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Summary: A sweet, hot Christmas book.
Review: - "The Proper Lover" by Eileen Wilks
Set in Regency England. Emily, a young lady plans to lose her innocence to James, a charming rogue, so that she doesn't have to marry against her will, but she doesn't expect a night of passion to so thoroughly connect their souls...- "Santa Wears Spurs" by Kinley MacGregor
Set in the Old West. An outlaw returns to the woman he loved and left behind because he wanted to protect her from his own brother, and finds the best christmas surprise of his life... - "Christmas Bonus" by Lori Foster
(My favourite!!!) Erin Bragg had been in love with Maggie Carmichael for years. He had been waiting for her to grow up before making a move, but she was his boss now and if he asked her to marry him some might assume he was only doing it to get the company. - "A Night with Emily" by Dee Holmes
Johnny and Emily were forced to spend Christmas together and they found out that their old flames still burn white-hot...
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Summary: A sweet, hot Christmas book.
Review: - "The Proper Lover" by Eileen Wilks
Set in Regency England. Emily, a young lady plans to lose her innocence to James, a charming rogue, so that she doesn't have to marry against her will, but she doesn't expect a night of passion to so thoroughly connect their souls... - "Santa Wears Spurs" by Kinley MacGregor
Set in the Old West. An outlaw returns to the woman he loved and left behind because he wanted to protect her from his own brother, and finds the best christmas surprise of his life... - "Christmas Bonus" by Lori Foster
(My favourite!!!) Erin Bragg had been in love with Maggie Carmichael for years. He had been waiting for her to grow up before making a move, but she was his boss now and if he asked her to marry him some might assume he was only doing it to get the company. - "A Night with Emily" by Dee Holmes
Johnny and Emily were forced to spend Christmas together and they found out that their old flames still burn white-hot...
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Summary: For Anthology Lovers
Review: All I Want for Christmas is a melange of Christmas stories, contemporary and historical. Lori Foster gets first billing (or is it just alphabetical?) with Dee Holmes, Kinley MacGregor, and Eileen Wilks, rounding out the slate of excellent authors. All of the stories were charming, especially MacGregor's Santa Wears Spurs. This story of a man who is determined to set things right and who rediscovers in the process the woman he has always loved, is heartwarming and poignant, and my favorite of the four. In Eileen Wilks' regency story, The Proper Lover, it's amazing what a kiss can do when a young, innocent woman decides what she needs for Christmas is a rake. Dee Holmes brings a reunion story to the mix, when she forces two people who were once in love to spend the holidays together. And Lori Foster's Christmas Bonus showcases her hot as fireworks writing style. Reunion stories are among my favorites, so I was hooked by MacGregor and Holmes. Wilks' regency was charming. But Foster's heroine was a bit too young for the hero, although those who like her sizzlers won't be disappointed. Still, the best thing about the holidays is tasting all the different goodies, and All I Want for Christmas has something for everyone who loves short stories.
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Summary: ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS
Review: ALL I Want for Christmas is an anthology featuring Lori Foster, Dee Holmes, Eileen Wilks and Kinley MacGregor. Santa Wears Spurs by Kinley MacGregor is about a guy who returns to his wife after leaving her five years earlier. This story was the least believable of the four. The woman forgave the guy way too quickly, both of these characters fall in the dreaded Too Stupid to Live category. A Night With Emily by Dee Holmes is about a woman housesitting for an old friend and her old lover shows up unexpectedly. Johnny is not to pleased to see Emily because, he had plans to sit and drink after finding his fiancee with his best friend. This story is good, but too cliched and was wrapped up way too quickly. In The Proper Lover, Emily (another one named Emily) goes to a neighbors house where a renowned rake is spending the weekend hoping to get herself ruined so she wouldnt be forced to marry one of two men picked out by her family. I enjoyed this one, which surprised me because I usually dont like historicals too well. In Christmas Bonus, Maggie wants Eric and Eric wants Maggie, but both feel a little uncomfortable admitting it, since she inherited her fathers' company and became his boss. She asks him to meet her at her place the next day to help with a Christmas party. After she kisses him under the mistletoe she placed over his door, he decides he is tired of waiting. This was the most believable out of the four and my favorite, and the best reason to buy this book.
