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Snowy Nights: The Christmas Bride / Always And Forever / The Greatest Gift / Christmas Magic
Four bestselling romance authors contribute to this anthology in which four lonely individuals get something unexpected for Christmas.
Includes stories by Heather Graham, Lindsay McKenna, Marilyn Pappano, and Annette Broadrick.
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*Captain Kyle Anderson can’t believe his buddy Mike is tying the knot. And when Mike, a fellow captain in the US Air Force, asks Kyle to be his best man, of course Kyle says yes. When he flies home from Thailand, where his squadron is based, Kyle finally gets to meet the woman his friend has been talking about for a year. But what he never expected is for Gale Remington to be so...alluring. And he certainly isn’t prepared for the sparks that fly between them.
Gale is beyond happy to be marrying Mike. So why, when she meets his best man, Kyle, does her heart beat a little quicker, her breath come a little faster? He’s her fiancé’s best friend—nothing can happen between them. But nothing is certain in the theater of war, and fate may have other plans for her and Kyle.
*Happiness was along time coming for Neil Sullivan and Elizabeth, the woman he'd once promised to love forever. It took the miracle of a second chance--and the magic of the holiday season--for them to see the truth: their love could defeat any obstacle and make the future an eternal gift.
*Six years ago, the magic of Christmas had disappeared forever for Natalie Phillips. On Christmas Day, her young dreams had shattered and she'd been parted from the man she loved, Tony D'Angelo. Now Natalie was back home for the holidays. Christmastime -- a time to spend with loved ones, a time of warmth and giving, a time of peace. Unfortunately, Natalie hadn't been able to find much peace...until she saw Tony again. Suddenly the magic returned, and with it, Natalie found that, yes, there really is a Santa Claus -- and the greatest gift of all was Tony's love.
Includes stories by Heather Graham, Lindsay McKenna, Marilyn Pappano, and Annette Broadrick.
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When Jason McCready and Cary Adams were thrown together on a Yuletide skiing trip meant to please their children, they struck sparks off each other immediately. Then they realized that the fire burning between them was more than mere chemistry. It was the harbinger of a love that would warm them through the holidays...and beyond.
*Captain Kyle Anderson can’t believe his buddy Mike is tying the knot. And when Mike, a fellow captain in the US Air Force, asks Kyle to be his best man, of course Kyle says yes. When he flies home from Thailand, where his squadron is based, Kyle finally gets to meet the woman his friend has been talking about for a year. But what he never expected is for Gale Remington to be so...alluring. And he certainly isn’t prepared for the sparks that fly between them.
Gale is beyond happy to be marrying Mike. So why, when she meets his best man, Kyle, does her heart beat a little quicker, her breath come a little faster? He’s her fiancé’s best friend—nothing can happen between them. But nothing is certain in the theater of war, and fate may have other plans for her and Kyle.
*Happiness was along time coming for Neil Sullivan and Elizabeth, the woman he'd once promised to love forever. It took the miracle of a second chance--and the magic of the holiday season--for them to see the truth: their love could defeat any obstacle and make the future an eternal gift.
*Six years ago, the magic of Christmas had disappeared forever for Natalie Phillips. On Christmas Day, her young dreams had shattered and she'd been parted from the man she loved, Tony D'Angelo. Now Natalie was back home for the holidays. Christmastime -- a time to spend with loved ones, a time of warmth and giving, a time of peace. Unfortunately, Natalie hadn't been able to find much peace...until she saw Tony again. Suddenly the magic returned, and with it, Natalie found that, yes, there really is a Santa Claus -- and the greatest gift of all was Tony's love.
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 24, 2003
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About the author
Heather Graham
584 books6,929 followersAlso published as Heather Graham Pozzessere and Shannon Drake.
New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Heather Graham majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in dinner theater, back-up vocals, and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her third child and began to write, working on short horror stories and romances. After some trial and error, she sold her first book, WHEN NEXT WE LOVE, in 1982 and since then, she has written over one hundred novels and novellas including category, romantic suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult, and Christmas holiday fare. She wrote the launch books for the Dell's Ecstasy Supreme line, Silhouette's Shadows, and for Harlequin's mainstream fiction imprint, Mira Books.
Heather was a founding member of the Florida Romance Writers chapter of RWA and, since 1999, has hosted the Romantic Times Vampire Ball, with all revenues going directly to children's charity.
She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty languages, and to have been honored with awards frorn Waldenbooks. B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, Romantic Times, and more. She has had books selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, and has been quoted, interviewed, or featured in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, People, and USA Today and appeared on many newscasts including local television and Entertainment Tonight.
Heather loves travel and anything have to do with the water, and is a certitified scuba diver. Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, her greatest love in life remains her family, but she also believes her career has been an incredible gift, and she is grateful every day to be doing something that she loves so very much for a living.
