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Note to self: Next time I need a big story, maybe don't pick a fight with a hot hockey player dressed as Santa. Especially if he's hiding something . . . Holly: My assignment to cover the Chicago Blizzard's Christmas charity events turns unexpectedly into a viral feud with star defenseman...

Gerri Wilder and the Matchmaker's Book Club are at it again with their biggest challenge yet. Armed with the desire for grandchildren and a sharp eye for love, these determined mamas are set on pairing two headstrong competitors with each other. This one could blow up in their faces! Elliot "Ellie" Madden, a thirty-one-year-old visionary game developer, is more adept at navigating virtual worlds than the complexities of love.

Nora Bailey is a mess, on and off stage. A good kind of mess. The kind of mess that kisses the first person she sees after finding her ex cheating on her. Fake dating Wes, the boy who has been annoying her since they could speak, was not in the script that she's been writing for her life. But she's a romantic. And she knows there's nothing better than a good plot twist.

Bareback bronc-riding champ Patrick Brown is used to winning. So when his long-time girlfriend Winnie breaks up with him, he sets out to get her back. As it happens, an accident wipes out her memory. Everyone thinks they’re engaged, anyhow, so why not just go along with it? After she gets amnesia, Winnie Stevens wakes to the startling discovery that she’s engaged to a ruggedly handsome rodeo star. As she rebuilds her life, Patrick and she slowly but surely fall in love all over again. But what if he isn’t everything he‘s made himself out to be?

Tammy can be too sassy for her own good, but when it comes to Jeremy Hawke, she gets all tongue-tied and clumsy. When a wedding reception throws them together, they reveal mutual feelings. Unfortunately, Jeremy's manager has other plans for him—fake dating another country singer so he can land his dream contract—and tries to break them apart.

Being restrained isn't what anyone wants. Not emotionally, anyway. But Elliott is shackled by guilt. ensnared by grief, tethered by dark and taboo secrets, and immured by wicked desires. But Jonah is the only man who has been able to rid her of the emotional ropes she's wrapped herself up in. After learning about Jonah's responsibilities, though, she becomes convinced that he is caged by expectation and constrained by belief.

The Matchmaker's Book Club is back in action, stirring up romance with Gerri's legendary matchmaking skills. With a stack of love stories and a keen sense for true love, these crafty mamas are plotting to unite two headstrong gamers. Cat and Keir are about to start their own love story, thanks to a little push from some meddlesome but well-meaning matriarchs!

After her divorce, Darla Gregory isn’t about ready to start dating again. That is, until she meets Chandler Brown, a handyman who is a sweet gentleman, the very opposite of her philandering ex. Problem is, the cowboy’s off limits. Darla is running for city council against Chandler’s best friend, and a romance is out of the question. Chandler Brown’s best friend Royal is running for city council and he’s promised to help him. Only trouble is, the opponent is none other than Darla Gregory, a woman he very much would like to date.

Gerri Wilder and the Matchmaker's Book Club are at it again, meddling with the best of intentions. With romance novels and a keen eye for potential, these matchmaking mamas have their sights set on pairing two stubborn gamers with their perfect matches... each other!

Going home for the holidays is never easy. But it's next to impossible when you've just been dumped. Just when I think it can't get any worse, my grad school nemesis, billionaire playboy Macallan Blaze, finds me sulking, trying to figure out a Plan B. Life's a game to him, so when he offers to stand in as my fake boyfriend, I think he's joking. But he's dead serious. And it's not like I can afford to turn him down. My tiny hometown only consists of 600 residents, where everyone knows everyone, and gossip spreads faster than wildfire.

The story concerns the young and vivacious Emma Watson, one of six children of a widowed clergyman. Emma has spent most of her life under the care of a wealthy aunt of liberal views, and has received a good education. However, when her aunt enters into a second marriage, Emma is forced to return to the family home, where she is affronted by the crass hunting for husbands undertaken her sisters, Penelope and Margaret.

The unlikely heroine of this novel is the bashful and unadventurous Fanny Price, who occupies a Cinderella-like position in the residence of her wealthy cousins, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park. Fanny is the butt of ridicule for the young Bertram sisters (Maria and Julia), and is relentlessly bullied by her manipulative and penny-pinching aunt, the widowed Mrs Norris.

Gavin Wilkes is rugby’s biggest star and my older brother’s best friend. He’s tall, dark, handsome… and a notorious player—not just in the sportsball way. For years he’s teased me—flirted with me as a joke—and I’m tired of it. So the night of my parents’ annual Christmas party, I call his bluff, never expecting him to take me up on it.

When widower single dad Dylan Brown hosts a horse-riding party for his daughter’s friend Allie, he’s smitten with single mom Amanda Jones. Allie's prickly guardian isn’t interested in dating, however, after being burned by her ex.

Online dating in your thirties will make even the most optimistic person skeptical. When Margo comes across Adam’s profile with a bit of scrutiny, she takes a chance on the extremely handsome pharmacist. Meanwhile, all Adam needs to swipe right is Margo’s chestnut brown eyes and her occupation as a community college professor. Through flirty texts, their connection is magnetic—almost too good to be true.