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  • Angel’s Flight

    I’ll admit it. I’m a Nalini Singh Guild Hunter series fangirl. It’s impossible not to just eat up the stories about the immensely powerful angels, their vampire minions, and the humans who hunt them. This collection of short stories successfully provides interesting backstory for the characters we already know. Three of the stories were published…

  • Making Spirits Bright

    Ah, the holidays. That special time of year when women drive ourselves extra crazy to try and give those around us the perfect season. Of course, what truly makes the season perfect can’t be given: It is the companionship of friends, family, and even the kindness of strangers that make for the richest gifts. The…

  • Heart and Swords

    The last Celta book by Robin Owens fell in the C range for me. Still, when the opportunity came up to review this anthology (which contains stories entirely set in the Celta world), I couldn’t pass it up. I had previously read excerpts of most of the stories on Ms. Owens’ web page, and had…

  • Once Upon a Thanksgiving

    The holiday season is a stressful time for women. We plan elaborate celebrations and extravagant gifts and then work ourselves like crazy to make it all festive. That is why I love Thanksgiving. Even though it too can be a ludicrous amount of work, if you let the purpose of the holiday sink in at…

  • Coming Home for Christmas

    It’s not exactly a secret that I love Christmas anthologies. And an all-Carla Kelly Christmas anthology sounded like anthology heaven. Coming Home for Christmas follows three generations of the same family as they try to make their way home before the holiday. I loved it, and could cheerfully read about a good seven generations more….

  • Holiday Hideout

    Holiday Hideout is an anthology that covers three holidays – Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. Three couples find love (or rekindle) love in a rented cabin by Lake Tahoe. The cabin is owned by a pair of sociology professors who have noticed its romantic effect on couples, and they are studying its love-inducing qualities. It’s…

  • The Unquiet

    When I read the J.D. Robb paranormal anthologies, I am really in it for the Robb story. I suspect that’s true of most people. That said, usually I end up enjoying one or two of the others as well – sometimes even more than the Robb. This time the Robb was campy good fun, and…

  • A Summer Reunion

    Usually short stories in anthologies even by my favorite authors are hit and miss with me but this time I found something to enjoy in all the stories in A Summer Reunion. Harlequin has a successful combination with the yesterday, today, and tomorrow theme that runs through this collection.

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