Candy Cane Kisses — Kristine Kathryn Rusch

What pairs better than peppermint and hot chocolate? Romance and the holidays, of course!In this year's most charming WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a sweet collection of romantic holiday stories to add a bit more love to the season.Let Anthea Lawson take you to a Christmas gathering no one really wants to organize or attend, but must because of an inheritance. Join Stefon Mears as he imagines the perfect bookstore and then lets us explore it. Read how Ron Collins turns the most unromantic Christmas Eve location—an emergency room—into the most wonderful place to spend the holidays. And let Annie Reed's charming tale of the ways love can surprise us warm your heart.Along with stories by Julia Vee, Melissa Yi, Robert Jeschonek and more, these eleven wonderful writers touch the soul with these warm tales of holiday happy endings.Includes:Ice Dancing and Crab Apple Sorbet by Melissa YiPatterns by Irette Y. PattersonA Little More Aloha by Julia VeeTrapped Between Book Lovers by Stefon MearsShe Wanted It to be Perfect by Ron CollinsThe Mistletoe Duke by Anthea LawsonThe Ditty and the Ornament by Deb MillerA Fluffy Black Ball of Pure Naughtiness by Kari KilgoreWhen Nicky Met Holly by Annie ReedA Decidedly Fly-By-Night Angel by Robert JeschonekWings for Keiko by Jessi Hammond