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A Candlelight Courting: A Short Christmas Romance - cover

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A Candlelight Courting: A Short Christmas Romance

Joyce DiPastena

Publisher: Sable Tyger Books

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Summary

When Burthred comes courting on Christmas Eve, Meg rejects his advances. She has her heart set on becoming a nun and insists that he call her Christina, the spiritual name she has chosen for herself. She tries to make him swear on her box of holy relics that he will not pursue her, but he carefully words his oath to allow him to stay in her candlelit chamber and try to change her mind.  
 
What Meg does not confess is that her reliquary box holds a secret.  
 
Burthred needs a wife, and no one will satisfy him except Meg. He swore on his father’s deathbed that he would marry her. But Burthred has a secret, too. When they come together before the Yule fire, their shared revelations will either join their hearts together or tear them apart. 
"A Candlelight Courting" is a PG-rated historical romance
Available since: 12/05/2013.

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