12 Days of Christmas

With her final season in the ton a surprising success, Lady Camille Bellington retires to her family's Yorkshire estate for Christmas with a marriage proposal in hand. Beautiful and charming, but too independent for society, Camille has given up on the hope to marry for love. So she will marry for duty. The man of her childhood dreams hasn't been home in three years, even to secure his dukedom, and her heart went with him. His best friend's little sister is lost to him. War hero Tristan Tierney, Duke of Mercer, returns to his ancestral home for the holidays to find himself burdened with a title and the woman he left behind betrothed to another. As he's only seen death and destruction for years, he's come to believe true love is a myth. His aloof demeanor veils his deepest unspoken desire, to possess Camille Bellington.