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Holiday Hearts #2
Under the Mistletoe
HE GAVE NEW MEANING TO THE TERM TURNDOWN SERVICE
The devastatingly handsome manager of the Hotel Mount Jefferson, Gabe Trask, was all too eager to offer a wide array of amenities to Hadley Stone when he thought she was just a holiday guest. But once he learned that she was really there as a representative of the cost-cutting management company that had just acquired his hotel, Hadley expected Gabe to really be on her case. And he was—just not in the way she'd imagined….
For Gabe knew that despite all her down-to-business, cost-cutting talk, Hadley was a romantic at heart—one whom he was inexplicably finding hard to resist. And he could see in her eyes that the feeling was becoming mutual. Now all he had to do was convince her to check her business instincts at the door—and focus on the personal….
The devastatingly handsome manager of the Hotel Mount Jefferson, Gabe Trask, was all too eager to offer a wide array of amenities to Hadley Stone when he thought she was just a holiday guest. But once he learned that she was really there as a representative of the cost-cutting management company that had just acquired his hotel, Hadley expected Gabe to really be on her case. And he was—just not in the way she'd imagined….
For Gabe knew that despite all her down-to-business, cost-cutting talk, Hadley was a romantic at heart—one whom he was inexplicably finding hard to resist. And he could see in her eyes that the feeling was becoming mutual. Now all he had to do was convince her to check her business instincts at the door—and focus on the personal….
256 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2005
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Kristin Hardy
82 books29 followersI've been book crazy my entire life. When my mom would tell me to go to bed, I'd hide in the bathroom just so I could read a few more pages. In the afternoons, I'd play with my dog, Misty, in the backyard and tell her elaborate stories of princesses and Indians, dressing the dog up to play the part.
I grew up in Anaheim, California, home of Disneyland. When I was 12, I started my first novel, about a boy growing up with a race horse. I only managed to get about ten pages into it, but the seed of ambition was planted. I wrote short stories throughout junior high and high school, and entered college as a creative writing major. Unfortunately, the pressure of writing literary short stories weekly for a college course was far different than writing one story a semester in high school and that was the end of that.
Shortly after, now as a geology major, I read about category romance in a Sunday supplement and decided to give it a try. My first effort brought together an aviatrix and a cowboy and had a great scene in which the heroine airlifted a sick ranch owner in the midst of a thunderstorm. Unfortunately, it didn't have much else. A few years later, now as an engineering major, I decided to try again with a book about a lady architectural engineer and the gorgeous owner of a shipping company. This time, I had a cute meet and a great kiss scene, but still no real plot or conflict. I tossed it after three chapters.
The next year, this time as a physics major, I came up with a plot about a firefighter and an engineer. Things were looking good when I thought about plot points and conflict and actually developed a solid story line. A couple of chapters later, though, I moved away to attend grad school in Orlando, Florida, home of Disney World (are we seeing a pattern here?). The manuscript moldered in my closet.
After graduation, I worked in Connecticut on the mirrors for a NASA x-ray telescope now orbiting the Earth. Writing kept calling to me, though. I quit engineering and moved to New Hampshire to join the editorial staff of an engineering trade magazine. There, I met and fell in love with my husband, Stephen. Suddenly all those romance novels made a heck of a lot more sense.
Thus, plot possibilities followed me when I left the editing spot to join a business-to-business dot com (where we were paper millionaires for a heady 30 seconds). Around that time, a publisher tried to recruit me to launch a print magazine for an engineering society. Driven by the conviction that it was time to finally finish one of those danged books, I took the job and negotiated a four-day work week that would allow time to write.
This ambition coincided with the announcement of the Blaze line. Inspired by a presentation at a writers' conference, I plotted out a Blaze novel on the plane home and wrote the draft of Chapter One that night. Ten months later, I typed the words THE END and did victory laps around the living room. My Sexiest Mistake sold to Harlequin's Blaze line in September 2001 for publication in June 2002. My upcoming three book series will be released by Blaze in 2003.
I currently live in New Hampshire with Stephen (he's also a magazine editor), who is my critique partner, copy editor, web master, and master of my heart.
I grew up in Anaheim, California, home of Disneyland. When I was 12, I started my first novel, about a boy growing up with a race horse. I only managed to get about ten pages into it, but the seed of ambition was planted. I wrote short stories throughout junior high and high school, and entered college as a creative writing major. Unfortunately, the pressure of writing literary short stories weekly for a college course was far different than writing one story a semester in high school and that was the end of that.
