Runaway Christmas Bride: Yuletide Travelers' Series, #2

By Isabella Hargreaves

All he wants for Christmas is a chance to win her love.

Miss Amelia Fortescue, the only child of profligate gambler, Baron Fortescue, wants to marry for love, but her parents won't wait for that. She's bait to land a wealthy son-in-law to pay off their debts.

Wealthy banker and injured soldier, Major Adam Wellworth, falls in love with Amelia from afar. He invites the Fortescues to his estate for the Christmas week, so Amelia can get to know him. However, his plan goes horribly awry before they arrive, when Amelia's parents tell her she'll be married on Christmas Day. 

Amelia's not going to be forced to marry anyone, especially someone she's never met. Instead, helped by a gallant gentleman, she becomes the Runaway Christmas Bride. 

What happens afterwards, only a Christmas miracle could fix.

 

What Readers are saying about Runaway Christmas Bride:

2018 Winner of the Romance Writers of New Zealand Koru Award (novella category)

"This is a wonderful short story by Ms Hargreaves. There is the magic of Christmas and love blossoming." Australian Romance Readers Association review, 7Feb2018

• Language: English
• Publisher: Isabella Hargreaves
• Release date: Dec 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9780648153122

Isabella Hargreaves

Isabella Hargreaves is an award-winning historical romance author. She writes Romance through the Ages, with a story to tell from the Regency era to Ancient Britain and to 1920s Australia. She loves writing about strong heroines finding the men to match them. She is a winner of the Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year 2022 (novella category), the Romance Writers of New Zealand Koru Award 2018 (novella category) and the Romance Writers of Australia 'Little Gems' short story competition 2018, and a finalist in a number of other awards. Isabella lives in Brisbane, Australia, where she works as an historian and is butler to three moggies. When she's not reading and writing, Isabella loves horse-riding and scenic walks. She dreams of an around-the-world trip to indulge these passions. For more information about Isabella Hargreaves' books, and to sign up for email advice about her next release, go to: www.isabellahargreaves.com Follow on: Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/isabella-hargreaves Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7457181.Isabella_Hargreaves Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IsabellaHargreavesBooks

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