A Stockingful of Joy

by Mary Jo Putney, Jill Barnett, Susan King, Justine Dare

Signet

Historical Romance: Anthology, Historical Romance

October 30, 2007

ISBN-13: 0451223489

Available in: Paperback (reprint)

A Stockingful of Joy
by Mary Jo Putney, Jill Barnett, Susan King, Justine Dare

Now readers can enjoy the magical spirit of Christmas with a romantic quartet of stories filled with all the hope and joy of the holiday season.

The Best Husband Money Can Buy by Mary Jo Putney
An unexpected legacy sweeps a governess to a grand estate---where an impoverished nobleman discovers a woman to be treasured.

Boxing Day by Jill Barnett
A gentle woman shows a rugged man the meaning of love in Victorian New York of gaslit streets and snowy sleight rides.

A Light in the Window by Justine Dare
A heartwarming tale of a man who seeks shelter on an isolated Wyoming homestead...and discovers an orphan and a beautiful woman who need a miracle as badly as he needs forgiveness and love.

The Snow Rose by Susan King
In this touching story, a silver brooch seals a pact between a Highland lass and a Scottish laird as they find that the best gift to give is one's heart.

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Mary Jo Putney's Bio

Mary Jo Putney was born in Upstate New York with a reading addiction, a condition for which there is no known cure. After earning degrees in English Literature and Industrial Design at Syracuse University, she did various forms of design work in California and England before inertia took over in Baltimore, Maryland, where she has lived very comfortably ever since.

While becoming a novelist was her ultimate fantasy, it never occurred to her that writing was an achievable goal until she acquired a computer for other purposes. When the realization hit that a computer was the ultimate writing tool, she charged merrily into her first book with an ignorance that illustrates the adage that fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Fortune sometimes favors the foolish and her first book sold quickly, thereby changing her life forever, in most ways for the better. (“But why didn’t anyone tell me that writing would change the way one reads?”) Like a lemming over a cliff, she gave up her freelance graphic design business to become a full-time writer as soon as possible.

Since 1987, Ms. Putney has published twenty-nine books and counting. Her stories are noted for psychological depth and unusual subject matter such as alcoholism, death and dying, and domestic abuse. She has made all of the national bestseller lists including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly. Five of her books have been named among the year’s top five romances by The Library Journal. The Spiral Path and Stolen Magic were chosen as one of Top Ten romances of their years by Booklist, published by the American Library Association.

A nine-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA, she has won RITAs for Dancing on the Wind and The Rake and the Reformer and is on the RWA Honor Roll for bestselling authors. She has been awarded two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards, four NJRW Golden Leaf awards, plus the NJRW career achievement award for historical romance. Though most of her books have been historical, she has also published three contemporary romances.

Ms. Putney says that not least among the blessings of a full-time writing career is that one almost never has to wear pantyhose.