Christmas Keepsakes
by Julia Justiss, Mary Balogh, Nicola Cornick

'TIS THE SEASON FOR FALLING IN LOVE...

A Handful of Gold by Mary Balogh (originally published in the anthology, THE GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS, 11/98.)
Not only is Julian Dare dashing and wealthy, but he's the heir to an earldom. So what do you get a man who has everything? Innocent and comely Verity Ewing plans on giving Julian her heart—the most perecious gift of all.

The Three Gifts by Julia Justiss
Critically injured during the war, reluctant new viscount Miles Hampden must find a wife to safeguard his family legacy. To ease the mind of a dying soldier she secretly admires, Edwina Denby agrees to a marriage of convenience. As Edwina nurses the handsome viscout to full recovery, love proves to be the elixir that heals all wounds!

The Season for Suitors by Nicola Cornick
After some close encounters with rakes in which she was nearly compromised into marriage, heiress Clara Davenport realizes that she needs some expert advice. And who better for the job than Sebastian Fleet, the most notorious rake in town? Inevitably, the tutelage doesn't go quite as planned, as both Sebastian and Clara find it difficult to remain objective when it comes to lessons of the heart!

Julia Justiss' Bio

After twelve years as a vagabond Navy wife, an adventure that took her from Virginia Beach to Monterrey to Tunis, Tunisia to Oslo, Norway and back, author Julia Justiss followed her husband to his family's East Texas homeland where, except for summer jaunts to New England to visit her family and escape the brutal Texas heat, she's lived ever since. In between teaching high school French to keep her three children in braces, music lessons and dance team, she pursues her first love—writing historical fiction.