Christmas Wishes

This collection holds two Christmas romantic comedies, each built around a woman, a child or two, and a neighbor who turns out to be more than she bargained for.

In the first, Katherine O'Connor, known as K.O., adores her five-year-old twin nieces. Her sister Zelda has decided to drop Christmas from the household, following the theories of child psychologist Wynn Jeffries, who wrote The Free Child. He also happens to live next door to K.O.

Wynn's advice includes burying Santa under the sleigh, and K.O. sets out to prove his ideas are nonsense. She is determined that he will not spoil the twins' holiday. The trouble is that she finds him very attractive.

The second story, Rainy Day Kisses, looks back seventeen years. Susannah Simmons is a career woman who knows nothing about babies until she minds her infant niece, Michelle. One loud, stubborn baby makes her office life seem easy by comparison, and her charming neighbor Nate Townsend is a welcome help.

By the present day Nate is her husband and Susannah is a mother as well as an aunt. Every Christmas Eve, Michelle tells her cousins how their parents met, with herself in a leading role. Both stories are light, warm and comic in tone.