‘Holly and Ivy’- The Napoleonic Wars are over. Troops are returning home to a joyous Christmas, except for Surgeon Jake Frost, who must escort a hypochondriac captain, barely wounded at Waterloo. Jake prepares to hate every minute of the ordeal, until he meets the hypochondriac’s fiancé.
‘Yours Sincerely’ – Madeline and her widowed mother live in genteel poverty, at the mercy of overbearing in-laws. Despite this, they have managed well. Years earlier, they befriended an older gentleman who has since passed away. To their surprise, an American sea captain arrives, summoned for a reading of the will of that quiet gentleman. Kindness triumphs in ways unimaginable, except, perhaps, during the season of glad tidings.
‘Picture a Christmas’ – To avoid the poorhouse, Mary Cooper finds employment in a notions shop belonging to a grouchy old dame. Coming into her life to upend this pleasant arrangement is Luke Wainwright, nephew of Mary’s employer. He’s a widower and shipbuilder with no time for anything except business. To Luke, Mary is an interloper in his aunt’s affairs, until he sees someone else: a person as determined as he is to improve the hand dealt them. Together, perhaps?
A propos de l’auteur
USA Today best-selling author Carla Kelly is the author of forty-six novels and three non-fiction works, and numerous short stories. She is the recipient of two RITA Awards from Romance Writers of America for Best Regency of the Year; two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America; three Whitney Awards from Storymakers; and a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times. Carla’s interest in historical fiction is a byproduct of her scholar’s study of history. Her variety of jobs include medical public relations work, feature writer and columnist for a North Dakota daily newspaper, and ranger in the National Park Service at Fort Laramie National Historic Site and Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site. She has done contract research for the North Dakota Historical Society. Interest in the Napoleonic Wars led to novels about the Royal Navy Channel Fleet, as well as the British Army in Spain. Carla has also written novels set in Wyoming in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has also written about World War II on the home front. Her books have been translated into numerous languages.
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