The Twilight Before Christmas

October 27, 2003
Set in a homey American small town, where the annual community Christmas pageant is the highlight of the year, The Twilight Before Christmas treads ground that may feel unfamiliar at first to fans of Christine Feehan's gothic Dark series (Dark Melody, etc.). But things are not always what they appear. In the hands of this imaginative author, something as harmless as a spell of bad weather-specifically, fog in a village that never has fog-rapidly develops into an evil entity that uses Christmas decorations as deadly weapons to prevent said pageant. It's up to Kate Drake and her six sisters (witches all) to save the festivities and the town, with the help of ex-Army Ranger Matt Granite and a few other heroic hunks. As is typical of Feehan's novels, dark suspense and sensual romance co-exist here in unlikely but perfect harmony.

November 15, 2003
The people of the small coastal town of Sea Haven have always known that the seven Drake sisters were special; gifted with strange powers and generous to a fault, they are considered the town's "treasures." Now, just as Christmas approaches, the sisters sense a growing danger-strange shadows slink about the family's prescient mosaic floor and slither up the pathway in the Christmas snowglobe-and when Kate discovers a broken seal, ancient and symbol covered, in the old mill, they know that something evil has been unleashed and that they will have to deal with it. Chilling, suspenseful, passionate, and rewarding, this is not your average holiday romance; it will, however, be one to savor and remember. Feehan (Shadow Game) is noted for her Carpathian novels and lives in Northern California.

Copyright 2003 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.