The Night Before Christmas

There is a staff review of this book as well

This month we read an old favorite of Linda’s, The Night Before Christmas. This holiday anthology features stories by Victoria Alexander, Sandra Hill, Dara Joy, and Nellie McFather, all with a Santa theme.

The Alexander story, Promises to Keep, is about an old woman who visits Santa and gets one last chance to correct an old mistake. Sandra Hill’s Naughty or Nice features a heroine who holds up a convenience store (in a Santa suit) and takes the hero hostage. He falls in love with her as he sees her good heart and motives.

Santa Reads Romance, by Dara Joy, is a short cabin romance with a hero and heroine snowed in together over the holidays. The hero works in publishing and was sent to deliver gifts to children….or so he thinks. Nellie McFather’s A Gift for Santa is a small town Southern romance about a widow and an attractive Yankee who are brought together by Santa Claus.

Blythe:      Linda, I understand that The Night Before Christmas is a yearly re-read for you. I enjoy holiday anthologies, and I read many of them in the mid to late nineties when this was published, but somehow I missed this one until now. I’m glad I got the chance to read it, though. While two of the stories really did nothing for me, I really liked the other two. As anthologies go, that’s not too bad.