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The Girl is Not For Christmas: A Christmas Regency Romance Novel Kindle Edition

by Emma V Leech (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Miss Olivia Penrose is a lost cause and she knows it. She is just too stubborn to admit defeat.

After a series of disastrous investments, her family is on the brink of bankruptcy. Now, Olivia is the only thing standing between her brother Charlie’s rapidly growing family and penury. Olivia has one chance to capture the eye of a wealthy man and marry well. Her great aunt’s lavish New Year ball. Between now and then, Livvy must transform herself from who she is, into a woman who can drive a respectable fellow mad with desire. An impossible task.

I owe Ms Leech many happy hours of romantic escapism.

Ever practical, she knows there is only one man who can help with her transformation -

The notorious Earl of Kingston, dubbed the King of Sin by the scandal sheets, is recovering from the toll taken by his immoral lifestyle. With his own financial and private affairs in a mess, King escapes London to stay with his old friend Charlie for Christmas.

When his friend’s odd little sister demands his helps to learn the art of seduction, King is at once horrified, intrigued, and too bloody wicked to refuse.

Before the holiday is over, King is in way over his head, and must persuade Livvy that the King of Sin is dead, and he’s the man she needs.

I cannot recommend this author enough! Each story is well crafted, the characters lovable and all have their challenges until a well earned happy ending. I buy these stories even though they are part of Kindle Unlimited to express my thanks for Ms. Leech’s fine work.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08JKSG9JF
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Emma V Leech (December 4, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 4, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 7745 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 470 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #213,278 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,054 in Victorian Historical Romance (Kindle Store)
- #5,022 in Regency Historical Romance
- #5,749 in Regency Romances

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Regency Romance Author, Emma V Leech is the award-winning writer of six series with many more to come! Selected in the AMAZON UK Kindle Storyteller Awards four years running with Flaming June, A Scent of Scandal and The Last Man in London from Rogues and Gentlemen. For To Follow her Heart, To Ride With the Knight and To Hunt the Hunter from the Bestselling Girls Who Dare series, and for Dare to be Wild, from the Bestselling Daring Daughters series.

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ROGUES AND GENTLEMEN: Regency Romance. Sexy, tumultuous, and desperately romantic, Rogues and Gentlemen will have you wishing for your own pirate, smuggler, earl, or duke to carry you off into the past.

GIRLS WHO DARE:

Regency Romance. Twelve book series. Inside every wallflower is the beating heart of a lioness, a passionate individual willing to risk all for their dream, if only they can find the courage to begin. When these overlooked girls make a pact to change their lives, anything can happen.

THE DARING DAUGHTERS:

Their mothers dared all for love. Just imagine what their daughters will do. This in an ongoing next generation series in the Girls Who Dare world.

THE REGENCY ROMANCE MYSTERIES: Historical Romantic Suspense. If you prefer your Regency Romance with a little dash of mystery and murder, these are the books for you. Dashing heroes and wicked villains abound, and of course, a plucky heroine who won't sit about looking ornamental until she's rescued

THE FRENCH VAMPIRE LEGEND: Paranormal Romance. This is a dramatic and heart-wrenching story of courage and sacrifice and a love that nothing ... not even time, can tear apart.

THE FRENCH FAE LEGEND: Paranormal Romance. With close to sixteen million online reads to date the award-winning Dark Series is one of Emma's most successful works. An epic saga set between modern-day France and the Fae Lands - a historic version of our own world, where only love is more powerful than magic.

ABOUT EMMA:

As an accomplished romance author, Emma won the world’s largest online writing competition ‘The Wattys’ two years running, first with The Darkest Night, and then with her short story, A Dark Imperfection, A Les Fées Novella. Her third published novel, The Dark Prince has been touted as one of The Top 50 Self Published Books Worth Reading in 2015 and is #2 on the list of the Top 50 Indie Books in 2015 as well as being hailed as "An enchanting fantasy with a likeable heroine, romantic intrigue, and clever narrative flourishes." by Kirkus Reviews.

Emma's novels have garnered attention worldwide, and fans who continue to clamour for more through email, Facebook, and Twitter.