Shortly after, now as a geology major, I read about category romance in a Sunday supplement and decided to give it a try. My first effort brought together an aviatrix and a cowboy and had a great scene in which the heroine airlifted a sick ranch owner in the midst of a thunderstorm. Unfortunately, it didn't have much else. A few years later, now as an engineering major, I decided to try again with a book about a lady architectural engineer and the gorgeous owner of a shipping company. This time, I had a cute meet and a great kiss scene, but still no real plot or conflict. I tossed it after three chapters.
The next year, this time as a physics major, I came up with a plot about a firefighter and an engineer. Things were looking good when I thought about plot points and conflict and actually developed a solid story line. A couple of chapters later, though, I moved away to attend grad school in Orlando, Florida, home of Disney World (are we seeing a pattern here?). The manuscript moldered in my closet.
After graduation, I worked in Connecticut on the mirrors for a NASA x-ray telescope now orbiting the Earth. Writing kept calling to me, though. I quit engineering and moved to New Hampshire to join the editorial staff of an engineering trade magazine. There, I met and fell in love with my husband, Stephen. Suddenly all those romance novels made a heck of a lot more sense.
Thus, plot possibilities followed me when I left the editing spot to join a business-to-business dot com (where we were paper millionaires for a heady 30 seconds). Around that time, a publisher tried to recruit me to launch a print magazine for an engineering society. Driven by the conviction that it was time to finally finish one of those danged books, I took the job and negotiated a four-day work week that would allow time to write.
This ambition coincided with the announcement of the Blaze line. Inspired by a presentation at a writers' conference, I plotted out a Blaze novel on the plane home and wrote the draft of Chapter One that night. Ten months later, I typed the words THE END and did victory laps around the living room. My Sexiest Mistake sold to Harlequin's Blaze line in September 2001 for publication in June 2002. My upcoming three book series will be released by Blaze in 2003.
I currently live in New Hampshire with Stephen (he's also a magazine editor), who is my critique partner, copy editor, web master, and master of my heart.
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January 14, 2012
4 1/2 Stars! ~ Gabe has been a part of the Hotel Mt. Jefferson since his teens, working himself up to Manager. It's a grand old world hotel in need of lots of attention. Hadley's father has just inherited the hotel. She's been given the mission of bringing the Hotel's bottom line on par with her father's other corporations; no matter what cuts she has to make in order to do that. Gabe has to appeal to Hadley's romantic side before the Hotel loses all it's charm.
Hadley's struggle to do what she knows in her heart to be the right thing, is heart warming. She's faced with disobeying and disappointing her very demanding father or with stripping an historic landmark to bare bones. Gabe is the perfect hero to show her what true loyalty is.
HOLIDAY HEARTS Trilogy by Kristin Hardy Book #2
This trilogy is about the Trask family, whose sugar maple farm boasts a legacy of five generations. The first story begins around Thanksgiving, a bittersweet time. This will be the first Thanksgiving without head of the family, Adam Trask, who died suddenly of a massive heart attack the previous spring. The final story is set around Valentines, when the sap in the sugar maples starts to flow and the anniversary of Adams death is coming near. Family and roots are the underlying theme behind all three books. The sons, Jacob, Nicholas and Gabriel; each have their own paths, but their paths always bring them back to the family farm.
Hadley's struggle to do what she knows in her heart to be the right thing, is heart warming. She's faced with disobeying and disappointing her very demanding father or with stripping an historic landmark to bare bones. Gabe is the perfect hero to show her what true loyalty is.
HOLIDAY HEARTS Trilogy by Kristin Hardy Book #2
This trilogy is about the Trask family, whose sugar maple farm boasts a legacy of five generations. The first story begins around Thanksgiving, a bittersweet time. This will be the first Thanksgiving without head of the family, Adam Trask, who died suddenly of a massive heart attack the previous spring. The final story is set around Valentines, when the sap in the sugar maples starts to flow and the anniversary of Adams death is coming near. Family and roots are the underlying theme behind all three books. The sons, Jacob, Nicholas and Gabriel; each have their own paths, but their paths always bring them back to the family farm.
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November 8, 2012
The devastatingly handsome manager of the Hotel Mount Jefferson, Gabe Trask, thought Hadley Stone was just a holiday guest. But he learned that she was there as a rep of the cost-cutting management company that acquired his hotel. Hadley was a romantic at heart—one whom he was inexplicably finding hard to resist. And he could see in her eyes that the feeling was becoming mutual. Now all he had to do was convince her to check her business instincts at the door—and focus on the personal… But things always get in the way, don't they? 5 stars!!
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