I was asked to be a part of Harlequin the Historical Christmas anthology this year alongside two other wonderful authors, Marguerite Kaye and Annie Burrows.  With the word governess we were to fashion a Christmas story due out in November 2011.

Christmas at Blackhaven Castle- Sophia James
Six governesses in three years have been harried from Blackhaven Castle by the unruly and motherless sons of the reclusive Lord Trey Stanford.

Lady Seraphina Moreton, the newest governess has heard all the rumours of course, but circumstances have reduced her to abject poverty and beggars do not have the luxury of being choosers.

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As the third brother in the Wellingham series Cristo is a dark, dangerous and lonely character. When Lady Eleanor Bracewell-Lowen is deposited without clothes on his bed in a Paris Chateau his whole world changes...

After one uncharacteristically wicked night, the once-reckless Eleanor Bracewell-Lowen now leads a safe and prudent life.
On his return to London's high society, Lord Cristo Wellingham looks different from the man she knew so briefly in Paris, but he is still as magnetic….

In his cold amber eyes Eleanor detects something she has seen mirrored in her own—longing. His touch invites passion, but this is a man who could destroy her good name with just one glance….

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Living in a gray world of silhouette, Lord Taris Wellingham conceals his fading eyesight from society. He has long protected himself from any intimate relationships.

Plain twenty-eight-year-old Beatrice-Maude Bassingstoke does not expect to attract any man, especially not one as good-looking as her remote traveling companion.

Forced by a snowstorm to spend the night together, these two lonely people seek solace in each other's arms. The passion they unleash surprises them both. Then a new day dawns..

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