title: Mistletoe Not Required (Harlequin Kiss)
author:  Anne Oliver 
description: Anne Oliver lives in Adelaide, South Australia. She is an avid romance reader, and after eight years of writing her own stories, Harlequin Mills and Boon offered her publication in their Modern Heat series in 2005. Her first two published novels won the Romance Writers of Australias Romantic Book of the Year Award in 2007 and 2008. She was a finalist again in 2012 and 2013. Visit her website www.anne-oliver.com.<br /><br />
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  He should not have kissed her.
  
  Now where did that leave him? With a yearning for more and a woman who would
  hate him.
  
  He should have stayed, should have reassured her, should have at least had the
  decency to admit the whole thing as his fault before he had walked out.
  
  But she had thrown him with her pale elegance and honesty and with the fumbled
  bank notes pushed uncertainly at him.
  
  To even think that she would pay him?
  
  Absolute incredulity replaced irritation, and that in turn was replaced by
  something…more akin to respect.
  
  She was the one all others aspired to be like, the pinnacle of manners and
  deportment and it cannot have been easy for her to have even asked what she
  did.
  
  Mistletoe Magic
  
  
    
  Harlequin®Historical
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Praise for Sophia James
  
  The Border Lord
  
  “A powerfully emotional story centering on a physically scarred heroine, an
  emotionally wounded hero and an unexpected love.”
  
  —RT Book Reviews
  
  High Seas to High Society
  
  “James weaves her spell,