This year for Christmas you are... Marrying a stranger.​ ​ ​Miss Georgiana Hartley is beautiful and bold, but what everyone mistakes for confidence is really a mask hiding a deep-seated loneliness, one only daring adventures can temporarily alleviate. When her recklessness lands her in scandal and a forced marriage, she’s determined to view it as a chance for a fresh start and a sense of belonging. That is, until she realizes the threat of rejection from the husband she’s falling in love with is an even lonelier fate. ​ ​Mr. Fitzwilliam Jennings knows he’s a little different, but he has his Italian translations and is content with his solitary life. Until a bare-breasted beauty disrupts the comfort of his study. When he accidentally compromises her, he has no words—literally. Fitz is awkward and anxious on a normal day, but it rises to near painful levels with his beautiful, new wife, especially when this odd, warm feeling fills his chest every time she’s around. He has no idea what that could mean—probably just indigestion. ​ It’s a marriage destined for disaster. Accidental insults are thrown. Mishaps in the bedroom abound. But in small moments of closeness, love glimmers like freshly fallen snow. The only problem? The harder Fitz strives to be the man Georgiana desires, the bigger he blunders.
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Snowbound with the Scoundrel Courtney McCaskill​ ​
First, he jilted her. Then, he humiliated her…​ ​ The Weatherby Wallflowers received their unfortunate nickname when Rupert Dupree, the second son of the Earl of Rottenbury, jilted Clarissa, then decamped for the Continent. When a gossip sheet published Rupert’s letter forcefully rejecting their proposed union, all four Weatherby sisters became laughingstocks. Clarissa hadn’t much been looking forward to marrying a stranger, but she has hated ‘Rotten Rupert’ ever since. ​ ​But you can’t keep a Weatherby Wallflower down…​ ​ Now the consummate wallflower, Clarissa finds her true purpose: gathering information for the Home Office. It’s the one advantage of blending into the wallpaper—nobody even notices that Clarissa is in the room, much less that she is surreptitiously listening to everyone’s secrets. ​ ​Snowbound with the Scoundrel…​ ​ Clarissa’s contact at the Home Office gives her the most important assignment of her career: to infiltrate the Countess of Helmsley’s Christmas house party and protect a prominent Member of Parliament who has been subject to repeated assassination attempts. Nothing will stop Clarissa from reaching this house party, not even the snowstorm gathering over the Yorkshire moors. She manages to book passage on the last carriage leaving York. ​ But that’s when Clarissa’s luck runs out. Because it turns out there’s one other passenger crazy enough to brave the moors in a blizzard. ​ And it happens to be Rupert Dupree…
When two disenchanted people come unexpectedly together, Christmas is suddenly brighter.​ ​ Ever since Sir Timothy Dashfield—a baronet with a few holdings—became partners in a successful counting house with his best friend who’d recently married, his life has taken on a sense of restlessness and boredom. When he’s tasked with collecting the overdue rent on a townhouse owned by a clockmaker, that last thing he expects is a pretty Irish young lady with mix of annoyance and sorrow in her eyes. ​ Miss Ashlynn Athercrombe lost her father six months before. Since the clock repair shop closed, there is no money coming to pay bills. To make matters worse, Christmastide is upon London, and she doesn’t feel like celebrating. When a man from the counting house comes to collect the unpaid rents, something inside her snaps and she rounds on the unfortunate, handsome man in a spectacular display of hysterics. ​ Perhaps it was the maudlin mood or perhaps it was the unwillingness to spend the holiday alone, but when Timothy temporarily loses his mind and asks Miss Athercrombe to marry him and she accepts, they embark on a very different future than they both had planned. Immediately, the differences between them create misunderstandings and obstacles, but by working together and remembering a bit of mistletoe magic, they might just find everything they have been too fearful to seek out themselves... ​ ​...and if they can’t find common ground, they’ll surely spend Christmas in hell.
Quint, the Duke of Sedgewick, is a recluse by choice. Ever since the fire that claimed his wife’s life and left much of his body brutally scarred, he has retreated from polite society. He’s content to keep to his country estate with no one for company, save a handful of servants, everyone else be damned. But when a new housekeeper arrives at Blackwell Abbey before Christmas, his self-imposed solitude is disrupted by a raven-haired menace who turns his world upside down with holly boughs, fir trees, and sinful temptation. ​ Joceline Yorke has spent the last few years of her life in service, sending her earnings home to her mother and siblings. When she accepts an unusually high-paying position as a housekeeper, she finds herself journeying north to a duke who dismisses her upon sight. But Sedgewick is no match for her sunny determination to earn the veritable fortune she stands to collect if she can convince him to keep her on as his housekeeper. She begins a campaign to melt his ice with Yuletide decorations, bright smiles, and Christmas cheer. ​ To his dismay, Quint finds himself increasingly drawn to the spirited Joceline, despite the guilt and bitterness that are never far. And the more time she spends in the surly duke’s maddening presence, the more Joceline realizes there’s tenderness hiding beneath his stern facade. But a duke doesn’t marry his housekeeper, and when Sedgewick’s mother arrives with a prospective bride in tow, the impossibility of their situation has never been clearer…unless they follow their hearts on Christmas Eve. ​ ​Heat level: Scorching hot! Don't say you weren't warned
'Tis the season to surrender to second chances…​ ​ Widowed after years of dutifully submitting to the will of others, Lady Catherine is quite satisfied to finally be in charge of her own affairs—and any man who dares to join her in the bedroom. ​ When a chance visit with friends brings Catherine face-to-face with the man whose courtship swept her off her feet as a young debutante, she can’t resist his wicked proposal to put himself at her mercy for the holidays. Having powerful, handsome Samuel North at her feet is too tempting an offer to refuse. ​ With both their hearts on the line for a second time, she’s determined to put his pretty words to the test. A test he’ll have to pass with flying colors… while on his knees.
The Earl of Augustine is the last of his friends to hold out on marriage, though he knows he must give in soon. After years pining for his heart’s love, Felicity, he’s considered a less-than-ideal prospect, and his whispered reputation as a rakehell disciplinarian doesn’t help. At least he’s not having troubles like Wescott’s youngest sister, the mysteriously perceptive Lady Elizabeth, who’s suffered three broken engagements on her way to nuptial bliss. ​ Alas, such bliss is not guaranteed. August finds himself compelled to play the hero when her fourth engagement ends with spectacular cruelty before all their family and friends. Their hasty marriage of convenience solves problems for Elizabeth and August, yes, but creates problems too. For August knows he can never reveal the depth of his debauched hungers to someone so innocent and vulnerable, lest he hurt her even more than she’s already been hurt…
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