The Mistletoe Affair by Judith Gilbert

ISBN:  1-933471-59-X

Contemporary

Triskelion Publishing

E-Book

Katherine Cahill is a single mother of a five-year-old boy trying to get though Christmas and her matchmaking mother.  After one failed marriage with a cheating husband she finds it hard to trust another man.  While putting up Christmas decorations she meets Jared Randall instantly putting him in the same category as her ex.  Now Katherine must learn to put the past behind her, to trust and to believe in love again in order for her family to have a Merry Christmas.

Jared Randall is a single lawyer that was jilted at the altar over a year ago and believes in the saying “Once Bitten, Twice shy.”  After growing up in a not so perfect childhood and losing his fiancé to another man has made him to not to trust or to love.

Both Jared and Katherine are strong willed and independent people who find it hard to trust and who hate matchmakers.  Once they let down their guards and start to feel, it turns out to be an experience that neither one is ready to pass up.

A Mistletoe Affair is a great story to curl up in front of a fire and read on a cold night to warm you up.  You fall in love with a mother’s love for her son and with the seduction going on between Katherine and Jared.  Jared isn’t sure in the beginning of his true feelings for Katherine, but when he realizes what they are he does everything with in his superman powers to have her.  If you love contemporary romances, this is a great one to add to your list.

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