title: Wife For Christmas
author: Kaye &amp; Bauer
description: Charli McKenna runs a business that specializes in organizing all those annoying domestic details of life, from dinner parties to laundry. Christmas is her specialty! Max Taylor wants a full-time wife. A wife will also get him a seat on the board. That last thing he wants is messy emotional ties. He'd even prefer a make-believe wife -- and Charli is the ideal candidate. Charli can't exactly say why she has agreed to pretend to be Max's wife -- his smile perhaps?
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  _**Christmas in paradise**_
  
  Hallie Roberts has had a string of bad luck, beginning with her fiancé dumping
  her! Now she is disillusioned and ready to leave her beloved big-city teaching
  job behind and return to her idyllic island hometown. Then fate intervenes,
  and a slip and fall on the ice brings gorgeous, brave paramedic Asa Andersen
  to her rescue and into her chaotic life.
  
  Saving victims can take its toll, but Hallie fills Asa with hope and renewed
  purpose. His mission to show the homesick English teacher a romantic New York
  Christmas culminates in a passionate, brief affair. But Asa isn’t about to
  lose the best thing to ever happen to him. When they meet again on Hideaway
  Island, the magic and sensuality of the sultry isle affects them both. Can he
  convince Hallie to trust in their future and a love that’s worth every risk?
  
   _ **Her body went slack beneath him, and he knew there was no stopping what
  he was going to do next.**_
  
  He kissed her. Beneat