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A Regency Christmas Eve

Five Stories

Barbara Metzger

345 pages

A festive and heartwarming collection of Regency romances that captures the cozy magic of unexpected love on Christmas Eve.

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This festive anthology reads at a brisk, engaging pace, sweeping the reader through a series of cozy, heartwarming Regency vignettes. The mood is distinctly joyous and hopeful, steeped in the traditional charm of the holiday season, complete with mistletoe, snowy carriage rides, and crackling hearths. The tone balances gentle humor with earnest romance, exploring themes of charity, unexpected miracles, and the healing power of love. The prose is light and inviting, focusing on the intricate social customs and tender emotional shifts of the era. It is a perfect match for readers who delight in historical romance and crave the comforting, uplifting feeling of a holiday happily-ever-after, where initial enmity and quiet desperation always yield to warmth and goodwill.

Mood: festive
cozy
hopeful
heartwarming
Tone: warm
humorous
earnest
joyous
Pace: brisk
Themes: holiday romance · charity and goodwill · unexpected love · healing family rifts · miracles and hope
The writing: Light, inviting, and traditionally romantic, focusing on the festive charm and social customs of the Regency era.
The arc: Moves from unexpected encounters and quiet desperation to joyous, heartwarming resolutions under the mistletoe.
Who it's for: Readers who love cozy, historical holiday romances filled with mistletoe, snowy rescues, and heartwarming happily-ever-afters.

Content notes

carriage accidents
child illness
grief

About the book

Celebrate the most joyous of seasons with these original stories of holiday romance from five of today's most beloved award-winning Regency authors. Each tale is set on Christmas Eve, capturing the season's true spirit of charity and goodwill, proving time and again why love is the greatest gift of all. This special collection is a perfect present for friends and lovers who find themselves looking forward to the holiday with delicious anticipation, wondering what awaits them under the tree--and under the mistletoe....

Little Miracles – Barbara Metzger Two rodents try to save a church by sharing a secret only they remember, while bringing love and happiness to the vicar and the local lord.

Marriage Stakes - Allison Lane Miss Sophie Landess is returning home with her widowed and very pregnant sister when they have a carriage accident and are saved by the Earl of Westlake. Soon, Sophie finds herself helping him finding the right bride after they are invited to stay at his home during the holiday season.

The Gift of the Spoons – Nancy Butler A man, desperate to save his son, goes in search of a healer he has heard about, but finds her daughter instead. The enmity between the two is immediate, but she eventually agrees to go and see his son leading to healing the rift between father and son and the developing of warmer feelings between the two.-

The Reckless Miss Ripley – Diane Farr A hero finds himself helping Miss Claudia Ripley reach Bath safely. A humorous and warm romance

The Christmas Thief – Edith Layton The hero, a former captain in the army, believes to hae lost all his fortune due to an embezzler and tries his best to arrange a happy Christmas for his niece, even if the means stealing a doll or pawning his hat and boots. He also frees his fiancée from their commitment due to his financial situation. but will they have a happily ever after? [Aneca-Goodreads]

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