The Cinderella Countess (Gentlemen of Ho...

While this has a trope I'm not fond of - our heroine has retained her accent and holds herself like a member of the upper classes, I would say this would be hard to do and often is rubbish, people like to blend. Apart from that it's a fun read that I found hard to put down. (another bad decisions book club book).
Annabelle Smith works as a healer in Whitechapel and was surprised when Lytton Staines, Earl of Thornton turns up on her door... his sister is suffering from some sort of wasting disease and he's exhausted regular medics. She comes recommended by servants. When they meet the impression is ruined by the pet dog who rips his waistcoat and spills tea on him.
The two of them are an interesting couple and it was a fun read. There were bits that stretched credulity but overall it was a good read.

Lady Violet Addington officially mourned her husband, unofficially she was quite glad he was gone as he was abusive to her and his sister and her sons. His death may have been ruled as an accident but it was more his chickens coming home to roost. Now she's back into society but there's danger all around. One of her husband's secrets is putting her in jeopardy and someone will do anything to find out what he did with some gold. 
When she picks up a stranger one night who turns out to be a french intelligence agent, the Compte de Beaumont, not that she knows who the unconscious man is, his wounds needed tending.
Lots of trying to find who the villain is and complicated politics and the complications of the pair of them falling in love. She believes that she can't have children so there is some (eventually resolved) angst there about that. There is also some angst and trouble but at the end it's all resolved. The relationship starts with lust and ends with romance and the two of them seem good with each other. I liked it.

Viscount Bromley is believed dead, until he turns up, scarred and battered and with no memory of some events, including falling in love with Lady Eleanor.  There's also a child from this relationship that is supposedly from a Scottish lord Eleanor married (fake scottish lord she never married but it a good camoflague).  She wants the relationship again but she wants it to be real.  Meanwhile people keep trying to kill him, his former life in England left him with a few enemies, not least of which was his uncle who has assumed his title and fortune.

This one wraps up the stories of the four owners of Vitium et Virtus and how their lives have moved on, I'm backtracking to A Pregnant Courtesan for the Rake to finish out the quartet.

Kidnapping and cross-dressing and secret artist and complicated lives, oh my. 

Plus bonus characters with illnesses who discover people who care for them.

The Once upon idea kinda falls flat but the stories aren't bad.

The first story "On a Winter's Eve" by Louise Allen is a story of a showbound Christmas with an escaped turkey. Features a clever woman who made money despite her spendthrift husband, and pretending to be poor to try to avoid a marriage for her cash not her self, which almost backfires.

Marriage Made at Christmas by Sophia James is all about a mistaken identity and assumption, with a side order of tortured childhood past.  Could possibly have been better as a full book, well spiced with crazy though.

Cinderella's Perfect Christmas by Annie Burrows, not sure if he was poor or beset upon.  Man intrudes on Cinderella/ Alice Waverly who is enjoying time off from dealing with her demanding family to have a well-earned rest with two of the servants when Captain Jack Grayling hammers on the door with two children.  There felt like a lot of things were unresolved by the end.