title: A Christmas Scandal
author: Ashley Stowe
description: By day, Ashley Stowe is an administrative specialist. By night, she is an aspiring author. Her love for Historical Fiction and Christian Romance novels has fed her desire to put pen to paper and bring her readers on a ride into the exhilarating world she has created. One of innocence, steamy first loves and feisty characters. Ashley grew up as a military brat, but shed correct you and say she was well-traveled. She spent much of her childhood traveling the United States, never really having the chance to call one place her home for very long. Home now, is Nebraska where she lives with the love of her life and their fur-kid, Mya.
zlib_text: Christmas with the
  Black Sheep
  Natalie-Nicole Bates
  
  E x cerp t from Christmas with the Black Sheep
  He wanted exactly what she did. A family. Maybe they had a lot more
  in common than she first thought. If this was the true Eriah Jameson, some
  woman might gain a very wonderful husband someday. “I think that sounds
  nice. Really, really nice. Perfect, really.”
  Then he did something completely unexpected. He kissed her, and
  continued to kiss her until she nearly swooned. Finally, she gently pulled
  back. There was something else she needed to know, before this went any
  further.
  “Eriah, how did you go from so bad, to so good?” she whispered, her
  lips mere inches from his.
  “I made a conscious decision to stop hurting people, especially those
  who did nothing to me. I don’t know what got me started. My parents
  fighting all the time, the rumors of infidelity on both of their parts, the
  divorce. I was a teenager with no supervision, no boundaries, and access to
  money. It’s not an excuse, Aylin. I