Gifts of Love (Mass Market Paperback)

~ Kay Hooper (Author), (Author)
Key Phrases: Lady Ware, Lady Sophia, Perry Whitton (more...)

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Product Description

In this glorious season of light and joy, the phenomenal Kay Hooper and the incomparable Lisa Kleypas offer readers a pair of precious jewels—timeless love stories that sparkle like diamonds.

In Kay Hooper's Holiday Spirit, a matchmaking grandmother and three Christmas ghosts arrange a sensuous reunion for a headstrong noblewoman and her seductive former fiancé. And in Surrender, Lisa Kleypas has a beautiful, aristocratic Bostonian discover the true meaning of giving when she falls tenderly and passionately in love with a troubled stranger: her husband.

Open these golden Gifts of Love and surrender your heart—for 'tis the season for romance!

About the Author

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas is a true star. After graduating from Wellesley College, Lisa began her writing career after her parents gave her only one year to get a book contract - she succeeded and a career was born. Kay Hooper has published more than 60 novels and four novellas.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Avon (October 31, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061151750
• ISBN-13: 978-0061151750
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #56,248 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kleypas Story is a repeat but excellent!, December 19, 2006

By	Pio (Orange County, CA) - See all my reviews

I read this book for the Kleypas story and have not read the Hooper story. I really liked the Kleypas story "Surrender" about a very determined Irish man in the late 1800's who makes it out of the slums of Boston and marries the very sheltered daughter of a Boston Brahmin family who he meets through her brother, his college friend. He tells himself he wants her because she represents his finally "making it to the top" and doesn't admit to even himself that he married her because he loves her. At the same time, he doesn't feel good enough for her and feels firmly caught between two distant strata of society. His wife, on the other hand, doesn't care about his origins but is at first out of her depth trying to live with this intense, torn man. It's a great story and I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't already read it in a previous anthology of Kleypas' called A CHRISTMAS PRESENT (other authoresses were Loretta Chase and Judith French). I understand the decision to republish this story in another Christmas grouping but it is nevertheless irritating how often it is done. So FYI if someone out there has already read other Kleypas anthologies and doesn't remember which ones, you might have already read this story. This book costs quite a lot to find out that you have already read half of it before.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Two great historical romances -- a nice find..., January 28, 2007

By	C. Brigden (Minot, ND) - See all my reviews

Gifts of Love by Kay Hooper and Lisa Kleypas are two great Christmas Historical romance stories. Holiday Spirit by Kay Hooper's tells the story/mystery of two romances. The first couple broke their engagement over lies and the second couple are ghosts.... Surrender, Lisa Kleypas tells the story of conflict of Irish and aristocratic Bostonians. This story was a about married couple who had to grow into their love. A great stories anytime of the year. I love Kleypas but now I am off to find more by Hooper.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gifts of Love, January 3, 2007

By	J. Ricci (Greenwood NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It was an easy read and really good, I reccomend it to all.