novellas

“Hot Toy” in the anthology Santa Baby

Trudy Maxwell goes looking for the Hot Toy of 2006 on Christmas Eve to keep her nephew's faith in Santa Claus and life in general, and runs into toy hijackers, the CIA, Chinese spies, and the lit professor who dumped her after three dates. Then the shooting starts. Anthology includes reprints of stories by Lori Foster ("Christmas Bonus") and Carly Phillips ("Naughty Under the Mistletoe").

“Sizzle”

If Emily can't get her new colleague Richard to listen to her voice, she'll just have to use body language.

This is the first book Jenny wrote even though it was published as her third. It was my attempt to write to formula, an attempt that failed because there is no formula. I'm trying to forget it, but occasionally people come up to me and say, “Sizzle. The desk scene. Ohmigod.” It's amazing what you can write when you think it will never be published. Oh, and the reason it's all in the heroine's point of view is that I didn't know romances usually included the hero's point of view. I'd read them, but I'd missed that particular detail.