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A Winter’s Romance: A Regency Anthology

Penny Hampson

A Winter’s Romance: A Regency Anthology is a collection of six delightful short stories by six different romance writers. All are set in the Regency period, so if you enjoy historical tales with guaranteed happy ever afters, this book will be right up your street.

The theme of this collection is winter.

Now this can conjure up happy scenes of Christmas celebrations, snow-filled landscapes, feasting and general merriment; it can also be a time of sadness.

My story, ‘A Christmas Wish’, blends a few elements of both.

Jane Mortimer is not looking forward to Christmas. She is a teacher at a school in Bath; she has no family and no finances. At the mercy of the headmistress, who wants her to keep quiet about about conditions at the school in order to secure funds, Jane is conflicted. If she is dishonest she will keep her job, but if she tells the truth she will lose her position and become homeless.

The test will come with the arrival of her favourite pupil’s new guardian, Lt Colonel Nicholas Anstruther, the man she is expected to deceive.

Nicholas has a few problems of his own. As a single man, he doesn’t want the care of a child he has never met. He’s unlikely to marry, for who wants a badly scarred soldier with just one good eye? The only life he’s known is the army.

In fact, the one person optimistic about his visit is Meg, Nicholas’ ward and Jane’s favourite pupil. How will things work out? Well, Christmas is coming and Meg believes that wishes made then will come true.

Join me and my fellow authors, GL Robinson, Audrey Harrison, Judith Hale Everett, Christina Dudley, and Jayne Davis, and banish those winter blues with these delightful Regency romance short stories!

A Winter’s Romance: A Regency Anthology will be released on 4th November. Here’s the link to order your copy:
https://mybook.to/WinterRomance