Vane Imaginings by Barbara Satow
Blush sensuality level: This is a sweet romance (kisses only, no sexual content).
Juliet Robertson isn’t looking forward to her Christmas. In anticipation of accepting the offer of a local solicitor, she’s written her friend Lord Vane to tell him their clandestine correspondence must cease. To her combined delight and dismay, her news brings the handsome marquess to her father’s isolated farmhouse in Northumberland.
Vane even rides through a horrible snowstorm to reach her. Juliet’s letters gave no clue she was considering matrimony to another and Vane fears he’s waited too long to make his feelings known to her.
Stranded on the farm with Juliet’s voluminous family, her hostile mother and her near fiancé, the polite and kindhearted Vane must find some way to convince Juliet they share a love that can overcome all obstacles.
Dinners with Mr. Danville by Kate Dolan
Blush sensuality level: This is a sweet romance (kisses only, no sexual content).
Book 4 in the Love and Lunacy series.
Love
is the delusion of fools. Helen has watched the illogical emotion turn
her sister into a mindless mooncalf who ruins Christmas every year by
descending on the household with her husband and an ever-growing
menagerie of disruptive children. So when her sister has the nerve to
suggest that Helen is in love with her neighbor, Mr. Danville, Helen
sets out to prove her wrong. But Helen isn’t prepared for the truth—and,
as it turns out, neither is Mr. Danville.
Wagered Kiss by Hetty St. James
Blush sensuality level: This is a sweet romance (kisses only, no sexual content).
Simon, the Earl of Westbridge attends a party, never expecting to meet his destiny. A wager in a semi-darkened room produces the kiss that almost drives him crazy. The room is too dark for Simon to ascertain the identity of the woman he kisses. Fredericka, sister of the party host, wasn’t wearing her spectacles so she couldn’t recognize the young man in question.
The two of them think about that kiss an awful lot, all the while wishing they could find out the identity of the other party. Simon goes off to inspect his country estate, while Freddy afraid of being forced into a marriage with a man she doesn’t know, flees her home.
But a matchmaker is on the prowl. She must convince Simon and Freddy that they are meant to be.
Mistletoe Moment by Blair Bancroft
Blush sensuality level: This is a sweet romance (kisses only, no sexual content).
After Pamela Ashburton’s dreams of a London Season meet with disaster at her very first ball, and her humiliation exaggerated by the unfeeling attitude of her mother and sister, Pamela goes to live with an aunt in Worcestershire. Four years later, she is well on her way to spinsterhood.
Will Forsythe, a veteran of the Peninsular War, retreats to Worcestershire in the hope a quiet, solitary life will heal more than his physical wounds. But it’s the Christmas season, and he finds himself faced with a damsel distressingly in need of help to gather mistletoe for her aunt’s Twelfth Night Ball. As an officer and a gentlemen, he has only one option.
If Wishes Were Kisses by Barbara Miller
Lieutenant Colin Barclay thinks he has no future—until his brother George dragoons him into offering for Elizabeth Mortimer, so George can marry her younger sister. But Elizabeth sees no need to marry and plans to remain on her father’s estate to run the stud farm. As Colin attempts to woo her, he discovers how courageous and competent she is, just as his devotion makes Elizabeth question what she thought she’d always wanted.
The fourth Kiss by Sandra Heath
Blush sensuality level: This is a sweet romance (kisses only, no sexual content).
Cruelly deceived in love, Sir Philip Levington quits London just before Christmas for his new property, Fairhill Park, near Lyme Regis in Dorset. He arrives unannounced—and the last thing he expects to find is a new love.
Madeleine Charlton, daughter of the impoverished previous owner, is trespassing to pick seasonal greenery. She flees after Philip joins her in an imaginary waltz, but the attraction between them is undeniable. He finds her again, a warm friendship ensues and they share a kiss beneath the mistletoe. Then his spiteful former love arrives, determined to win him again.
Madeleine and Philip’s happiness rests on the power of a Christmas kiss.
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