Title: Blackout at Christmas
Author: Beth Cornelison, Sharron McClellan, Jennifer Morey
Read copy: eBook
Published: November 1, 2009
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 1426843127
ISBN-13: 9781426843129
During a Christmas Eve blizzard in Seattle, three couples find themselves in a citywide blackout...
When their car skids off the road, the best man and bridesmaid are snowbound. While struggling to stay warm, they spend long hours getting to know each other in the most intimate ways....
Stranded with the Bridesmaid by Beth Cornelison
When their car skids off the road, the best man and bridesmaid are snowbound. While struggling to stay warm, they spend long hours getting to know each other in the most intimate ways....
Santa Under Cover by Sharron McClellan
On a trip to see Santa at the mall, the lights go out and a child goes missing. To stay alive, this couple must outsmart the Christmas bandits holding them hostage.
Kiss Me on Christmas by Jennifer Morey
Stuck at a coffee shop during the blackout, a man and a woman must share a hotel room for the night. Will this pair of opposites discover what they've been missing?
My rating:
Three couples are stranded in the blackout caused by the strongest snow storm in the last twenty years that’s enveloped Seattle.
In the first story Ellen is on the way to her sister’s wedding when the airport is locked down. She’s just about to rent a car when the power goes down. Luckily for her, the last car was rented to her sister’s future-husband’s best man. Unfortunately more than his best-man duty, Zack is concentrating on convincing his friend not to marry. On their way to Spokane, they slide off the road trying to avoid the eight "reindeer" and are forced to spend the night in a freezing car.
The second story is set in a Seattle shopping mall where Gwyn takes three kids from the shelter her sister works for to see Santa. She’s surprised when the Santa on duty is really a very hot Santa – a police officer under cover tries to prevent a robbery in a jewelry store.
When the power goes out one of the kids, scared of the monsters lurking in the dark, runs and hides, right in the jewelry store where the robbery is already under way. Gwyn runs after him and Nick has no other option but to join her as a hostage.
In the third novella coffee-shop owner Shanna, disillusioned with men who seek online to find dates, is in for a huge surprise when Kane, a regular that constantly brings his on-line acquired dates to her coffee shop for their first date, offers to take her home in his Hummer when the blizzard turns ferocious. Without a generator she packs a few of her belongings, grabs her cocker Scotch and joins Kane in his hotel room – strictly as a good-deed recipient. But the two soon learn they have more in common than their love for coffee.
This was a sweet, Cristmassy anthology featuring three cute, sweet, sometimes sexy stories, with the first of the bunch being the best, the second a little less, and the third, the worst in the bunch (but still sweet enough not to stink).
Since they were novella-lengths, some suspension of disbelief is needed, since the couples all fall head over heels for each other in a span of a few hours. But the Christmas atmosphere, likable and rather well-developed characters, a snow-blizzard induced blackout and a romantic display of northern lights make up for the length, making this anthology a pleasant and feel-good read.
4 stars, anthology, Beth Cornelison, contemporary, contemporary romance, harlequin/silhouette, Jennifer Morey, season greetings, Sharron McClellan, suspense/mystery/adventure/thriller
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