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Christmas Romance

Anthology

by Catherine Hart, Barbara Dawson Smith, Betina Krahn

Published 1990424 pagesISBN 978-0-3807-6205-7

A Christmas melodie / Catherine Hart A mail-order bride spends a romantic Christmas in a deserted cabin with a handsome young widower and his four rambunctious children... Six little angels / Betina Krahn An unconventional young noblewoman reluctantly accepts the help of her handsome ex-suitor, rekindling long-suppressed desires... A match made in heaven / Linda Ladd A Christmas wish by three matchmaking children brings together two lovers separated by the Civil War... Candle in the snow / Barbara Dawson Smith An English schoolteacher faces the holiday return of her long-lost, devilishly handsome husband... Silent night, starry night / Katherine Sutcliffe A lonely young woman of the west finds love with a handsome outlaw...

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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Themes to notice

Romance · Fiction

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Dark tone · Steady pace

Best when you want to settle into a longer reading experience.

Who it may suit

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ToneDark
LuminousDark

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Christmas RomanceCatherine Hart, Barbara Dawson Smith, Betina Krahn
Powerful5/5

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Before you choose

A quick reading snapshot

Edition facts and catalog signals to help you decide whether this book fits what you want to read next.

Reading lengthA standard-length read424 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1990
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3807-6205-7
Language
English
Edition record
OL7433958M
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A more thoughtful way into this book

This guide uses the edition details and category signals above to help you choose deliberately. It does not replace the author's work or a full review.

Good to know

Best when you want to settle into a longer reading experience.

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

Try this reading approach

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?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.