There’s no better time for a little romance than the holiday season, and no better way to stretch gift dollars than a good book. This year, with romance novels more popular than ever, three New York Times bestselling authors have crafted wonderful new holiday stories to delight their fans on Christmas morning:
THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS (MIRA Books, www.MIRAbooks.com, $16.95 U.S./ $19.95 CAN).
Perennially-popular Debbie Macomber shows her love of the holidays in THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS, the story of modern-day matchmaker Simon Dodson, who is ready, willing and able to work his matrimonial magic for Cassie Beaumont. At 33, Cassie knows what will make her Christmas perfect: a husband and kids. She’s willing to do anything to make her dreams come true – and Simon puts her to the test. But just like the perfect gift, her ideal mate turns out to be a complete surprise.
A McKETTRICK CHRISTMAS (HQN Books, www.eharlequin.com, $16.95 U.S./ $16.95 CAN.)
Best-selling Western novelist Linda Lael Miller, daughter of a town marshal who grew up hearing tales of the old West, is a master at recreating an older America when a few hardy souls braved the wilderness to forge a new nation. Set in the unforgiving winter of 1910 Montana, A CREED COUNTRY CHRISTMAS finds widowed rancher Lincoln Creed up against rustlers, wolves and bad weather – and trying to meet the needs of a young daughter. When he meets school mistress Juliana Mitchell, he hopes he’s found his own Christmas miracle.
LAKESHORE CHRISTMAS (MIRA Books, www.MIRAbooks.com, $16.95 U.S./ $19.95 CAN.)
Loved for her Lakeshore Chronicles, Susan Wiggs conjures a heartwarming holiday tale of two people looking beyond the disappointments of the past to the promise of the future in LAKESHORE CHRISTMAS. Avalon librarian Maureen Davenport loves Christmas so she’s delighted to have the chance to direct the town’s annual Christmas pageant. But there is one lump of coal in her stocking: Eddie Haven, former child star and holiday hater who can’t live down his starring role in The Christmas Caper—one of the most popular movies ever made. If he never has to hear the movie’s theme “The Runaway Reindeer” again, it will be too soon.
With such a rich selection, it’s bound to be a very merry Christmas for romance fans everywhere. All books are available at major bookstores in November 2009.
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