Moonlight and Mistletoe

Rating:
Summary: A quirky, warm holiday tale!
Review: A fun Christmas tale from the clever pen...um, keyboard of Maggie Daniels aka as Maggie Davis and Katherine Deauxville. Whatever the name, she is one of the most gifted writers. She has done wonderfully researched, rich in period details Medieval novels, she has write mysteries, adventures - the old Glitz `n Glamour tales, Contemporary Romance and the off-the wall "Out of the Blue" and "The Last Male Virgin". She has a marvelous mainstream title currently out, "Stage Door Canteen", one of the Great American Novels that writers live to write. Since this book is getting so super word of mouth, interest in her backlist is seeing readers want all her titles, thus several have been reprinted.

Remember "A Christmas Romance" starring Olivia-Newton John a few years back? Well, that was one of two holiday stories Davis penned under her Daniel's name. Davis draws heavily on her Southern "roots" and gives us "a hoot and holler" style ho ho tale. Sheriff Buck Grissom is having a "bad hair day". His deputies tried to send him off with his fishing-pole on a paid vacation, just to have a little peace and quiet. Buck's hard-nose, uptight male, a by the book policeman whose attitude since the break up with his former fiancé has left him in a perpetually foul mood. Susan didn't think their relationship stood a chance because was a hard man to get along with, unbending, "stiffed-necked even as a lover". Buck just wanted a woman to love him, not her job.

Buck's day from hell starts with the ACU suing to have the Christmas Manger taken off the Court House lawn, but it goes down hill rapidly as Susan - the ex-girl friend social-worker is there trading barbs, when Hell comes in a calling in the form of one of the Scraggs getting arrested. The Scraggs are the Blue Ridge Mountain's redneck version of the Sopranos, and the law enforcement officials of Jackson County just as soon not deal with any of "Devil" Anse's grandchildren. Only, as Deputy Moses Holt tries to put Scarlett O'Hara Scraggs in a jail cell, Buck has a sense of pending doom that his life is never going to be the same and truly wishes he had taking that fishing vacation.

Susan is off for a holiday vacation, but before she decamps, she pronounces they cannot keep Scarlett in jail and suggests, Buck that the home to his mothers. After placing an ABP for Scarlett's 10-year-old sister who is missing - Farrah Fawcett Scraggs. Farrah - Farrie - shows up on her own, just as his mother is rushing out the door. Buck's sister needs mom immediately because her husband was in an accident and in hospital. Buck stands helplessly seeing he has no alternative but to take Scarlett and Farrie in.

To Scarlett and her sickly sister, the fancy mansion of Grissons is like a faerycastle. They are warm, given good clothes and Buck promises to protect them from their
vicious evil grandfather. Buck knows he is in trouble when he discovered the beautiful Scarlett is a good cook!

It's a warm, fuzzy tale with a lot of humor with the special Davis touch - whatever the name she is using.

Rating:
Summary: A quirky, warm holiday tale!
Review: A fun Christmas tale from the clever pen...um, keyboard of Maggie Daniels aka as Maggie Davis and Katherine Deauxville. Whatever the name, she is one of the most gifted writers. She has done wonderfully researched, rich in period details Medieval novels, she has write mysteries, adventures - the old Glitz 'n Glamour tales, Contemporary Romance and the off-the wall "Out of the Blue" and "The Last Male Virgin". She has a marvelous mainstream title currently out, "Stage Door Canteen", one of the Great American Novels that writers live to write. Since this book is getting so super word of mouth, interest in her backlist is seeing readers want all her titles, thus several have been reprinted.

Remember "A Christmas Romance" starring Olivia-Newton John a few years back? Well, that was one of two holiday stories Davis penned under her Daniel's name. Davis draws heavily on her Southern "roots" and gives us "a hoot and holler" style ho ho tale. Sheriff Buck Grissom is having a "bad hair day". His deputies tried to send him off with his fishing-pole on a paid vacation, just to have a little peace and quiet. Buck's hard-nose, uptight male, a by the book policeman whose attitude since the break up with his former fiancé has left him in a perpetually foul mood. Susan didn't think their relationship stood a chance because was a hard man to get along with, unbending, "stiffed-necked even as a lover". Buck just wanted a woman to love him, not her job.

Buck's day from hell starts with the ACU suing to have the Christmas Manger taken off the Court House lawn, but it goes down hill rapidly as Susan - the ex-girl friend social-worker is there trading barbs, when Hell comes in a calling in the form of one of the Scraggs getting arrested. The Scraggs are the Blue Ridge Mountain's redneck version of the Sopranos, and the law enforcement officials of Jackson County just as soon not deal with any of "Devil" Anse's grandchildren. Only, as Deputy Moses Holt tries to put Scarlett O'Hara Scraggs in a jail cell, Buck has a sense of pending doom that his life is never going to be the same and truly wishes he had taking that fishing vacation.

Susan is off for a holiday vacation, but before she decamps, she pronounces they cannot keep Scarlett in jail and suggests, Buck that the home to his mothers. After placing an ABP for Scarlett's 10-year-old sister who is missing - Farrah Fawcett Scraggs. Farrah - Farrie - shows up on her own, just as his mother is rushing out the door. Buck's sister needs mom immediately because her husband was in an accident and in hospital. Buck stands helplessly seeing he has no alternative but to take Scarlett and Farrie in.

To Scarlett and her sickly sister, the fancy mansion of Grissons is like a faerycastle. They are warm, given good clothes and Buck promises to protect them from their
vicious evil grandfather. Buck knows he is in trouble when he discovered the beautiful Scarlett is a good cook!

It's a warm, fuzzy tale with a lot of humor with the special Davis touch - whatever the name she is using.