Read Home Sweet Home: A Sweet, Texas Novella Online
Authors: Candis Terry
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Sweet Cowboy Christmas
A Sweet, Texas Novella
Mistletoe, holly, and cowboys, oh my! Christmas in Texas has never been sweeter.
Years ago, Chase Morgan traded in his dusty cowboy boots for the shimmering lights of New York City and a fast track up the corporate ladder. But when his shiny life is turned on end just in time for Christmas, Chase knows he needs to reevaluate even if that means going home to Texas to endure his least favorite holiday.
When Mr. Tall, Dark, and Smoking Hot walks through her door at the Magic Box Guest Ranch, Faith Walker sees just another handsome, rich exec looking to play cowboy for a week at her expense. Shes sure the grumpy, but sexy as hell Scrooge will put a crimp in her holly jolly plans. Until a sizzling kiss has her seeing him in a new light.
Chase is haunted by secrets, and even though it goes entirely against her hands off the guests rule, Faith is tempted to help him leave the past behind. As the magic of the season swirls around them, she is determined to succeed because now she is certain one sweet, cowboy Christmas will never be enough.
Sweet Surprise
A Sweet, Texas Novel, Book 4
Fiona Wilder knows all about falling in lust. Love? Thats another story. Determined not to repeat past mistakes, the single mom and cupcake shop owner is focused on walking the straight and narrow. But trouble has a way of finding her. And this time it comes in the form of a smoking hot firefighter who knows all the delicious ways to ignite her bad girl fuse.
Firefighter Mike Halsey learned long ago that playing with fire just gets you burned. Hes put his demons behind him, and if theres one line he wont cross, its getting involved with his best friends ex. But when fate throws him in the path of the beautiful, strong, and off-limits Fiona, will he be able to fight their attraction? Or will he willingly go down in flames?
Truly Sweet
A Sweet Texas Novel, Book 5
When the one youve always wanted …
At sixteen, Annabelle Morgan hoped her crush on Jake Wilder was just a passing phase. Now shes twenty-nine, and nothing has changedexcept Jake. The once-carefree Marine has come home with a giant chip on his shoulder. He insists a single mom like Annie deserves more than he can offer. Yet no matter how gruff his gorgeous exterior may be, Jakes toe-curling kisses convince her that this attraction is definitely mutual.
Becomes the one who wants you back …
Butting heads with feisty Annie was always a thrill. Add other body parts to the mix, and Jake is in serious trouble. He cant be a forever-and-family guyand Annies not a friends-with-benefits kind of woman. But love has a way of changing the best-laid plans, and surrender has never been so tempting …
The outcome is truly sweet.
About the Author
CANDIS TERRY was born and raised near the sunny beaches of Southern California and now makes her home on an Idaho farm. Shes experienced life in such diverse ways as working in a Hollywood recording studio to chasing down wayward steers. Only one thing has remained the same: her passion for writing stories about relationships, the push and pull in the search for love, and the security one finds in their own happily-ever-after.
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By Candis Terry
SWEET SURPRISE
SOMETHING SWEETER
SWEETEST MISTAKE
ANYTHING BUT SWEET
SOMEBODY LIKE YOU
ANY GIVEN CHRISTMAS
SECOND CHANCE AT THE SUGAR SHACK
Coming Soon
TRULY SWEET
Short Stories
SWEET COWBOY CHRISTMAS
SWEET FORTUNE (appears in CONFESSIONS OF A SECRET ADMIRER)
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Home Sweet Home was originally published in an altered form in the e-book anthology For Love and Honor in June 2012 by Avon Impulse, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpt from Truly Sweet copyright Š 2015 by Candis Terry.
HOME SWEET HOME. Copyright Š 2012, 2015 by Candis Terry. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition MAY 2015 ISBN: 9780062420893
Print Edition ISBN: 9780062423238
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Table of Contents
Author’s Note
An Announcement Page to The World of Sweet, Texas
About the Author
By Candis Terry
Copyright
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