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Christmas Presence: Three Tales Of Love

Christmas Presence\Secret Santa\You're All I Want For Christmas (Harlequin Next)

by Donna Birdsell, Lisa Childs, Susan Crosby

Published 2007288 pagesISBN 978-0-3738-8147-5

NAUGHTY OR NICE?Meet three sophisticated women who aren't above a little mischief under the mistletoe to relieve holiday stress.CHRISTMAS PRESENCE ~ Donna BirdsellYoung widow Astrid Martin wants to boycott Christmas—but her husband's ghost won't let her! Before long she has a tree, even a gift-wrapping job at the mall, where she meets the man who holds the key to her Christmas future.SECRET SANTA ~ Lisa Childs When Maggie O'Brien receives gifts from a secret Santa, she suspects one of the three men in her life has finally wised up to how special she is. Who's the mystery man--her ex, her boss, or that good-looking car mechanic? Come Christmas morning, will true love be waiting under Maggie's tree?YOU'RE ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS ~ Susan Crosby Divorcee Lauren Wright opts for a Bahamas Christmas getaway--only to be stranded at the airport by weather. But a very personable fellow traveler makes the time fly--and temperatures rise. Bahamas or no Bahamas, things are about to get steamy...

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Romance · Fiction

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Shadowed tone · Urgent pace

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Christmas Presence: Three Tales Of LoveDonna Birdsell, Lisa Childs, Susan Crosby
Powerful4.6/5

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Reading lengthA standard-length read288 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2007
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3738-8147-5
Language
English
Edition record
OL10750392M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
  2. How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
  3. Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?

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