The Brides of Christmas (The Wise Virgin / The Vagabond Knight / The Unexpected Guest)

by Jo Beverley (Author) , Margaret Moore (Author), Deborah Simmons (Author)

Historical Weihnachten (Band 01), The de Burghs (Anthology Inclusions — includes "The Unexpected Guest")

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In the age of chivalry and the season of hope, three marriages are forged in this collection of stories involving knights, mercenaries and family patriarchs. The titles include The Wise Virgin by Beverley, The Vagabond Knight by Moore, and The Unexpected Guest by Simmons.

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I bought this for $1 from a used book stall, and $1 is about all it's worth. 3 very insipid stories, incl. one by Jo Berverley, who usually is much better, that were forgettable even as you read them. Nothing offensive here, just poorly written, naif pseudo medieval books, where the setting was just wall paper and it had no real medieval feel at all. Didn't feel much like Christmas either. Silly all round. The last one, by Deborah Simmons, about the widow who escapes from the freezing cold to the older earls castle was the best of the lot, the Beverley one, with the 2 families warring over the crusade banner and kidnapping the wrong girl was forgettable and the middle one I skimmed. C-, no worth the investment.
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Jo Beverley was born on September 22, 1947 in Lancashire, England. She received a degree in English history from Keele University in Staffordshire in 1970. In the mid-1970s, she moved to Canada with her husband. She wrote over 30 historical romance novels during her lifetime including Lord Wraybourne's Betrothed, The Stolen Bride, The Shattered show more Rose, Lord of Midnight, and Forbidden Magic. She also wrote several series including the Company of Rogues series and the Malloren series. She received numerous awards for her work including five RITAs, two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times, The Golden Leaf Award, and the Readers' Choice Award. She died from cancer on May 23, 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
The Brides of Christmas (The Wise Virgin / The Vagabond Knight / The Unexpected Guest) (The Wise Virgin / The Vagabond Knight / The Unexpected Guest)
Original title
The Brides of Christmas
Original publication date
1999-10; 2005; 1995
People/Characters
Lady Katherine DuMonde; Sir Rafe Bracton; Lady Joy Warwick; Fawke de Burgh, Earl of Campion; Joan Montelan; Edmund de Grave
First words
The Wise Virgin:
Prologue: "They've stolen the Blessed Virgin Mary!"
Original language*
Angličtina
Disambiguation notice
Please do not combine anthologies with individual stories in the book.

Please do not put individual stories as the Canonical Title of the anthology.

Stories in anthology:
The Wise Virgin by Jo ... (show all)Beverly [also in anthology A Bride by Christmas]
The Vagabond Knight by Margaret Moore
The Unexpected Guest by Deborah Simmons

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Fiction and Literature, Romance
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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Czech, English, German
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Paper
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