Delia here...Welcome to my world of mayhem. This installment of the ongoing series about the Luna de la Mar Salon and Spa's annual employee holiday party on the corporate yacht, Magical Waves is crazy wild. Murder and mayhem run rampant when there's an attempted mistletoe poisoning during dinner and a deadly stabbing before dessert. Kris, the happy little evergreen, gets a job on board as the Christmas tree. After the salad switch he reported Perry, the maître d', had been kissing the cook in the kitchen under the mistletoe when someone dropped the mistletoe berries in Delia's salad. The only witness, the Norwegian pine, is height challenged and claims he couldn't see anything above the suspect's knees. All would have been fine if that someone hadn't turned up dead, wearing Delia's dress. The body, found stabbed with the ice-carving knife, wasn't on the guest list. Delia knows who she is. None other than her great nemesis. But was Delia the one actually being targeted? mermaids, ghost, Christmas, soulmates, fairy, fantasy, holiday, romance, mystery, murder, witch, Werewolf, vampire, fae

Anthony Beck, Viscount Redgrave, has always done what was expected of his title and station. Ever the dutiful son, he abides by his mother’s requests even when they tend to be ridiculous. There is no other reason, after all, that he would be carrying around a piece of dead mistletoe that should rejuvenate itself once he is on the path of true love. Luckily, he happens upon the one lady he’s always wanted to court. Unfortunately, she’s in love with her guardian. Miss Holly Prescott is not in love with her guardian. It is her duty, however, to make certain that nefarious young ladies with hopes of becoming his duchess, don’t trap him into a loveless marriage. While attending the Christmas Eve weddings at Castle Keyvnor, Holly learns that the nearby Romani could be of help in that regard. However, she did not expect to stumble upon the handsome and oh-so-honorable Lord Redgrave in the process.

Port Danby is preparing for the annual Harbor Holiday Lights Flotilla, and Lacey 'Pink' Pinkerton is anxious to see the colorful boats light up Pickford Beach. But the festive spirits of the town are dampened when one of the boat owners is strangled to death. Lacey enthusiastically volunteers to help Detective Briggs sniff out the clues and track down the killer. Once again, she finds herself nose deep in a murder mystery. Book 3 of the Port Danby Cozy Mystery Series More in the series: 1. Marigolds and Murder 2. Carnations and Chaos 3. Mistletoe and Mayhem 4. Roses and Revenge 5. Tulips and Trouble 6. Dahlias and Death 7. Peonies and Poison 8. Hyacinths and Homicide 9. Crocuses and Crime 10. Sunflowers and Sabotage 11. Lavender and Lies 12. Freesias and Foul Play 13. Cornflowers and Corpses 14. Jasmine and Jealousy 15. Shamrocks and Shenanigans 16. TBA

This Christmas, Miss Lily Jardine is getting something any girl would want - a betrothal offer. Too bad she's falling for her soon-to-be fiancé's brother instead . . . Merrily Mismatched by Virginia Brown Lady Lucia Crossclyffe can't resist the charms of Marquess of Rillington, a holiday visitor to her isolated island home. Little does she guess that he's come there to ruin her . . . The Snow Princess by Jo Ann Ferguson After years of being presumed dead, Major Jeremy Stanhope has come home from the war. His first order of business - to propose to Lady Rosalie Partington, the woman who's waited for him all these years. Only Rosalie is already betrothed . . . to the traitor who left him for dead! Christmas Truce by Karen Frisch Charles Hudson, the Earl of Westerly, has come to Windermere for Christmas with one intention - to offer for the woman whose letters have captivated him for the last year. But is the letter-writer the woman he thinks she is? Miss Montague's Mistletoe Match by Sharon Sobel Virginia Brown has written over 50 novels since her first romance came out in 1984. Many of her books have been nominated for Romantic Times' Reviewer's Choice, Career Achievement Award for Love and Laughter, Career Achievement Award for Adventure, EPIC eBook nomination for Historical Romance, and she received the RT Career Achievement Award for Historical Adventure, as well as the EPIC eBook Award for Mainstream Fiction. Her works have regularly appeared on national bestseller lists. She lives near her children in North Mississippi, surrounded by a menagerie of beloved dogs and cats while she writes. Jo Ann Ferguson has been creating characters and stories for as long as she can remember. She sold her first book in 1987. Since then, she has sold over 100 titles and has become a best-selling and award-winning author. She writes romance, mystery, and paranormal under a variety of pen names. Her books have been translated into nearly a dozen languages and are sold on every continent except Antarctica. You can reach her at her website: www.joannferguson.com or by email: jo@joannferguson.com. Karen Frisch writes Regency romances for ImaJinn Books. She is the winner of the 2007 Writer's Digest Popular Fiction Awards, Mystery/Crime Category. An amateur genealogist, she also has two nonfiction genealogy books in print on tracing family history and identifying old family photographs. While tracing her family history as a teenager, she discovered she is a cousin of Edgar Allan Poe (removed by six generations). A lifelong resident of New England where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs, she is also a portrait artist. Follow Karen on her website at KarenFrisch.weebly.com. Sharon Sobel is the author of eight historical and two contemporary romance novels, and served as Secretary and Chapter Liaison of Romance Writers of America. She has a PhD in English Language and Literature from Brandeis University and is an English professor at a Connecticut college, where she co-chaired the Connecticut Writers' Conference for five years. An eighteenth century New England farmhouse, where Sharon and her husband raised their three children, has provided inspiration for either the period or the setting for all of her books.