When she's not writing she strives to live as far from the real world as possible. but otherwise, she can be found in Darkest Dordogne, South West France with her husband, three children, assorted cats and a wild imagination

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The greatest of these is love

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2021

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This is a wonderful story, well written, captivating and funny with just a little steamy scene. The characters created are all challenged in ways that make them take a hard look at themselves which in some cases results in drastic life style changes. It's a story about courage, determination, forgiveness and most of all agape love. That unconditional love that sees all in another's character yet chooses to accept and love them without enabling their weaknesses. All of life is a challenge, we all have strengths and weaknesses, it's what we do with them that defines our character and makes us who and what we are. Taking responsibility for our own actions is key and shown clearly in this story. Having the courage and strength to concur adversity against all odds, determined to succeed for the sake of family in the name of love is a life lesson taught in this compelling story set at Christmas time, the season of perpetual hope, just as the birth of Christ gave hope of redemption to the entire world. I highly recommend this delightful story and thank the author for her talent and wisdom in its creation. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

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A delightful read to not pass

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2020

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Will their own plights impede any possible future together ...

Firstly I must complain, why does the author always publish on my scheduled working days! It is a nightmare to read then to have to interrupt then to read again then to have to stop again when I only want to dip deeper in the story and only emerge when I would have reached the world “the end”.
Once more the author brings laughter, smiles, emotions in our home.
And while it could be seen as a Cinderella retelling with no stepmother for a villain but selfish, reckless and impractical relatives. The only true bad guy is only operating in the shadows.
Livvy is the string holding the fort together, without her, her brother’s home would go crumbling down. But she is only one person and she can fight every battle when some persons are set on demeaning everything she does.
So when she finds herself with one more mouth to fed, it is enough.
Even worst, when this additional being is a drunken Earl playing a game of hide and seek with death.
She is an astonishing strong woman, she manages everything and everyone, thinking first to the others than herself. So despite King’s renown, she takes him in and nurses him back to health.
She even finds a way pierce the armor he has around himself. Yet it goes both way as it gives her an insight of who is really this name when not playing the role of King of Sins.
King has given up, after a life a loneliness, he seams to have reached his limits. The frontiers of his mind and body. He is close to let everything go, until a young miss challenge him. Her tartness and lack of kindness for his plight shake him. She angers him, and by doing this, she awakens his old self, the one with hopes and dreams he buried a long time ago after one too many encounter with his sire as he can’t really call the heartless icy Marquess his father.
Once the veil is lighted, King is a man to adore. He might be wearing the suit of the king of sin when he is still inside the little lonesome boy longing for love and friendship, one who will take time for everyone of Livvy’s nephews.

And Oh my!
The breakfast proposal...
It was such a hilarious scene.

And little George, what a delight he is.
All the kids add to the tale but the little bare-arsed runner is a source of incommensurable joy.

One more hit with this tale about love and the strength it brings when one basks in it.
5 stars

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"All yours for always, King, and not just for Christmas."

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2020

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I've read maybe one or two Emma Leech HRs before but wasn't overly impressed by them, so one wonders why I had pre-ordered this Christmas tale by her. Perhaps the look of the cover? The plot description? Maybe. Whatever the case, this exceeded my expectations by a mile and I'm so glad I downloaded it.

I was expecting a frothy, frivolous romance that takes place during Christmas. I got something much deeper and much better. It deals with some fairly serious issues and does not gloss over them, in particular the alcoholism of the hero of this tale. And there's the other issue of the impending impoverishment of unwise-in-money-investing Viscount Boscawen and his family (consisting of his spendthrift wife, his passel of children and his put-upon 24-year-old sister, Livvy).

Livvy is the only actual adult in the house and works herself to a frazzle keeping food on the table and the children cared for. It's not that the parents don't love their children. It's just that the parents are pretty much clueless about how to be responsible adults.

So this sounds like a downer of a book, right? After all, it deals with alcoholism of one character and the imminent insolvency of an entire family. Yet, in spite of taking those issues seriously and dealing with them realistically, the story also has lots of humor, warmth and romance to it, all of it nicely balanced.

The alcoholic hero is King, the Earl of Kingston, 35 years old, a rake and a libertine and a dissolute (choose your descriptor) whose funds have been cut off by his father because he refuses to marry the father's chosen bride for him, the 16-year-old daughter of a duke. Until King agrees, he is on his own, cut off from any family funds and forced to live off his wits at gambling. King, a troubled soul, lives too wildly and is not just a social drinker. He's a man who is controlled by his need to drink.

Livvy's brother Charlie, Viscount Boscawen, when on a business trip to London, finds King in a desperate situation, intoxicated to the point of alcohol poisoning and possible death, and brings him home to the Penrose estate. Charlie does this because he feels a debt to to King for having kept him from being bullied when both were students at Eton.

