title: The Regency Christmas IX (Signet Regency Romance)
author: Sandra Heath
description: Romance anthologies allow readers to sample writers new to them, or writers they've lost track of, and this holiday batch is particularly lively and varied. <i>A Regency Christmas</i> is a sugarplum treat for fans of the classic Regency. In Edith Layton's delightfully witty "An Amiable Miser," a spinsterish bookstore clerk discovers her own present in the shape of the nobleman who helps her search for the owner of a treasure left in a book. Barbara Metzger uses an abandoned young girl to bring together an impoverished nobleman and an unconventional gentlewoman in her charmingly sweet "A Home for Hannah." A competition based on a popular Christmas carol has some unexpected romantic results in Amanda McCabe's polished "A Partridge in a Pear Tree." An elf prompts a formerly engaged couple stranded together in a snowstorm to rethink their relationship in Sandra Heath's magical "The Solid Silver Chess Set." And a lady suffering a reversal of fortune is dreading the holidays until she meets a man who shows her the true meaning of Christmas and romance in Carla Kelly 's poignant, superbly written "No Room at the Inn." <i>John Charles</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
zlib_text: **REGENCY ROMANCE**
  
  ******The Duke’s Christmas Promise** ****
  
  SANDRA MASTERS
  
    
  
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  **Sertsam Publishing © 2019**
  
  > > Copyright © 2019 Sertsam Publishing and Sandra Masters, Author
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  No parts of this work may be copied without the author’s permission.
  
  Cover image – Kristalynn Designs
  
  Cover typography – Kim Lambert
  
  ISBN-13: 978-1-7333667-1-7
  
  ******Disclaimer** ****
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, organisations, events,
  and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used
  fictitiously.
  
  ******Dedication** ****
  
  To my husband, Ronald, for his enduring patience in reading my drafts, time
  and time again.
  
  To my exceptional friends and readers, for their continued support – without
  you, I could not be here.
  
  Sandra Masters.
  
  ******Table of Contents** ****
  
  _Dedication_
  
  _Table of Contents_
  
  _Acknowledgments_
  
  _Author’s Notes_
  
  _Chapter One_
  
  _Chapter Two_
  
  _Chapter Three_
  
  _Chapter Four_
  
  _Chapter 