{"quotes":[{"text":"At the unexpected sight of Spence, Colbie startled hard. How was it that he was the one who needed glasses and yet she’d not seen him standing against the window? “No, I don’t kill a lot of people,” she said cautiously because she was wearing only a towelin front of a strange man. “But I’m happy to make an exception.”He laughed, a rough rumble that was more than a little contagious but she controlled herself because, hello, she was once again dripping wet before the man who seemed to make her knees forget to hold her up.“I didn’t mean to scare you,” he said and pushed off the wall to come close.She froze, but he held up his hands like, I come in peace, and crouched at her feet to scoop up the clothes she hadn’t realized she’d dropped.Leggings, a long forgiving tee, and the peach silk bra-and-panty set that hadn’t gotten so much as a blink from the TSA guy.But it got one out of Spence. He also swallowed hard as she snatched them back from him.“Hold on,” he said and caught her arm, pulling it toward him to look at her bleeding elbow.“Sit,” he said and gently pushed her down to a weight bench. He vanished into the bathroom and came back out with a first aid kit.It took him less than two minutes to clean and bandage the scrape. Then, easily balanced at her side on the balls of his feet, he did the same for both her knees, which she hadn’t noticed were also scraped up.“You must’ve hit the brick coping as you fell in the fountain,” he said and let his thumb slide over the skin just above one bandaged knee.She shivered, and not from the cold either. “Not going to kiss it better?” she heard herself ask before biting her tongue for running away with her good sense.She’d raised her younger twin brothers. Scrappy, roughhouse wild animals, the both of them, so there’d been plenty of injuries she’d kissed over the years.But no one had ever kissed hers. Not surprising, since most of her injuries tended to be on the inside, where they didn’t show. Still, she was horrified she’d said anything at all. “I didn’t mean—”She broke off, frozen like a deer in the headlights as Spence slowly lowered his head, brushing his lips over the Band-Aid on her elbow, then her knees. When he lifted his head, he pushed his glasses higher on his nose, those whiskey eyes warm and amused behind his lenses. “Better?”Shockingly better. Since she didn’t quite trust her voice at the moment, she gave a jerky nod and took her clothes back into the bathroom. She shut the door and then leaned against it, letting out a slow, deliberate breath. Holy cow, she was out of her league. He was somehow both cute and hot, and those glasses .","author":"Jill Shalvis","tags":["christmas-romance","contemporary-romance"],"id":9304,"author_id":"Jill+Shalvis"},{"text":"Laurel returned to CJ's bedroom. 'Do you want me to remove your clothes?'\t'Hell, yeah,' he said, and the growly expression immediately vanished.","author":"Terry Spear","tags":["christmas-romance","ghosts","haunted-hotel","holiday-romance","shifter-romance"],"id":18502,"author_id":"Terry+Spear"},{"text":"What if pretending is interfering with the person you’re meant to be?” he said.","author":"Robin Bielman","tags":["artist","christmas-romance","contemporary-romance","holiday-romance","prince","reporter","royal","small-town-romance"],"id":27508,"author_id":"Robin+Bielman"},{"text":"Life's too short to say no when love shows up at your door.","author":"Roxanne Snopek","tags":["christmas-romance","contemporary-romance","holiday-romance","western-romance"],"id":31820,"author_id":"Roxanne+Snopek"},{"text":"So you say there is no Father Christmas,                                                                          You say there is no Santa Claus                                                                                         Reindeer cannot fly, it's all a grown-up lie...","author":"M.C. Frank","tags":["christmas-romance","cry","death","longing","lost","love","santa","sight","spirit"],"id":34103,"author_id":"M.C.+Frank"},{"text":"Though we are not together in body, know that I will always be with you in spirit. I will be in the whistling wind and in your dreams. Think of me in the joy of watching snow fall and know that I am thinking of you always.","author":"Amy Jarecki","tags":["christmas-romance","historical-romance","holiday-romance","karate","martial-arts","robert-bruce","time-travel-romance","william-wallace"],"id":36727,"author_id":"Amy+Jarecki"},{"text":"How bad is it?” she asked.\t“Not bad.”\t“You always wince when it’s not bad.”\tHawk chuckled.\tTheo scowled at him. “It’s a little overly sensitive because I broke it six months ago.”\t“I guess grace doesn’t come with the royal package,” she teased.\t“My royal package is better than anyone else’s. Trust me.","author":"Robin Bielman","tags":["christmas-romance","contemporary-romance","holiday-romance"],"id":36945,"author_id":"Robin+Bielman"},{"text":"I hope you brought your handcuffs,' she added. 'I won't go quietly.'I might use them anyway, for fun,' he answered, remembering the sensation of her warm lips against his.","author":"Roxanne Snopek","tags":["christmas-romance","contemporary-romance","holiday-romance","western-romance"],"id":42971,"author_id":"Roxanne+Snopek"},{"text":"Marion's town slogan was 'Where Main Street Meets Mountain.' That was one of the reasons she'd loved the town, with the nearby woods, its colorful shops, and the feeling that time hadn't touched it the way it had the cities.","author":"Cindi Madsen","tags":["christmas-romance","contemporary-romance","holiday-romance"],"id":44361,"author_id":"Cindi+Madsen"},{"text":"What prince wouldn’t make a country girl a little restless? Those eyes, that mouth, the broad chest, were a royal combination unlike any other. He only held power over her if she let him, though. He brushed his teeth just like every other person. Put on his shoes one foot at a time.\tPrince Theo was just extraordinarily normal.\tAnd she could handle him and her story.\tProbably.","author":"Robin Bielman","tags":["christmas-romance","contemporary-romance","holiday-romance"],"id":46661,"author_id":"Robin+Bielman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":76,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}