The Bluestocking's Christmas Scandal
(2025)(The third book in the American Heiresses Christmas Collection series)
A Story by Violet Sinclair
A brilliant lady hiding her medical knowledge. A country doctor who dismisses her pain. A snowstorm that traps them together at the most scandalous Christmas house party of 1823.
Lady Harriet Pemberton has spent her life pretending to be an empty-headed ornament while secretly devouring medical texts and anatomical studies. When a skating accident brings the insufferably arrogant Dr. Simon Ashford into her path, she can't resist correcting his misdiagnosis—with devastating precision.
Simon Ashford prides himself on his modern medical training and scientific approach. But when a beautiful aristocrat demolishes his professional opinion using perfect anatomical terminology, he realizes he's encountered either the most elaborate deception or the most brilliant woman in England.
Trapped together by a Christmas Eve blizzard at Rothbury Abbey, Harriet and Simon engage in a battle of wits that transforms into something far more dangerous—desire. But when their passion leads to public scandal, they face an impossible choice: Simon is too lowborn to make an acceptable husband, yet too honorable to ruin her without offering marriage.
As society demands Harriet choose propriety over passion, she must decide: is love worth sacrificing everything she's ever known? And can a country doctor and an earl's daughter forge a partnership that defies every rule of their world?
An enemies-to-lovers romance featuring:
Lady Harriet Pemberton has spent her life pretending to be an empty-headed ornament while secretly devouring medical texts and anatomical studies. When a skating accident brings the insufferably arrogant Dr. Simon Ashford into her path, she can't resist correcting his misdiagnosis—with devastating precision.
Simon Ashford prides himself on his modern medical training and scientific approach. But when a beautiful aristocrat demolishes his professional opinion using perfect anatomical terminology, he realizes he's encountered either the most elaborate deception or the most brilliant woman in England.
Trapped together by a Christmas Eve blizzard at Rothbury Abbey, Harriet and Simon engage in a battle of wits that transforms into something far more dangerous—desire. But when their passion leads to public scandal, they face an impossible choice: Simon is too lowborn to make an acceptable husband, yet too honorable to ruin her without offering marriage.
As society demands Harriet choose propriety over passion, she must decide: is love worth sacrificing everything she's ever known? And can a country doctor and an earl's daughter forge a partnership that defies every rule of their world?
An enemies-to-lovers romance featuring:
- Forced proximity in a snowed-in estate
Medical knowledge as foreplay
Christmas house party shenanigans
Delicious Gothic novel reading sessions
A heroine who chooses brilliance over propriety
A hero who sees her worth beyond her station
The Bluestocking's Christmas Scandal is Book 3 in the American Heiresses Christmas Collection, but can be enjoyed as a standalone romance. Contains a guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Historical Romance
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