Review: A Christmas Cookie with a Pinch of Vengeance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2014
This novella is a great Christmas short story. The action takes place on Christmas Eve and the story is compressed to allow it to fit a short story format. Beverly's characters are always well done and they grow within the time line of the story. This time, there is a woman wishing to avenge her dead fiancee and the tortured nobleman/officer who is the  object of her mistaken fury.The look into Christmas traditions of the time is fun. Beverly always creates good annoying relatives for her hero and heroine. There are a lot of bright moments in such a short book.Women who assist the War Office during the time of Napoleon always seem a bit far fetched to me. The heroine could have handled the action without any such connections, but I managed to ignore the opening of the story and focus on the subsequent developments.