St. Martin's Press

I couldn't put this book down. Even though Rachel should have been the worst friend ever, I rooted for her through the whole book. This one is a must-read.

This one was great! I mean, most of Crusie’s stuff is above average, but this one was above even that. Too bad all her stuff is set in OHIO…

From the inside cover:
“Minerva Dobbs knows how to work the odds. Calvin Morrisey always plays to win. But when fate deals the cards, neither one is prepared. Because when real life meets true love, all bets are off…

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From the inside cover:
“Nell Dysart’s in trouble. Weighed down by an inexplicable divorce and a loss of appetite for everything, Nell is sleepwalking through life until her best friend finagles a job for her with a shabby little detective agency that has lots of potential and a boss who looks easy to manage.

Interestingly enough, this is set near Lima, OH. Never been there, but that town has some (unfortunate) personal significance.

From the back cover:
“Maddie Faraday’s life would be perfect—if it weren’t for her cheating husband, her suspicious daughter, her gossipy mother, her secretive best friend, her nosy neighbors, and that guy she lost her virginity to twenty years ago…”

Gayle Saunders and Patricia Reid were total opposites who chose each other as best friends when they were children. Through the years they were raised together, as close as sisters. Gayle, the beauty pampered by her working-class parents, believes a man will make her world complete. Pat, the brainy one, is the hand-me-down child whose mystery parentage haunts her. She's determined to finally make a home for herself: in the executive suite at the top of her career. And then there is Marcus Carter, linked to both women from the moment a childhood tragedy bonds them in secrecy. Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made is more than a novel--it's the reading experience that swept the country. You will be drawn into the lives of these honest and believable characters from the first page--and they won't let you go until the last.

A Christmas anthology of novellas by three contemporary authors. The only one I really liked was the one by Jennifer Crusie (whom I adore), and even it was not up to her usual good work.

From the back cover:
“Red-hot kisses. Secret wishes. A gift too scandalous to share…

This wasn’t bad. In fact, it was much more interesting and compelling than the cover blurb makes it seem.

From the inside cover:
“At a remote ice station in Antarctica, a team of U.S. scientists has made an amazing discovery. They have found something buried deep within the coastal ice shelf. Something trapped inside a 100-million-year-old layer of ice.

“Something made of metal.

 End of the world thriller .....

A Dream-Hunter Novel, based in the same universe as Kenyon’s Dark Hunter novels.

Not as richly written and emotive as her earlier Dark Hunter books, but not bad.

My rating: 3/5

From the cover:
“Hades doesn’t often give second chances…