Some gifts take forever to arrive.
Four Christmases ago, Eliza Perkins loved a man who went north for work and never wrote. She has spent every winter since turning the ache into armor, stitching other people's finery in a cold East End room and telling herself it doesn't matter. She needs no one, least of all Christmas.
Then, in the weeks before the holiday, Clifford Wilson comes back.
He claims he wrote to her. Every day, for a year. She knows better. She waited until the waiting nearly finished her, and not one letter ever came. Now he lifts his hat to her on her own streets as though four years of silence can be undone with good manners, and the whole watchful East End is waiting to see what she will do.
But the season keeps throwing them together, and the story each of them has carried for four years is beginning to fray. One of them is lying. Or has been lied to. And the only way to learn which may cost Eliza the very pride that kept her standing.
Clifford sails for the other side of the world on New Year's Day. Whatever is going to be said between them must be said by Christmas.
A Christmas Lost and Found by Sophie Winsor is a clean and tender, slow-burn Victorian romance about wounded pride, second chances, and the quiet miracle of finally being believed. For readers who love a gritty, glowing Dickensian Christmas, a hero worth forgiving, and a heroine brave enough to open one last door.
Genre: Romance
Four Christmases ago, Eliza Perkins loved a man who went north for work and never wrote. She has spent every winter since turning the ache into armor, stitching other people's finery in a cold East End room and telling herself it doesn't matter. She needs no one, least of all Christmas.
Then, in the weeks before the holiday, Clifford Wilson comes back.
He claims he wrote to her. Every day, for a year. She knows better. She waited until the waiting nearly finished her, and not one letter ever came. Now he lifts his hat to her on her own streets as though four years of silence can be undone with good manners, and the whole watchful East End is waiting to see what she will do.
But the season keeps throwing them together, and the story each of them has carried for four years is beginning to fray. One of them is lying. Or has been lied to. And the only way to learn which may cost Eliza the very pride that kept her standing.
Clifford sails for the other side of the world on New Year's Day. Whatever is going to be said between them must be said by Christmas.
A Christmas Lost and Found by Sophie Winsor is a clean and tender, slow-burn Victorian romance about wounded pride, second chances, and the quiet miracle of finally being believed. For readers who love a gritty, glowing Dickensian Christmas, a hero worth forgiving, and a heroine brave enough to open one last door.
Genre: Romance
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