Regency Christmas Wishes by Carla Kelly, Christine Merrill, Janice Preston

Regency Christmas Wishes (Harlequin Historical, #479)

by Carla Kelly, Christine Merrill, and Janice Preston

Three Regency tales of festive wishes come true...

CAPTAIN GREY'S CHRISTMAS PROPOSAL by Carla Kelly

Captain Grey had been fighting malarial fever in Savannah when he met Theodora Winnings. He proposed by letter - but it's taken ten years to receive her reply. The answer was 'yes'! - but is she still free to become his Christmas bride?

HER CHRISTMAS TEMPTATION by Christine Merrill

Faith Strickland's plan to marry to save her family backfires when notorious rake James Foley sets out to break her unhappy engagement. He'll storm her twelfth night celebrations and scorch her into surrender!

AWAKENING HIS SLEEPING BEAUTY by Janice Preston

Lonely Diana Fleming knows handsome knights don't really exist. But can a festive kiss from the man she loves reawaken her frozen heart?

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3 of 5 stars

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mixed stories Well as snow falls in Ireland Christmas stories are somewhat apt.
 
The first story is one of a Naval Captain who remembers a woman who nursed him when he fell ill. 10 years later he gets the letter he was waiting for, much of it water damaged, but the gist of the letter is that she says yes.  So he goes to find her and finds that things are more complicated than they seem.  There's a fair bit of miraclous happenings and literal deus ex going on in this but it's not a bad story overall
 
Her Christmas Temptation by Christine Merrill is an entertaining story of a rake who goes to break an engagement for his beloved cousin and finds that maybe his motives aren't so clear.  I really enjoyed this one.
 
Awakening his Sleeping Beauty by Janice Preston the Sleeping Beauty metaphor is stretched a little here but the story is good, an opressed heroine finding love and respect is always good.
 
Overall not bad and quite seasonally based, the last two are set during the 12 days of Christmas.

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