The Twilight Before Christmas FROM THE PUBLISHER
Bestselling novelist Kate Drake is one of seven sisters gifted with amazing powers of witchcraft. Returning home in time for her northern California town's annual Christmas pageant, Kate catches the spirit of the season and decides to open a bookstore in a charming but run-down historic mill. Decorated former U.S. Army Ranger Matt Granite, now a local contractor, doesn't mind working in the undeniably eerie house -- not if it means getting closer to Kate. There's something about the quiet, sensual woman that powerfully attracts him.
When an earthquake cracks the mill's foundation and reveals a burial crypt, Kate senses that a centuries-old evil has been unleashed--and that it's coming after her. Though Matt vows to guard her from dusk till dawn, Kate knows she will have to summon all of her and her sisters' powers to battle the darkness threatening to destroy both Christmas and the gift of soul-searing passion her hometown hero wants her to keep forever....
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
Set in a homey American small town, where the annual community Christmas pageant is the highlight of the year, The Twilight Before Christmas treads ground that may feel unfamiliar at first to fans of Christine Feehan's gothic Dark series (Dark Melody, etc.). But things are not always what they appear. In the hands of this imaginative author, something as harmless as a spell of bad weather-specifically, fog in a village that never has fog-rapidly develops into an evil entity that uses Christmas decorations as deadly weapons to prevent said pageant. It's up to Kate Drake and her six sisters (witches all) to save the festivities and the town, with the help of ex-Army Ranger Matt Granite and a few other heroic hunks. As is typical of Feehan's novels, dark suspense and sensual romance co-exist here in unlikely but perfect harmony. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
The people of the small coastal town of Sea Haven have always known that the seven Drake sisters were special; gifted with strange powers and generous to a fault, they are considered the town's "treasures." Now, just as Christmas approaches, the sisters sense a growing danger-strange shadows slink about the family's prescient mosaic floor and slither up the pathway in the Christmas snowglobe-and when Kate discovers a broken seal, ancient and symbol covered, in the old mill, they know that something evil has been unleashed and that they will have to deal with it. Chilling, suspenseful, passionate, and rewarding, this is not your average holiday romance; it will, however, be one to savor and remember. Feehan (Shadow Game) is noted for her Carpathian novels and lives in Northern California. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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