num_pages: 224
description: From the author of The Rogues Folly comes a Regency romance celebrating the witty and romantic world that fans of Georgette Heyer have fallen in love with. Twenty years ago Beatrice Copland committed a reckless and foolish act of deceit that shes certain ruined the life of a man shed fallen in love with and led to his wifes death. Now serving as companion to the stern Lady Bournaud she leads a quiet life and attends to her duties as a kind of penance. But Lady Bournaud trying to make amends for her own selfish ways is opening her country estate to a few select guests for the holidaysincluding the man Beatrice wronged so many years ago. Sir David Chappell spent nearly two decades coming to terms with the haunting memory of his wifes death. When he receives an invitation to Lady Bournauds for the Christmas season hes reluctant to go at first but hes sure the time away in Yorkshire will be a welcome change from London. Once there hes immediately captivated by the youthful beauty and genuine compassion of the ladys companion Beatrice Coplandall the while sensing that hes met her before. Even as David pursues her and Beatrice realizes shes still powerfully attracted to the man she must gently rebuff his advances for fear that her damning secret will come to light and reopen his old wounds. And while Lady Bournaud watches happily scheming to make matches for all her guests it may take more than a Christmas miracle for David to free Beatrices conscience and her heart at last. About the Author: Donna Lea Simpson is a nationally bestselling romance and mystery novelist with over twenty titles published in the last eleven years. Besides writing romance and mystery novels and reading the same Donna has a long list of passions: cats and tea cooking and vintage cookware cross-stitching and watercolor painting among them. She lives in Canada. 
language: English
title: A Matchmaker's Christmas
publisher: Beyond the Page