More than a place to access the web, it’s an integral part of Pine Grove culture.

The internet café Cyber Shack has been in Janie Elliott’s family for decades. To succeed where others have failed, Crystal must blend into the community and understand why the small town is stuck in the past. She just has to sell Pine Grove’s government on the future: Wi-Fi, high-speed internet, and streaming services.

When internet executive Crystal Tucker is given the opportunity to finally make it to the top in her company, she jumps at the chance. It’s a portrait that seeks an answer to an enduring question: What if some were predestined and meant for one another? Read more So It Went Like This is a candid and deeply personal exploration of fate, chosen family, and that dreamy vulnerability intrinsic in life’s uncertainties, as told in interwoven perspectives. But as the two find they’re inexplicably drawn to one another during an intoxicating and completely sublime few days secluded far away from reality, they’re also struggling with the relationship’s transience. Logan who’s oh-so-persuasive and determined to win her over. Where better to find herself than a luminous gay-owned bed and breakfast on the coast of Maine?Įnter Logan, a stranger who approaches her in the lobby. While on her therapist’s couch, she psychoanalyzes herself, her latest short-term failure of a relationship, and all of those mistakes she’s made along the way. Then a freak storm strands them in the bar, and more than miracles abound. When self-described Queen of Carols Courtney Rivers books Mirage for her company’s holiday party, she clashes with Mira over the plans. In A Christmas Miracle by Fiona Riley, Mira Donahue’s bar, Mirage, is the hottest Christmas party venue in Boston, despite Mira’s secret: she hates Christmas. NYPD beat cop Toby Beckett, who just wants to protect and serve, barely notices the spirit of the season until events keep pushing her into Hannah’s path. In Hustle & Bustle by Maggie Cummings, Hannah Monroe is ready to dazzle customers with her pop-up shop at NYC’s winter holiday market. After all, how hard can it be to bring your nonexistent girlfriend home for the holidays? In Triple Dog Dare by Georgia Beers, Sasha Wolfe has been talking up her new girlfriend to her overbearing mother for months, and when her skeptical sister dares her to invite this new squeeze over for family Christmas, Sasha accepts the challenge.

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