Savor the magic of Josie Riviera’s holiday romances—exclusively in one boxed set!
A heartwarming story is the hallmark of a romantic holiday season. Savor the magic in Holiday Hearts Volume 3 with three sweet holiday contemporary romances.
Cozy up and lose yourself in this wonderful season of love.
Sweet Peppermint Kisses
There’s no place like home. Until the heart gallops off in an unexpected … love.
Sweet Peppermint Kisses
There’s no place like home. Until the heart gallops off in an unexpected direction…
After Chiara passes her RN license exam, she plans to leave Virginia and return to her beloved Kansas hometown for good. Except her home health client’s handsome brother makes her consider changing her plans.
Between his job, his sister’s injury, and his horse ranch, Vance has no time for Christmas. But Chiara’s delight in the season makes him willing to do anything to keep the enchanting smile on her face.
When it comes down to asking her to stay, can he let go of his painful past, throw his heart over the fence, and follow it toward a future together?
Sometimes the best gifts are hiding right under your heart.
A Chocolate-Box Christmas
Love is sweeter with a touch of mischief.
A short book for a quick and sweet holiday read.
Judging a chocolate-making competition for the women’s shelter’s annual fundraiser should be an easy, even pleasurable, assignment for Maise, new food critic for the Bloomingfield Daily Dispatch. Too bad just the smell of chocolate makes her stomach roil.
By the time she reaches the last table, she hopes her face isn’t as green as her holiday sweater. But the tall, square-jawed man behind piles of fudge makes her want to linger, even savor the moment along with his chocolate-coffee-flavored confection.
Except there’s something Ben Elliot is hiding behind his piercing blue eyes and lazy grin, and her reporter’s nose senses a story worth exploring. She finds herself longing to discover the secret ingredient sweetening their mutual attraction.
Holly’s Gift
Miracles don’t always come easy. Sometimes it takes a secret wish to light an angel’s way.
When Holly steps into a homeless shelter looking for an MIA piano student, she notices a distinct lack of Christmas cheer—because a handsome building inspector is forcing the shelter to temporarily close down.
Holly knows bad guys—she was married to one. Yet when the man asks her out, she finds absolutely not warring with absolutely yes.
Tim Stewart doesn’t hold his breath waiting for God to answer prayers. He went from homeless desperation to television stardom to relative obscurity while God stayed silent. But when Holly barrels into his life, her steady faith sparks hope for a dream of his own. Even if it means praying for a Christmas miracle—one last time.
Remembered sadness is the stepping stone to tomorrow’s joy.
Want more? Read Holiday Hearts Volume 1, which includes A Snowy White Christmas, Candleglow and Mistletoe, and A Portuguese Christmas.
And Holiday Hearts Volume 2, which includes Aloha to Love, A Christmas To Cherish, and 1-800-CHRISTMAS.
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I loved all three stories.
All are sweet and clean, one, Holly’s gift, is overtly Christian.
They follow different tropes, but all are set at Christmas time and were a wonderful way to lounge away a few hours.
This is a heartwarming 3 book box set. As usual with Josie Riviera, there are wonderful descriptions and characters that could be your best friends! Sweet and clean with happily ever afters. Very enjoyable short stories to get you in the mood for the holidays, no matter when you read them!
Sweet Christmas romances with all the feels. Heartwarming, at times heart wrenching, and uplifting. Wonderful main characters and secondary characters.
I was given a free copy of this set in exchange for an honest review. 3 wonderful holiday reads Sweet Peppermint Kisses – nice book about a horse ranch.
A Chocolate Box Christmas – love and a chocolate making competition
HOLLY’S Gift- Inspirational when you are at you lowest point you can be triumphant with the Lord’s help. All the books are Spiritually uplifting definitely recommend
A Holiday of Love!
