woman has ever refused him, Kate vows to resist his scandalous charm. Leading him on a merry chase all over Scotland is the best way to safeguard her heart. Yet a passionate confrontation brings them together at last and the only word on her lips is yes ...

WELCOME TO MY WORLD Tis the season to be jolly - but Boston antiques dealer Claire MacGregor isn't looking forward to a solo Christmas, or cocoa for one, or trimming the tree by herself. But company's coming. Claire is fooling around with an old puzzle box and when it opens, a gorgeous, studly laird appears. Thumbs down: Sir Cameron MacLeod is centuries old. Thumbs up: he doesn't look it. And Cameron is tall, dark, and lusty-very lusty. COME AWAY TO MINE Who is this lovely lass? And where is he? Before awakening in the 21st century in Claire's bedroom, the last thing Sir Cameron MacLeod remembers was readying for war with a rival clan. Despite her strange clothes and odd ways, Claire...

"The long way home could be the shortest road to ruin. " The king of Scotland is in a snit. Which means Britt MacKinnon, proud captain of the king s guard, has an onerous task: fetch Alexander s favorite paramour back to the royal bed "now." Never mind that the crown should be about the business of getting a legitimate heir. Especially since England s Edward I would love nothing more than to seize an empty Scottish throne. When the handsome soldier appears on her doorstep, Geneen Armstrong has to think quickly. Her twin lies abed in her cottage, pregnant with the king s bastard. If the barren queen learns the truth, the foolish girl s life won t be worth a farthing. She must...

A LONELY LAIRD Duncan MacDougal, the laird of Blackstone, was cursed centuries ago to wander as a ghost within the echoing walls of his island castle --- and only one woman can free him. Can it be the new mistress of Blackstone, just arrived from over the sea? Duncan has heard that pretty Miss Elizabeth Pudding is no more than a cook --- and she hails from a barbarous land called the Bronx. But she must learn the ways of a lady all the same --- and she must stay at Blackstone for six long months to inherit. 'Tis time enough to teach her --- and time enough to woo her ... AN ENCHANTING LADY Beth has seen the handsome specter from the day she crossed the threshold of Blackstone....

Мужественный шотландский горец Дункан Макдугал, лорд Блэкстоун, обречен на печальное одиночество, пока его не полюбит новая хозяйка родового замка. Вот только у очаровательной Элизабет Паддинг ужасные манеры, и, чтобы превратить ее в благовоспитанную леди, потребуется не один месяц. Что ж, Элизабет настолько хороша собой, что Дункан ради нее готов на все…

Twenty-five stories of timeless true love Time travel romance is not the same thing as sci-fi romance, though some stories may be set in an imagined future; it is romantic fiction set in various different eras, usually from around the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. A woman may fall asleep in Central Park in the present to wake up in the arms of a Scottish laird in the sixteenth century. The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance contains 25 stories of adventure and love; settings include medieval Scotland, sixteenth-century England, the nineteenth-century ‘Wild West’. Some stories are set in the present and a few in the future. Stories include an Elizabethan nobleman...