“Mister Movie Star” by Cat Treadgold

After an inappropriate encounter and then being unfairly blacklisted by her previous celebrity client, Chef Rose Poppins will take what she can get. The next assignment is working with handsome movie star George Reed Masters, who is on a near-starvation diet for his next role. Rose is determined to keep it professional (she cannot risk being fired from this gig), but the dreamy (and persistent) actor is used to getting what he wants. When his famous bombshell ex makes it obvious she wants George to co-star in her next movie (and in real life), things get even more complicated.

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“The Greatest Noel” by Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson describes his novel The Greatest Noel: A Fantasy of the First Christmas as a fantasy; a vivid reimagining. It’s a very accurate depiction of his story, and one readers should note well. This is not the Christmas story you’ve been hearing all your life. If you want wise Men on camels and quiet shepherds in awe of the newborn king, consider the description of a “reimagining.” All those Christmas cards with those adorable scenes? Well, Lawson wants to give you a more vibrant, potentially more human understanding of that special night.

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“The Notorious Murder of Ellar Day” by Marcy S. Wood

Marcy S. Wood’s The Notorious Murder of Ellar Day is an ambitious work of historical fiction that combines romance, murder, racial violence, and the rough social politics of an 1880s Colorado mining town. Based on historical events, the novel begins with its ending: Ellar Day tells us from beyond the grave that she was murdered. Wood therefore makes the mystery not whether Ellar will die, but how a young woman with intelligence and considerable determination becomes trapped by circumstances that steadily eliminate her choices.

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