A widow needing attachment. An earl searching for hope. A young girl wanting a family. A handful of days to change everything…
Lady Lydia Kingston has pretended for years because it was easier that way. As headmistress and owner of a finishing school in London, people trusted her more if they thought she was a proper woman of the ton, except all of that was a lie for survival, but when her sordid past collides with the present she’s worked to build, scandal follows and sends her to the Scottish Highlands despite the imminent holiday season. No longer does she believe in that magic.
Jackson Ramsay, the Earl of Greystone, has no patience for what the holiday season demands of him. London has lost its polish and draw, neither is he in the mood for revelry or festivities and he certainly doesn’t want a woman to complicate everything. Recently, he has been tasked with spending the holidays with his niece, and not wanting her to be exposed the emptiness that is the beau monde, he takes her on a holiday to his estate in the Highlands. The joy of Christmastide has long been forgotten.
Midway through the journey, misfortune throws the earl and Lady Kingston together, but forced proximity of a shared road trip sparks a strong attraction between them both, and a yearning for more. In the Highlands, a fierce snowstorm strands the travelers and necessity has the three essentially playing house until the roads clear. The closer the calendar draws to Christmas, the more they come to depend upon each other and a tradition is unexpectedly born. Desire consumes the earl and Lady Kingston, but her secrets and his might just destroy the love they both desperately need and deserve.
… showing that magic and miracles can happen on Christmas if they only believe.
Genre: Historical Romance
Lady Lydia Kingston has pretended for years because it was easier that way. As headmistress and owner of a finishing school in London, people trusted her more if they thought she was a proper woman of the ton, except all of that was a lie for survival, but when her sordid past collides with the present she’s worked to build, scandal follows and sends her to the Scottish Highlands despite the imminent holiday season. No longer does she believe in that magic.
Jackson Ramsay, the Earl of Greystone, has no patience for what the holiday season demands of him. London has lost its polish and draw, neither is he in the mood for revelry or festivities and he certainly doesn’t want a woman to complicate everything. Recently, he has been tasked with spending the holidays with his niece, and not wanting her to be exposed the emptiness that is the beau monde, he takes her on a holiday to his estate in the Highlands. The joy of Christmastide has long been forgotten.
Midway through the journey, misfortune throws the earl and Lady Kingston together, but forced proximity of a shared road trip sparks a strong attraction between them both, and a yearning for more. In the Highlands, a fierce snowstorm strands the travelers and necessity has the three essentially playing house until the roads clear. The closer the calendar draws to Christmas, the more they come to depend upon each other and a tradition is unexpectedly born. Desire consumes the earl and Lady Kingston, but her secrets and his might just destroy the love they both desperately need and deserve.
… showing that magic and miracles can happen on Christmas if they only believe.
Genre: Historical Romance
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