Mistletoe Inn: A Love Story For Pet Lovers

Merry and Bright Romance #9

by Daphne Lynn Stewart

Laurel Westlake is furious when Tom Holiday the owner of a Niagara winery almost runs over her sweet little dogs Bella and Daisy in an icy hotel parking lot in the tourist destination of Niagara-on-the-lake. She has just learned that the hotel can’t take her and her pets because of a burst water main. Now she’s late for a meeting with a very important client for her aunt’s party planning business. They are supposed to plan an opulent Christmas party for the lakeshore town’s big time realtor, Holiday Realty. Worse, as she’s leaving the parking lot she crashes her car into a crate of very expensive wine that Tom is unloading. How is she going to pay for it? She’s frustrated, he’s mad, but when she injures herself on a piece of bottle glass Tom shows true compassion. He tells her she can pay him when she can and invites her back to his winery to recuperate from her horrible day. She is falling for him, but then she learns that he’s already dating someone. Someone from her past…

Genres: Holiday

108 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 10, 2018

About the author

Daphne Lynn Stewart is a pen name used by fantasy/suspense author Deborah Cannon for her novelettes, a series of Christmas romances for pet lovers and her Summer Destiny series.

In 2013 she won an honourable mention for her short story Twilight Glyph in the Canadian Tales of the Fantastic contest and in 2014 her story “Tang’s Christmas Miracle” appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas in Canada. Her career as a science fiction/fantasy writer began when she sold two short stories to Farsector SFFH magazine (2003). She has contributed to the Canadian Writer’s Guide and is best known for The Raven Chronicles, a series of paranormal archaeological suspense novels and a time slip series for young adults, The Pirate Vortex. Recently she launched a fiction series of Kindle Short Reads called Close Encounters of the Cryptid Kind. Her most recent release under the name of Deborah Cannon is a critically acclaimed epic The Pirate Empress, a Chinese historical fantasy. She is also a book reviewer for the Washington Independent Review of Books.

She lives in Hamilton, Ontario with her archaeologist husband.

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't like the characters in this - black & white/evil & good. Then for no good reason at the end in a rush, all the "bad" characters turn "good". I didn't like any of the characters enough to make this even an ok short story.