Mistletoe and Marriages

Book excerpt: A COUNTESS BY CHRIRSTMAS by Annie Burrows: Miss Helen Forrest, attends handsome Earl of Bridgemere's lavish Christmas house party feeling rather ordinary. Then she discovers the true man behind Bridgemere's forbidding exterior, and receives an unexpected Christmas gift - a marriage proposal! But Helen refuses to become Bridgemere's bride of convenience - this fiery Cinderella will only agree to become his Christmas Countess for love...THE EARL'S MISTLETOE BRIDE by Joanna Maitland: If it hadn't been for handsome Jonathan Foxe-Garway, Earl of Portbury, Beth Aubrey may have never seen another Christmas! Destitute and amnesiac, she was saved from the freezing cold and given a roof over her head. But she cannot answer questions concerning her past. So when, a year on, the Earl returns, wishing to take a bride, and his foundling is a beautiful woman, he resolves to give her a new identity - as his wife.