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, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Carly Phillips, and Kathryn Smith
St. Martin's, Nov 2001, 6.50, 320 pp.
ISBN: 0312981023
“Santa Baby” by Patricia Ryan. After informing his client Celeste Worth that her husband has a lover, she hires him to steal said woman away from her spouse. Thus private sleuth Jack O'Leary begins a different case than the usual cheating scenario. Jack is to entice Katherine Peale to leave Worth alone, but his web of lies becomes entangled with love.
“Love Bytes” by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Samantha Parker loves her team leader Adrian Cole, but to her he only notices her as an employee. Adrian struggles between his desires to jump Sam's bones and the company policy forbidding dating between management and staff.
“Naughty Under the Mistletoe” by Carly Phillips. Office protocol has kept attorney Toni Larson from seducing Stephen Corbin until this year's office Christmas Party because she will relocate after the holiday. When she deeply kisses her target under the mistletoe, she realizes she obfuscated with Max the non-compliant twin of Stephen who burns her soul.
“A Christmas Charade” by Kathryn Smith. In 1815 Viscount Garrett Maxwell expects to die from his incarceration in France until widow, Eliza Vail rescues him. On the ship crossing the Channel, Eliza and Garrett give in to their needs and make love. They plan to meet again, but she fails to arrive. Eight months later at his sister's home, Garrett finds the woman who has haunted his soul, but can he persuade her they belong together.
The three contemporaries and the Regency are all well-written entertaining Yuletide novellas that make for nice holiday reading.
Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar
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"Cindy Warren is the manager of a small, somewhat eccentric hotel. The hotel's owners are sending a corperate hatchet man to her hotel to evaluate its worth, and Cindy and her staff are frantic to make everything perfect for the upcoming evaluation, which is to be performed by Stanton, a man known for his ruthlessness.
Unbeknownst to Cindy, Stanton arrives at her hotel a week early, planning to make his preliminary examination of the hotel undercover. He checks in as Eric Quinn, and proceeds to do his job. Eric has always made it a point to be completely professional in his evaluations, and is blindsided by his irresistable attraction to Cindy. He tries to fight his feelings, but eventually gives into them, mistakenly thinking that Cindy has uncovered his true identity.
After spending the night with Eric, Cindy recieves a phone call informing her of who Eric really is. She is outraged, and becomes emotionally distant with him. He hates it, but realizes that there's nothing he can do to change her feelings toward him and that he needs to do his job fairly. As Cindy and Eric work together, they both come to the realization that they are in love. Cindy is disgusted with herself for loving an immoral man whom she despises, and Eric is desperate to find a way to get her back, but fears that his feelings will not be reciprocated"
Jess, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Making a living subplot
Yes
Making a living:
- office romance among coworkers
Hidden Identity/Secret Motive
Yes
Is really...
- police/investigator
If one lover chases another...
- they alternate
Main Male Character
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
How sexual is this person?
- very picky
- somewhat promiscuious
How romantic is this person?
- somewhat romantic
Sex has good effect on him
Yes
Sex makes him
- blissful
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Main Female Character
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- small businessman
- business executive
Eccentric/Mental:
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
How sexual is this person?
- very picky
How romantic is this person?
- very romantic
- somewhat romantic
effect of sexing
- angry
- unhappy for sexing the guy
Sex has bad effect on her
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
- California
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
What % of story is romance related?
- 80%
- nearly 100%
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- use of artificial tools
- actual description of sex
Focus of story
- equally on him and her
- many multiple characters
How much dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
How much sexing?
- 1-2 sex acts
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