Follow Your Star Home • Never Too Late • Holly and Hopeful Hearts

Follow Your Star Home (2018)

Forged for lovers, the Viking star ring is said to bring lovers together, no matter how far, no matter how hard.

In eight stories, covering more than half the world and a thousand years, our heroes and heroines put the legend to the test. Watch the star work its magic, as prodigals return home in the season of good will, uncertain of their welcome.

25% of proceeds benefit the Malala Fund.

Denmark 839, A Yule Love Story by Nicole Zoltack. Life and love are never simple when a banished king must turn to a simple healing woman to survive

  • Scotland, 1170 & USA Present Day. One Last Kiss: The Knights of Berwyck, A Quest Through Time Novella by Sherry Ewing. Sometimes it takes a miracle to find your heart’s desire…
  • Kopet Dag Mountains, 1794, Paradise Regained by Jude Knight. In discovering the mysteries of the East, James has built a new life. Will unveiling the secrets in his wife’s heart destroy it?
  • 1807, Somewhere Like Home by Lizzi Tremayne. Highlands to Waterloo—can love prevail over fate?
  •  1814, The Umbrella Chronicles: James and Annie’s Story by Amy Quinton. Prodigal duke seeks professional matchmaker for matrimonial assistance. Prefers foolproof plans in 10 parts. Magical solutions accepted. Missteps likely.
  • 1869 Scotland, A Wish for All Seasons:A MacKai Family Novella by Rue Allyn. The past keeps Caibre and Aisla apart. Only love and forgiveness can give them a future.
  • 1919, The Last Post by Caroline Warfield. The Great War is over, but how can they marry if he can’t find her?
  • 1922, San Francisco, A Fine Chance by Elizabeth Ellen Carter. All he needs is a fine chance.

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Never Too Late (2017)

Eight authors and eight different takes on four dramatic elements selected by our readers—an older heroine, a wise man, a Bible, and a compromising situation that isn’t.

Set in a variety of locations around the world over eight centuries, welcome to the romance of the Bluestocking Belles’ 2017 Holiday and More Anthology.

It’s Never Too Late to find love.

25% of proceeds benefit the Malala Fund.

  • 1181, The Piper’s Lady by Sherry Ewing. True love binds them. Deceit divides them. Will they choose love?
  • 1354, Her Wounded Heart by Nicole Zoltack. A solitary widow, a landless knight, and a crumbling castle.
  • 1645, A Year Without Christmas by Jessica Cale. An earl and his housekeeper face their feelings for one another in the midst of the English Civil War.
  • 1795, The Night of the Feast by Elizabeth Ellen Carter. One night to risk it all in the midst of the French Revolution.
  • 1814, The Umbrella Chronicles: George & Dorothea’s Story by Amy Quinton. The Umbrella Strikes Again: St. Vincent’s downfall (aka betrothal) is assured.
  • 1814, A Malicious Rumor by Susana Ellis. A harmonious duo is better than two lonely solos for a violinist and a lady gardener at Vauxhall Gardens.
  • 1886, Forged in Fire by Jude Knight. Forged in volcanic fire, their love will create them anew.
  • 1916, Roses in Picardy by Caroline Warfield. In the darkness of war, hope flickers. In the gardens of Picardy, love catches fire.

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Holly and Hopeful Hearts (2016)

When the Duchess of Haverford sends out invitations to a Yuletide house party and a New Year’s Eve ball at her country estate, Hollystone Hall, those who respond know that Her Grace intends to raise money for her favorite cause and promote whatever love-matches she can. Seven assorted heroes and heroines set out with their pocketbooks firmly clutched and hearts in protective custody. Or are they?

Eight assorted heroes and heroines find more than they’ve bargained for when they set out for Hollystone Hall for a charity ball.

  • A Suitable Husband, by Jude Knight. As the Duchess of Haverford’s companion, Cedrica Grenford is not treated as a poor relation and is encouraged to mingle with Her Grace’s guests. Perhaps among the gentlemen gathered for the duchess’s house party, she will find a suitable husband?
  • Valuing Vanessa, by Susana Ellis. Facing a dim future as a spinster under her mother’s thumb, Vanessa Sedgely makes a practical decision to attach an amiable gentleman who will not try to rule her life
  • A Kiss for Charity, by Sherry Ewing. Young widow Grace, Lady de Courtenay, has no idea how a close encounter with a rake at a masquerade ball would make her yearn for love again.
  • Artemis, by Jessica Cale. Actress Charlotte Halfpenny is in trouble. Pregnant, abandoned by her lover, and out of a job, Charlotte faces eviction two weeks before Christmas. When the reclusive Earl of Somerton makes her an outrageous offer, she has no choice but to accept. Could he be the man of her dreams, or is the nightmare just beginning?
  •  The Bluestocking and the Barbarian, by Jude Knight. James must marry to please his grandfather, the duke, and to win social acceptance for himself and his father’s other foreign-born children. But only Lady Sophia Belvoir makes his heart sing, and to win her he must invite himself to spend Christmas at the home of his father’s greatest enemy.
  •  Christmas Kisses, by Nicole Zoltack. Louisa Wycliff, Dowager Countess of Exeter wants only for her darling daughter, Anna, to find a man she can love and marry. Appallingly, Anna has her sights on a scoundrel of a duke who chases after every skirt he sees. Anna truly thinks the dashing duke cares for her, but her mother has her doubts.
  •  An Open Heart, by Caroline Warfield. Esther Baumann longs for a loving husband who will help her create a home where they will teach their children to value the traditions of their people, but she wants a man who is also open to new ideas and happy to make friends outside their narrow circle. Is it so unreasonable to ask for toe curling passion as well?
  • Dashing Through the Snow, by Amy Rose Bennett. Headstrong bluestocking, Miss Kate Woodville, never thought her Christmas would be spent racing across England with a viscount hell-bent on vengeance. She certainly never expected to find love…

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