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Decorated in Christmas
2021
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4.56
Average Rating
115
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Sometimes fate doesn’t give you what you want, because something better is in the offing. Captain Elias Frampton is a man without purpose. Five months after being jilted, he’s ready for a new chapter of his life. Undecided about whether he should return to the sea or find a position in England, he embarks on a trip up the Cornwall coast, but his coach is caught in a winter storm squall, forcing him to take the last room at a posting inn of a fishing village. It’s just the place for him to gain a new perspective. Miss Helen Everly’s dreams for her life are all but forgotten. She cares for her ailing father, as well as running the Brown Hart Inn he owns, because that’s all she’s known. It’s a good life and a happy one, as long as she can find something positive in each day. Yet, it’s also a lonely life. Men in the small Cornish village keep the sea as a mistress and aren’t the marrying type. Yet, Christmastide is a time for miracles, and she’s not above sending up a prayer for hers. As Elias and Helen are thrown together by unique circumstances, and they enter into an odd friendship, they both try to ignore the sparks flying between them, due to past disappointments. But during traditional Christmastide entertainments and a few stolen kisses, they come to discover everything they’d previously believed about romance had been wrong, and that love is so much sweeter when it arrives unexpectedly.

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Sandra Sookoo
Sandra Sookoo
Author · 104 books

Sandra Sookoo is a bestselling author who firmly believes every person deserves acceptance and a happy ending. Most days you can find her creating scandal and mischief in the Regency-era, serendipity and happenstance in Victorian America or snarky humor in the contemporary world. Reading romance is a lot like eating fine chocolates—you can’t just have one. Good thing books don’t have calories! When she’s not wearing out computer keyboards, Sandra spends time with her real life Prince Charming in central Indiana where she’s been known to goof off and make moments count because the key to life is laughter. A Disney fan since the age of ten, when her soul gets bogged down and her imagination flags, a trip to Walt Disney World is in order. Nothing fuels her dreams more than the land of eternal happy endings, hope and love stories.

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