I only read the first two stories in this novella.

A CHRISTMAS ABDUCTION by Madeline Hunter

Adam, Baron Thornhill gets abducted by a woman. He thinks he's been abducted as revenge because his cousin put their breeding horses down after illness swept through them. Only, no. It's actually because he supposedly seduced her sister and got her with child. She plans to force them to marry. Adam is pretty sure he's never met her sister, but he can't be sure because he is something of a rake.

They're attracted to each other. So they keep kissing. How is this a thing? You think he's a rake who seduced and abandoned your sister. You are literally holding him hostage to marry her, but you let him kiss and fondle you anyway? Gross.

Spoiler

Naturally it turns out he didn't seduce her sister (no surprise there) but the fact that she let him seduce her when she thought he got her sister with child, to say nothing of the fact that she intended for them to marry and that would mean she kissed and was groped by her sister's husband? No. Just no.

A PERFECT MATCH by Sabrina Jeffries

Cass is an heiress who is determined to keep her fortune a secret so she can marry for love. Lord Heywood needs a fortune to restore the property he inherited. He intends to court her cousin, Kitty, but it's Cass he wants.

I really disliked the fact that Cass hid her fortune for as long as she did, but more importantly I disliked how Heywood reacted when he found out about it. I wasn't loving the story up to that point, and his giant man-tantrum didn't help matters.

I may read the MJP at some point, but I'm setting it aside for now.