The Baronet’s Christmas Reckoning: A Sweet Christian Regency Romance (An Ardleigh Christmas Book 2)

She has spent her whole life saying yes to what is expected of her. He has spent his hiding behind laughter. This Christmas, loving each other may require the courage to finally say what they truly mean.

Lady Sophia Marchant arrives at Ardleigh with her future already decided.

Her mother has arranged her marriage to Lord Rowsley, and Sophia has every reason to accept it. He is a good man, the match is respectable, and her father has given his word. A dutiful daughter does not rebel simply because her heart wishes for something else.

Then there is Sir Gilbert Wyre.

Loud, irreverent, and seemingly incapable of taking anything seriously, Gilbert is the last man anyone would expect to understand a woman like Sophia. Yet beneath his endless jokes is a man who has spent years protecting the tenderest parts of himself from ever being laughed at again.

Snowbound at Ardleigh for Christmas, Sophia and Gilbert find themselves drawn together despite every reason they should keep their distance. She begins to see the wounded man behind the laughter. He discovers that the cool, composed beauty he thought he understood has a sharp mind, a generous heart, and a courage he cannot help but admire.

As the days pass, a Christmas play, a cold gallery, whispered gossip, and the expectations of family force them closer to truths neither is prepared to face.

For Sophia, rebellion has never been her nature. She has always believed in duty, obedience, and doing what is right.

But what happens when obedience asks her to give her heart to the wrong man?

And what can a man do when the woman he loves seems destined for someone else?

With Christmas approaching and the road out of Ardleigh buried beneath snow, Sophia and Gilbert must learn that faith does not mean pretending, and that sometimes the hardest act of courage is simply allowing yourself to be seen.

A warm, clean Christian Regency Christmas romance filled with slow-blooming love, faith, humor, courage, Christmas traditions, and the joy of discovering that the life others choose for you is not always the life God has prepared for you.

The Baronet’s Christmas Reckoning is the second book in An Ardleigh Christmas Romance, a clean Christian Regency romance series filled with Christmas warmth, slow-blooming love, faith, family, courage, and the joy of finding room for love where you least expect it.