The Twelve Nights of Christmas by Nina Mason
by Nina Mason
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Ten years ago, when his father bankrupted the family, Rollo Gillingham left Penelope Pembroke with his promise to return when he could afford to marry.
Despite the length of his absence, he did not expect to find her engaged to a rival upon his return. Rather than step aside, he vows to win her back, but has only twelve days in which to do it.
Come Christmas Day, will Penelope choose the man she’s always loved or the one her parents want her to marry?
- File Name:the-twelve-nights-of-christmas-by-nina-mason.epub
- Original Title:The Twelve Nights of Christmas: A Regency Novella
- Creator:Nina Mason
- Language:en
- Identifier:MOBI-ASIN:B07CLVZ144
- Date:2018-07-16T16:00:00+00:00
- File Size:196.692 KB
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The Twelve Nights of Christmas was about Rollo Gillingham and Penelope Pembroke, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke. With his father having bankrupted the family coffers, Rollo had determined he would somehow recoup the losses and return to marry Penelope, the woman he loved. However, it took ten years before he finally returned, without there ever having been a word to her as to where he was or if he was even still alive. Hoping to find her still waiting for him, he traveled back to his old home with plans to renew their love and regain his family home. Penelope, having waited for ten, long, silent years for Rollo, the man she had given her heart to at the age of 18, found herself with no other alternative but to accept the marriage proposal from Frank Blackmore, the future Earl of Abingdon. For, if she did not, her family planned to turn their backs on her and cast her out. When Rollo arrived at Penelope's home, he was shocked to find out he was interrupting the dinner celebrating her engagement to his archenemy, the man with whom he had once fought over, and won, Penelope from. Not knowing whether or not he had lost her love, Rollo begged her to meet with him and run away to Scotland to marry. Determined to follow through with her promise to marry Frank, Penelope nonetheless kept meeting up with Rollo, for she still loved him, no matter why she was being forced to marry another. There was so much wrong with this book that it's hard to know where to start, except...her parents were atrocious...especially her mother, who demanded that she abandon her love for Rollo to marry Frank and then forced her into it. Her father, for being a feint-hearted husband who could not or would not stand up to his wife and defend his daughter's choice. That was just the tip of the iceberg, though I won't give away the rest of the deplorable issues. While there was plenty of passion, there was far more angst and drama for such a short book (just 10 short chapters), with very little humor to give the reader a break from the tension flowing from the pages. The characters lacked the maturity that should be present for such a story. No one really wanted to own up to his or her guilt in what happened in the past...or the present, for that matter. There were too many secrets and too many villains(nesses) for such a brief novella. This book, though it had a HEA, really wasn't worthy of a five-star rating. There were too many things wrong with it and not enough information to explain why things happened the way they did. It was just lacking in so many ways.