Capture the magic of Christmas past and present in this heartwarming collection of seven original love stories by popular historical and contemporary authors. Two volumes in slipcase. --- 1993 Silhouette Christmas Stories - the joy of the holiday season and the magic of romance in this festive collection of four contemporary stories, including: The Man from pine Mountain by Lisa Jackson - Naughty or Nice by Emilie Richards - Holiday Homecoming by Joan Hohl - A Kiss for Mr. Scrooge by Lucy Gordon. --- 1993 Keepsake Christmas Stories - three heartwarming, historical stories that celebrate the spirit of Christmas past, including: Once Upon a Christmas by Curtiss Ann Matlock - A Fairytale Season by Marianne Willman - Tidings of Joy by Victoria Pade.
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.
I've had this book since it was released in 1993 and it's just not Christmas without reading these stories. "Naughty or Nice" by Emilie Richards and "Holiday Homecoming" by Joan Hohl are my favorite in this compilation, with my inevitably crying over "Naughty or Nice".
Dec. 2018. I've reread this book a number of times since I first picked it up in 1993, and I STILL find myself near sobbing over "Naughty or Nice".... This is one story that's stood the test of time, for me. "Holiday Homecoming" is also a nice read, though I'm seeing it in a different light as I get older. The other two stories are ok, but don't seem to have enough impact that I can ever even remember what they're about from year to year.
Jackson and Gordon stories were nothing special, I cried when reading Richard’s and it was my personal favorite, and I actually skipped Hohl altogether after two pages because I am NOT reading a weird ass step brother passion trope. I think the concept of Christmas stories was a nice idea. I got this book super cheap thrifting it but it was a bit outdated. If you wanted short stories to get you into the Christmas spirit a little more this is a good way to go, but I would not reread or seek more books from any of the authors listed.