A Christmas Bride - Mary Balogh

• Author: Mary Balogh
• Publisher: Signet Regency Romance
• Year: November 1997 (ISBN 0-451-19144-7)
• Setting: Regency England
• Amazon Listing: A Christmas Bride

Book Description

The wrong Lady

At six-and-thirty, the very wealthy Edgar Downes had finally decided to take a bride. Although not to the manner born, Edgar had promised his aging father that he would wed a titled lady by Christmas. Edgar came to London to review a parade of eligible misses, all of them pretty, proper, and young enough to bear him a son. But it was the widow Lady Helena Stapleton, in a shocking red dress, who captured his undivided attention. He simply could not take his eyes from her. And as for Helena, she too felt a most disturbing frisson when she saw this seductive stranger.

An irresistible passion was soon sweeping them into a scandalous liaison. Marriage, of course, would never do. Helena was too old and altogether the wrong lady to marry; Helena thought Edgar simply not in her class. But in a season of unexpected miracles, something wondrous was about to happen...something that would change their minds and transform their hearts forever...

Awards

• TRR 5 Heart Keeper
• 1998 AAR Annual Reader Poll - Favorite Regency Romance

Related Titles

• Edgar Downes is the sister of The Famous Heroine
• Lady Helen Stapleton is the stepmother of the hero of A Precious Jewel

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