Snowed In on Valentine's Day
Contemporary Romance/Rom-Com
It was hate at first sight.
After a run-in with the rude Best Man, Peter, at her best friend’s wedding and a subsequent meltdown on New Year’s Eve, Hazel is ready to make major changes. Realizing she’s a serial dater, she vows to take a break from dating and focus on reinventing herself in her career. Tired of the constant travel from speaking tours, she’s determined to focus on writing—and staying home for once in her life.
But when the jerk from the wedding moves in next door, Hazel can’t believe her bad luck. She does her best to avoid Peter, until a massive blizzard forces her to take shelter at his house. The icy tension between them starts to thaw as they get to know each other, but when they’re still snowed in four days later—on Valentine’s Day—tempers flare as passions rise.
Confused and unsettled, Hazel has no idea what to do with her conflicting feelings, and avoiding him doesn’t seem to be an option.
Can she find love with this enigmatic man amid the winter storm brewing within and between them?
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Meet Me on Christmas Eve
Holiday Romance/Contemporary Romance
Two people with a reversal of fortunes.
A secret love of Christmas despite a difficult past.
Regret and resentment abound, with a fire that was never truly extinguished.
As the owner of an elite resort in snowy Minnesota, Mariana has left her humble past firmly behind her—not to mention an epic heartbreak from 10 years ago, which she doesn’t allow herself to think about. When she decides to expand her business to acquire a quaint Christmas village in a neighboring town and reclaim her secret love of the holiday, the last thing she expects is to run into him.
Once a wealthy young heartbreaker and now a working-class man, Terry Grant is just as dismayed to see Mariana as she is. Resentment about their summer fling and their reversal of fortunes—and the fateful Christmas Eve meet-up that never happened—brews between them as he becomes an obstacle in her quest to acquire the Christmas village.
Mariana is determined to listen to her head, not her heart. After all, she survived these past 10 years by making smart decisions, not pining after a lost love.
But can she resist him when fate brings them together this Christmas?
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Meet the Author: Alana Highbury
I’m the author of the holiday romances Snowed In on Valentine's Day and Meet Me on Christmas Eve, along with a trio of Jane Austen-inspired novels releasing in 2024. My novels blend contemporary romance, rom-com, and women’s fiction. When I’m not writing, you can usually find me reading, playing board games, cross stitching, or hanging out with my family, which includes a writerly husband, two children, two beautiful, lazy cats, and a feisty cockatiel.
I have worked in professional writing and editing roles for two decades, but I’ve been an avid fan of romance fiction even longer. In addition to master’s and bachelor’s degrees in English, I hold active memberships in Romance Writers of America, Contemporary Romance Writers, and the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. As a Wisconsin native, I want to contribute to the growing number of romance novels set in the Upper Midwestern U.S.
