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"This book is going on the keeper shelves"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 5, 2001

"After the Music" by Christine Freehan. Critics and fans loved the music of Dillon Wentworth until a fire in his home killed his wife Vivian and scarred the musician when he entered the inferno to rescue his two children. Dillon fled to a small island leaving the kids Read more...

"Gothic at its best!"
Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted November 19, 2001

"After The Music" Even though this was a novella in an anthology, I didn't feel as if I was shortchanged in this captivating story. Ever since Jessica's mother died under questionable circumstances, she's watched Dillon's twin children. Then unexplainable accidents start to happen. Now she feels as if she Read more...

"Gothic Christmas"
Reviewed by Barb Hicks
Posted January 14, 2002

A VERY GOTHIC CHRISTMAS is an anthology featuring popular writers Christine Feehan and Melanie George. Both authors give you a story that shows things can go bump in the night any time of the year. Christine Feehan's After The Music reunites Dillon with his twin children and with Jessica, the Read more...

Summary

"Lady of the Locket" by Melanie George . . . The echoes of history and romance lure Rachel Hudson to Glengarren, the Scottish castle where her parents met many Christmases ago. But it is the portrait of the fierce Highlander Duncan MacGregor that sparks an inexplicable yearning inside her. On a storm-tossed night, as lighting cracks across the castle's turrets, Rachel finds herself face-to-face with MacGregor, astride a mighty stallion. Now, stepping into Rachel's time - and her heart - the warrior from the past is pursued by an ancient evil enemy . . . "After the Music" by Christine Feehan . . . Terrified by mysterious threats, Jessica Fitzpatrick spirits away her twin wards Tara and Trevor to the remote island mansion of their father, world-famous musician, Dillon Wentworth. Ever since the fire that claimed his troubled wife's life and left him horribly disfigured, Dillon has shut out the world. With Christmas approaching, the spark between him and Jessica might light the future, but there are those who shared DIllon's wife's love of the occult and their evil machinations threaten everything.