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Summary: Warm your christmas with this passionate anthology
Review: ALL I WANT FOR X'MAS promises to be a deliciously scandalous read besides the prurient book cover with four authors to scorch you up with their novellas in this sizzling anthology. Christmas Bonus by Lori Foster wastes no time in subtleties to unite Maggie and Eric, who are co-workers and in secret passion for one another. The romp is outrageously prurient yet tender when they confess their love for each other especially when Maggie is discovered to be an erotica writer. Eileen Wilks crafts the story of Emily fleeing from her Aunt who had plans to marry her off to an undesirable match and her predicaments compels her to surrender herself to the dissolute rake, James Drake - Baron Redding. The humour twisted in the story especially when the overly amorous Lady Debenheim offers herself to James makes the sexually charged story scintillating. Kinley MacGregor fuels the sensuality with outlaw Michael O'Conell returning to his wife, Catherine but his declaration of love is obliterated by the cruel fate of his criminal brother engaging him for a crime spree. Love however surmounts the barrier to grant him a requisition of his lovely wife and daughter. The last story by Dee Holmes finishes with Johnny and Emily facing up to the truth that their love may not be extinguished after all - the bitterness learns to give way to their love. All I want for X'mas is an anthology pumped with unabashed sexuality - if you like the story zinged with flames and passion. A crackling Christmas will be gauranteed along with the gratifying satisfaction from the lovely stories in the anthology.
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Summary: Christmas Bonus - Lori Foster
Review: Forget hot chocolate, forget that crackling fire. All you need is Lori Foster's "Christmas Bonus" to warm you up on a cold winter's night. Whew! This is one hot story. Too bad it was so short. Of course, this is a novella, but I'd have loved to have had another 200 pages of Eric Bragg and Maggie Carmichael. Unbeknownst to each other, they've both worshipped the other from afar, their age difference being one of the main factors. Now that Maggie is head of her late father's company, Eric continues to keep his distance, unsure of how Maggie would respond to overtures. Would she think him only interested in her now, since her rise to company chief, as a way of gaining control of the business he once thought would be his to control? As for Maggie, did Eric still see her as the bouncy teen-ager, ten years younger than him? Their secret infatuations with each other remain secret, until Eric discovers Maggie's 'other' career. Then, the sparks fly as Eric decides to take matters into his own hands. If those long, cold winter days (and nights) have you feeling a bit like hibernating, "Christmas Bonus" is guaranteed to jumpstart your pulse and heat your blood to sizzle.
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Summary: A great gift for a romance fan
Review: I bought this book for Lori Foster, but I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by all the writers and the stories in it. Lori's was my favorite, but I have to say Kinley MacGregor's came in a close and surprising second. Something remarkabale since I normally despise historicals.
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Summary: Give yourself a wonderful present this Christmas
Review: I've always been a huge fan of anthologies, and this is one of the best ones I have ever read. Kinley MacGregor's Santa Wears Spurs is by far my favorite. The story of a couple parted because of circumstances. Their love for each other is so incredibly well drawn that I actually cried. It was funny, touching and heart wrenching. Oh how I wish Michael was real. What a wonderful hero! Lori Foster's story was also good, but I have to admit the age gap between the hero and heroine really bothered me, especially since it was a contemporary. it probably bothered me most because I have a daughter close to that age and I know how I would feel if she came home with a guy 10 years her senior. Even so it was nice to see how their love developed, and I really liked Maggie. Eileen Wilk's was about a debutante wanting to lose her virtue to save herself, but what she ends up saving is the hero. I'm still reading Dee's, but it's warm and touching too. Kudos ladies. You did a great job. And I can't wait to get my hands on Kinley and Lori's next books.
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Summary: Some of everything
Review: Most anthoologies only have historicals or contemporaries in them. What I liked about this one was that you got 2 of each and each one was a gem. Good stuff to warm you up on all those long cold winter nights
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Summary: Santa Wears Spurs by Kinley MacGregor
Review: Now here is an author to watch. I've always been a fan of short stories, but I recognize the difficulty of telling a full fledged story with fully developed characters in the space of a handful of pages. Yet somehow this author blends in humor, steamy sex, a villain, a believable and heart-wrenching past and a story so satisfying that when I finished it, I didn't dare read the others for fear of how they might pale in comparison. BTW, I will read them, but I'm defintitely going to wait a few days. The last time I remember a short story touching me this much was the one Lorraine Heath wrote in To Tame A Texan. O'Connell is the same kind of tortured hero with a past he would just as soon forget. I am just so touched by his love and devotion to Catherine. Maybe it touched me so much because the story mirrors my own life. And I have to say that I resent the "too stupid to live" comment about this story. Forgiving my then boyfriend for leaving me (his reason wasn't nearly as good as O'Connell's) and then marrying him a week later was the best thing I ever did in my life. We've now been married for almost 30 years and have survived numerous challenges and raised four wonderful children. I was amazed at how well MacGregor handled the situation and how real the conflicting emotions of them were. Having been there, I know. I've just ordered everything by Kinley MacGregor and I can't wait to get them.
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