“How do I look?” Emma asked, patting her stocking cap and setting the big jingle bell on the end of the hat jangling.
“Like the star you are,” Paige assured her. “You’ll look all of eighteen in that outfit. You’ll be the talk of the town.”
Emma blushed, her gorgeous blue eyes glowing with delight, slow grin lighting up her face. “You made my day. I’ve been worrying I’m too old to play Jovie.”
“No way. You’re perfect.” Paige returned the smile, felt cheery warmth settle in her stomach and heat her from the inside out. She loved making people happy.
It was her greatest strength, and according to her mother, her biggest flaw.
“You gotta be a little selfish sometimes,” said her mother often—this from the woman who’d taken a powder on motherhood when Paige was ten and her brother, Parker, four. “Remember what they tell you on airplanes. Put your oxygen mask on first.”
But if putting other peoples’ needs before her own was Paige’s worst sin, she would take it with her head held high. Because, c’mon, what was a little hypoxia if she could make the world a better place?
About the Author
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author LORI WILDE has sold over seventy-five works of fiction to four major New York publishing houses. She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Texas Christian University and a certificate in forensic nursing from Kaplan University. She is a member of the International Association of Forensic Nurses.
Her first New York Times bestseller, the third book in her Twilight, Texas series, The First Love Cookie Club, has been optioned for a television movie. The town of Granbury, Texas, upon which her fictional town of Twilight, Texas, is loosely based, honors Lori with an annual Twilight, Texas weekend each Christmas.
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The Stardust, Texas Series
Love of the Game
Rules of the Game
Back in the Game
The Cupid, Texas Series
Million Dollar Cowboy
Love with a Perfect Cowboy
Somebody to Love
Love at First Sight
One True Love (a novella)
The Jubilee, Texas Series
A Cowboy for Christmas
The Cowboy and the Princess
The Cowboy Takes a Bride
The Twilight, Texas Series
A Wedding for Christmas
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Christmas at Twilight
The Valentine’s Day Disaster (a novella)
The Christmas Cookie Chronicles:
Carrie; Raylene; Christine; Grace
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The True Love Quilting Club
The Sweethearts’ Knitting Club
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Crash Landing
Smooth Sailing
The Uniformly Hot Series
Born Ready
High Stakes Seduction
The Right Stuff
Intoxicating
Sweet Surrender
His Final Seduction
Zero Control
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