Love's Christmas Past

Love's Christmas Past
Susan M. Baganz, Jewell Tweedt, Rachel James
Prism Book Group
San Bernadino, CA
ISBN: 9781519368775
2015

Three gifted women authors masterfully join their talents creating a collection of three short stories all in one cover in a historical setting all with realistic characters all hoping to find love this Christmas season.
Council Bluffs' author, Jewell Tweedt created an entrancing novelette, Christmas Bells, with her protagonist, Connie Rose Simonson.  Connie manages two cafes on in the frontier town of Omaha, Nebraska during November of 1878. 
Connie is a recent widow who is also raising her seven-year-old son, Andrew.  She enjoys being extremely busy to the point of exhaustion.
With an invitation to a birthday party where there happen to be puppies, the two look forward to Saturday.
Dr. James Connor also works until exhaustion.  Being a lonely bachelor is easier if you are busy especially when you are the only doctor within a thirty-miles radius.    For a booming frontier town, that is a lot of responsibility for one person.
Rachel James is the author of another story in this collection entitled, A Medieval Christmas. 
Nola is experiencing morning sickness.   Her mother, Lady Langley, logically has made this conclusion.  As an unwed woman with a social standing, she realizes that she could marry a man beneath her station or become a member of a convent, hopefully, close enough to observe her child grow.
The Earl of Beauwater needs a wife.  A man of distinction needs a companion and heirs.  With his brother's dying wish is for to marry, can he find a particular woman to fulfill his responsibilities and dreams?
In Fragile Blessings by Susan Baganz, Grant and Lily anticipate the birth of their first child. Unfortunately, the baby dies during its rough delivery.  How does anyone heal from the death of a child?
Misfortune has company when there is a fire leaving three Catholic children orphans at a nearby farm. 
Who would care for three children with an entirely different religion?
These three stories join in themes of Christmas and hope.  All three have practical problems reflective of the time period and even today.
These three short novelettes have an intended audience of women who enjoy reading historical fiction, Christian novels, and romance.  All are thoroughly engaging stories transporting the reader to another time and place.
Love's Christmas Past is the perfect gift for any woman who enjoys historical Christian romances.