The Viscount’s Christmas Refusal: A Sweet Christian Regency Romance (An Ardleigh Christmas Book 1)

He has always chosen duty. She has never expected to be chosen at all. This Christmas, they may discover that the greatest gift is finding a love freely given.

Frances Amory has spent six years moving from one household to another, grateful for every kindness and careful never to forget that she is only a guest. When she is invited to Ardleigh for Christmas, she expects nothing more than another place where she can be useful.

Lord Edmund Rowsley has spent his life doing what is expected of him. As heir to his family and master of Ardleigh, duty has always come before personal desire. His future seems settled, including the marriage his family expects him to make.

Then he begins to notice Frances.

Quietly courageous, compassionate, and deeply grounded in her faith, Frances is unlike anyone Edmund has ever known. The more time they spend together, the more difficult it becomes for him to ignore the feelings growing between them.

But Christmas at Ardleigh brings secrets, whispered suspicions, family expectations, and difficult choices. As Frances finds herself caught in circumstances that could threaten her fragile place in society, Edmund is determined to protect her.

Yet Frances does not want a marriage offered out of duty, kindness, or obligation.

She wants to know that she is loved—and chosen freely.

With snow keeping Ardleigh closed in and Christmas drawing ever closer, Edmund must decide whether he will continue living according to the expectations placed upon him or finally have the courage to follow his heart. And Frances must decide whether she can believe that she might truly have a place where she belongs.

A warm, clean Christian Regency Christmas romance filled with slow-blooming love, faith, courage, family, secrets, and the longing to finally find a place to call home.

The Viscount’s Christmas Refusal is the first 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 finally finding a place to call home.