Read a long time ago and I kept because I like a few of the stories. Finally decided to cull it out. ( )

****½ "Wooing the Wolf" by Barbara Metzger. Fun, cute. Our heroine, a lady's companion, unexpectedly inherits her two nieces and temporarily moves with them into the house next door, which is owned by an absent viscount, whose servants assure her he won't mind. The viscount returns home unexpectedly and the nieces set about trying to matchmake between him and their aunt so they'll be able to stay in the house they like so much.
**** "The Dogstar" by Edith Layton. Another cute one. Both the h/h have promised to look after a little boy home from school for Christmas. She's a down on her luck governess, he's a viscount. The boy finds a puppy when he arrives in London, and the dog is more than it seems.
***½ "Lost and Found" by Andrea Pickens. Both the h/h have been recalled to London for Christmas, under orders from family--his father, her uncle--to make a politically expedient match. Both end up taking a wrong turn and being stranded in a snowstorm at the same inn. You can see where this is going, can't you? Still, it's not obnoxious in its cliches, so it gets an extra half star for that.
*** "Christmas with Dora Davenport" by Nancy Butler. I usually really like Nancy Butler's writing, but this one was merely okay. Perhaps it's because both elements of the story--the hero who helps the heroine in her quest to snag another man, and the heroine who's secretly a writer--have been done to death. Not bad, just nothing new or exciting.
*½ "Christmas Cheer" by Gayle Buck. Oh, gak. The characters in this one are newlyweds who can't be bothered to actually, you know, TALK to each other, so they each think the other doesn't love them. So the hero gets this brainstorm that he'll act even more indifferent toward the heroine and then secretly invite her family to visit for Christmas, thus proving his love for her. You might think this might make for an interesting story, with amusing misdirection, etc. You'd be wrong. ( )