num_pages: 190
description: A man she disdains and a man she loves. What happens when she finds out theyre the same person?Odette Goodson lives with her grandmother in the beautiful Cheshire County. This Christmas she wishes for caroling snow sleigh rides plum pudding and a lit yule log with friends and neighbors all around. Her matchmaking grandmother wishes for her to marry the Marquis of Wilmington. Shes heard only unflattering things about him. To her grandmother's consternation Mr. Wardly shows up on a country lane a man who seems to be everything the Marquis is not.Henry Wardly the Marquis of Wilmington arrives from the East Indies in Cheshire County six months after his mothers funeral. Mourning her loss with a new shipping line at stake and his own estate to salvage responsibilities in Cheshire county frustrate him and slow his progress. But he cannot help but be jolly at Christmas time particularly after he runs into the lovely Miss Odette Goodson. Things grow complicated when she confuses him for a gentleman farmer and has shown nothing but disdain for the heretofore unknown Marquis.Grandmother Amelie Laurent Goodson will work her matchmaking magic but will it be enough to overcome the strong prejudice in Odettes preconceived notions or the immediacy of Henrys needs to be in London?
language: English
title: A Sleigh Ride Kiss
publisher: Kings Row Press