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Season's Regency Greetings - by Carla Kelly (Paperback)

Season's Regency Greetings - by  Carla Kelly (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Two Christmas novellas set in England in the early 19th century. Cecilia Ambrose accompanies a young student to her grand estate, where she meets a bachelor dedicated to helping the poor. Can Cecilia help him? The former "Lady" Mary finds herself an uninvited guest in the home of a common businessman and soon learns that happiness does not require a title. First published in 2003 and 2002.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"Let Nothing You Dismay" In 1810 England, Cecilia Ambrose is an oddity at the Bath academy for young ladies where she teaches. Although gently raised, she is half-Egyptian, and at age twenty-eight believes she will never marry. With Christmas only days away, Cecilia has agreed to escort twelve-year-old Lucinda back to Chase Hall in York. The girl's parents have been delayed, and in their place is Lucinda's uncle, Lord Trevor Chase, who has been charged to chaperone Lucinda and her siblings. The bachelor black sheep of the family, Trevor scandalized his own class by becoming a barrister in London and championing the poor. Cecilia's plan to return to Bath is thwarted when fire breaks out in the mansion, and she reluctantly agrees to stay a while longer. Will her delay prove to be Trevor Chase's salvation? First published in 2003. "No Room at the Inn" With Christmas, 1815, around the corner, Lady Mary is told that she is not the daughter of an earl, but simply Mary McIntyre, the base-born orphan Lord and Lady Davy reared as their own. After her true parentage is revealed, Mary must leave Coventry for Yorkshire and the farm of her new-found grandmother. Her travel companions are the snobbish son of Lord Davy's estate steward, Thomas Shepard, and his family. Heavy snowfall soon blocks the roads, and there is no room at the inn, so the little group is forced to seek shelter in the home of Joseph Shepard, Thomas' estranged brother, a handsome man Mary remembers fondly from childhood. In this "vulgar" mansion belonging to a common businessman, Mary will discover that happiness has little to do with titles or income, and that Christmas works its own magic. First published in 2002.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Kelly has the rare ability to create realistic yet sympathetic characters that linger in the mind. <BR>One of the most respected Regency writers." <BR>--Library Journal<br>

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