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    Holly's Haunted Christmas
    Holly's Haunted Christmas
    Holly's Haunted Christmas
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    Holly's Haunted Christmas

    By Annette Shelley

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    After her grandmother’s death, Holly Harker now runs the Lonely Hearts B&B, a place where widows and widowers can come to meet friends. The hotel has an illustrious reputation as a house of ill repute and things get even weirder when Holly hears strange voices coming from the rafters.

    She enlists the help of long-time family friend and widower Bill O’Malley. He comes to her rescue and after healing from the death of his wife, finds new comfort in Holly’s arms.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateDec 25, 2016
    ISBN9781487409470
    Holly's Haunted Christmas

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      Holly's Haunted Christmas - Annette Shelley

      Can they chase away the spirits of the past to live happily ever after?

      After her grandmother’s death, Holly Harker now runs the Lonely Hearts B&B, a place where widows and widowers can come to meet friends. The hotel has an illustrious reputation as a house of ill repute and things get even weirder when Holly hears strange voices coming from the rafters.

      She enlists the help of long-time family friend and widower Bill O’Malley. He comes to her rescue and after healing from the death of his wife, finds new comfort in Holly’s arms.

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      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Holly’s Haunted Christmas

      Copyright © 2016 Annette Shelley

      ISBN: 978-1-4874-0947-0

      Cover art by Martine Jardin

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

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      Holly’s Haunted Christmas

      By

      Annette Shelley

      Dedication

      To Mickey, Gail & Mark with love.

      Chapter One

      Holly Harker stood on the porch of her hundred and fifty year old antebellum home in the Mississippi woods and gazed out into the early morning mist.

      She always liked things around here this time of day. Quiet, peaceful, before everybody else was awake. A reflective time.

      Within the hour, people would emerge from their rooms upstairs and descend on the dining room downstairs for coffee and fresh pastries, maybe a friendly game of cards and a

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