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    Christmas Star
    Christmas Star
    Christmas Star
    Ebook67 pages55 minutes

    Christmas Star

    By Christine Ashworth

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    After a whirlwind courtship, the Christmas season finds plain-Jane-with-a-secret Elle Houston engaged to one of the brightest stars in the Hollywood firmament--and falling for the personal chef at her ritzy, pre-wedding resort.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBoroughs Publishing Group
    Release dateOct 16, 2014
    ISBN9781941260586
    Christmas Star

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      Christmas Star - Christine Ashworth

      Christmas Star

      A StarTide Romance

      Christine Ashworth

      www.BOROUGHSPUBLISHINGGROUP.com

      PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, business establishments or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Boroughs Publishing Group does not have any control over and does not assume responsibility for author or third-party websites, blogs or critiques or their content.

      CHRISTMAS STAR

      Copyright © 2014 Christine Ashworth

      Smashwords Edition

      All rights reserved. Unless specifically noted, no part of this publication may be reproduced, scanned, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Boroughs Publishing Group. The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the Internet or by any other means without the permission of Boroughs Publishing Group is illegal and punishable by law. Participation in the piracy of copyrighted materials violates the author’s rights.

      ISBN 978-1-941260-58-6

      For Lynne Marshall, who watched me begin this story in the airport at San Antonio on our way home after RWA14. Thanks, neighbor, for always being there for a walk, or a talk about publishing, or just a hug. I appreciate it more than you know.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Way too many thanks must go to The Best Roommates Ever, Maggie Marr and Maria Seager. You may not remember, but you helped me with the initial plot during one windy night on our balcony during RWA14 (there was beer and wine involved). Wouldn’t have done it without your urging. My undying thanks as well to Debbie Decker, my other pair of eyes, who helped me see the light about the ending. Love you ladies!

      And for the gal who was there at the start, when I was a crabby facilities manager who wouldn’t turn the heat up in the office over a decade ago. Jenn Reese, I wouldn’t be here without you. My love and thanks, always.

      To Jill Limber, who met my enthusiasm for the StarTide series with her own, thanks so very much for taking a chance on me. I plan on doing you proud!

      Much gratitude, as well, to my fabulous editor Chris Keeslar, who has taken my meltdowns and inability to hide my feelings (plus snarky emails) in stride. You polished this and I can’t thank you enough. Next conference, I owe you a drink.

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      About the Author

      Christmas Star

      Chapter One

      December 19th, evening

      Elle Houston drew her feet up onto the couch and nervously watched her fiancé—her fiancé—finish packing in the hotel suite he called home. Are you sure you want to get married?

      Taylor Collins, Grade A movie star, stopped adding shirts to his suitcase, tipped his head to one side and smiled, that lopsided grin that caused female hearts to flutter worldwide. Are you getting cold feet?

      No. Of course not. She’d never thought she’d get a proposal, ever. Not saying yes to the guy who was People’s Sexiest Man Alive? She’d have to be brain-dead. I’ve got the guy all the girls want, the guy paparazzi clamor over. She nibbled her top lip, considering. I guess I’m still just a bit stunned that you proposed.

      She’d been looking for romance. Her soul yearned for it, and they’d spent so much time together during filming that she’d, naturally, fixated on him. He’d noticed but been the perfect gentleman while they worked on the same set.

      When shooting wrapped, however, he’d asked her out. To her own surprise, she accepted. They’d had a month of intimate little dinner dates—getting there by separate cars, of course, dodging paparazzi. Movies in his hotel suite. Breakfasts in her apartment. Dancing on the beach in the moonlight, freezing their toes off and laughing at nothing. Making love. It had all been a sparkly fairy tale. But now, despite the ring on her finger, she found she wasn’t too sure of the ending. Their wedding was in five days, and something very like panic was invading her chest.

      You’re thinking too hard, he reproved. Look, I wish I didn’t have to go, but you know how these things are. Why Sam decided to do the pick-up shots in New York City, I’ll never know.

      He wanted to be close to his family. Elle thought everyone knew that. Their director was completely besotted with his wife and kids.

      Taylor came to her then, bent

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