Under the Mistletoe
In this beautifully written Christmas gift to her readers” (Booklist) New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh draws on the warmth of the holiday season to heal the wounds of the human heart in five cherished novellas of family, friends, lovers, and strangers.... In A Family Christmas,...
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In this beautifully written Christmas gift to her readers” (Booklist) New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh draws on the warmth of the holiday season to heal the wounds of the human heart in five cherished novellas of family, friends, lovers, and strangers.... In A Family Christmas, an estranged husband and wife make an unexpected connectionand an illuminating discoveryduring the holiday season. The Star of Bethlehem is a lost diamond ring causing a riff in an already troubled marriage until a servant solves not one mystery but three surrounding its disappearance. The Best Gift can come at the most unexpected moments, especially for a lonesome teacher enlisted over the holidays to chaperone the niece of a notorious rake. Playing House finds an impoverished young woman longing to celebrate just one last, joyous Christmas before she and her orphaned siblings are separated forever. And in No Room at the Inn, a winter storm on Christmas Eve brings a young couple in from the cold, desperately in need of warmth and shelter for their unborn child.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451223456 (0451223454)
Publish date: October 30th 2007
Publisher: Signet
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
This collection is comprised of 5 Christmas novellas. Like everything by this author, each novella is a historical romance, set in England in the 19th century. A Family Christmas, 2003 Elizabeth, a young aristocratic woman, is painfully shy. She had grown up under the influence of her arrogant, do...
We are at the end of June soon to celebrate 4th of July holiday so to be reading Christmas stories is a bit early in the year but the truth is reading about the magic that touches the characters each novella introduces inspires as it touches the heart at each happy ending.That magic is what reading ...