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Mrs Wildblood's Christmas Ghost
(2026)(Book 11 in the Venturesome Ladies of Little Valentine series)
A novel by Emma V Leech
This Christmas, the ghost haunting him may be the woman he loves.
Sebastian Foxworthy has many excellent qualities. He is charming, handsome, extravagantly dressed, and devoted to avoiding anything that resembles honest emotional effort. Unfortunately, he is also Mrs Wildblood, the most wildly popular Gothic novelist in England — a fact he would prefer the world never discover.
When a scathing newspaper article compares Mrs Wildblood’s deliciously lurid romances to the work of Wilbert Averythe, praising Averythe as the superior literary mind while dismissing Wildblood as vulgar sensation, Sebastian is outraged. He does not care, naturally. Not in the least. He merely intends to hate Mr Averythe with scholarly precision.
Widow Verity Bellweather has troubles enough without entering into a public feud with the infamous Mrs Wildblood. Writing as Wilbert Averythe has given her independence, security, and a future for her mischievous little daughter, Hetty. Exposure would risk everything. So when Verity comes quietly to Little Valentine for Christmas, seeking peace, anonymity, and inspiration for a ghost story, the last thing she expects is to encounter Sebastian Foxworthy: beautiful, ridiculous, infuriating — and far too perceptive for her comfort.
Sebastian does not know Verity is his hated rival. Verity cannot afford for him to find out. But as Christmas draws nearer, a local legend of a ghostly winter lantern draws them together, and sharp words give way to reluctant laughter, dangerous tenderness, and the kind of longing neither author would dare put plainly on the page.
Yet secrets, like ghosts, have a habit of appearing at the worst possible moment.
This Christmas, Mrs Wildblood may have met her match — in love, in literature, and in the one woman clever enough to haunt his heart.
Perfect for fans of enemies-to-lovers romance, secret identities, and Christmas magic.
Genre: Historical Romance
Sebastian Foxworthy has many excellent qualities. He is charming, handsome, extravagantly dressed, and devoted to avoiding anything that resembles honest emotional effort. Unfortunately, he is also Mrs Wildblood, the most wildly popular Gothic novelist in England — a fact he would prefer the world never discover.
When a scathing newspaper article compares Mrs Wildblood’s deliciously lurid romances to the work of Wilbert Averythe, praising Averythe as the superior literary mind while dismissing Wildblood as vulgar sensation, Sebastian is outraged. He does not care, naturally. Not in the least. He merely intends to hate Mr Averythe with scholarly precision.
Widow Verity Bellweather has troubles enough without entering into a public feud with the infamous Mrs Wildblood. Writing as Wilbert Averythe has given her independence, security, and a future for her mischievous little daughter, Hetty. Exposure would risk everything. So when Verity comes quietly to Little Valentine for Christmas, seeking peace, anonymity, and inspiration for a ghost story, the last thing she expects is to encounter Sebastian Foxworthy: beautiful, ridiculous, infuriating — and far too perceptive for her comfort.
Sebastian does not know Verity is his hated rival. Verity cannot afford for him to find out. But as Christmas draws nearer, a local legend of a ghostly winter lantern draws them together, and sharp words give way to reluctant laughter, dangerous tenderness, and the kind of longing neither author would dare put plainly on the page.
Yet secrets, like ghosts, have a habit of appearing at the worst possible moment.
This Christmas, Mrs Wildblood may have met her match — in love, in literature, and in the one woman clever enough to haunt his heart.
Perfect for fans of enemies-to-lovers romance, secret identities, and Christmas magic.
Genre: Historical Romance
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