Advent Day 1: Mistletoe Mishap (W.A. Ashes)

 



It’s the 2024 Advent season and a bunch of authors have gathered together to give you 31 days of cheer. Each day, check back in here to grab a free book through December 31. Let’s ring in the winter holiday season with good books.
    Day 1’s book is Mistletoe Mishap by W.A. Ashes
    Martha and Johnathan were a happy couple. They had their faults but overall they were okay with where their relationship was heading. When life became hectic and Martha got sucked into her writing assignments, she unintentionally pushed Johnathan away and into the arms of another woman. Hurt and no longer sure that she knows what love is, Martha isolates herself. She throws herself into her stories. Writing all of her pain and anger into the paranormal worlds she creates. Until one December, a year after the night that destroyed her and Johnathan, she is assigned to write a romance story for her final project. How can she write about love when she no longer believes in it? And why is Johnathan suddenly popping up everywhere she goes? If all it took was one Christmas to ruin her faith in love could one more restore it?
    Claim link: https://www.amazon.com/Mistletoe-Mishap-W-Ashes-ebook/dp/B08PKSVB72/
    You can learn more about this book and see day 1 of my personal advent calendar on my Youtube channel: 
    

    If you want another book to read too, I gifted High Heels and Mistletoe by C.A. King to my sister for her ebook advent calendar today. The book is written by an international best selling author and is listed as a sweet holiday romance. The blurb states, "High Heels & Mistletoe is the gold medal winner in the Readers' Favorite 2021 International Book Awards for the Fiction - Holiday category.

Call it an allergy or a family curse, either way it boiled down to the same problem: Julietta Romero couldn’t go within six feet of mistletoe.

Forty-eight weeks, from January to the beginning of December, were spent filling the position as a top executive at a prestigious marketing firm—a five-year running record without a single incident. As long as she continued taking all her vacation hours all at the same time, nothing would change. Then, the worst scenario happened: with only a handful of days left before her flight, she found herself working round the clock on the firm’s biggest deal yet, and her boss wasn’t letting her leave until it was signed, sealed, and delivered.

Luke Winslow was in love with women, parties, and the holidays, and not necessarily in that order. Taking over one of his father’s companies didn’t fit into any of his plans, nor did a relationship that lasted longer than a roll in the sheets. There wasn’t a single person who had made him want to settle down and be serious, that was until she fell into his arms... several times. Now, he’ll do anything possible to stop her from escaping his charms, including holding off putting his John Hancock on the business deal his father instructed him to close.

It’s up to the magic of the season to bring this unlikely couple together with a little help from a pair of High Heels and Mistletoe."

Have a happy first day of Advent, Souls!
-Ashes
 


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