A Wallflower Christmas
Number 5 in Series
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4.3 • 43 Ratings
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- £4.49
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- £4.49
Publisher Description
It's Christmas time and Rafe Bowman, an uncivilised American rake, has come to London for an arranged marriage with the perfect aristocratic bride, the very proper and beautiful Natalie Blandford. But before the courtship can begin, Rafe needs to learn the rules of London society. And when four former wallflowers try their hand at matchmaking, no one knows what will happen. And winning a bride turns out to be more complicated than Rafe anticipated, especially for a man accustomed to getting anything he wants . . .
A Wallflower Christmas takes a trip to Victorian London, under the mistletoe, and on a journey of the heart.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
American cad Rafe Bowman goes bride shopping in London and must choose between love and money in Kleypas's coy Christmas romance. Rafe is wealthy in his own right, but his grossly wealthy father demands he marry the uninteresting Lady Natalie. Rafe, naturally, falls in love with someone else: Natalie's commoner cousin, Hannah. As his courtship of Natalie progresses, Rafe keeps returning to Hannah, who rejects his courtship because she thinks he is destined to marry her cousin. As Christmas draws closer, Rafe must choose between the woman he is falling in love with and his father's fortune. Throughout, veteran romancier Kleypas gracefully balances Regency mores, light humor and a dash of Christmas magic, and even if Rafe and Hannah hew too closely to genre archetypes, the book passes muster as a holiday bonbon.
Customer Reviews
Enjoyable Read
Before Hannah even meets the brash American, she is sure that he will not be a good match for her cousin. When she does, a sparring match ensues and before she leaves he kisses her! Much to her distress her cousin is amused and looks on it as a game. Will Hannah survive a Christmas houseparty with Rafe Bowman in attendance with her heart and virtue intact?