num_pages: 118
description: Previously published as "A Winter Night’s Tale” in the anthology Mistletoe Kisses . The Christmas Season brings many special gifts, but few as rare and precious as the gift of a second chance at happiness. In the bleak midwinter of 1814, Christabel Wilton and her young son have little to celebrate. A soldier’s widow has enough trouble making ends meet the rest of the year, let alone at Christmas. The last person she expects or wants to see in her misery is Jonathan Frost, the suitor she jilted seven years ago. Frost only means to pay a brief duty call on the Wiltons, but when he finds Christabel pale and feverish he whisks her and her son away to his estate to recuperate. The only repayment he asks for his kindness is that they stay and help him celebrate the holidays. Christabel reluctantly agrees. She is touched by Frost’s generosity which she does not feel she deserves. The least she can do in return is bring some Yuletide cheer into his lonely life. Frost has never experienced such a warm, joyful Christmas. Yet he knows he must guard against having his heart broken again. The more time Christabel spends with Jonathan Frost, the more she regrets the deep hurt she caused him years ago. How easily she could lose her heart to him now…if only it is not too late!
language: English
title: Her Mistletoe Kiss: A Regency Christmas Novella