The Bluestocking Belles and Friends’ 2025 Holiday Collection

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Seven charming holiday stories from award-winning and best-selling authors:

Caroline Warfield~The Angel’s Announcement, A Holiday Homicide

They found the shepherd eight days before Christmas. Dead. Sybilla and Seth are thrown together to solve the murder, to care for a small angel with a broken ankle — and to face the hurt between them. Sibby has no idea why Seth left nine years ago without a word. Seth believes that Sibby knows he did not leave of his own free will. Can a small angel work some Christmas magic for these star-crossed lovers?

Elizabeth Donne~Single Belles

For Violet Hughes, this Christmas does not ring in a season of good cheer. One friend betrays her confidence and tells a certain gentleman Violet has feelings for him, while another begins her own bold pursuit of the very same gentleman. When Violet decides to fight for what she wants, she is thwarted deliberately at every turn. Who among the single belles is her secret enemy? Violet will have to foil their plot to have her Yuletide wish come true.

Cerise DeLand~His Merry Housekeeper

A novelette in Delightful Doings in Dudley Crescent series
Word among the fashionable is that in that marvelous London crescent, Dudley to be exact, a new storm brews over the romantic interests of the lords and ladies who live there. Lord Bettington in Number 42 is in need of a new housekeeper. It being Christmas and his house full of his three raucous motherless sons, he is in need of someone bold who can tamp down the chaos of his household—and his boys.
But the earl wants so much more. He has ordered his young chatelaine, Miss Winifred Mathers, up from his country estate to serve as his housekeeper. Could it be true that that particular servant, who is the only daughter of a termagant barrister, has pierced dashing Lord Bettington’s lonely heart?

Alina K Field~Lady Loughton’s Last Wager

When her son escapes with a schoolmate to attend a boxing match, the dowager Lady Loughton goes in pursuit. She’ll be late for a Yuletide party, but at least then she’ll dodge the persistent Lord Lindhorst. When she reaches the site of the boxing match, her son isn’t there—but Lindhorst is.  As they shelter together through a long frigid night, will sparks fly between the proper lady and the notorious earl?

Sherry Ewing~Mistletoe and Moonlight Wishes

Can the magic of a midnight wish dispel the dark clouds of the past?

Mr. Joseph Morledge has taken on an almost impossible task. He has purchased the manor house that came to his family in his mother’s dowry. But his father’s deeds have left it haunted with memories best forgotten. Determined to fully renovate the house and reclaim the future, he sets Christmas as his target. For more years than she can count, Miss Charlotte Darby has hidden her feelings for Joseph Morledge, her brother’s best friend. When the opportunity comes to help him redecorate his house, she won’t take no for an answer. As Joseph and Charlotte work to remake the manor into the home it should be, Joseph begins to realize that his house will not be a home without Charlotte as his wife. Has he left it too late to declare his love? Or will mistletoe and midnight wishes work their magic?

Jude Knight~Maggie’s Wheelbarrow

A year ago, Maggie’s husband marched out of Spain with his regiment to invade France. She hasn’t heard from him since, and when she followed him, the battles were over and his regiment was gone. Letters to the army, him, and his family have brought no answers, so she and her children are off to find him, even if they have to walk the length and breadth of England.

Rue Allyn~Forever Hold Your Peace

Home from the wars, Captain Prescott Drake is shocked to learn that his fiancée plans to wed someone else. Can he reach her in time to prevent the nuptials?  Desperate and believing the man she loved is dead, Miss Elizabeth Feddleston seeks rescue in the form of marriage to a kind friend. He knows she does not love him now but has hopes that once she has mourned the man who first won her heart that she will turn to him. Three friends, one wedding and the storm of the century. Will the right couple triumph or will nature put love to death?