Moonlight and Mistletoe [Paperback]

Maggie Davis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 17, 2004

Alone and suffering from heartbreak and holiday blues, Buck Grissom has holed up at home. The last thing this manly Georgia cop could comprehend is that a Christmas miracle is about to arrive at his door. Heavenly, beautiful 19 year-old Scarlet O'Hara Scraggs and her younger sister Farrie have come from nowhere but arrived with a secret. Scarlett and Farrie's story is heartwarming but is it enough to defrost Buck? Will these three get what they really want for Christmas? Moonlight and Mistletoe should be enough to make anyone's yuletide dreams come true and their passion brought in from the cold.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Sheriff Buck Grissom of Nancyville, Ga., was once engaged, but his intended was more devoted to her job as a social worker than to learning how to cook, and Buck "was damned if he was going to settle for a life of microwave dinners." But with Christmas only days away, fate brings Buck a surprise: Scarlett O'Hara Scraggs, a voluptuous, 19-year-old, high school dropout who likes to cook. She and her younger sister, Farrah Fawcett Scraggs, are trying to escape from their bootlegging, thieving grandfather, "Devil Anse." Since Scarlett and Farrie have no place to go, Buck reluctantly offers them temporary shelter at his own house. Farrie, delighted by the arrangement, is ready to settle in for good, but Scarlett realizes they may have to move on: when she crawls into Buck's bed, the sheriff, restraining his desires, throws her out. The only real charmer in this disappointing story is Demon, Scarlett and Farrie's refrigerator-sized dog. Without offering convincing motives, Daniels ( A Christmas Romance ) seems to expect readers to believe that if lovers, no matter how ill-matched, are simply thrown together, they'll take to each other and live happily ever after.
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Review

"MOONLIGHT AND MISTLETOE is a charming mixture of madness, mayhem and pure magic! This funny, fast-paced Yuletide tale will leave you feeling warm and wonderful and believing there really is a Santa Claus. Delightful!" --Nan Ryan, bestselling author of A Lifetime of Heaven "Maggie Davis' MOONLIGHT AND MISTLETOE is a wonderful Christmas romp, a delightfully comic view of small-town America, Southern-style. There's a harried sheriff, a spirited heroine, and a whole flock of fascinating secondary characters. The ending is the wildest, wackiest and most hilarious one I have ever come across. I absolutely loved this book!" ---Linda Lael Miller, New York Times bestselling romance author "MOONLIGHT AND MISTLETOE is an enchanting Cinderella tale guaranteed to put you in the most delightful Christmas spirit." ---Raine Cantrell, author of Calico --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: e-reads.com (February 17, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0759222207
• ISBN-13: 978-0759222205
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,108,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Maggie Davis, a Southerner/Northerner born in Norfolk, Virginia and raised in New York City, is the author of over 30 bestselling novels, including The Far Side of Home, Eagles, Stage Door Canteen, Rommel's Gold, and A Christmas Romance. The latter was featured in Good Housekeeping Magazine and made into a hit CBS Sunday Night Movie starring Olivia-Newton-John and Gregory Harrison. She has written for The Georgia Review, Ladies Home Journal, Holiday, and other national magazines, and has been a feature writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She taught three noncredit writing courses at Yale University, where she was assistant in research to the chairman of the Department of Psychology. She's also been a guest writer-artist at the International Cultural Center, Hammamet, Tunisia.

Writing as Katherine Deauxville, she is the author of the bestselling medieval novels Blood Red Roses, The Amethyst Crown, The Crystal Heat and Eyes of Love, as well as the science fiction novel Out Of The Blue, the comedy The Last Male Virgin, and the murder mystery Southern Fried Trouble.

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A quirky, warm holiday tale!, March 26, 2004

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This review is from: Moonlight and Mistletoe (Paperback)

A fun Christmas tale from the clever pen...um, keyboard of Maggie Daniels aka as Maggie Davis and Katherine Deauxville. Whatever the name, she is one of the most gifted writers. She has done wonderfully researched, rich in period details Medieval novels, she has write mysteries, adventures - the old Glitz `n Glamour tales, Contemporary Romance and the off-the wall "Out of the Blue" and "The Last Male Virgin". She has a marvelous mainstream title currently out, "Stage Door Canteen", one of the Great American Novels that writers live to write. Since this book is getting so super word of mouth, interest in her backlist is seeing readers want all her titles, thus several have been reprinted.

Remember "A Christmas Romance" starring Olivia-Newton John a few years back? Well, that was one of two holiday stories Davis penned under her Daniel's name. Davis draws heavily on her Southern "roots" and gives us "a hoot and holler" style ho ho tale. Sheriff Buck Grissom is having a "bad hair day". His deputies tried to send him off with his fishing-pole on a paid vacation, just to have a little peace and quiet. Buck's hard-nose, uptight male, a by the book policeman whose attitude since the break up with his former fiancé has left him in a perpetually foul mood. Susan didn't think their relationship stood a chance because was a hard man to get along with, unbending, "stiffed-necked even as a lover". Buck just wanted a woman to love him, not her job.

Buck's day from hell starts with the ACU suing to have the Christmas Manger taken off the Court House lawn, but it goes down hill rapidly as Susan - the ex-girl friend social-worker is there trading barbs, when Hell comes in a calling in the form of one of the Scraggs getting arrested. The Scraggs are the Blue Ridge Mountain's redneck version of the Sopranos, and the law enforcement officials of Jackson County just as soon not deal with any of "Devil" Anse's grandchildren. Only, as Deputy Moses Holt tries to put Scarlett O'Hara Scraggs in a jail cell, Buck has a sense of pending doom that his life is never going to be the same and truly wishes he had taking that fishing vacation.

Susan is off for a holiday vacation, but before she decamps, she pronounces they cannot keep Scarlett in jail and suggests, Buck that the home to his mothers. After placing an ABP for Scarlett's 10-year-old sister who is missing - Farrah Fawcett Scraggs. Farrah - Farrie - shows up on her own, just as his mother is rushing out the door. Buck's sister needs mom immediately because her husband was in an accident and in hospital. Buck stands helplessly seeing he has no alternative but to take Scarlett and Farrie in.

To Scarlett and her sickly sister, the fancy mansion of Grissons is like a faerycastle. They are warm, given good clothes and Buck promises to protect them from their
vicious evil grandfather. Buck knows he is in trouble when he discovered the beautiful Scarlett is a good cook!

It's a warm, fuzzy tale with a lot of humor with the special Davis touch - whatever the name she is using.