Isabels painfully aware that shes no ones ideal wife.

After two failed courtships, she’s accepted her place: a middling spinster from middling family, tucked away in a modest London room to fade quietly from everyones life.

Though shes terrible at staying quiet.

All she wants for Christmas is one little book. Books are quiet.

Bookshops, on the other hand, turn out to be quite a different—and alarming—matter.

The sharp young man who steps in to help doesnt realize Isabels mixing in company far above her place. The longer their delightfully inappropriate conversation goes on, the more Isabel wonders how inappropriate she can be.

She could never marry a lord. But the prickly, pained man under the mistletoe? He needs care, even love.

And those, she realizes, are gifts she’s more than willing to give.

If this is Isabel’s one chance for a connection of the heart, she’ll be Lady Mistletoe by midnight.

Lady Mistletoe by Midnight is a Lords and Undefeated Ladies novella in the Judith Lynne universe, but entirely standalone.

It includes a guaranteed happy ending, an unexpectedly eventful bookshop, and a lucky red-coated carriage driver.

Alara has one night to find the love of her life.

Shes as British as bluebells and rain. But now the Continental wars are over, her mother plans a life for Alara in the Ottoman Empire where shell never see Britain again.

With one night of freedom, Alaras future depends on finding a British hu 二Band and forgetting the curious boy shes waited for all her life.

Lord Harman is heir to a political dynasty.

But hates intrigue and compromise. Hed trade it all for one more lazy summer day with the girl who inspired his mind and his heart.

At a wild Christmas revel he meets her again, still challenging him every step of the way and now very much a woman. When a dangerous mission falls into his lap, he must make an absolute choice: spend his last night with her playing pirate　or fulfill his destiny.

The Curious Countess is a standalone novella of about 100 pages, but readers of The Clandestine Countess may rejoice to see Lord Harman have a love story of his own.