Detective Isaac Taylor is about to celebrate his first Christmas season with his new wife. But a string of shocking and puzzling murders puts a serious crimp on his holiday cheer. Sidney Taylor is looking forward to going all out for the coming holiday. But when an unexpected family visit and a badly beaten woman both show up on her doorstep 24 hours apart, things get complicated. With a confidence in his abilities that he’s never known before, Ike is determined not to let any of it spoil the wedded bliss he and Sidney have found. But will they be able to hang onto that warm fuzzy feeling, or will his over-confidence ruin Christmas for everyone?

Travel to the quirky town of Mayhem, Minnesota, with these two companion novellas that prove love, and sisterhood, will always save the day. A Christmas Wedding In Mayhem You’re cordially invited to the wedding of the century! Please join bride-trying-not-to-be-a-zilla Hennessy O’Halloran and her prince-in-shining-snow-boots as they finally say, “I do.” Unless a rogue wedding planner and a blizzard that takes out the entire Midwest can stop them, these two will get married on Christmas. The town of Mayhem will make sure of it. A Surprise Baby In Mayhem The town of Mayhem, Minnesota, is about to have a population explosion...and the Whiskey Sisters are getting more than they expected! While newlyweds Henny and Bryan are anxiously awaiting not one but two little bundles of joy, Jameson and Scott are focusing on planning their own perfect wedding, with only one troublesome toddler in tow. But babies have a way of arriving on their own schedules...and fate has a way of intervening in this quirky hamlet. Now, the couple finds themselves scrambling to beat the clock—and the odds—to their own happily ever after before their unexpected special delivery arrives. Each book in the Whiskey Sisters series is STANDALONE: * Blame it on the Bet * Mischief and Mayhem * Mistletoe in Mayhem Boxed Set

Mistletoe & Mayhem All she wants for Christmas… Librarian Jodie Freemont's New Year's resolution is to get a life! Plain, predictable Jodie is going to turn into a daring, free-spirited femme fatale. And she gets her chance when rugged bounty hunter Shane Sullivan comes to town. Shane's got a reputation for always getting his man. But he doesn't stand a chance when Jodie decides to catch hers—under the mistletoe! Santa's Sexy Secret There are a few surprises under that suit… Working undercover as a jolly department-store Santa is no holiday for Detective Sam Stevenson! He's supposed to be investigating a large-scale theft ring, but instead he's spending more time checking out his gorgeous assistant elf, Edie Preston. The cute little pixie is one giant-size distraction. And thanks to a little mistletoe, Santa Sam is suddenly hearing wedding bells instead of jingle bells!

Tis the season for a fake romance… All Fiona wants for Christmas is to repair the broken pieces of her life after an ugly breakup. Thanks to her ex, she’s sworn off men, at least until her emotional scars have a chance to heal. For now, she’ll settle for watching her hot downstairs neighbor from the safety of her balcony when he goes on his daily run. But things get messy when her Grinch of an ex shows up on her doorstep, insisting they get back together and refusing to take no for an answer. Enter Joseph Pinto, security specialist, former Navy SEAL medic, and Fiona’s hot neighbor… All Pinto wants for Christmas is a cold beer, a hot pizza, and for his hockey team to win on home ice. Is that really too much to ask? But his meddling mother is playing matchmaker, and he can’t enjoy a moment’s peace with all that racket upstairs. After sending Fiona’s ex packing, he proposes a relationship of convenience: in exchange for protecting Fiona from her ex, she’ll help convince Pinto’s mom to stay out of his love life. Just one problem… It doesn’t take long for their fake relationship to start feeling very real. The tree is decorated, the mistletoe is hung, and the temptation to act on their mutual attraction is growing stronger by the minute. But the ex from Hell is determined to get Fiona back at all costs, and his mom is still causing trouble. Pinto’s determined to keep Fiona safe, but who will protect them both from the greatest threat of all, a broken heart?

The Mayhem of Christmas is the story of a group of elves in human form who have got together in order to prevent Christmas from happening for the thousands of shoppers inside the Escapade Shopping Mall this year, but unfortunately for them Santa Claus has got wind of the plan and decides to send his own good elves into the mall in order to battle against them. Can they overcome the dark forces in order to liberate the mall or will the bad elves win out? Find out in this fun packed adventure story...

Shy Louisa Harcourt longs for one truly happy Christmas. Ideally involving lazy evenings curled before a fire with a good book… or her own poetry. Instead, she’s whisked to a house party as bait for sharks. To secure her uncertain future, an eligible suitor must propose before Twelfth Night. The clock is ticking. Charming, complicated, utterly non-eligible Ewan Reid crashes the duke’s holiday party, concealing an ulterior motive that must not involve falling for Louisa. Armed with nothing more than a plume and an irresistibly brooding glare, Ewan hides a dark secret that could spoil his one chance for true love…