A Kiss at Christmastide — Aileen Fish

Three Regency Christmas novellas are now available in one set and in print! The sweet stories will warm your heart for the season and year-round. Can Jonah win Piper's heart and her brother's approval before another man wins her hand? If Batt survives whatever campaigns lay ahead in the War between the States, will Poppy be there to welcome him home? Now that Barbara's discovered the truth about Theo, will she ever find true love with a man who loves her in return? Piper's ProposalPiper has ten suitors vying for her hand…or rather, her inheritance.  Posies, invitations, and yes, proposals arrive on her doorstep daily, but none of the men can sweep her heart into the grand, passionate love she requires. Enter Jonah, Earl of Stockbury, infamous for his enormous gambling losses but possessed of an even bigger heart. He's bound by honor not to fall in love with his best friend's sister, a vow he secretly broke years ago. Yet when he expresses his feelings to Piper she laughs him off believing his words to be just another teasing prank. Can he win Piper's heart and her brother's approval before another man wins her hand? A Christmas Promise Can a single kiss change the course of her heart?Caught in the path of an impending battle between approaching Confederate and Union troops, strong-willed Poppy Greenleaf clashes with handsome Lieutenant Lupient over keeping her family safe. A simple experimental kiss distracts her from what she needs to do.When her brother joins up with the northern troops fighting to keep Missouri in the Union, Poppy's left with the responsibility of keeping her family safe. Discovering a band of rebels camping nearby, she must get word to her brother and Lieutenant Lupient.One kiss is not enoughBatt Lupient is torn between defending his nation and protecting Poppy from her foolish notions of invulnerability. Her stubbornness is bound to get her in trouble, and he can't be there to rescue her when he's in battle hundreds of miles away. If he survives whatever campaigns lay ahead, will she be there to welcome him home? No MIstletoe Required Still reeling from her major disappointment of the past Season in London, Lady Barbara Graves panics when she receives her summons to spend Christmas with her notorious matchmaking great-uncle The Duke of Danby. She'd expected Lord Aaron Harlow to propose to her before the end of the season, but he went off to India without a word. Having asked her brother to write Lord Aaron, she's certain he'll arrive in time to save her from marrying whatever dupe her uncle has chosen for her.  Theo Jardine is an investing genius whom Danby admires, although he's the youngest grandson of an earl and never likely to inherit. He accepts the duke's invitation to visit Danby Castle but plans to spend the holidays with his own family. When he realizes there's matchmaking going on—and he's a target—he tries to leave, but Danby dangles a carrot in front of him: an offer to front the entire scheme.  Theo isn't Aaron, but Barbara's attraction grows the more time she spends with him at the castle. Then she discovers her uncle is bribing Theo to marry her. Will she ever find true love with a man who loves her in return?