About
the Collection
Nestled into five beautiful acres just outside Hope Creek, Tennessee, Christmas Inn is an unforgettable place known for its joyful atmosphere and festive setting. Holiday decorations adorn each room. Trees glittering with ribbons and ornaments, gorgeous wreaths, velvet stockings and pine-scented candles brighten visitors’ stay at this vacation spot dedicated to Christmas all year, every year. The resort offers all the usual enticements plus one unique amenity…love. The little white chapel behind the inn, built by the Christmas family in the 1890s, boasts bell tower bells that toll when couples fall in love.
But Christmas Inn has fallen
on hard times. The chapel bells haven’t rang for many years, and this Christmas
may be the final celebration at the resort…unless love finds its way home.
The
Books
CHRISTMAS BELLS ARE RINGING
by Tanya Stowe
Taylor
Knox is a man with a plan. After years of handling the family’s construction
business everything is set for his brother to take over. Taylor is determined
to finish his education and complete his dream to become an architect. But
first, Knox Construction has to complete renovations of Christmas Inn…a task
made more difficult by the arrival of Little Miss Entitled. Ariana Christmas
throws Taylor’s plans and schedule into complete disarray, threatening the
completion of the work and his future. That doesn’t even begin to cover what
she does to his heart.
BELLS AT MIDNIGHT
Stranded at Christmas. For food critic and TV personality
Graham Forrester, that is definitely not part of the game plan. He’s on his way
to North Carolina to celebrate the holidays with his family and take a hard
look at his life. A sense of discontent is hot on his tail. The last thing he
needs is to be trapped by a record-breaking snow storm in the backwater town of
Hope Springs, Tennessee. To add insult to injury, he’s stuck at a B&B so
steeped in Christmas cheer it leaves his teeth to ache.
IT expert Lydia Cutler is transplanting
from Nashville to…wherever God chooses. Free spirited but searching for
meaning, she has agreed to help her surrogate family reestablish Christmas Inn
as a go-to resort for year-round Christmas joy. Bumping up the spirits of Graham-eneezer
Scrooge becomes a captivating perk to her life at the Inn, however temporary.
From the moment they meet, the unexpected
becomes the norm. An emergency at the Inn. A midnight kiss. The tolling of long-silent
bells in a nearby chapel. Everything comes together to seal Graham and Lydia’s
destiny, but will they find life answers that lead to love, happiness and God’s
perfect plan?
WITH BELLS ON
by Mary Manners
When Emilee Lancaster’s aunt calls her home to Hope Creek
for the holidays, Emmy readily agrees to assist with a charity event at the
family theater—until she finds herself front-and-center stage with her
high-school-flame, Jayson Taylor. She’s not thrilled about the pairing, but
she’s made a promise to her aunt, and unlike Jayson, she keeps her promises.
Jayson Taylor makes his living building
sets for Dahlia Brewster's Family Theater. When the Christmas show's emcee
falls ill, Dahlia asks Jayson to step from the backstage and into the
limelight. He's more comfortable working behind the scenes, but the
country-singing superstar has always treated him like a favorite son, so Jayson
reluctantly agrees. Center-stage at Christmas—especially beside dream-chasing
Emmy Lancaster, who once ran off and broke his heart—is not where he planned to
be.
But
God has other plans, and what happens when the curtain falls and the stage
lights dim truly reflects the heart of this holiday season.
BELLS ON HER TOES
by Delia Latham
As
part of an elaborate birthday gift from her sister, Karynn Michaels gets a
pedicure that includes a pretty bell on each toe and a promidiction—part
promise, part prediction—for each of the next ten days. Quiet, sensible Karynn
finds the whole thing ridiculous. But it’s just for fun and she is, after all,
on vacation at Christmas Inn, where bells are legendary.
The
same day, she comes face to face with Daniel Sheridan—the male standard by
which she’s measured, and found lacking, every man she’s dated since he moved
away during their senior year of high school. Is it mere coincidence that her
first promidiction hints at a reunion with someone from her past?
A
widower, Daniel is at the Hope Creek, Tennessee resort with his adorable little
girl and her less-than-agreeable nanny, who’s unpleasant to everyone—except her
handsome boss. Karynn refuses to hope for a rekindled romance, but her old
flame has lost none of his irresistible high school charm. She should have
stayed at home in Quillpoint. She was doing just fine without bells on her
toes, a jealous nanny, and a sapphire-eyed airline pilot who might fly away
with her heart…again.
