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 The Christmas Bride - A "Chance Sisters" novellaA sweet, Regency-era story of forgiveness, redemption - and love.A chance meeting on a dark highway, a wounded heroine, a hero-in-waiting and Christmas . . .When Blake Ashton reluctantly returns to England for a business meeting-his first visit in ten years-he learns his partners are getting ready for a big family Christmas in the country. Ash wants none of that. He has just one plan in mind-to show his face, then immediately return to his free and easy life in the Far East.Making his way to Devon on a freezing dark night, he''s accosted on the road by a footpad. Shots are exchanged and to Ash''s horror he discovers he''s accidentally wounded a girl. Ash can''t leave her bleeding in the road, so he stays and tends her.Charlotte Underwood, in hiding from an unscrupulous guardian, is battling to support herself and her little brother. Wounded, and helpless in the hands of this handsome stranger, Charley soon realizes her heart is in danger from him too. Swept into a family Christmas with Max and Abby Davenham, and Abby''s ''sisters of the heart''-not to mention their imperious aunt, Lady Beatrice-Charley finds the friendship and support her lonely heart craves. And as his feelings for Charley grow, Ash is forced to face up to his own past, and the reason he left England in the first place.

A hot-headed vow to marry the first woman he sees, a meeting in a muddy bog, a hasty marriage between strangers, and a bride who demands to be courted - after the wedding.In order to take his place as laird before his trustee uncle bankrupts the clan buying fripperies, Cameron Fraser vows to marry the first woman he meets - and he always keeps his vows. So even though the first woman he meets seems totally unsuitable, he marries her anyway. In the gamble of her life, shepherdess Jeannie McLeay agrees to marry this grim-faced, handsome stranger. She comes to her marriage with nothing but dreams and a heart full of hope. But there's more to Jeannie than meets the eye, and Cameron soon learns that the young woman he married so impulsively is no pushover. Confident as he might be about women, Cameron still has a lot to learn. With a marriage made for purely financial reasons, can these two very different strangers ever find love? NOTE: The first third of this story was published as a short story in the Mammoth Book of Scottish Romance (now out of print). It's now three times as long, and, I hope, a lot more satisfying.