The Twilight Before Christmas
A Novel
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4.5 • 19 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A passionate and paranormal novel of love and mystery at Christmastime from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author and “magnificent storyteller” (RT Book Reviews) Christine Feehan.
Kate Drake, a well-traveled bestselling novelist, is one of seven sisters…who just happen to be witches. When she returns to her small coastal hometown before Christmas to attend her sister’s wedding, she decides to settle there permanently after discovering a charming but run-down historic house. She’s determined to open a bookstore there and sets about clearing it out when an earthquake occurs, knocking down part of the wall and revealing a burial crypt.
Intrigued but cautious, she turns to a handsome carpenter but she begins to sense that neither the carpenter nor the law nor any otherworldly power can help her reign in the evil that was released from the crypt. She will have to summon all of her supernatural power—and that of her six sisters—to destroy the sinister force that is casting a dark shadow over her hometown in this novel where “dark suspense and sensual romance coexist…in unlikely but perfect harmony” (Publishers Weekly).
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
