Returning from Canada after ten years away, Brandon Knight has one goal in mind: Vengeance. But his plan is hindered when he discovers that his foe, the Earl of Oakby, has died. Instead, he focuses retribution on the lovely widow, Lady Angeline, with whom he shares a dark and agonizing past. Angeline is damaged and feels nothing inside. After suffering through devastating loss and a horrible marriage, she and her son are destitute. Bran steps forward with an outrageous offer, and Angeline has no choice but to accept. Considering that the attraction still sizzles between them, Bran will have to surrender his plans for revenge to bring Angeline back to life. They once loved each other, but doubt they can move beyond their grievous pain. However, it’s Christmas, and anything is possible.

An English Squire is a novel by Christabel R. Coleridge. Coleridge was an English novelist and an editor of girls' periodicals. Excerpt: "He was enough irritated by the compulsion that his father had put upon him to feel glad to act independently; while the natural opposition of Don Guzman de la Rosa to his daughter's marriage with a foreigner, stirred Gerald to more ardour than Maria's dark eyes had already awakened. Her birth, at any rate, was all that could be desired, her religion ought not to be an objection in one so good and pious, and the nationality of his younger son's wife could be of no consequence to old Mr Lester."