A Christmas Kiss: Six Holiday Love Stories

A collection of tales of Yuletide romance features the work of Caroline Bourne, Phoebe Conn, Kathleen Drymon, Wanda Owen, Patricia Pellicane, and Victoria Thompson. Original.Her Heart's Desire by Caroline Bourne -- Susannah and Alan have been friends and neighbors all their lives, but when he comes home to Boston from the War in 1777 - just in time for the holidays and the first magical snowfall - a Christmas kiss opens the door to passion and undying love.A Gift of Love by Phoebe Conn -- In June, Belle Cassidy Eloped with a daring Apache renegade, but by Christmas she fears the best present she can give him is his freedom. Until she finds a way to show Coyote that the most precious gift in this season of hope and sharing is love.A Rebel Christmas by Kathleen Drymon -- By the luck of the draw, Sergeant Seth Carlton is assigned to spend Christmas Day, 1864, with the Collier family. Little does he expect to fall in love with the eldest Collier daughter, Shelby Lynn - a staunch Confederate who would never dream of giving her heart away to a Yankee spy!Melissa's Miracle by Wanda Owen -- Just as dashing Lance Avery is stealing a kiss from the lovely Melissa, her widowed father discovers that a very attractive lady has set her cap for him! Imagine a father and daugher both finding llove on Christmas eve. Will the miracles never cease!Golden Angel by Patricia Pellicane -- Joseph Gray Wolf once loved a white woman, but the Kiowe Apache rancher has vowed never to let that happen again. Until Miss Angel Letitia Shaw comes to Texas to teach school - and to steal a Christmas kiss that melts the hardest of Apache hearts!Merry Victoria Thompson -- A lonely, stone-broke cowboy faces a bleak Christmas until he offers to do odd jobs for a rancher's young, beautiful widow... and finds himself drawn into a romance that proves what he had begun to doubt: that Christmas is, indeed, a season of joy.