Three cops, romance and Christmas stories that aren't long enough to get engaged with the characters and too predictable to be truly entertaining.

Rita Herron's An Angel for Christmas was possibly the strongest of the three.Max Malone has to protect Angelica North and her nephew from a man who the nephew saw kill his mother. Max broke with Angelica as he thought things were getting too serious. The characters just didn't do anything for me or convince me of their romance.

Debra Webb's Undercover Santa has hunk Trey Murphy assigned to protect wealthy jeweler Rebeca Saxon from murderous jewel thieves. The most convincing romance while being a little short on plot.

Mallory Kane's Merry's Christmas started out on a bit of a wrong foot with me when she said that the man killing Widows was nicknamed by the press as the Widowmaker. Sorry Mallory, that's the person who would be killing their husbands, he was a Widowkiller, if anything. Trevor Adkins has to protect ditzy Merry Randolph, heavily pregnant and ignoring the advice of her protectors she's going to put them both at risk, but when she starts going into labour, Trevor is going to have to face his issues and deal with them both while also dealing with a killer. There were moments that I wanted more from the story but I'm not sure that the characters would have worked in a longer setting.

I really didn't quite enjoy this one, not too interesting, readable but didn't make me want to rush out and get any more books by the respective authors. ( )