Once Upon a Time

"Once Upon a Time" is a 1999 Harlequin Historicals three-novella anthology by Carla Neggers, Margaret St. George, and Leandra Logan. The shared frame draws on classic fairy-tale and once-upon-a-time storytelling traditions, with each author building a romance around a different historical setting and a different fairy-tale echo.

Neggers, best known for her contemporary romantic-suspense novels including the Sharpe & Donovan series and the Black Falls books, contributes a historical with the texture and pacing her readers expect. Margaret St. George (a pen name for Maggie Osborne) brings the Western historical sensibility that made her one of the most awarded writers in the subgenre, and Leandra Logan closes the volume with a third era and a third take on the fairy-tale frame.

The audience is historical-romance readers who appreciate shorter, focused stories and the variety that an anthology gives. It pairs with the broader Harlequin Historicals catalog, with Mary Jo Putney's anthologies, and with Lisa Kleypas's earlier traditional historicals for readers who like a clean fairy-tale-influenced romance arc.

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