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The lifeblood of the Wiltshire village of Ivy Hill is its coaching inn, The Bell. But when the innkeeper dies suddenly, his genteel wife, Jane Bell, becomes the reluctant owner. Jane has no notion of how to run a business. However, with the town's livelihood at stake and a large loan due, she must find a way to bring new life to the inn. Despite their strained relationship, Jane turns to her resentful mother-in-law, Thora, for help.

Rachel Ashford vive en Ivy Cottage con Mercy Grove. Ella es una señorita que ha ido a menos y tiene que encontrar la manera de ganarse la vida. Las mujeres del pueblo la animan a que abra una biblioteca por suscripción con los muchos libros que ha heredado y los que ha recibido en donación...

Richard Brockwell, the younger son of Ivy Hill's most prominent family, hasn't been home for Christmas in years. He prefers to live in the London townhouse, far away from Brockwell Court, the old family secret that haunts him, and the shadows of his past mistakes. But then his mother threatens to stop funding his carefree life - unless he comes home for Christmas. Out of options, he sets out for Ivy Hill, planning to be back on a coach bound for London and his unencumbered bachelor life as soon as the festivities are over.

Para Olivia Lytton, seu noivado com o duque de Canterwick é mais uma maldição do que uma promessa de felicidade para sempre. Pelo menos o título de nobreza dele ajudará sua irmã, Georgiana, a garantir o próprio noivado com o carrancudo—e lindo—Quin, o duque de Sconce, um par perfeito para ela em todos os sentidos. Quer dizer, menos em um, porque ele está apaixonado por Olivia. A curvilínea, teimosa e inconformista irmã gêmea de sua noiva lhe desperta um desejo desconhecido. Mas Quin nunca coloca a paixão à frente da razão, e a razão lhe diz que Georgiana é a noiva perfeita.

'Tis the season when lovers' eyes shine by the light of a blazing Yule log, when a quick kiss is shared beneath the mistletoe, and when love is the most splendid gift of all. Savor the beauty and passion of Christmas with two heartwarming stories by outstanding Regency author Elizabeth Mansfield. From A Sneeze on Tuesday: A broken engagement and a miserable cold were not in Elinor's holiday plans. But her spirited heart found its own remedy: a true and lasting love.

Quando Gowan, o magnífico duque de Kinross, decide se casar, seu plano é escolher uma jovem adequada e negociar o noivado com o pai dela. Ao conhecer Edie no baile de apresentação dela à sociedade, ele acredita que, além de linda, ela também seja a dama serena que ele procura e imediatamente pede sua mão. Na verdade, o temperamento de Edie é o oposto da serenidade.

Little Gracie Gardner is all grown up and about to have the adventure of a lifetime. When the youngest Gardner sister sets out to seek her fortune, she gets more than she bargained for. For as she steps into the mysterious, primeval forest of Princewood, Gracie enters a realm in which myths and legends take on flesh and blood and where new desires haunt her dreams. Abandoned in a blizzard and forced to seek shelter in the castle of an enigmatic young man, Gracie has no idea that she will soon fall under his thrall or that, by accepting his sanctuary, she puts herself in deadly jeopardy.