Christmas at the Grand Hotel — Amie Denman

Welcome to White Pine Island! Just a few miles off the coast of Georgia, this island is accessible only by boat, plane, and your imagination. Many residents call the island home year-round, but day visitors and tourists bring plenty of excitement with them. Like other resort islands, there are quaint shops, cool restaurants, and friendly bars. There are several resorts on the island, but the queen of them all is the elegant Grand Hotel on a bluff with an ocean view. Owned by the extensive, multi-generational Phillips family, the Grand Hotel offers elegant service, five course dinners, and plenty of romance.

White Pine Island Novella #1: Ned & Bethany

Sometimes the heart hits a hole in one…

Bethany Hinkle arrives at White Pine Island's Grand Hotel for her sister's wedding and to do a little environmental snooping. She snaps pictures of the hotel's pristine golf course to ensure its compliance with EPA standards. Soon, she realizes that the course's manager is as attractive as the course he so carefully protects.

Ned Phillips feels the weight of family expectations squarely on his broad shoulders. The Phillips Family has owned and operated the Grand Hotel for three generations. For now, he manages the hotel's golf course and makes plans for its future -- plans that could be destroyed by Bethany's spying. He gets close to the lovely environmentalist to watch for her next move until he gets too close to let her go.


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White Pine Island Novella #2: Ellen & Pete

What happens when you fall in love with your best friend just when it's too late?

All her life, Ellen Phillips has loved working for her family's Grand Hotel on White Pine Island. Flying the hotel's airplane and piloting the island ferryboat while knowing someday she will inherit the luxurious resort is a fairy tale existence she has no desire to change. She's always loved Pete McCormack, too. After all, he's her best friend, confidante, and playmate. Until she suddenly sees him in a different light just before Christmas.

Pete McCormack has made sacrifices for his family's golf cart rental business on the island, choosing to stay home and run it instead of pursuing his dream of his own career on the mainland. When his parents announce their plans to sell the business so Pete can leave the island, he has to choose between the future he thought he always wanted and his newfound love for the woman he would be leaving behind.