A Legendary Christmas
Print Anthology

A Ladies of Legend Anthology by Janet Eaves, Maddie James, Jan Scarbrough, and Magdalena Scott

Christmas canceled?

It’s Christmas in Legend, Tennessee. The lights are hung, the town hall is decorated, and families are coming home for the holidays. But when a major winter storms sweeps through the foothills of the Smokies, everything in Legend comes to a screeching halt. A husband lost, a sister seeking forgiveness, a fallen star, and an accidental encounter all play victim to the storm.

Will Christina receive the gift she’s longed for? Or will her worst nightmare come true?

Will Rebecca's first trip to Legend be a delightful Christmas surprise for a friend, or her newest relationship disaster?

Will Chelly make it home in enough time to apologize to her sister before the holidays?

Will movie star Dawn Smith decide Legend is where her heart is and where she belongs?

The seeking heart doesn't give up easily when it's searching for home, even in a snowstorm. And there is no place like Legend, particularly at Christmastime. Canceling Christmas, under any circumstance, is just not an option.

The A Legendary Christmas print anthology includes the following stories by these Legend authors:

Janet Eaves brings us The Christmas Gift

Maddie James takes us Home for the Holidays.

Jan Scarbrough shares Santa's Kiss

And Magdalena Scott delights us with Christmas Collision.

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Christmas Collision
Magdalena Scott

Rebecca Mayfield, the divorce lawyer in New York City, doesn't believe in "happily ever after." Why would she? Her beloved husband and law partner died of a heart attack a couple of years ago, and she spends every day of her lucrative work life ending someone's marriage.

Her friend and former client, Midnight Shelby McClain, invites Rebecca to her new "hometown" of Legend, Tennessee for the holiday. Small town Christmas—probably incredibly hokey. But Legend worked some magic in Midnight's life. What might be there for Rebecca?

Her rental car slides off the icy road and is stuck in a ditch. She hikes through the dark in the deep snow toward the only light she can see…from a little cabin on the mountain.

David keeps a vigil each Christmas Eve in a little weekend cabin on the mountain outside Legend. He needs this time alone—away from his high stress life in Knoxville. He does not appreciate the interruption of having to take care of yet another lost soul—no matter how cute and spicy the package it's wrapped in.

The power goes off, but the sparks continue to fly between these two strangers… There's something magical about this cabin. Maybe this is the Christmas to find love—and a new beginning—in Legend, Tennessee.

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The Christmas Gift
Janet Eaves

Christina Montgomery dreads another Christmas with the questions about her soldier husband, Johnny, hanging over her, and her daughter's, heads. She believes he died with his small sniper squadron a little over two years earlier even though his was the only body unaccounted for. The Marine Corp has indicated they are leaning towards calling Johnny a defector. There are even a few Legend locals who believe it, too. This is something Christina refuses to consider. Until one snowy evening two weeks before Christmas a man looking very much like Johnny arrives at her Tennessee farm with no idea of who he is.

Stunned, confused, Christina doesn't know what to do with him. Is this man's sudden appearance a Christmas miracle? Or is it Christina's worse nightmare come true?

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Santa's Kiss
Jan Scarbrough

Actress Dawn Smith’s world is crumbling. She’s always lived on the edge, seeking thrills, making herself into someone different. That’s why her success in Hollywood came so easily for a small town girl from Legend, Tennessee. But now things have changed. Dawn needs to get away from the bright lights, but it’s Christmastime and that has always meant going home to family. She can’t face family this year.

Clint Roberts, former high school football hero and current car dealership owner, is a popular fixture in Legend. Affable, fun-loving, the bachelor is everyone’s best buddy. Most people know about his infatuation for one-time Legend girl, now superstar Dawn Smith.

Dawn needs someone to turn to, but she’s rejected her family. When Clint shows up on her doorstep in a snowstorm dressed as Santa bearing gifts and food, she welcomes him. Will their night of lovemaking bring Dawn more heartache or can Clint convince the actress that it’s time for her to come home for good?

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Home for the Holidays
Maddie James

The last thing Chelly Schul wants is to go home for the holidays. She left her hometown of Legend, Tennessee on a wing and a prayer two years earlier and hasn’t returned. Her leaving humiliated her entire family, particularly her sister Suzie, since she ran off with Suzie’s (almost-ex) husband.

Legend Police Officer Matt Branson values being alone. Even during the holidays, he enjoys the solitude. Dubbed the town hermit, he tells himself he prefers his “cave” to socializing. His friends say he still pines after that lost love…although he begs to differ.

All that changes the snowy day he pulls over the older model sedan heading into Legend. His gut slams against his backbone as Chelly rolls down the car window and looks up into his eyes.

His high-school sweetheart is back in town—the woman who sent him into his cave in the first place.

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A Legendary Christmas, both print and ebook versions, will be available in November, 2008

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