Christmas Candles
by Mary Jo Putney

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Two times,
Two places,
Two tender holiday romances

The Best Husband Money Can Buy (originally
published from within 11/97 A Stockingful of Joy anthology
by Onyx and 10/05 and 10/07 mass market paperback by Signet)
Regency England

Emma Stone, a lonely governess, inherits an unexpected
fortune, and realizes that she can now have the husband and
family she craves. Anthony Vaughn, the dashing distant
cousin she has known since childhood, needs a fortune to pay
his father’s debts and preserve the family estate.
Together they strike a bargain—even though Emma knows
she risks not only her fortune but her heart…

Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know (originally
published from within 06/93 Rakes and Rogues anthology by
Signet, 02/99 Captured Hearts anthology by Topaz in mass
market paperback and Dangerous to Know in trade paperback
01/07 by NAL)
An American Western

English-born gambler Andrew Kane was ready to settle down
when a wrongful conviction condemns him to be hanged. On his
journey to the
gallows, he meets despairing young widow Eliza Holden.
Together, they find comfort and a stunning sense of
connection. Can Eliza create a Christmas miracle for them both?

Mary Jo Putney's Bio

Mary Jo Putney was born in Upstate New York with a reading addiction, a condition for which there is no known cure. After earning degrees in English Literature and Industrial Design at Syracuse University, she did various forms of design work in California and England before inertia took over in Baltimore, Maryland, where she has lived very comfortably ever since.

While becoming a novelist was her ultimate fantasy, it never occurred to her that writing was an achievable goal until she acquired a computer for other purposes. When the realization hit that a computer was the ultimate writing tool, she charged merrily into her first book with an ignorance that illustrates the adage that fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Fortune sometimes favors the foolish and her first book sold quickly, thereby changing her life forever, in most ways for the better. (“But why didn’t anyone tell me that writing would change the way one reads?”) Like a lemming over a cliff, she gave up her freelance graphic design business to become a full-time writer as soon as possible.

Since 1987, Ms. Putney has published twenty-nine books and counting. Her stories are noted for psychological depth and unusual subject matter such as alcoholism, death and dying, and domestic abuse. She has made all of the national bestseller lists including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly. Five of her books have been named among the year’s top five romances by The Library Journal. The Spiral Path and Stolen Magic were chosen as one of Top Ten romances of their years by Booklist, published by the American Library Association.

A nine-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA, she has won RITAs for Dancing on the Wind and The Rake and the Reformer and is on the RWA Honor Roll for bestselling authors. She has been awarded two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards, four NJRW Golden Leaf awards, plus the NJRW career achievement award for historical romance. Though most of her books have been historical, she has also published three contemporary romances.

Ms. Putney says that not least among the blessings of a full-time writing career is that one almost never has to wear pantyhose.