Lady Mistletoe by Midnight

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Isabel's painfully aware that she is no one's ideal wife. After two failed courtships, she's accepted her place: a spinster tucked away in a modest London room, quietly fading out of everyone's life—though she's terrible at staying quiet. All she wants for Christmas is one little book. Books are quiet. Bookshops, on the other hand, turn out to be quite a different—and alarming—matter. The sharp, elegant young lord who steps in when Isabel needs help doesn't grasp that she's a middling young woman from a middling family in company far above her place. The longer he pretends they are simply a man and his wife out shopping, the longer their delightfully inappropriate conversation goes on, the more Isabel wonders how inappropriate she can be. She can't marry a lord. But the prickly, pained man under the mistletoe? He needs care, even love. And those, Isabel realizes, are gifts she's more than willing to give. If this is