Under the Mistletoe
by Kristin Hardy

Sugar might be sweet, but eighteen years of toting and hauling and working sunup to sundown on the Trask family farm was more than enough for Gabriel Trask, youngest of the brothers. If it wasn't tapping time it was boiling time, stoking the open flame of the evaporator in a sugar house so hot that they kept the back door open to let in the subzero night air. Working the family farm imbued him with a strong work ethic—and a strong ethic for finding the kind of work that didn't leave him with an aching back.

It isn't that he doesn't appreciate the Trask legacy, it was just that he doesn't want it to be the yoke around his neck. Legacy is fine for his brother Jacob, who thrives on it. Gabe, now in charge of the Hotel Mount Jefferson, a Victorian grand resort hotel, safeguards a legacy of his own.

Hadley Stone comes to the Hotel Mount Washington in late November, with the assignment to whip the hotel into shape, Marriott style. When Gabe finds out, sparks fly. But as the weeks roll by and Christmas approaches, Hadley finds herself falling in love with the hotel, which provides her with a home and family she's never had. And she finds herself falling in love with Gabe Trask...

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Always a Bridesmaid
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Bad Behavior
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Hot Moves
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Bad Influence
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Under His Spell
#1786 Holiday Hearts

Caught
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Vermont Valentine
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Where There's Smoke
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Kristin Hardy's Bio

At 12, Kristin Hardy started her first book, and the seed of ambition was planted. Trained as an engineer, she was part of the team that built the mirrors for NASA's orbital x-ray telescope, an experience that drove her to switch careers to trade magazine editor. Later, she took her act online and joined a business-to-business dot com (where she was a paper millionaire for a heady 30 seconds). Around the time her stock options were spiraling down to worthlessness, she was recruited to launch a print magazine for an engineering society. She currently lives in New Hampshire with her husband.