Silver Bells

From Publishers Weekly Bestseller Michaels ( Hokus Pokus ) headlines a quartet of heartwarming Christmas romances. In both Duarte's A Mulberry Park Christmas (which shares a setting with Mulberry Park ) and Michaels's title tale, childhood sweethearts are reunited despite the pressures of adult life. In Dear Santa..., Ross ( Impulse ) strands mystery novelist Holly Berry in a blizzard-swept town, where she meets hunky hotelier Gabe O'Halloran and finds his five-year-old daughter is a determined matchmaker. Burton ( I'm Watching You ) contributes Christmas Past, in which widowed homicide sergeant David Ayden helps talented photographer Nicole Piper cope with the legacy of her late, violently abusive husband. It's a close fit, but each short story contains a full-fledged romance from first kiss to happy ending, both satisfying readers and encouraging them to seek out the authors' longer works. (Nov.) Copyright � Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.