title: A Victorian Christmas Cottage: Under His Wings/Christmas Past/A Christmas Hope (Fairchild Sisters #1)/The Beauty of the Season (HeartQuest Christmas Anthology)
author:  Catherine Palmer 
description: This engaging seasonal collection of novellas set during the Victorian era in England and America opens with Palmer's "Under His Wings," a retelling of the story of Ruth. In Debra White Smith's "Christmas Past," two young people struggle to put disappointments of childhood behind them and find a love for the future. Jeri Odell's "A Christmas Hope" teaches a vain young woman that earthly riches pale next to love, and Peggy Stoks's "The Beauty of the Season" offers an obvious lesson that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Entertaining, but not a necessary purchase. <BR>Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Christmas Warms the Harts
  
  Jerrica Knight Catania
  
  Katherine Wetherby Hart, Duchess of Weston, was completely beside herself. It
  was two days before Christmas Eve and nothing was ready. The blasted snow
  would ruin their grand Christmas ball if it didn’t let up soon. For days heavy
  flakes had been coming down, draping the countryside in glistening white.
  Everyone remarked how very lovely it was and how it would make for a perfect,
  cozy Christmas. But Katherine didn’t care for cozy, and she certainly didn’t
  consider cozy to be perfect in any way.
  
  She was the Duchess of Weston, for goodness sake. If she didn’t present the
  most memorable Christmas ball in the history of the title, she would be a
  complete failure.
  
  “The Harts are famous for their Christmas parties,” her mother-in-law had told
  her when she’d first married William. Katherine hadn’t anticipated that her
  mother-in-law would meet her demise so soon after their wedding. Tragic it
  was, but nine months had passed since then. The t