Expect the Unexpected...
Never one to do the thing that makes sense, Gwen Hayes has bundled two very different Christmas tales into one book. The only thing they have in common is the holiday.
TL;DR version: 1. Grumpy lumberjack and bookish librarian snowbound in a cabin at Christmas. Small town contemporary romance (m/m)
2. Prim governess and dangerous rogue set in creepy mansion--Steampunk Gothic Romance (m/f)
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Don't Stop Believing
The Ogre from the Hill, Simon Powell, town recluse, only comes to town to deliver firewood and get supplies. Two days before Christmas, he sees the new librarian's car in a ditch and knows he can't leave him on the road, but it's too late to take him back to town. He'll have something he's never had in his cabin in the ten years that's he's lived there...company. (small town contemporary, gay romance)
Ours is Just a Little Sorrow
John and Gideon Winston are as different as night and day, and each wants to claim Violet for his own. John immediately charms her with his intelligence and cordial demeanor, while Gideon, the dark rogue, delights in flustering her at every opportunity, awakening a yearning she doesn't understand and most assuredly does not want. She tries to deny her pull to both men, but an uneasy midnight bargain with one forges a new alliance as she's dazzled by an underground New Geneva she hadn't known existed. And temptations she cannot resist. (retro-futuristic Steampunk, Gothic romance)
Both romances are also available separately wherever fine ebooks are sold
Never one to do the thing that makes sense, Gwen Hayes has bundled two very different Christmas tales into one book. The only thing they have in common is the holiday.
TL;DR version: 1. Grumpy lumberjack and bookish librarian snowbound in a cabin at Christmas. Small town contemporary romance (m/m)
2. Prim governess and dangerous rogue set in creepy mansion--Steampunk Gothic Romance (m/f)
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Don't Stop Believing
The Ogre from the Hill, Simon Powell, town recluse, only comes to town to deliver firewood and get supplies. Two days before Christmas, he sees the new librarian's car in a ditch and knows he can't leave him on the road, but it's too late to take him back to town. He'll have something he's never had in his cabin in the ten years that's he's lived there...company. (small town contemporary, gay romance)
Ours is Just a Little Sorrow
John and Gideon Winston are as different as night and day, and each wants to claim Violet for his own. John immediately charms her with his intelligence and cordial demeanor, while Gideon, the dark rogue, delights in flustering her at every opportunity, awakening a yearning she doesn't understand and most assuredly does not want. She tries to deny her pull to both men, but an uneasy midnight bargain with one forges a new alliance as she's dazzled by an underground New Geneva she hadn't known existed. And temptations she cannot resist. (retro-futuristic Steampunk, Gothic romance)
Both romances are also available separately wherever fine ebooks are sold
Used availability for Gwen Hayes's The Christmas Contradiction