Regency Glad Tidings

Holly and Ivy- The Napoleonic Wars are over. Troops are returning home to a joyous Christmas except for Surgeon Jake Frost who must escort a hypochondriac captain barely wounded at Waterloo. Jake prepares to hate every minute of the ordeal until he meets the hypochondriac's fiancé. Yours Sincerely - Madeline and her widowed mother live in genteel poverty at the mercy of overbearing in-laws. Despite this they have managed well. Years earlier they befriended an older gentleman who has since passed away. To their surprise an American sea captain arrives summoned for a reading of the will of that quiet gentleman. Kindness triumphs in ways unimaginable except perhaps during the season of glad tidings. Picture a Christmas - To avoid the poorhouse Mary Cooper finds employment in a notions shop belonging to a grouchy old dame. Coming into her life to upend this pleasant arrangement is Luke Wainwright nephew of Mary's employer. He's a widower and shipbuilder with no time for anything except business. To Luke Mary is an interloper in his aunt's affairs until he sees someone else: a person as determined as he is to improve the hand dealt them. Together perhaps?