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Making Merry

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Three years ago heiress Cecily Culpepper married Neville Barton on Christmas Day, however before the honeymoon gets off the ground Neville is arrested. Cecily bails him out of the can and he immediately disappears, leaving her crying in her beer, so to speak.

Cecily is still married, never having filed for divorce and she gets no happiness out of Christmas, plus she acts the spoiled and eccentric heiress during the season, her stunts getting more and more out of hand every year. And as she's lost her driver's license, her father, who has also bugged her phones, hires her a chauffeur named Mack Armstrong, who is actually a cop undercover, acting as her driver in order to catch the errant Neville.

Of course Mack is attracted to Cecily, despite her behavior. And Cecily, because she is still legally married to Neville, becomes responsible for Hannah, his daughter by a previous marriage. So now you see we have all the ingredients to make a sweet Christmas tale. All the pot needs is a little stirring and the pages just seem to read themselves as Cecily tries to make this Christmas special for Hannah despite everything that has happened. In summing it up I guess I have to say that this is really a very special book. I loved it and I think you will too.

This book was a total disappointment. I think it was poorly written. The characters were never developed -- totally flat. They would do and say things that came out of no where and just didn't make sense.

Cecily is seen as a "madcap heiress" but Mack sees her as intelligent and intuitive. But, she admits she does nothing with her life and shopping is her best asset.

Mack admits he does not want to get married, but that he has fallen in love with Cecily. Then he leaves w/o looking back and freaks whenever anyone says "family".

Cyrus is a rich, ruthless business man who has made himself look like Santa Claus to unnerve his business associates. However, he teaches his step-granddaughter about ethics and eats in the kitchen with the servants.

Hannah has spent her whole life pining away for her father. She meets her step-mom and finds out her dad is a crook and immediately wants nothing to do with him and calls the step-mom "Mom".

The characters do not behave in the way they should based on how Ms. Kane wrote them. Personally, I think it is just bad writing.