A Gift Of Lovecaptures holiday magic as it transports us...to New York City, where a schoolteacher slips an antique gold ring on her finger and travels back in time to a man who desperately needs her love...to a village in Victorian England, where an embittered earl seeks a governess for a lovely, defiant little girl named Noelle...to a starry London night, on which a Christmas pony heralds a gift greater than any king's ransom...to the snow-covered hills of Virginia, where a young widow learns during a holiday trip that miracles really do come in the least expected packages...and to a reclusive tycoon's Newport estate, where a determined young woman sets out to unlock the secrets of a man's heart. LetA Gift Of Loveopen the door to worlds of passion and adventure, where love -- and miracles -- are always in the air!Contributors include: Judith McNaught, Jude Deveraux, Andrea Kane, Judith O’Brien, and Kimberly Cates.Chapter 1 from Double Exposure by Jude Deveraux inA Gift of Love Oblivious to the spectacular view beyond the glass wall of the Houston high-rise that housed the offices ofFoster's Beautiful Livingmagazine, Diana Foster paced in front of her desk with a telephone cradled between her shoulder and ear. Still no answer at the house? asked Kristin Nordstrom, a production assistant at the magazine. Diana shook her head and hung the phone up, already reaching into the credenza behind her desk for her handbag. Everyone is probably out in the garden, reinventing mulch or something, she joked. Did you ever notice, she continued with a rueful smile as she shrugged into a lime green linen jacket trimmed in white, that when you have really exciting news, the people you want to share it with are never where you can reach them? Well, how about if you tell me the news in the meantime, Kristin suggested teasingly. Diana paused in the act of smoothing wrinkles from her white skirt and flashed the otherl“=