The Christmas Stranger: A Regency Novella

by Anna Campbell

Overview

At Christmastime, a stranger crossing the threshold means good fortune…

When Josiah Hale, society’s favorite aristocratic architect, stumbles upon an isolated manor house in the middle of a snowstorm, he feels like he’s entered a fairytale world. And Sleeping Beauty in this secret corner of Yorkshire is lovely, vulnerable Maggie Carr, surely a princess disguised as a humble housekeeper. Is Josiah her prince – or the man who will break her heart and leave her life in ruins?

But is the stranger’s arrival lucky for the girl Christmas forgot?

Maggie Carr has worked as a housekeeper at isolated Thorncroft Hall since her beloved mother died five years ago. No matter how often she tells herself she’s accustomed to being poor and alone, Christmas always stirs poignant memories of a time when she had a place in the world and a family to love. But this Christmas, a handsome stranger bursts into her solitary world and makes her feel like a desirable woman. Maggie has already lost so much to cruel fate. Now as the season advances and she finds herself in thrall to the man who challenges her loneliness and turns winter nights to sultry summer, what price will this irresistible passion demand of her?

Will the Yuletide enchantment vanish with the season’s decorations? Or have Maggie and her Christmas stranger discovered a magic to sustain them through a lifetime of happiness?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940154587249
Publisher:	Anna Campbell
Publication date:	11/23/2017
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	1,002,756
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Anna Campbell has written 10 multi award-winning historical romances for Grand Central Publishing and Avon HarperCollins and 22 bestselling independently published books. Anna has won numerous awards for her Regency-set stories including Romantic Times Reviewers Choice, the Booksellers Best, the Golden Quill (three times), the Heart of Excellence (twice), the Write Touch, the Aspen Gold (twice) and the Australian Romance Readers Association’s favorite historical romance (five times). Her books have three times been nominated for Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA Award and three times for Australia’s Romantic Book of the Year. Now that Anna has finished the “Dashing Widows” series, which started in 2015 with The Seduction of Lord Stone, she's working on The Lairds Most Likely, a series set in the beautiful Scottish Highlands. The series launched with The Laird's Willful Lass in August 2018, continued with The Laird's Christmas Kiss, and now you can buy The Highlander's Lost Lady (early May 2019). Look for The Highlander's English Bride in late 2019. Anna lives on the beautiful east coast of Australia where she writes full-time.