New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Heather Graham majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in dinner theater, back-up vocals, and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her third child and began to write, working on short horror stories and romances. After some trial and error, she sold her first book, WHEN NEXT WE LOVE, in 1982 and since then, she has written over one hundred novels and novellas including category, romantic suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult, and Christmas holiday fare. She wrote the launch books for the Dell's Ecstasy Supreme line, Silhouette's Shadows, and for Harlequin's mainstream fiction imprint, Mira Books.
Heather was a founding member of the Florida Romance Writers chapter of RWA and, since 1999, has hosted the Romantic Times Vampire Ball, with all revenues going directly to children's charity.
She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty languages, and to have been honored with awards frorn Waldenbooks. B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, Romantic Times, and more. She has had books selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, and has been quoted, interviewed, or featured in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, People, and USA Today and appeared on many newscasts including local television and Entertainment Tonight.
Heather loves travel and anything have to do with the water, and is a certitified scuba diver. Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, her greatest love in life remains her family, but she also believes her career has been an incredible gift, and she is grateful every day to be doing something that she loves so very much for a living.
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December 23, 2017
3 stars.
A very short novella of a boss and one of his employees, both widowed with a daughter and son respectively. They are attracted to each other but still think they are in love with their dead wife/husband. When the kids wanted to spend a skiing week together, the heroine reluctantly agreed and things progressed rapidly. I did find the heroine a bit wishy-washy, the hero is much more decisive. All in all, a nice little Christmas story on second-chances at love.
A jarring note though... during the kids' Christmas party, Santa (played by the heroine's cousin, who I guess would be in his late 20s/ early 30s), pinches the bottom of a young female colleague who's playing an elf... and all the heroine said was that he's such a lech..... seems quite inappropriate for a book written in 2007!
A very short novella of a boss and one of his employees, both widowed with a daughter and son respectively. They are attracted to each other but still think they are in love with their dead wife/husband. When the kids wanted to spend a skiing week together, the heroine reluctantly agreed and things progressed rapidly. I did find the heroine a bit wishy-washy, the hero is much more decisive. All in all, a nice little Christmas story on second-chances at love.
A jarring note though... during the kids' Christmas party, Santa (played by the heroine's cousin, who I guess would be in his late 20s/ early 30s), pinches the bottom of a young female colleague who's playing an elf... and all the heroine said was that he's such a lech..... seems quite inappropriate for a book written in 2007!
April 4, 2016
Oh wow. This was the perfect book to get me into the Christmas spirit I've been sort of lacking lately. I loved all the stories here except for Lindsay McKenna's, which I found insanely boring. I would have given this 5 stars if not for that story, but this book was so sweet and cute that I found myself smiling more times than I can count. I was easily sucked into each of the stories and was thoroughly engaged until the last page. Two thumbs up from me!
November 4, 2020
I always liked Heather Graham's books. Cary was a writer for a magazine and she decided to interview the boss. Well that went over with a screeming result from the boss, he threw her out of his office. (Cary had lost her husband a few years ago and the boss had lost his wife just before Christmas the year before). She knew his wife died right before Christmas the year before, but she didn't know he wouldn't allow her to interview him at all. But things change when his daughter meets her son while visiting Santa Clause. They can't seem to ahything without each other.
It's a very good short story!
It's a very good short story!
January 11, 2019
There is something that does not quite jive in this book but because I had a fast read through, I couldn't point my finger to what it was.
Anyway, if you like cheesy, this is cheesy, but not really for me.
Anyway, if you like cheesy, this is cheesy, but not really for me.
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January 6, 2016
Typically, I don't bother explaining my ratings, but I feel like I have to justify my rating of this story. I really liked the first story (Heather Graham's) but I disliked the McKenna one, and I only felt lukewarm towards the third story. I loved the last one, even though (imo) it was too short and I felt like it could have used some more development. It would have been a really good novel on it's own with some more development into the plot and characters- I felt that it was predictable- two young people fall in love, parents of one disapprove, and they get married in a fit of rebellion. However, they really love each other and so while the girl's father disapproved of the relationship, he did not end the marriage through annulment or divorce and allowed the young man in the relationship to prove his love by making him have no contact with his love. And shortly after, he died, thus never seeing the relationship work out, and never being able to apologize to his daughter or vice versa.
And furthermore, the father has obviously never read any tragic romantic books, and he should have known sending his daughter away in the first place would just make her more rebellious and want to stay with the relationship even more. The story has a HEA because after 6 years they still love each other, but like I said, they should have more development.
So that is why I give this book a three stars, because while I really enjoyed both the first and last stories- I did not like the two middle ones as well. Basically, I liked the book, but I can't put two and half stars. This book is a good Christmas read (or a Christmas in the middle of the summer read) and I read it within only a few hours.- which kind of gives it the extra half star, since I consider it a perk that it was a fast read.
And furthermore, the father has obviously never read any tragic romantic books, and he should have known sending his daughter away in the first place would just make her more rebellious and want to stay with the relationship even more. The story has a HEA because after 6 years they still love each other, but like I said, they should have more development.
