A Most Scandalous Christmas

A fiancé she invented. A bride he never asked for. A husband she met on the train.

In A Most Scandalous Christmas, Violet Sinclair brings together three Victorian Christmas romance novellas from her Children of Scandal series. From Manchester to a candlelit glasshouse in Wales, three women make plans to secure their futures, only to fall for the men who complicate them.

Her Most Improper Christmas Betrothal
To escape an unwanted marriage, Margaret Sterling announces she's secretly engaged to Owen Brennan. Unfortunately, he's standing close enough to hear. A Manchester mill foreman has little reason to play the devoted fiancé to a marquess's daughter, yet Owen goes along with it. Now Maggie has to get through Christmas without letting her family see how much she wishes the engagement were real.

Her Most Reckless Christmas Wager
To escape a London Season, Lady Isabella Pembrey bets her sister she can find railway engineer Rhys Vaughan a bride by Twelfth Night. But Rhys would rather spend his mornings in Bella's glasshouse, helping her keep a prized pineapple alive through a Welsh winter. The more time they spend together, the less Bella wants to find him a bride. How can she tell him that when he doesn't even know she wagered on him?

Her Most Unexpected Christmas Stranger
Tess Hartley boards a Manchester train under a false name, hoping to start over. When snow blocks the tracks and the guard starts taking names, she claims the stranger across from her is her husband. Lieutenant Alexander Sterling plays along, shares his greatcoat, and invites her to spend Christmas with his family. For the first time since she fled London, Tess is tempted to stay somewhere long enough to be known.

Three Victorian Christmas novellas filled with meddling relatives, stolen moments, and happily-ever-afters worth a little scandal.