Lady, It's Cold Outside
by Deb Marlowe
Night Shift Publishing
Historical Fiction, Romance
Pub Date 01 Jul 2016
EDITION Ebook
ISBN 9780997644616
PRICE $0.99 (USD)
FTC Reviewed for Net Galley
Description
Miss Glenna Bolton is not having a Happy Christmas. She’s lost her grandfather and the bookshop they ran together. If not for the invitation from the Duke of Danby, she would have no place to go.
No Christmas festivities for Baron Ellesworth this year. His newly inherited estate is in bad shape—and so is his bank account. He’ll spend the holiday traveling to do a bit of business with Lord Danby, in hopes of bringing Christmas to Elleshaven next year.
Traveling during the holiday season doesn’t sound romantic, but a star in the East, an abandoned child and a quest for holiday cheer might just convince these two that love is the best gift of the Season.
May contain spoilers
My Thoughts
I enjoy receiving books to review like this because dashes of romance are not my normal read and yet at Christmas time I'm drawn to them.
I'd not read anything previously from Deb Marlowe but rather like that this Novella's plot setting and descriptions are vivid and somewhat predictable.
This storyline begins just days before Christmas and the author boldly throws out the title of the book on the first page.
It's 1816 and Glenna Bolton is summoned to visit the Duke of Danby in Yorkshire.
As the journey begins north, there's mentions of Athena, the Goddess of defense, wisdom, and crafts and we soon learn how Glenna portrays these same attributes.
Delicious flavors and the aromas of Christmas trimmings are incorporated into this reading, heightening our senses. And with the help of a small acquaintance called Dowd, we watch Glenna's and the Baron's emptiness disappear, as their love blooms.