Lucia Pallaccio meets Anthony Falco at Coney Island and it’s love at first sight. Though her mobster father, Vincent Pallaccio, forbids her to see Anthony and threatens to harm him, she disobeys. After learning she must marry her father’s rival, she and Anthony run away. Her father’s goons find them. They take her back to her father and leave Anthony for dead. Lucia attempts suicide, but is found by her mother. Forced to marry Carlo Guerriero, who treats her like a secondhand possession, Lucia becomes a prisoner in his Staten Island home and is expected to meet his every sexual desire. She begins to think about suicide again and this desire to die intensifies when she discovers she’s pregnant. Only the baby is Anthony’s. With the help of Carlo’s housekeeper, Lucia fights to protect her baby and survive her life with Carlo as she learns the reason behind her strange arranged marriage.

What do you do when a ghost mistakes you for his wife?

Furious with her boyfriend, journalist Nikki O'Connell visits Paris while reassessing their relationship. What she doesn't need complicating matters is the ghost of Claude Debussy crawling into her bed every night. Yet that's exactly what happens when the dead composer believes Nikki is his wife.

Journalists deal in facts, not in the supernatural, and it's that guiding rule that forces Nikki to doubt the possibility her rented apartment is haunted. Instead, she's confronted with the possibility that she's inherited the insanity that destroyed her mother. 

12 Stories from 12 Authors, ranging from very old-fashioned holidays cheer to more modern tales of love, romance and wishes. The power to believe can work miracles - wishes can come true...love heals hearts. A two book set - with story sequels from authors Leanne Burroughs and Deborah Macgillivray to the first book in the set Christmas Wishes. The two books in tradesize paperback make a winning Christmas gift. Stories also from Aleka Nakis, Candace Gold, Diane Davis White, Anna Kathryn Lanier, Heather Hiestand, Keelia Greer, Kemberlee Shortland, Michele Ann Young, Rachel Michaels, Victoria Houseman