Christmas At The Manor

Christmas At The Manor is a collection of three short Christmas romance novellas:Merry Christmas Eve EveThat’s It In A NutcrackerAll’s Fair In Love And ChristmasMerry Christmas Eve EveEve has a business to save, Jeff has a new life to build and Stan has unfinished business. This Christmas might be magical.When Stan Hargreaves, Eve’s friend and the owner of the Manor house, passes away, it breaks her heart and puts her events business in danger. The only person who can fix both of these things is Stan’s son, Jeff, and he’s about to open the Manor’s front door.Grieving and a little lost, Jeff isn’t happy about Eve using his father’s house for a sold out Christmas event, especially so soon after Stan has passed away. She needs to change his mind and fast. Without this, there’s a good chance she’ll spend the day before Christmas Eve sitting on her kitchen floor eating mince pies in tears.The weather is growing colder and twinkling lights cast a glow about the house, it feels like someone is reaching out to them both. Someone is trying to send them a message. As the first snowflakes fall, can Eve and Jeff see through their grief to what Stan had in mind all along?That’s It In A NutcrackerBeth wasn’t expecting to bump into Glen Hargreaves almost a year after kissing him under the mistletoe on Boxing Day. He said he’d come to her bakery the next day but didn’t show up. She’s spent almost a year trying to forget about him and the wonderful way he makes her feel when suddenly, round a corner, she walks straight into him.Glen wasn’t expecting to bump into Beth. It’s been almost a year since they kissed on his younger brother’s porch on Boxing Day and he hasn’t been able to get her out of his head. His life doesn’t have room for a serious relationship, he has a son who needs his full attention, and even Beth’s incredible gingerbread biscuits can’t change that.Can they?All’s Fair In Love And ChristmasWendy Hargreaves has been working towards this promotion for over ten years and she’s so close she can taste it. A single mother with Christmas approaching, she has enough on her plate when her boss declares that she needs to take over organising the firm’s Christmas fair. Now Wendy has a week to pull off the best Christmas fair the firm has seen otherwise her promotion is on the line.Thankfully she’s not working on the fair alone. James, one of the firm’s junior associates, is on hand to help. The oldest junior in the firm with a humbug instead of Christmas spirit, James is wishing he’d never volunteered to help put this Christmas fair together. That is until he lays eyes on Wendy.Maybe Christmas won’t be so bad after all.Can the Hargreaves find love at Christmas?