One Christmas Night: An Anthology

by Jane Porter, Susan Stephens, Michelle Reid, et al.

Book Overview

A Sicilian Marriage by Michelle Reid Sicilian billionaire Rafael Monteleone is determined to salvage his marriage. Nina doesn't want a Christmas reconciliation, but Rafael is very persuasive. How long will it be before they are back in their marriage bed making up for lost time? The Italian's Blackmailed Bride by Jane Porter Emily Pelosi has been trying to get her revenge on sexy Italian millionaire Tristano Ferre for five years. But now the tables...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373837380
• ISBN13: 9780373837380
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Harlequin Anthologies
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

A good book

I actually liked this novel. No it isn't a feel good happy merry christmas novel with its focus on the holiday more than the characters. It's a book about three different couples who come together while Christmas just happens to be near. The title is a bit misleading but to be fair these books aren't about the Christmas Spirit just about the couples. Reid's 'A Sicilian Marriage' is about a married couple (Nina and Rafael) who lost a child and that accident looks like it's about to ruin their marriage. It has conniving secondary characters who only make the problems worse. Yet despite the fact that she been told he's cheating on her with her cousin, her cousin is pregnant, and she believes their marriage was a business deal he going to do everything he can think of to ignite her passion for living again and prove she's wrong on all counts. Porter's 'The Italian's Bride' was a bit on the weak side. Emily and Tristano have a history together both as lovers and as friends. When her father was forced to resign from his position as half owner of a design company she was booted out also. Now she wants revenge against the people she holds responsible mainly Tristano and his father. He'll do anything to keep his family's business on the up and up include sending her to jail. Luckily the only thing he really wants is her and nothing is going to stop him. He'll play on her every fear in an attempt to keep her. Stephens's 'The Sultan's Seduction' was confusing at first because soem of the rules were different. Lizzie has gone to try and rescue her brother from 'The Sultan's' grip and will even trade herself for his safety. She's a slightly uptight judge who lost her parents at eighteen and raised her nine year old brother from then on. Even now when he's seventeen she'll do anything to protect him because he's all she has left. Everything kind of spirals out of control in this one because everything isn't exactly as she thinks it is. These books are romance. They may not be completely in your face sex every three seconds but they're about unlikely couples, opposites attracting if you will. It's a good book. Not a top of the pile must read immediately but a good book to curl up with on a cold night. I'd say give it a chance but check it out from the local library rather than buying it.