Kisses and Christmas Bells

Mistletoe and the MajorThe Major is home from the wars at last... Edmund Sherritt Major Lord Canforth has devoted eight tumultuous years to fighting Napoleon. Finally Europe is at peace and he can retire to his estates and the lovely wife he hasnt seen since their brief unhappy honeymoon. The innocent girl he loved from the first moment he saw her but who shied away from him on their wedding night. The beautiful woman who greets him at Otway Hall on Christmas Eve is no longer the sweet ingénue he remembers. This new and exciting version of his beloved countess is strong outspoken and independent and shes willing to stand up for what she wants. The question is--does she want the husband who returns to her arms more as a stranger than a spouse? Now the real battle begins. Felicity Lady Canforth has had eight long years to regret that she sent her husband from a cold marriage bed to face brutal combat danger and hardship. The only child of elderly parents Felicity came to marriage innocent and ignorant and unable to conceal her shock at the sensual power of the earls caresses. Before she found the nerve to offer Canforth a more generous welcome he was called away to war. The Major left behind a countess who was a bride not a wife; a woman unsure of her husbands feelings and too timid to confess how fervently she desires the man she wed. Fate has granted an older wiser Felicity a second chance to win her husbands heart. Now nothing will stop her from claiming victory over the famous war hero. This Christmas shell deploy every ounce of courage purpose and passion to seize the life and love shes longed for ever since Canforth left to serve his country. Whatever it costs whatever it takes shell lure the dashing Major back into her bed where she means to show him hes the only man she wants as her lover--and her love. After years of yearning and separation will a Christmas miracle heal the wounds of the past and offer the earl and his bride a future bright with love?A Match Made in MistletoeA mistletoe wish... All her life Serena Talbot has been in love with the handsome boy next door Sir Paul Garside. She always eagerly looks forward to Pauls visit to her family over the Festive Season even if he usually brings along his dark sardonic friend Lord Hallam. This year Serena is determined that Pauls kiss under the mistletoe will lead to a proposal. Even if she has to enlist every ounce of Christmas magic she can get her hands on to make that happen. But the mistletoe gets it wrong! When Serena slips a sprig of mistletoe from the village kissing bough under her pillow its not Paul who turns up in her dreams as the man shes going to marry but brooding intense annoying Giles Farraday Marquess of Hallam. Still more annoying once everyone arrives for the annual Christmas house party she cant stop watching Giles and thinking about Giles. And kissing Giles whether theres mistletoe about or not. Now Paul wants to marry her and Giles wants to seduce her-and Serena has a bone to pick with the old wives who came up with all this superstitious nonsense in the first place.