The Lady of Wintercombe Lodge

Eleanor Vane has spent eleven Christmases being useful in other people's houses. Inheriting Wintercombe Lodge promises something wonderfully different: a home of her own, a quiet fireside, and no one else's stockings to mend.

Then she arrives to find Daniel Ashworth in the kitchen, two children in command, and a goose already stuffed. The man she once loved has leased her house through Twelfth Night. A snowbound road ensures that neither of them is going anywhere.

Eleanor intends to be civil. Daniel intends to give his widowed sister's family a Christmas worth remembering. Neither intention accounts for sledging disasters, an ambitious children's play, determined matchmaking, or a kissing bough placed exactly where it should not be.

But beneath the laughter lies the question neither dared ask eleven years ago. As her godmother's journals begin to yield their secrets, Eleanor must decide whether the past has told her the whole truth-and whether a second chance can become a home.

A standalone Regency romance in Legacies of Fortune and Love, full of Christmas warmth, family mischief, and a long-delayed courtship.