Emma V. Leech

A frosty duke. A fiery Scot. A Christmas collision.
A Sparkling and Daring Victorian Christmas Romance from Best Selling Author Emma V Leech
Lady Georgina Anderson arrives at Bedwin Park full of festive cheer. A whole month away from Scotland, her three infuriating older brothers, and the dreary suitors who plagued her last season — bliss. Christmas with her godparents’ enormous, boisterous family promises laughter, warmth, and mischief.
If only the Duke of Rochford weren’t there to ruin it.

Alden Seymour, Duke of Rochford, is the last man anyone expects to find at a lively country house party. Reserved, solemn, and allergic to fun, he prefers solitude to society and silence to conversation. But the prospect of spending Christmas entirely alone is even worse than enduring the Bedwins’ relentless enthusiasm… and their aggravating guests.
Especially one guest in particular.

Thrown together by circumstance — and the Bedwins’ alarming enthusiasm for festive activities — Georgie and Rochford take an instant dislike to one another. She finds him stuffy, humourless, and maddeningly superior. He finds her loud, impulsive, and entirely too comfortable speaking her mind. Every conversation becomes a skirmish. Every shared moment, a battle of wills.
And every argument sparks something neither of them wants to name.

Georgie has never lacked daring, but this Christmas she may have gone too far. Because the more time she spends with the infuriating duke, the more she suspects there’s a heart beneath all that frost… and Rochford, to his horror, realises the outspoken Scottish beauty is thawing him faster than a roaring Bedwin hearth.

They only need to survive the holidays without murdering each other.
Unless, of course… something far more surprising happens.