A Christmas Bride/Christmas Beau

A Christmas Bride/Christmas Beau
Author: Mary Balogh
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 044024546X

In a pair of classic Regency-era Christmas romance novels from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh, the holidays herald the greatest gift of all: unexpected, all-consuming love. A CHRISTMAS BRIDE The very wealthy Edgar Downes has promised his aging father to finally take a bride—specifically, to wed a titled lady by Christmas. London is full of pretty, proper, and eligible misses, but it’s the widow Helena, Lady Stapleton, in a shocking red dress, who captures Edgar’s attention. Helena is intrigued by the seductive stranger—but he’s simply not in her class. Marriage, of course, would never do. But in a season of miracles, something wondrous is about to happen. CHRISTMAS BEAU Not even the warm, forgiving Christmas spirit can stop the Marquess of Denbigh from settling his score with Judith Easton: The beautiful young widow injured Denbigh’s pride years ago by jilting him for another man. Now that Judith is free from a nightmare marriage, the handsome marquess has her in his sights—and wants her in his arms. But to trust the tender words on his lips, Judith must not only see past the hardness of his heart, but learn once again to trust her own heart’s desire.

Christmas Beau

Christmas Beau
Author: Mary Balogh
Publisher: New Amer Library
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1991
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780451171023

A widow fends off the advances of an old lover whose only motivation seems to be revenge

A Christmas Beau

A Christmas Beau
Author: Delia Latham
Publisher: Pelican Ventures Book Group
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1522300627

Katie Knowles's life is going as planned. Even her long-time crush on Cameron Hilliard has fallen into place. Katie knows Cameron cares for her. Deeply. But something keeps him from committing completely. Cam Hilliard is thirty-two years old before he finds himself wading the murky waters of true love. At twenty-four, Katie's so young. So pure. So innocent. Although he's found Christ and is at peace with his past, Cam can claim none of those things. Is it fair to ask such a special woman to tie her future to his? Then Katie comes face-to-face with a ghost from a part of Cam's past, and he is forced to acknowledge the very real possibility of losing her. Suddenly their differences no longer matter. He has to find a way to set the situation right, accept the consequence of his most shameful secret, and win back Katie's trust and love. But when the clock strikes midnight on Christmas day, it'll be too late. Is their faith and love strong enough to bring them a real-life Christmas miracle?

Sarah's Christmas Miracle

Sarah's Christmas Miracle
Author: Mary Ellis
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2010-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0736938214

From the bestselling author of A Widow’s Hope and Never Far from Home comes a brand-new Amish novella that will add joy to the Christmas season. Sarah Beachy has plenty to be joyous about as autumn leaves start to fall. She loves her job at the English bed-and-breakfast where she cooks and refreshes rooms between guests. She has a serious beau, and everyone expects an engagement soon. Why, then, would she jeopardize everything by suddenly deciding to take a trip to Cleveland to track down a brother who left the Order years ago? Her family’s faith in God is put to the test as the holiest night of the year approaches and Sarah remains far away. Sarah’s mother, Elizabeth, has been missing her son for such a long time...will she lose her daughter to the English world as well? Or will the Beachy family receive an unexpected Christmas miracle?

A Very Special Christmas

A Very Special Christmas
Author: Mary Balogh
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1984802178

Revisit the magic of New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh's classic Christmas stories--together for the first time in one volume. In A Christmas Bride, a very wealthy Edgar Downes promises his aging father that he will finally wed a suitable bride by Christmas. London is full of pretty, proper, and eligible misses, but it's the widow Helena, Lady Stapleton, in a shocking red dress, who captures Edgar's attention. Helena is intrigued by the seductive stranger--but he's simply not in her class. Marriage, of course, would never do. But in a season of miracles, something wondrous is about to happen.... Enjoy the warmth of the holiday season with this Christmas tale along with five other cherished holiday stories from Mary Balogh's Under the Mistletoe collection.

A Christmas Bride

A Christmas Bride
Author: Mary Balogh
Publisher: Signet Book
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Christmas stories
ISBN: 9780451191441

A wealthy man makes a promise to his aging father that he will wed a titled and proper young lady by Christmas, but it is a beautiful widow who ends up capturing his undivided attention. Caught up in an irresistible passion and scandalous liaison, the two believe they are destined to remain apart. This is the season, however, when miracles do occur.

Naptime with Theo and Beau

Naptime with Theo and Beau
Author: Jessica Shyba
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 17
Release: 2016-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250075017

The only thing better than naptime is naptime with a friend. Theo the puppy (part-Boxer, part-Shepherd, part-Labrador, part-Sharpei) was rescued by Beau, a twenty-three-month-old toddler, and his family from an animal shelter in Santa Cruz. The two of them instantly became best friends. And every day at naptime, Theo waits for Beau to fall asleep, then curls up next to him. Theo and Beau were already a viral sensation thanks to the "unbearably adorable," "utterly charming" photos that author (Beau's mother) Jessica Shyba has been posting on her popular blogMomma's Gone City. And now, she's matched the very sweetest of them to a charming bedtime text to make a board book that is (as Alyssa Milano said of the blog) "so cute it hurts."

The Ideal Wife

The Ideal Wife
Author: Mary Balogh
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2008-06-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0440337879

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress. In this classic tale, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh introduces a hero like no other: Miles Ripley, London’s most irresistible bachelor, who’s about to lose his heart to the last person he ever expected to love—his wife. When Abigail Gardiner knocks at the door of Miles Ripley, Earl of Severn, the last thing she expects is a marriage proposal. Desperate, she’d come to this charismatic stranger’s home to plead for her future. Instead she shocks them both by saying yes. Her impulsive decision will have consequences neither she nor her new husband can foresee. For Miles has his own reasons for marrying her. And Abigail is harboring a secret of her own. As distrust gives way to desire . . . as, together, they give in to the pleasures of the marriage bed, a devastating scandal threatens their future. Now these two wary hearts will risk ruin and disgrace for a love that has changed them both forever—the kind all seek, but few ever find.

A Christmas Promise

A Christmas Promise
Author: Mary Balogh
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2010-10-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0440246342

A love that cannot be bought or sold proves to be the greatest gift of all, in this heartwarming classic that demonstrates once again why New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh is among the most celebrated authors of historical romance. Weddings are supposed to be joyous occasions—especially when a couple seems as well matched as Randolph Pierce, Earl of Falloden, and his bride-to-be, Eleanor Transome. Ellie brings to the marriage a vast dowry, while Falloden, though distant, is handsome, tremendously desirable, and possessed of a title most young ladies can only dream of sharing. Yet Ellie is not most young ladies. She knows that she must honor her dear father’s dying wish for her to wed the proud earl, but she dreads a lifetime in a union without love—and how can Falloden claim to love her when he married her only for her fortune? As Christmas descends upon the Falloden manor, the warmth of the season may yet melt away the trappings of duty and wealth, leaving behind only a man and a woman destined for each other’s arms.

Beau Geste

Beau Geste
Author: Percival Christopher Wren
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2010-02-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1445297272

The first in Percival Christorpher Wren's series, Beau Geste, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal.