Stories from Longhope Abbey
Holiday novella
A Christmas Affair to Remember
Warm, touching, and fun, this short historical romance tells of a young widow and younger man who start a holiday affair but end up with so much more.
Warm lessons in love on cold winter nights...
Isaac DeWitt—former sailor, respected investigator, and notorious flirt—wants a wife, and where better to find one than the winter house party at Longhope Abbey? But for all his rakish charm, Isaac doesn’t even know how to kiss a woman, let alone what to do with her in the marriage bed.
Sylvia Ray—impoverished widow, expert distiller, and safely betrothed—means to enjoy every minute at the house party before she settles into a dreary but secure marriage. She’s too old to believe in exciting futures, but she’s too young to bury herself in the country just yet.
When Sylvia discovers Isaac’s dilemma, she shocks them both with a proposition: She’ll give him experience if he’ll give her excitement, during a winter they’ll never forget.
(Novella/short novel of 50,000 words)
The Longhope Abbey series
Longhope Abbey is a fictional parish in Warwickshire, England. The parish is named for the ruins of a medieval abbey. Among the residents of Longhope Abbey are the Larke family, the Lightwell family, and the Bell family, who are friends and neighbors. The characters in the series are connected, in one way or another, to these families.
In Christmas Affair to Remember, Isaac DeWitt is the brother of Joshua DeWitt, who is married to Cassandra Lightwell. A Christmas Affair to Remember takes place a few years after the events of A Wicked Kind of Husband.