A Fortune's Children Christmas: Angel Baby / A Home for Christmas / The Christmas Child

Fortune's Children #12.5

by Lisa Jackson, Barbara Boswell, Lind Turner

A little friendly meddling by the great-aunt Kate is what ties these three short stories together in this addition to the Silhouette Fortune's Children Series. In the first story, "Angel Baby" by Lisa Jackson, Chase Fortune has one year to turn around a rundown ranch in order to earn it from his great-aunt. His year certainly has an odd start when he rescues neighbor Lesley Bastian from a blizzard and helps deliver her baby! Far from the clingy type, Lesley wants to leave Chase as soon as possible, and get on with the business of reviving her own ranch. But weather and fate transpire against them, and soon they've fallen in love. But when it appears that its either her ranch or his, Chase has to face a tough decision between his home or his heart.

In Barbara Boswell's "A Home for Christmas," Ryder Fortune is given a design firm by his great-aunt Kate, with a stipulation requiring profitability after one year. When another relative recommends Joanna Chandler as an employee, Ryder feels compelled to hire her. Regardless of her good intentions, Joanna is an organizational vacuum. While she fails as his assistant, she certainly steals his heart. Can Ryder convince Joanna to make a permanent merger?

The final story, "The Christmas Child" by Linda Turner, is set in the mountains of Wyoming. Hunter Chase has one year to make his great-aunt's construction company a success, and nothing can tear him away from his work but the desperate plea of Naomi Windsong. Reluctant to rely on any man, Naomi has no choice but to turn to the best tracker in town when her daughter Laura is kidnapped. But when Hunter and Naomi search for Laura, they discover some unexpected passion. Creative and entertaining, these three stories will keep you turning the pages. A good addition to any stocking. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien

Genres: Romance, Christmas, Holiday, Harlequin, Contemporary Romance

373 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1998

About the author

Lisa Jackson is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of over ninety-five novels, including the Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya Series, the Pescoli and Alvarez Series, the Savannah series, and numerous stand alone novels. She also is the co-author of One Last Breath, Last Girl Standing, and the Colony Series, written with her sister and bestselling author Nancy Bush, as well as the collaborative novels Sinister and Ominous, written with Nancy Bush and Rosalind Noonan. There are over thirty million copies of her novels in print and her writing has been translated into twenty languages.

Before she became a nationally bestselling author, she was a mother struggling to keep food on the table by writing novels, hoping against hope that someone would pay her for them. Today, neck deep in murder, her books appear on The New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists.

With dozens of bestsellers to her name, Lisa Jackson is a master of taking readers to the edge of sanity—and back—in novels that buzz with dangerous secrets and deadly passions. She continues to be fascinated by the minds and motives of both her killers and their pursuers—the personal, the professional, and the downright twisted. As she builds the puzzle of relationships, actions, clues, lies, and personal histories that haunt her protagonists, she must also confront the fear and terror faced by her victims and the harsh and enduring truth that, in the real world, terror and madness touch far too many lives and families.

Visit http://www.LisaJackson.com where you can find a Media Kit with photos and more information.

Reviews

[*CJ* · Rating 3 out of 5]

"A Fortune's Children Christmas: Angel Baby\A Home for Christmas\The Christmas Child" is an anthology with three books by three authors.

"Angel Baby" tells the story of Lesley and Chase, and has two neighboring widowers finding love during Christmas, and their own HEA.

"A Home for Christmas" has Joanna the clumsy assistant and Ryder her boss fanning the flames of attraction during the holiday season.

"The Christmas Child" has Naomi and Hunter looking for her kidnapped child.

While all 3 were average stories, I really liked the first two in terms of plot, the second being my favorite out of the three. That being said, 1 & 3 end with satisfaction, 2 has an abrupt resolution of conflicts.

Overall, an average read.

Safe

2.5/5

[Mildred Rupert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wish I had the rest of the Fortune books. There was 3 great stories in one book. Loved the three that I read.

[Brittany Hopkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

All three stories were great! All three authors did a remarkable job with the storylines and the characters!

[Maria · Rating 2 out of 5]

Three shorts about the great-nephews of Kate Fortune, they appear to be a continuation of a series written by different authors. Two were adequate. The last needed to be fleshed out more.

[Red · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are 3 stories in this book, each written by a different author. Plot development is sketchy at best, assuming due to length. Also very few characters in each story, really only 2.5 in each of the first 2 stories. But they move quickly. Third story was the best written. It actually had about 6 characters in it. I've decided I prefer a more fleshed out story (pun intended.) Romance stories in general are not as deep or well rounded as other novels, and the short story version has less of everything. Not very satisfying in any way. I guess I'll stick with the single story format.

[Kshydog · Rating 2 out of 5]

The concept of a Great Aunt getting involved in helping her nephews by offering them a chance at a better job and career is a nice premise. The fact that this book was actually 3 short stories made them very predictable. They were not Christmas stories - the nephews had to complete the challenge offered to them by Christmas.

[Cherry-Ann · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too easy read. Understand because it's a three in one but predictable and forgettable.

[Alisha]

3.5

[Sandie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very quick, light read. Due to being short stories, the plots were predictable and fast.

[Nancy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just okay.