The Duke's Christmas Cinderella
(2026)(The eighth book in the Mistletoe and Manners series)
A novel by Amanda Stones
‘They put her out of the house before dawn, with a false name of thief pinned to her and the snow already falling.’
Marianne Prescott did nothing wrong, and it costs her everything all the same. Accused of a theft she did not commit, dismissed without a character three nights before Christmas, she is sent down the frozen road with one box and nowhere to go. What no one in that house knows is the thing she truly did in the dark before they came for her, a thing that would not end in dismissal if it were ever discovered, but on the gallows.
She takes the only post left to a woman with no reference: companion in a great house keeping Christmas for half the shire. Aldersey Court is warm, and bright, and full of people who look straight through a paid companion, and Marianne means to do her work, hold her tongue, and be gone in the new year with her secret still buried.
Tobias Garrow, the young Duke of Aldersey, was not raised to the title and wears it like a coat cut for a larger man. Buried in the papers of an estate he never expected to inherit, he notices the quiet, watchful woman at the edge of his crowded house, and the thing she is plainly not saying. He has his own reasons to want the truth of what happened the night an old man died, and the secret Marianne is protecting turns out to be the one that stands between a grieving widow, a fatherless child, and the roof over their heads.
As the greenery goes up and the house fills with candlelight, Marianne must choose between the silence that keeps her safe and the truth that could save a family, and a duke who has begun to look at her as though she were something other than a servant he will forget by Twelfth Night.
A tender, completely clean Regency Christmas romance of courage, second chances, and finding a home where you least expect it. A standalone story with a heartwarming happily-ever-after.
Perfect for readers who love marriages of convenience, guarded heroes and cozy Christmas charm, with a guaranteed happily ever after.
No cheating, no cliffhangers, just pure holiday joy.
Genre: Historical Romance
Marianne Prescott did nothing wrong, and it costs her everything all the same. Accused of a theft she did not commit, dismissed without a character three nights before Christmas, she is sent down the frozen road with one box and nowhere to go. What no one in that house knows is the thing she truly did in the dark before they came for her, a thing that would not end in dismissal if it were ever discovered, but on the gallows.
She takes the only post left to a woman with no reference: companion in a great house keeping Christmas for half the shire. Aldersey Court is warm, and bright, and full of people who look straight through a paid companion, and Marianne means to do her work, hold her tongue, and be gone in the new year with her secret still buried.
Tobias Garrow, the young Duke of Aldersey, was not raised to the title and wears it like a coat cut for a larger man. Buried in the papers of an estate he never expected to inherit, he notices the quiet, watchful woman at the edge of his crowded house, and the thing she is plainly not saying. He has his own reasons to want the truth of what happened the night an old man died, and the secret Marianne is protecting turns out to be the one that stands between a grieving widow, a fatherless child, and the roof over their heads.
As the greenery goes up and the house fills with candlelight, Marianne must choose between the silence that keeps her safe and the truth that could save a family, and a duke who has begun to look at her as though she were something other than a servant he will forget by Twelfth Night.
A tender, completely clean Regency Christmas romance of courage, second chances, and finding a home where you least expect it. A standalone story with a heartwarming happily-ever-after.
Perfect for readers who love marriages of convenience, guarded heroes and cozy Christmas charm, with a guaranteed happily ever after.
No cheating, no cliffhangers, just pure holiday joy.
Genre: Historical Romance
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