Sweater Stories

Here's a collection of links to all the stories in our sweater collection...

PG Forte presents  Spank Me, Santa 
Can a naughty sweater help Claire and Mike have a fetishtic holiday? Only Santa knows.
Starring: Claire and Mike from Let Me Count the Ways
(LA Love Lessons series)

Part One ~ Mike

“I still don’t know how I let you talk me into this,” I groused as I navigated the snow-covered road leading into Big Bear, California. ‘This’ was leaving Los Angeles, where we both had perfectly comfortable homes, and driving up into the mountains so that we could spend Christmas in the snow. I was missing my home, I was missing my pet parrot, most of all, I was missing my Jaguar. The SUV we’d rented for the trip might have been more practical in light of the weather and the mountainous terrain, but it sure didn’t compare to the Jag in terms of comfort or handling. “If snow at Christmas was such a big deal for you, I’m surprised you ever left the Midwest.”
Claire didn’t bother to respond; there was really no reason why she should. She just smiled at me from the passenger seat, shaking her head, rolling her eyes at the absurdity of my complaints…and wearing that sweater.   READ MORE

Kelly Jamieson presents Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe 
All Dylan wants for Christmas is NOT what’s in the present he opensfrom Brooke…or is it?
Starring: Brooke and Dylan from Slammed
(San Amaro Singles series) 

“Tell me again why you didn’t come to Hawaii for Christmas,” Dylan said. “We could be on the beach under a palm tree drinking piña coladas.”
Brooke smiled at him as she hung an ornament on the small tree in her apartment. Strains of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” drifted in the room along with the fresh scent of pine from the tree. Lights twinkled and sparkled off the red and green and gold ornaments, not only on the tree but all around the apartment. And Brooke wore a plush red and white Santa hat that was crazy but adorable. Turned out Brooke was a Christmas nut, but she’d waited until he was home so they could decorate the tree together on Christmas Eve.
If it was up to him, he’d prop a surfboard in the corner, drape a string of lights over it and call it good.  READ MORE


Sydney Somers presents  All I Want for Christmas 
Catch up with the former bad girl and unrepentant bad boy from Promise Harbor this holiday season!

Starring: Hayley and Jackson from Busted

The house had been trashed. Again.

Only this time it wasn’t someone with a grudge against Hayley that turned their small house on the lake into a nightmare.

Correction: a Christmas Do-It-Yourself nightmare.

Jackson set his bag on the floor, taking a cautious step into the living room. It was impossible to move more than a foot at a time without stepping on ribbon, tinsel, ornaments, ceramic reindeer and…

He cocked his head. “Is Santa mooning his elves?”

“It belonged to my Gramps,” came the muffled response from upstairs.

The eye-sore of a decoration certainly looked like something Coach would have put on display in his den.  READ MORE

Erin Nicholas presents Tidings of Comfort and Schnapps  
Find out what Cody and Olivia had going on BEFORE Going for Four.
Starring: Olivia and Cody from her upcoming release, Going for Four 



Two years, one week and three days ago
There was nothing sexy about gingerbread men.  Especially ones that were really just big blobs of gingerbread with a foot sticking out here and there.  There was also nothing sexy about sugar cookies.  Especially ones that were burnt on the bottom.  And there should be nothing sexy about his best friend’s little sister muttering words that would have shocked her mother while putting colorful gumdrops on the top of green Rice Krispie treat trees.
But Cody Madsen found himself a little tighter in his blue jeans when he stepped into Olivia Dixon’s kitchen.  She was beautiful.  Her jeans were faded across the butt, her hair was escaping the twist on top of her head, she had green frosting smeared up one arm and cocoa powder on her left thigh.
And he wanted to kiss her.  READ MORE

Juniper Bell presents: The Receptionist who Saved Christmas
How far will this naughty threesome go to bring back the Christmas spirit?
Starring: Dana, Ethan and Simon from The Receptionist series
As soon as I walked into the kitchenette at Cowell & Dirk, I knew the Christmas spirit had decided to take a pass on our little firm. It was probably lying unconscious in a Low-Life back alley, traumatized by the same icy blue stare Ethan Cowell was aiming at the mug in his hand.
“What the bloody hell is in my coffee?”
“That's egg nog,” I chirped.
He dumped it in the sink. “Fix it.”
“What’s wrong with a little holiday cheer? It’s perfectly harmless.” I watched the thick creamy liquid swirl down the drain, along with all my hopes for the first normal Christmas in my twenty-three years of life. I don’t want to go into detail, in case I ruin your holiday spirit. Suffice it to say that in the house where I grew up, Christmas meant an extra case of rum for the grownups, extra dodging of speedily emptied bottles for me.
“Got a problem with egg nog, Ethan?” Simon, my green-eyed boss number two, strolled into the kitchen, his green-and-red Christmas tree tie bringing joy to my heart. “Or is it anything holiday-related in general?”
“This is a place of business, and business only,” Ethan declared. Simon and I looked at each other and started cracking up.
“Aren’t you several hundred screaming orgasms late with that announcement?” Simon asked mildly.

