From the Harlequin Temptation( line come two sizzling stories for this special sampler. In Wiggs's "Cinderfella," (from "Merry Christmas, Baby") Jack Riley intends on keeping a Brooklyn youth shelter open, and his boss, Madeleine Langston, is the one obstacle in his way.

And in Hoffman's "Lady of the Night," bordello heir Annabeth Dupree can't convince Zach Tanner she's not the bad girl he thinks her to be.