Celtic Heat: Lover's Dawn, Midnight Sins, Rites of Passion

by Kristina Cook, Kristi Astor

From nationally bestselling author Kristina Cook (writing as Kristi Astor) comes this collection of three Edwardian-era novellas featuring steamy romance, some Celtic lore, and a little bit of magic. LOVER’S Twenty-three-year-old Aisling Wainscott writes risqué stories under a secret pen name, but her real-life love life is a bore…until she makes a wish for her winter's desire that works only too well. But as the walls around Aisling’s heart begin to crumble, she can only wonder if her feelings are real, or if it’s simply the winter solstice playing tricks on her.MIDNIGHT Imprisoned in a loveless marriage, Madeline, Lady Briarton, yearns for escape with a passionate stranger. But her unearthly lover, met on the eve of Samhain, is not who he claims to be. Can she risk her heart--and her very life--with the beautiful Scot who sets her blood and her body on fire, even as he claims the impossible?RITES OF War widow Emmaline Gage has inherited a crumbling old Cotswold manor that matches her bleak spirits, but a chance meeting across a Beltane fire stokes a passion inside her that can no longer be denied. Will she take the second chance at love she’s been offered, or will her fears--and the garden's haunts--send her scurrying away forever?

342 pages, Paperback

Published October 13, 2020

About the author

As a child, Kristina Cook took her nose out of a book only long enough to take a ballet class (or five) each week. Not much has changed since then, except she’s added motherhood to the mix and now enjoys penning her own novels as much as reading everybody else’s. Before turning her hand to historical romance, Kristina did graduate work at Columbia University and wrote grant proposals for some of New York City's top cultural institutions. After the birth of her second child, she decided to finally write that novel she'd always wanted to write. The rest, as they say, is history. Kristina lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.