Miss Caroline Griffiths is absolutely miserable. She wants a Christmas like the ones she enjoyed as a child. Except she's twenty-four years old and the life she enjoyed as a child no longer exists for her. Her mother has died and her two brothers were killed in the wars against Napoleon. Her father has married a shrew who only wants to see her married to a man who smells like a pig, and her best friend is set to marry a Naval Officer in the the spring and she fears she will never see her again. Her father spends his days holed up in his office and rarely comes out because he can't even stand the woman he's married. And then one day, everything changes. She goes to her favourite reading spot on the sprawling estate of Whitney Park and sits on the bench in the Greek Temple Folly. While there, Edward Rochester, The Duke of Whitney spies her and believes that he has seen his very own Christmas Nymph. He goes out to introduce himself to her and before he knows it he's proposing to her - knowing only one thing - his Christmas will not be happy unless he's married the woman who has besotted him - Caroline, his Christmas Nymph.

Once an incurable romantic, Lady Valentina Deville is determined to forsake a love match and marry a man who is deemed sensible minded and of great enough title and fortune to satisfy her father and mother, the Duke and Duchess of Alton. Henry Russell, 6th Duke of Daventry is a rake with a great aversion to the idea of marriage. Battle hardened, the frippery and frills of the haut ton do not interest him. Urged to attend a New Year’s Ball hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Alton, he is intrigued to see the belle of the season, Lady Valentina. Her enchanting visage awakens something inside of him he longed believed to be dead. He decides to court her and make her his Valentine Princess. The only question is—can he touch the romantic that still burns within Valentina’s soul?

Colonel Gideon Elliot is a battle hardened soldier. He’s returned to England from India where he made his fortune. The son of a Vicar, his uncle was the 4th Duke of Kenilworth and now, he’s inherited his uncle’s title. He feels like a fish out of water within the ranks of the ton, and through his long friendship with the Duke of Daventry, he finds the woman of his dreams—Virginia ‘Ginny’ Larkin, Dowager Viscountess Beverley. Widowed at a young age, Ginny Larkin finds herself a pariah within the ton. Touched by scandal through her dead husband who lost everything they had because of his addiction to Hazard, she is slowly coming out of her period of mourning. Believed to be barren, the ladies within the ton have warned their sons against offering for her hand. Her future looks bleak until Gideon comes into her life. With the support of her family the irrepressible Deville Family, she puts the shadows of the past to rest and takes another chance on love.

Captain Micah Radcliff has the heart of a wanderer. A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, he was one of the best sharpshooters in the British Army. When his cousin, The Earl of Warminster becomes a victim of the dreaded Scarlet Fever, he inherits the title and all that comes with it. Returning to the place of his birth, he attempts to woo the woman he left behind five years before and never stopped loving. Miss Rose Lovett is on the mend having recently survived Scarlet Fever. When Micah comes back into her life, she doesn’t know if she can trust him to stay, as he abandoned her five years ago, right before they were to be wed. Micah is a man of few words, but for the first time in his life, he has to find the right words to win back the woman of his dreams…His Summer Rose.

A lady tempting scandal, and the man she’d risk everything for—even her reputation. Miss Iris Lovett is used to getting what she wants. After her sister Rose is married to her true love, Captain Micah Radcliff, Iris decides that she too wants her own happily ever after, the only problem? The man she desires seems oblivious to her existence. Major Lewis Abbott, Marquess of Cary, known to his mates as ‘Doc,’ has loved and lost far too much in his life. A doctor with the healing touch, he believes he is cursed when it comes to the women in his life, as he never seems to be able to save the women he loves. Iris is about to cause a scandal…a scandal that will throw them both together—for better or for worse.

