A Very Mary Christmas: Dash of Darcy and Companions Collection, #3

By Leenie Brown

She's planning an escape. He's planning his future. But their destiny rests in the hands of schemers.

 

What is a lady to do when your mother shares with one and all that you have lost your last chance for marriage and when the one man you wish to marry sees you only as a friend? If you are Mary Bennet, you plan to escape to London and begin a new life while attempting to forget the man you left behind.

 

What is a gentleman to do when your father retires to Bath, leaving you his estate as well as his debts along with new bills and the care of a devil-may-care brother? If you are a cautious and calculating businessman like Nicholas Hammond, you double down your efforts to make your estate solvent and tuck away your hopes of marrying until the finances are well and truly able to withstand the added expenses of a wife and family.

 

And what is the sister or brother of such a gentleman or lady to do if you wish to see your sibling happy?  If you are Jane or Elizabeth Bennet, you attempt to arrange chance meetings, but if you are Alfred Hammond, you look to your conniving friend, Whit, for help and stage a scheme that will either destroy all hopes of happiness or result in a Very Mary Christmas.

 

A Very Mary Christmas is the sequel to Waking to Mr. Darcy and part of Leenie Brown's Dash of Darcy and Companions Collection of Pride and Prejudice inspired novellas. If you like romance that is helped along by the scheming of well-meaning, though sometimes inept, friends and family, then you will love this story about a manufactured Christmas miracle and the discovery that true happiness is sometimes found close to home. 

So, pour a cup of tea, grab your copy of A Very Mary Christmas, and escape into a world of sweet romantic indulgence today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leenie B Books
• Release date: Dec 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781540175427

Leenie Brown

Leenie Brown has always been a girl with an active imagination, which, while growing up, was a both an asset, providing many hours of fun as she played out stories, and a liability, when her older sister and aunt would tell her frightening tales.  At one time, they had her convinced Dracula lived in the trunk at the end of the bed she slept in when visiting her grandparents! Although it has been years since she cowered in her bed in her grandparents’ basement, she still has an imagination which occasionally runs away with her, and she feeds it now as she did then ─ by reading! Her heroes, when growing up, were authors, and the worlds they painted with words were (and still are) her favourite playgrounds!  She was that child, under the covers with the flashlight, reading until the wee hours of the morning…and pretending not to be tired the next day so her mother wouldn’t find out. In addition to feeding her imagination, she also exercises it ─ by writing. While writing has been an activity she has dabbled in over the years, it blossomed into a full-fledged obsession when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction.  Leenie had first fallen in love with Jane Austen's work in her early teens when she was captivated by the tale of a girl, who like her, was the second born of five daughters.  Now, as an adult, she spends much time in the regency world, playing with the characters from her favourite Jane Austen novels and a few that are of her own creation. When she is not traipsing down a trail in an attempt to keep up with her imagination, Leenie resides in the beautiful province of Nova Scotia with her two sons and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with a healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tilney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).

Reviews for A Very Mary Christmas

[Elin Eriksen · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was Mary Bennet's story and leave it to Leenie Brown to make you adore the secondary characters.
Sweet, romantic and chaste read that had its funny moments as well. Particularly loved Darcy's dry wit...
It was bold too, at least I thought so as she killed one of the characters in a "Christmas themed" story. It was a character that I dear say, will not be much missed though.

Heartily recommend this book!

[Chelsea · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

s was another great book by Leenie Brown and a really fun book based o Mary Bennet. I really enjoyed this sequel to Waking to Mr. Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Novella, although it has been a little while since I last read Waking to Mr. Darcy so it wasn't as fresh in my mind but it wasn't a problem since the author reminded readers about anything important from the first book as things came up. I don't think it would be a problem to read this book without having read Waking to Mr. Darcy first. I loved Mary's character in this book and Nicholas Hammond was a fun character as well. I also really enjoyed Nicholas Hammond's younger brother Alfred and his friend Whit as well as the trouble they caused and the schemes they came up with. The epilogue at the end was also really cute. Overall I thought this was a really sweet and fun book that I definitely plan to read again.