Star of Wonder

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This holiday collection for the millennium offers joy, hope, and romance from writers Beverley, Alice Alfonsi, Tess Farraday, and Kate Freiman. On the very first Christmas, the Magi carried a beautiful star sapphire that has inspired an unusual legend. Each Christmas, as a new century is about to begin, the sapphire will mysteriously come into the possession of a woman in need of guidance and love.
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Overview

This holiday collection for the millennium offers joy, hope, and romance from writers Beverley, Alice Alfonsi, Tess Farraday, and Kate Freiman. On the very first Christmas, the Magi carried a beautiful star sapphire that has inspired an unusual legend. Each Christmas, as a new century is about to begin, the sapphire will mysteriously come into the possession of a woman in need of guidance and love.
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Linked by a legendary star sapphire necklace that was carried by the Magi as they went to see the Christ Child and that magically reappears just before the turn of each century to bestow the gift of love upon its temporary owner, this sparkling quartet of holiday romances from four of Jove's better-known writers sweeps readers from 999 to 1999, deftly capturing the differing flavors of each period in well-crafted tales of love and enchantment. Two sisters find unexpected love and help bring peace between two enemy warriors in Jo Beverley's passionate, Viking-filled "Day of Wrath"; a jilted heroine, a noble sea captain, and his young nephew heal old wounds and form a family at the dawn of the 19th century in Alice Alfonsi's charming "Starlight Wedding"; a cowboy kidnaps a mail-order bride intended for another to provide a "mother" for four orphans he has inadvertently won in a poker game in Tess Farraday's lively, funny "Last Kiss at the Loving Cup Saloon"; and a downed plane, missing millions, and Y2K cause problems for a wealthy foundation director in Kate Freiman's very modern, mystery-laced "Joy to the World." Well written and smoothly linked, these hope-filled stories all reflect the joy and optimism of the holiday season and make for rewarding reading. Fans of the medieval period may be particularly interested in the historical detail of "Days of Wrath"--especially the way in which people then viewed the millennium. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780515126532
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/1/1999
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 362
  • Product dimensions: 4.10 (w) x 6.70 (h) x 0.99 (d)

Meet the Author

Jo Beverley
Jo Beverley
One of the premiere writers of historical romances, Jo Beverley is the recipient of numerous awards including several RITAs from The Romance Writers of America and awards from Romantic Times, including two Career Achievement awards. She is a member of the RWA Honor Roll, and the RWA Hall of Fame.

Biography

Jo Beverley is one the few authors writing English-set historical romance who is English. She was born and raised in England, and has a degree in English history from Keele University in Staffordshire. She and her husband emigrated to Canada in 1975 where they raised their two children. In 2009, the couple returned to England.

Though Jo started to write as a young child, it was only in the '80s that she began to think that it was something ordinary people could do, and after a talk at a local library, she settled to seriously writing her first historical romance.

Now, she is the author of over thirty romance novels and many novellas, which have garnered several RITAs from the Romance Writers of America, as well as several awards from Romantic Times, including two Career Achievement awards. She is a member of the RWA Honor Roll, and the RWA Hall of Fame.

Good To Know

Some fascinating outtakes from our interview with Jo Beverley:

"I'm English, born, raised, and educated, which has to contribute to the way I write my books."

"My profession -- once upon a time in another world -- was careers guidance, which involved visiting many different workplaces and learning about the jobs done there. This is a great education in the variety and complexity of life."

"I taught women-centered childbirth classes for 5 years, and that comes out in any childbirth scenes in my books.

"I'm a craft-dabbler, and I've tried most of them, including Tenerife lace, tatting, leatherwork, and stained glass, but I've never stuck with any. However, I once was a very good painter and I've recently decluttered all my craft materials to concentrate on drawing and painting as my artistic therapy for a demented author."

"I grew up in Morecambe, Lancashire, which is a 19th-century seaside town, but that's very close to Heysham, an ancient coastal village. They say the pre-Conquest church there is the oldest one in England still in use and there are stone-age tombs as well. We used to play on an Anglo-Saxon hogs-back stone near the church. I'm sure this easy contact with such ancient things tuned my mind to the past. I set my second book, The Stanforth Secrets, in Heysham, and it will be reissued in 2010." "My indulgences are really good cheese, bread, wine, coffee, and dark, dark chocolate (90% Lindt."

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    1. Date of Birth:
      September 22, 1947
    2. Place of Birth:
      Morecambe, Lancashire, UK
    1. Education:
      Degrees in English and American Studies, Keele University, Staffs, 1970

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