THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Author: Lori Foster, Erin McCarthy, Jill Shalvis, Kathy Love, Katherine Garbera, and Kylie Adams ISBN: 0758212151 10/2006 (Reprint) ANTHOLOGY Publisher: KENSINGTON

White Knight Christmas By New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster Snowed Under By Erin McCarthy Ms. Humbug By Jill Shalvis I’ll Be Home For Christmas By Kathy Love Seducing Scrooge By Katherine Garbera The Good Girl’s Guide To A Very Bad Christmas By Kylie Adams

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

This set of mostly-Christmas Eve set stories will get you in the romantic spirit for Christmas Day!

Lori Foster's White Knight Christmas: Can Detective Parker Ross get through another holiday season without filling his arms with the temptations of the mysterious Lily Donaldson?

Erin McCarthy's Snowed Under: Can a chance meeting with her brother's friend Justin Fairbanks get twenty-five-year-old Claire Robbins some rocking Christmas sex despite his attempts to explain she's too young for him?

Jill Shalvis's Ms. Humbug: The town of Blue Eagle is being destroyed by revelations of corrupt officials, just as City Planner Cami Bennett's Christmas is ruined by her boyfriend cheating on her. Oddly enough, Mayor Matt Tarino is amused rather than enraged when she hits his car on a mad dash out of their office building. Is this the season that he'll finally act on his hots for her? Can they save their town together?

Kathy Love's I'll Be Home for Christmas: Seven years ago, banker Rob Marsten threw away the love of his life on Christmas Eve. This year, a chance meeting at a snowed-in airport reunites him with his lost love Erica Fetser. Will she give him a second chance?

Katherine Garbera's Seducing Scrooge: Jackson Peterson is all business, and he thinks Krista Miller, one of his employees, is just like him. But she's got ideas about turning this Scrooge McDuck into Mr. Holiday Spirit.

Kylie Adams' The Good Girl's Guide To A Very Bad Christmas: Aspiring actress and part-time actress Peri Knight harbors a crush on TV actor Chase McCloud, who visits her coffee shop daily and charms her over Nicaraguan ristretto. Can writing down her sexual fantasies about him really make them come true?

These short stories are very sexy, so there's not much room for plot development. We visit these characters at the point where they are making love and committing to each other. They all have histories before the stories begin. If you like your stories that way, this is the Christmas anthology for you!

Heather Hiestand