{"id":1031,"date":"2024-03-05T17:29:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T17:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/?post_type=books&#038;p=1031"},"modified":"2024-03-05T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T17:29:36","slug":"scrooged","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/books\/scrooged\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrooged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>New York Times<\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;Bestselling Authors, Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward bring you three sexy short stories to heat up your holidays!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Sexy Scrooge<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last thing I needed was to share an Uber with Scrooge\u2014a cocky lawyer on a snowy Christmas Eve. It was bad enough I was on my way to court for the gift of eviction.Although maybe today wouldn\u2019t turn out so bad after all.The Sexy Scrooge and I started to connect as we trudged our way through a storm. Our ride was about to end. But would I ever see him again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The Merry Mistake<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note to self: Ask Santa for glasses this year. When I accidentally mistook a gorgeous man resting outside my building for a homeless person in need of lunch, we got into it. I\u2019d only been trying to do a good deed around the holidays, but he called me righteous. I called him something far worse. If only I didn\u2019t have to see him again. But fate had other plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Kissmas in New York<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was just supposed to be a simple kiss with a stranger. I&#8217;d done it to prove a point\u2014that I hadn&#8217;t lost my sense of adventure. But you know what they say about the best laid plans. Maybe I&#8217;d get something in my stocking after all this holiday season&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1032,"template":"","format":[21,19,20],"meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"series":[26],"trope":[40],"writtenby":[17],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"series":[{"value":26,"label":"Standalones"}],"trope":[{"value":40,"label":"Holiday Romance"}],"format":[{"value":21,"label":"Ebook"},{"value":19,"label":"Audiobook"},{"value":20,"label":"Paperback"}],"writtenby":[{"value":17,"label":"Penelope Ward &amp; Vi Keeland"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Scrooged-amazon-640x1024.jpg",640,1024,true],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/1031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"trope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trope?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"writtenby","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writtenby?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}