num_pages: 190
description: To discharge a debt to his friend Andrew Nash Lord Thomas Barrington returns to the family estate he fled six years earlier after refusing to marry the woman his father had chosen. To Thomas's dismay Barrington Hall is no longer the joyful home he remembers from his childhood and his young niece has no idea what Christmas is.Determined to bring Christmas back to the gloomy estate Thomas must confront his tyrannical father salvage a brother lost in his own misery and attempt to fight off his fathers machinations. As the holidays near Thomas and Andrew begin to realize they are more than merely close friends... and those feelings are not only a threat to their social positions but in Victorian England to their lives as well.
language: English
title: The Christmas Wager
publisher: Dreamspinner Press