Lark Westerly

Lili and Chiara never miss a rostered shift at their aunt's caf . When Yannick makes them an offer they don't want to refuse, they have to make a choice. Trusting their future to a grumpy baker and a Christmas wish is risky, but sharing is their style. Why change that now?Lili and Chiara love their jobs at Fee Kaffee, but after the peach schnapps and poteen incident sets off a family row, their home life feels increasingly restrictive. When Irish Toby tosses them charmed apples, they decide to make a Christmas wish. The caf offers a venue, but their apples have vanished. It seems they're not the only ones using Fee Kaffee for a little Christmas magic.Yannick has worked for Martina Bless for three years. He likes the job, but Martina's twin nieces constantly distract him. In an effort to get them off his mind, he makes a charmed cake meant to attract his heart's desire. He's just added two spare apples to his recipe when he hears someone in the caf .The twins need men, and Yannick needs a woman. It might be a match made in heaven, but there are two of them and only one of him. The three of them go to Yannick's house to thrash the matter out. Once they find their solution, everything is fine...maybe.Meanwhile, at the caf , Martina faces the post-Christmas rush with a staff gone suddenly AWOL. The only clue she has is a napkin with a two-word message saying Just Eloped.

Martina's caf staff have gone missing. Dequan's mystery Christmas holiday is far too full of homicidal geese. Martina offers Dequan sanctuary-and nights in her feather bed. Time flies, geese are a laying, and the time for Christmas magic is nearly over.After Christmas, Martina wakes to a world of trouble. How can she run her caf when her staff is MIA? Who is that handsome gooseman at the market? Why does he crash her caf with six geese? Gott im Himmel Where is the gentleman lover of her dreams?The staff have left a message on a Christmas napkin. If it means what Martina fears, a family row is brewing.Dequan's plans to spend Christmas with his cousin are thwarted when Lucy gets a better offer. Now he's at a fairy-tale B&B.The people seem nice but peculiar. Six geese seem-oddly homicidal. Are they really chasing Dequan, or is it his Christmas feather they're after? What's with all the eggs? Then, at the market, he sees the fr ulein of his dreams.After taking refuge in Fee Kaffee, Dequan fills in for Martina's missing staff, but the geese are still on his case and laying eggs.Martina has a feather bed that's big enough for two. Dequan's mystery holiday takes a delicious turn-until the geese, the caf staff and his phone bring reality crashing in. It's such a mess, and Martina needs a holiday.

At seventeen, Lucy Tan was offered the lead in the school musical Queen of the May. She turned it down in favour of working on set design with her beloved teacher, August Herron. Later, she wishes she hadn't. As she grows older, Lucy realises her life calls for a lot of compromises. She works at her dream job, but since that means being off the grid and unavailable for half of every year, sustaining a romance is difficult. Catch and release is her solution, but that's a compromise, too. What she needs is a man she can put in cold storage...or maybe one with an off switch.She doesn't find one like that, but she does find Paris, who is sexy, gorgeous and devoted to her pleasure. She can't exactly take him home to meet her parents, though. For one thing, he lives in fairyland, where he spends most of his time attending to the needs of lonely women. For another, he has a weird aversion to wearing clothes.But Lucy is determined. This is her life, and this time, she's going to play the leading role.