Have you talked to an eight-year-old lately? My niece is eight. My daughter is about to be seven. So, I'm pretty up on this age. And let me tell you--it's more than a bit precocious.

She's finding her legs, learning what she can get away with, and yet still very much a little girl.

Let me introduce you to Hailey. She's Charlie's daughter, and she is a big part of my novella Mistletoe Make-believe.

Because who can resist a romance that includes a cute child, too?

Samantha Arwine loves her job as an author, but since her last breakup, the muses have been silent. On a suggestion from her agent and cousin, she heads off to a romantic beach for the holidays--and what could be more romantic than where her parents honeymooned almost thirty years before?

Little does she know that a story idea will literally drop into her lap the first Sunday she's on the island. A pretend romance? She's never written one before, but it sounds like fun. And Charlie looks so desperate, how can she say no to his slightly crazy idea?

Charlie Hill is the instigator in my story, Mistletoe Make-believe. You see, his family has been after him for a while now to find someone to date and marry so his daughter Hailey can have a mom.

Since he's spending Christmas with his family, he dreads hearing the advice once again, so he decides to find a pretend girlfriend. If only he hadn't waited until the last minute! Seriously. The first Sunday they're all together on St. Simons Island, Georgia, he's stuck guessing which women in the church building are possibly single--and picking one to ask the biggest favor he's ever requested.

It's all his family's fault he's asking someone to lie with him. And he's making the request in the church building, no less.