So that is why I give this book a three stars, because while I really enjoyed both the first and last stories- I did not like the two middle ones as well. Basically, I liked the book, but I can't put two and half stars. This book is a good Christmas read (or a Christmas in the middle of the summer read) and I read it within only a few hours.- which kind of gives it the extra half star, since I consider it a perk that it was a fast read.
December 3, 2016
A set of four distinctly different, very romantic short stories for Christmas.
Manhattan - a widow with a young son who writes for a magazine resists falling in love with her publisher, a widower with a young daughter.
A military tragedy/romance - a newlywed's husband is listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War for several agonizing years. Just before her wedding, she realized a deep attraction to her fiancé's best friend - and he felt that same attraction. This attraction grows into a deep friendship, mainly through letters, during her husband's MIA status, when they are both immersed in sadness and loneliness.
Western - A rancher is thrown to the ground from a cantankerous stallion and suffers severe injuries. He needs several months of recuperation at home. Will the love of his life, recently separated wife Elizabeth, agree to move back home? And give their marriage another chance?
Young love - Natalie has returned home to Portland, OR for the holidays. While Christmas shopping at the mall, she recognizes Tony, the man she married 6 years ago, when she was just 18 and a senior in high school, and hasn't seen since the morning after their wedding.
Manhattan - a widow with a young son who writes for a magazine resists falling in love with her publisher, a widower with a young daughter.
A military tragedy/romance - a newlywed's husband is listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War for several agonizing years. Just before her wedding, she realized a deep attraction to her fiancé's best friend - and he felt that same attraction. This attraction grows into a deep friendship, mainly through letters, during her husband's MIA status, when they are both immersed in sadness and loneliness.
Western - A rancher is thrown to the ground from a cantankerous stallion and suffers severe injuries. He needs several months of recuperation at home. Will the love of his life, recently separated wife Elizabeth, agree to move back home? And give their marriage another chance?
Young love - Natalie has returned home to Portland, OR for the holidays. While Christmas shopping at the mall, she recognizes Tony, the man she married 6 years ago, when she was just 18 and a senior in high school, and hasn't seen since the morning after their wedding.
October 27, 2018
"The Christmas Bride" by Graham. Cary Adams is a widow with an 8-year-old son. She's in the magazine industry working for Jason McCready, a widower with a 6-year-old daughter. The kids hit it off at the company Christmas party and he invites them to a lodge he owns for a ski week. The fall in love, but have to work through some issues first.
"Always and Forever" by Lindsay McKenna. Kyle Anderson fell in love with his best friend's wife-to-be when he flew home from Thailand to be his best man. When Mike is shot down in Vietnam six months later, Kyle begins corresponding with his wife Gale. Years later when Mike's body is finally returned, the two finally get together.
"The Greatest Gift" by Marilyn Pappano. Neil Sullivan has been thrown by a horse on his Montana ranch and seriously injured. This causes his estranged wife to come to the hospital and then house to be with him. They eventually work out their problems, but they were estranged for stupid reasons.
"Christmas Magic" by Annette Broadrick. Natalie Phillips father broke up her teen marriage to Tony D'Angelo 6 years ago. Now she's back in Portland and runs into Tony and they're still in love... and still married! Different twist, fun story.
"Always and Forever" by Lindsay McKenna. Kyle Anderson fell in love with his best friend's wife-to-be when he flew home from Thailand to be his best man. When Mike is shot down in Vietnam six months later, Kyle begins corresponding with his wife Gale. Years later when Mike's body is finally returned, the two finally get together.
"The Greatest Gift" by Marilyn Pappano. Neil Sullivan has been thrown by a horse on his Montana ranch and seriously injured. This causes his estranged wife to come to the hospital and then house to be with him. They eventually work out their problems, but they were estranged for stupid reasons.
"Christmas Magic" by Annette Broadrick. Natalie Phillips father broke up her teen marriage to Tony D'Angelo 6 years ago. Now she's back in Portland and runs into Tony and they're still in love... and still married! Different twist, fun story.
January 11, 2009
The first story, by Heather Graham was ok, not terrible but not great. I admit, I am not a fan of hers. The second story, by Lindsay McKenna, while set in the 1970's, was good. I am in the middle of the 3rd story, by Marilyn Pappano, now, and enjoying it.
January 4, 2011
It is great how you can wish for something and it happen.
Jason wanted someone to make his house into a home.
She wanted someone to love. Both had lost spouses. Had children.
They found each other and were married before Christmas. It is great.
Jason wanted someone to make his house into a home.
She wanted someone to love. Both had lost spouses. Had children.
They found each other and were married before Christmas. It is great.
November 24, 2011
A really lovely & festive Novella! Everything you expect to happens does, but it's such a lovely story and makes you believe in the magic of Christmas!!
May 23, 2012
The four stories were alright. Too short to be good or great. Simple with too little development for my taste, but enough to distract me for a little while
February 19, 2015
Four great stories, really enjoyed them, especially on a cold winters night. You'll really like the stories within this book. Enjoy.
November 24, 2014
Light-hearted romantic Christmas story.
January 5, 2024
Was good. I just like my books more spicy
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