Kate Davies presents: Away for Christmas
With her mom on a holiday cruise, Samantha's spending her first Christmas with Robert's family. Will she survive a whole new set of traditions?
Starring: Sophia's daughter Samantha (and her boyfriend) from Home for Christmas. 
Sam woke in an unfamiliar bed.
She blinked the sleep from her eyes, looking around at the room. 
Athletic pennants hung on the walls, and a poster of some female movie star who’d been popular almost a decade ago. The comforter on the bed was blue and red plaid, with…was this a race car pillow under her head?
Shifting on the mattress, she almost sighed in relief at the sight of the man sleeping next to her. They were at Robert’s parents’ house for the holidays, and this was his childhood bedroom.
Emphasis on child.
My God, they hadn’t changed a thing since he’d moved out, apparently. Was that a teddy bear on the desk under the window?
She fought a losing battle against the tug at her heartstrings. Okay, yeah, that was kind of adorable.
Much like the man himself.
She turned her head on the pillow and watched as he slowly came awake. “Morning,” he said with a raspy voice, leaning forward to kiss her. READ MORE

Meg Benjamin presents: Waffling in a Winter Wonderland
What’s a better Christmas gift than Cal’s engagement ring? Well, there’s Docia’s Christmas sweater. 
Starring: Cal and Docia from Venus in Blue Jeans  (Konigsburg, Texas series)   

Docia Kent considered the landscape they were passing through once again. Gray. Gray clouds, gray mist, gray fence posts, gray gravel. Even the snow was gray, although that could have been the effect of the late afternoon light. Or the lack of it. Iowa in December was the most depressing place she’d ever seen. The sun hadn’t shone once since they’d come back to Cal’s parents’ house for Christmas. For all she knew, the sun never shone in Iowa.

That was, of course, grossly unfair. There were cloudy days in Texas too. Lots of them. There was, however, no snow in Konigsburg.

She snuggled more deeply into her down coat. Cal had offered to turn up the heater in the SUV, but she preferred to keep her coat on—less of a nasty shock when she stepped outside into the arctic wastes that surrounded Cal’s boyhood home.

Assuming they ever found said arctic wastes again. At the moment they seemed to be lost. “Calthorpe, I swear I’ve seen that tree before. Are we going in circles?”

Cal sighed, keeping his gaze fixed on the miles of bumpy gravel road ahead. “We are not going in circles. You have not seen that same tree. A very similar tree maybe, but not that exact same tree.”  READ MORE


Kinsey Holley presents: I'll Be Home for Christmas (And I Wish All These People in My House Were Too)
Ally Kendall McDougall has invited her Texas relatives to join her in Colorado as she prepares to celebrate her second Christmas with Cade, Becca and the pack. 
Starring: Ally and Cade from Yours Mine and Howls (Werewolves in Love series)

“Becca? Becca! Baby, where are you?”
It was hard to scream a whisper, but Ally was doing her best. She didn’t want folks in the house to hear her calling for her daughter.
So she crept along in an uncomfortable walking crouch—the better to see small animals on the ground—behind the building which contained the gym and swimming pool, softly calling for Becca and hoping the girl hadn’t run off into the woods.
Thirty or forty yards to her right, over by the wood shop, she heard Michael calling for Becca in a whisper-yell much like her own.
"Hey! Stinky Butt! Where are you?" 
She couldn’t see him, but her hearing was as acute as the werewolf’s.
"Michael! That's not gonna make her want to come in!”
At five and a half, Becca was a Big Girl, and Big Girls didn't like being called by their baby nicknames. READ MORE

Skylar Kade presents: Merry XXXmas
When Gabe and Hope head to Maison Domine the weekend before Christmas, the last thing they expect is to get snowed in...
Starring: Gabe and Hope from His Only Hope (The Maison Chronicles)
“It had to be a snowstorm. Just fucking great. So much for spending the weekend at home wrapping presents and baking cookies.”
Gabe winced at the creative curses Hope threw around the other room of the cabin. Even after two years, she still managed to surprise him with the anatomically-incorrect things she wished upon inanimate objects.
His cara stomped back into the main room of the cabin, her sunset red hair swishing around her shoulders. “What the fresh hell is this? California isn’t supposed to get snowstorms!”
He tensed, and the fresh ink on his back protested the movement. Why hadn’t he checked the weather? All of his careful planning, out the window. Reservations at Mélisse? Out of the question. Sunset over the Pacific? Forget about it.
Instead of letting Hope see his utter frustration, he smoothed a smile onto his lips and swept her up into his arms. The jingle bells on that god awful sweater she'd insisted on wearing chimed as he brought her to rest against his body. “Are you so eager to be rid of me? Here we have Maison Domine all to ourselves, and you can’t wait to leave?” He’d have to readjust his grand scheme, but he’d make do. 
She answered with a wicked grin. “Well, when you put it that way…I’m sure Kat didn’t expect us to take advantage of having the key, but hey, I’m game.”  READ MORE


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