Meet the Author:
Bestselling and award-winning author Aubrey Wynne is an elementary teacher by trade, champion of children and animals by conscience, and author by night. She resides in the Midwest with her husband, dogs, horses, mule, and barn cats. Obsessions include wine, history, travel, trail riding, and all things Christmas. Her Chicago Christmas series has received the Golden Quill, Aspen Gold, Heart of Excellence, Maggie award, and thrice nominated as a Rone finalist by InD’tale Magazine.
Aubrey’s first love is medieval romance but after dipping her toe in the Regency period in 2018 with the Wicked Earls’ Club, she was smitten. This inspired her spin-off series Once Upon a Widow. In 2020, she will launch the Scottish Regency series A MacNaughton Castle Romance with Dragonblade Novels.
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About the Book:
Miss Hannah Pendleton is nursing her pride after her childhood crush falls in lovewith another. Determined to break a few hearts of her own, she hurls herself into the exciting and hectic schedule of a first season. Hannah finds the glitter and malice of London and its society both intriguing and intimidating. Always clever and direct, the smooth manners and practiced words of the gallant but meticulous bachelors do nothing to stir her soul until…
Since his wife’s suicide on their wedding night, the Earl of Darby has carefully cultivated his rakish reputation. It keeps overprotective mamas at bay and provides him with unlimited clandestine affairs. But when Nicholas sees a lovely newcomer being courted by the devil himself, her innocence and candor revive the chivalry buried deep in his soul. The ice around Nicholas’s heart cracks as he desperately tries to save Hannah and right a hideous wrong committed so long ago.
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My Thoughts:
Miss Hannah Pendleton is nursing her pride after her childhood crush falls in love with another. Determined to break a few hearts of her own, she hurls herself into the exciting and hectic schedule of a first season.
Since his wife’s suicide on their wedding night, Nicholas has carefully cultivated his rakish reputation. It keeps overprotective mamas at bay and provides him with unlimited clandestine affairs.
After his encounter with Hannah the ice around Nicholas’s heart cracks as he desperately tries to save Hannah and right a hideous wrong committed so long ago.
Starting a Christmas tale with a suicide may seem an awful beginning to this romance but the author truly made it work. I thought when I read this prologue, How can this tragic tale possibly end.
It progressed a little slowly but progress it did.
Nichlas has not celebrated the holiday since that tragic night when his new bride took her own life. His concentration is one of revenge on the man responsible for that tragedy.
This book is filled with tragedy, a budding new love and the mystery of who the scoundrel is that caused the tragic beginning to Nicholas’s first marriage.
This novella is one that you will not want to miss.
I received a complimentary ARC of this title from Author’s Pal and also from Hidden Gems.
This in no way affected my opinion of this novella which I read and reviewed voluntarily.
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