MISTLETOE FROM PURPLE SAGE
by Barbara Burnett Smith
Mistletoe From Purple Sage ($21.95; Nov. 14; 304 pp.; 0-312-16930-2): Ad writer Jolie Wyatt (Celebration in Purple Sage, 1996, etc.) allows herself to get lured away from her bridegroom in little Purple Sage to big bad Austin, where she'll meet her former boss (nice), her former lover (not so nice), and a most awkward case of poisoning.