She is no longer that silly, giggling girl who crushes on handsome Richard and she has dreams of joining her aunt in London to do much-needed charitable work.

She is prepared to avoid him at all costs no matter how hard her mother and his work to push them together. He invites his friend to accompany him along with a stray dog he took up and already has plans to get back to his London life as soon as he can.Īrabella Awdry knew Richard Brockwell was contemptible when they were younger, but his insulting words and attitude when he arrives prove to her that people do not change. If he must go and suffer Christmas with his family, then he will not go alone. He is certain that she has a prospective lady in mind already. Then there is the fact that his mother blatantly schemes to get him married off when he has firm intentions to remain a bachelor. It pains him because he feels he doesn’t fit into the family and he knows the hurtful lie his father perpetrated and the family still revers the man. Richard has been avoiding his family and the family home for years. Come home for the holidays or lose her generous allowance. In An Ivy Hill Christmas, the fourth installment to the series, the Brockwell prodigal son, Richard, who has seemingly been living the swinging bachelor life in London at the family townhouse while surreptitiously writing satire for his friend’s magazine and working on getting his novels published, is given an ultimatum by his mother. The books are tender, gently paced stories that are set against a Regency period historical backdrop that has been well-researched even if the village of Ivy Hill and its characters are fictitious. The Tales of Ivy Hill are an interrelated series of inspirational historical romances by bestselling author Julie Klassen that bring a whole village to life. We return once again to a snug English village tucked away along a coaching road and this time the holiday season brings more than Christmas cheer.

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