“I didn’t realise how lonely I was, until Christmas came back this way.”
Alaric Montrose, the icy Duke of Wexmere, expects nothing but solitude when he arrives at his remote estate. Instead, he finds a village drowning in Christmas cheer… and Marianne Whitby, the warm-hearted widow who keeps Hollingford running with equal parts determination and exasperated charm.She thinks he’s a fussy, frostbitten stranger. He thinks she’s far too comfortable bossing him around... more“I didn’t realise how lonely I was, until Christmas came back this way.”
Alaric Montrose, the icy Duke of Wexmere, expects nothing but solitude when he arrives at his remote estate. Instead, he finds a village drowning in Christmas cheer… and Marianne Whitby, the warm-hearted widow who keeps Hollingford running with equal parts determination and exasperated charm.She thinks he’s a fussy, frostbitten stranger. He thinks she’s far too comfortable bossing him around. They’re both absolutely correct.Yet as snow traps them together and Alaric is unwillingly dragged into the village’s festive madness, Marianne begins to see the lonely man beneath the ducal arrogance, and Alaric discovers that Christmas isn’t nearly as unbearable when she’s nearby.But he’s a duke hiding behind a false name, and she’s a woman who’s vowed never to lose her heart again. When truths surface and past hurts collide, desire becomes danger.In a season of miracles and mishaps, can a reluctant duke and a resilient widow find the courage to claim the one gift neither expected, love? less
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