Sweet Peppermint Kisses
Christmas is a time for home and family, and maybe new beginnings. Chiara Johnson is going to miss spending the holiday with her family in Kansas, but her temporary nursing job at Wellington Acres will provide new friendships and an unexpected chance for love. Chiara and Vance are two people that need to be together. This is a heartwarming holiday romance.
A Chocolate-Box Christmas
This story is so short it is more of a reading snack than a novella, but it is cute and I enjoyed reading it. Maisie and Ben are likable characters and I hope that Josie Riviera adds to their story sometime in the future because I can imagine some good possibilities.
Holly’s Gift
This is an inspiring holiday story of love and faith! Holly is still grieving the death of her best friend, Charity. Her divorce has left her determined to avoid relationships, at least for now, and she has thrown herself into her work as a piano teacher. When she finds out that her most promising student is living in a homeless shelter that is being forced to close because of city code violation Holly decides to enlist the city inspector in her effort to save the shelter. Tim Stewart does not believe in God but he admires Holly’s faith and definitely would like to get to know her better.
Josie Riviera has created another wonderful collection of clean holiday romances with happily-ever-after endings. Her characters are so relatable and her writing brings the stories alive. I love her romances and the recipes she includes at the ends of her books.
Sweet Peppermint Kisses:
I immediately fell in love with Chiara! I love the characters, the setting, and the storyline. At first I felt like the romance was coming on too soon, but it stayed at a slow trickle for long enough that my fears were assuaged. A wonderful, feel-good Christmas romance.
A Chocolate-Box Christmas:
A very sweet and short (2 chapters) romance. For being so short I thought that it couldn’t possibly turn out as so many stars, but it was perfectly done. I was very pleasantly surprised.
Holly’s Gift:
This was a sweet, clean, Christian Christmas romance. I thought the story had a ton of potential and I liked all of the aspects of it but it was missing that wow factor. I think it could have been better if it was a longer story and the Christian push was toned down a bit. I am a Christian myself, but the way it’s represented was a bit too strong and heavy handed and felt forced and sometimes out of place. I would have appreciated more time spent on the character development and growing. All in all, it was an enjoyable, quick read.
In Sweet Peppermint Kisses, New RN Chiara Johnson’s temporary nursing job to take care of injured Gertrude Thatcher might make her change her mind about moving back home when she meets Gertrude’s brother Vance. But she was hurt by Kevin, a guy she met online and moved to Virginia for only to find out he wasn’t who he said he was. And Vance was hurt by his ex-wife who cheated on him. They both have a lot of trust issues to overcome. I loved reading about all the horses on Vince’s estate especially Peppermint. The descriptions of the cookie baking made me want to make Christmas cookies. And I would love to go to a tree light ceremony like the one Turning Point put on. Chiara’s little sister Emma was sweet and precocious. Gertrude is still bucking against convention with her romance with older stable manager Joe Brown. I would love to read a follow up romance story about them. There were plenty of funny, romantic, and even some suspenseful moments in this sweet holiday romance.
A Chocolate-Box Christmas was a short sweet romance that left me wanting more. I thought it was funny that Maisy can’t stand chocolate and is asked to judge a chocolate contest. Some of the chocolates would have upset my stomach too, but I love mocha and Ben’s chocolate sounded yummy. I liked the fudge recipe at the end.
In Holly’s Gift, I thought it was wonderful that even in death Holly’s friend Charity found a way to give back by bequeathing money to her friends on the condition that they had to give it to someone else and that Holly found that purpose in her young piano student Jasmine and her struggling single mother and the place that they were currently calling home. Tim was cynical after the life he led and dealing with his selfish mother and father. He doesn’t trust easily. Holly also has trouble trusting after divorcing her cheating ex-husband. Tim and Holly go through their share of misunderstandings in their relationship. I loved that her aunt rehabilitated dogs. If I didn’t feel like I would get too attached and not be able to re home them, I would love to do that myself. This was a sweet Christian Christmas romance with themes of forgiveness and redemption.