A lost son…and a desperate bride…. Frederick ‘Mouse’ Merriweather, Baron Axbridge was raised in the slums of London, England. Seeking to better himself, he enlisted in the Army as a callow youth, and saw action in the Napoleonic Wars. Recruited to be a member of Colonel Elliot’s specialized group, The Angels of Death, he forged friendships with those men that would never die, and was ennobled as a reward for completing a daring rescue mission. When he fell in love with Lady Julia Lovett, he thought he finally had everything he wanted in life—until the man she’d loved so many years before walked into the church and objected to their wedding. Lady Julia Lovett’s heart belongs to Freddie. But no matter how much she tries to convince Freddie that the man she once loved, Lord Charles Tempest means nothing to her now, he won’t believe her, as he doesn’t think a gutter rat like him is good enough for a noblewoman like her. So, there’s only one thing left for Julia to do…she will risk all to prove her love to Freddie—even if it means ruining her reputation. Secrets are about to be exposed concerning Freddie’s past—and Julia and Freddie will find that as long as they are together, they can face anything.

Miss Ruby Massey only has one mission on her mind—to avoid becoming the wife of the lecherous man her mother wants her to marry. Deciding to run away, she takes the position of governess to a wealthy gentleman’s two young nieces. Traveling for days, she finally arrives in the wild county of Cornwall, exhausted, and not entirely ready for what awaits her. Phineas Charles Trevelyan Trelawney Godolphin-Harrington, 3rd Duke of Camblesforth, is a recently reformed rake. Taking his responsibilities as the guardian of his nieces seriously, he has forsaken his mistress and his wild times in London, and though his family seat is in Yorkshire, he has made his home in Cornwall, the ancestral lands of his mother’s family. When he first catches sight of Ruby, she steals his heart, and he realizes he must claim this most bewitching jewel, but Ruby doesn’t want to be claimed. Mysterious forces threaten their burgeoning love, as the ancient Cornish festival of Allantide approaches.

Lady Ann Hardwicke has been raised to always toe the mark and do her duty by her family. Never thinking that one day her father would ask her to do something she could never commit to. Faced with a marriage to a man who has an unsavoury reputation amongst the ton, she takes drastic measures to chart her own destiny. With her mother’s support, she runs to the only man who can help her avoid marriage to a man who only wants to possess her. Clarence Deville, the Earl of Evesham, has loved only one woman. Despite their age difference, his heart belongs to her. When Lady Ann comes to help begging for his protection, he almost thinks it’s too good to be true. Pledging to protect her, he plans to make her his countess. Their road to happiness seems to be assured, but the man her father wanted her to marry, Sir Wilfrid Culpepper, has other ideas. Clarence and Ann away to his Country Estate, Evesham Hall, where Clarence plans to have a Cotswold Christmas with his new bride—his Christmas Angel.

Felix ‘Tiny’ Grey, Baron Spaulding has always run away from the thought of taking a wife. Happier living a life of reckless abandon, he is that charming scoundrel that loves all of the ladies—and cannot think of loving just one woman for the rest of his life. His thoughts concerning marriage, changes the moment he sees Lady Epiphany Blessing again. She falls back into his life and makes him see that he can be more than just a rakehell. He can be the man of her dreams.

Gilbert ‘Lucky’ Jones has given up on finding love. Determined to live the life of a reckless rake he decides to leave the Country life for London. Before he can escape the Country, his world is turned upside down by a force of nature that gives him hope for the future. Miss Hope Fortescue has had one unfortunate brush with love. Cloistering herself away from Society, she isn’t looking for love—even though she has a feeling love is looking for her. Her cousin, Lady Blessing invites her to her Candlemas Ball, and that’s where the fireworks start. One look and one touch is all it takes for Gilbert to fall under Hope’s enchanting allure. Hearing that Hope has fairy blood in her makes him want to run—but Gil and Hope are about to find out that true love is the strongest magic of all.

Miss Euphemia ‘Effie’ Duffy has had enough bad luck to last her a lifetime. Believing that she is destined never to find her happily ever after…she gives up on love. Her life is turned upside down when a matchmaking mischievous leprechaun enters it and decides to endow her with some good old fashioned Irish luck. With the luck of the Irish finally on her side, love comes back into her life in the form of two English lords vying for her hand, and Effie finds that second chances actually do exist—and that with a little bit of magic, true love can mend a broken heart.