Well, the bulk of the care for King, in his rehab, falls to Livvy, as in usually the case with responsibilities in the family.
She resents and despises him at first. He's another mouth to feed with money they don't have and it's an undeserving mouth at that. But Livvy is a nurturer and she can't help but start to worry about King's health and well being.

The only thing more I will say about this story is that pressure is being put on Livvy to marry a certain very wealthy man of the village. That would put an end to all the Boscawen financial woes. But there is something about him that doesn't sit well with her and she has the feeling he is not a good man. And so she refuses to accept his proposal, much to Charlie's dissatisfaction. So Livvy decides the way to save the family is for her to go to Bath to visit her very social, wealthy aunt after Christmas and see if she can find a wealthy but kind man to marry. To that end she needs King's help in learning how to make herself more seductive and appealing to the opposite sex. After all, he is a rake and very experienced in the art of seduction.

Ah, yes, you know where this is headed but this story is so much better than its plot. The family is delightfully drawn. All the children with their distinct personalities. Georgie, the three year old, a particular joy. He's always "''ot, so 'ot" that he runs around the house bare bottomed and identifies all animals as "og" whether they be dogs, cats, birds or pigs. We see the tight family unit and all the love they have for each other and how King is drawn into that circle of love. And, of course, there is that lovely romance between innocent yet capable Livvy and our dissolute rake.

This was really well done. It doesn't quite get 5 stars from me for two reasons: (1) Some careless editing, proofreading, and grammar mistakes, and (2) a too pat and contrived ending. Still, it was a very touching story and I enjoyed seeing all the lovable characters find happiness.

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Why can’t every day be Christmas?

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2023

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Well, it’s August, and I just read a story that takes place over Christmastime. This book is wonderful, and perfect for any time of year. Very well-written, lovely characters and clever dialogue. Highly recommended.

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Fabulous read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 16, 2022

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I love the way Emma gives us a great Regency feel for the modern audience. She creates relatable characters, with the right balance of humour and pathos. As King becomes entranced by Livy and her extended family, so are we. Funny, engaging and delicious. Excellent job, Emma!

Luli

4.5 stars

Reviewed in Spain on December 14, 2020

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*Puedes encontrar esta reseña en español al final.*

This is one of those times when the blurb doesn't do it justice to the story. In fact, I think one has nothing to do with the other.
The story is based on a lot of hackneyed ideas already beaten to death, but the author has handled it all in such a way that the story has been quite charming. I didn't think I was going to like it that much. I didn't think it was going to be that enjoyable. I loved it.

Maybe it has been a bit slow towards the middle, thinking too much about the same problem, but the outcome has been "interesting". And the long, clarifying and "a tiny bit overly" sweet epilogue just as it should be on these occasions.

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Esta es una de esas ocasiones en la que la sinopsis de la historia no le hace justicia. De hecho creo que no tiene nada que ver.
La historia tiene como base un montón de ideas manidas y explotadas hasta la muerte, pero la autora lo ha gestionado todo de tal manera que ha sido encantadora. No pensé que me iba a gustar tanto. No pensé que iba a ser tan entretenida. Me ha encantado.

Quizás ha sido un poco lenta hacia la mitad, dándole demasiadas vueltas al mismo problema, pero el desenlace sí ha sido interesante. Y el epílogo largo, clarificador y empalagosillo, como debe de ser en estas ocasiones.

Crystal Carr

Most heart warming and endearing story ! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Reviewed in India on December 5, 2020

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Ms. Leech just gets better and better - this book was so witty, heart rendering and compassionate in so many places - its hard to pinpoint my favourite part !

From the family and the characters within this book that is so lovable and full of happiness even though their pockets are empty - it truly shows us what Christmas is all about.

This book will make you laugh, sigh and cry sad tears and then tears of happiness !

I believe this is to be one of Ms. Leech' s top works !

I recommend this book whole heartedly !

Romance Level: 4.8/5
Steamy Level: 4.2/5

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enchanting

Reviewed in Australia on May 20, 2023

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Once in awhile you read a story that enchants you. This lovely book did for me. This was true romance were the main characters fell in love but the practicalities of life got in their way. The secondary characters weaved love and laughter though out the book it was simply magic. Thank you Emma V Leech I throughly enjoyed reading this story.

Rebecca

Heartwarming

Reviewed in India on July 17, 2022

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Beautifully woven story. Thank you Emma Leech for your wonderful stories! Love the characters, the story line and the pace. Difficult to put down.

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