The Victorian Christmas Brides Collection: 9 Women Dream of Perfect Christmases during the Victorian Era - Softcover

Chase, C.J.; Dietze, Susanne; Gerlach, Rita; Maher, Kathleen L.; Meyer, Gabrielle; Pagels, Carrie Fancett; Riley, Vanessa; Seilstad, Lorna; Vetsch, Erica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1683227190 ISBN 13: 9781683227199

Publisher: Barbour Books, 2018

Synopsis

Experience a Dickens of a Christmas
 
Faced with the daily extremes of gluttony and want in the Victorian Era, nine women seek to create the perfect Christmas celebrations. But will expectations and pride cause them to overlook imperfect men who offer true love?
 
One Golden Ring by C.J. Chase
1855 Devonshire, England
Wounded soldier Tristram Nowell returns home to indulge his mother’s wish for a family Christmas—and encounters Marianna Granville. Can he forgive the former heiress who jilted him years before?
 
Star of Wonder by Susanne Dietze
1875 County Durham, England
This Yuletide, Bennet Hett, Lord Harwood, offers Lady Celeste Sidwell matrimony and the Star of Wonder diamond necklace, as their fathers arranged. When the diamond disappears, will they find a greater treasure?

The Holly and the Ivy by Rita Gerlach
1900 near Washington, DC
A glass ornament. Love letters tied in red Christmas ribbon. Lily Morningstar and British antiquities expert Andrew Stapleton are drawn into a family secret that binds their hearts together.

Love Brick by Brick by Kathleen L. Maher
1857 Elmira, New York
SarahAnn Winnifred overcomes orphanhood apprenticing with pioneering doctors. Rufus Sedgwick, relocating his English estate, seeks help for his ailing Mum. Christmas reveals the secret wish of both hearts—for love.
 
A Christmas Vow by Gabrielle Meyer
1899  Cambrigeshire, England
Lady Ashleigh Arrington is hosting a houseful of guests for Christmas when railroad executive Christopher Campbell unexpectedly arrives from America with a mysterious agreement signed by their fathers before their birth. 

The Sugarplum Ladies by Carrie Fancett Pagels
1867 Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and Detroit, Michigan
When Canadian barrister Percy Gladstone finds his aristocratic British family unexpectedly descending upon him for Christmas, he turns to American social reformer Eugenie Mott and her fledgling catering crew for help.
 
Paper Snowflake Christmas by Vanessa Riley
1837 Framlingham, England
How can widow Ophelia Hanover give her son a perfect Christmas when his guardian, the Earl of Litton, arrives early to take permanent custody of the boy?
 
Father Christmas by Lorna Seilstad
1880 Blackpool, England
Widowed harpist Beatrix Kent believes love can only come once in a lifetime, but this Christmas, carpenter Hugh Sherman hopes to pull on the musician’s heartstrings and prove her wrong.
 
The Perfect Christmas by Erica Vetsch
1887 London, England
Melisande Verity might be in over her head trying to create the perfect Christmas window display, but if she succeeds, will she finally attract the attention of her boss, Gray Garamond?

About this title

Book Description:

Experience a Dickens of a Christmas as you celebrate with nine couples of the Victorian Era. Faced with the daily extremes of gluttony and want, nine women seek to create the perfect Christmas celebrations. But will expectations and pride cause them to overlook imperfect men who offer true love?
 

From the Author:

This collection is a dream come true for me (Carrie Fancett Pagels). When Becky Germany, our acquisition editor at Barbour Publishing, suggested a Victorian Christmas theme, I was able to ask some of my favorite authors to contribute to the collection. With some of Christian fiction's best novella authors in this collection, readers are sure to be delighted! Although the stories are listed in alphabetical order by the authors' names, feel free to read them in chronological order from the early Victorian period (Vanessa Riley) to the end of the Victorian period (Rita Gerlach). And a Happy Christmas to you all!

About this edition

• Publisher: Barbour Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1683227190
• ISBN 13: 9781683227199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448