Regency Christmas Reunions: A Regency Romance Christmas Anthology

Three delightful full length Regency stories, from USA Today bestselling and Award winning authors, all focused around Christmas reunions, to keep you reading all through the Christmas Season. Lose yourself in the Regency world, and be swept away by love!This anthology contains:Miss Murchison’s Mistletoe Memories by Arietta RichmondA Duke expected to marry, a Scottish Viscount’s daughter who is newly come to London, a reunion that brings up shared childhood memories, an unwanted suitor, an unexpected passion that leads to compromise, a love found under the Christmas mistletoe. Miss Èibhlin Murchison, daughter of Viscount Felldale, has been sent to London so that the Duchess of Stonemont can sponsor her introduction into society. Èibhlin has few memories of the Duchess, but has much fonder memories of her son, who was kind enough to play with her when she was barely more than a child, and to treat her as intelligent. Eight long years have passed, while she kept a keepsake of that year, tucked away in her diary. But will he, now Duke, remember her at all? Niall Smythe, Duke of Stonemont, feels the weight of his title heavily, just over a year after his father’s death. Then, unexpectedly, his mother offers to sponsor their Scottish neighbour’s daughter into society. Memories of helping her gather mistletoe, of interesting conversations, of days different from the rest of his life, resurface. What might she be like, now? Will she remember him? As memories draw them together, the Duchess and Èibhlin’s aunt try to push them apart, encouraging gentlemen who seek to court Èibhlin, despite her dislike of them. Will Èibhlin and Niall realise the truth of their feelings or will society’s expectations force them apart? Will one moment under the Christmas mistletoe bring a lasting love, or only scandal?The Widow and the Wanderer by Janis Susan MayCecilia, Countess Merkal, is in a dreadful state. Nathaniel Rohman, the man she has loved most of her life, left her behind when she refused to go and wander the world with him. Her wealthy but decidedly commoner father has an infatuation with the aristocracy, and so married her to the Earl Merkal, not really caring that he was a dastardly and cruel man. Before long, the Earl was shot over cheating at a game of cards, but when Cecilia went to her father, he refused to take her back unless she maintained the fiction of being a well-regarded Countess, and returned to live at the crumbling castle, something she simply could not do. Bereft of choices, Cecilia was spurned by her former friends and ended up as a companion to Mrs. Gravely, a horrible old woman, wealthy but hateful towards those with titles, who loves having a titled woman as her servant. The two are invited to a Christmas house party at the Heatheringtons, distant relatives of Mrs. Gravely, where Cecilia is startled to discover Nathaniel, now Sir Nathaniel. Beaten and subjugated into a sad creature, Cecilia attracts the attention of Lady Heatherington, who loves arranging other people to her will. Can her ladyship bring Cecilia back to the status and personality she should have and, more importantly, can she dislodge the lovely young lady who is determined to have Nathaniel for herself?Mama Knows Best by Victoria HinshawFrom childhood playmates to reluctant strangers, Lady Charlotte Easton and George Wyatt, the Earl of Blakemore, were once destined — at least in their mothers’ eyes — to share a future. But as the years passed and their paths diverged, those childish dreams faded into memory. Now, twenty years later, fate brings them together once more. Charlotte is looking for a new life. George never imagined his heart could be stirred by the girl he once knew. As affection awakens, they must decide whether to attempt a future together, or if some destinies are best left to the past.If you love Christmas, and Regency Romance, then this book is for you! Read more