The Holly and the Ivy by Elisabeth Fairchild

It’s really a short story (less than 100 pages), but has it’s own Goodreads page, so if you’re looking to pad your numbers this December, it’s an option.

I don’t know what else to tell you in order to sell you on this book. There’s Christmas, candy, and a caper.The Great Christmas Candy Caper by Karen Hall.The blurb contains the words “thorny duke” and “scandalous misunderstanding”, and the book has the man-who-hates-Christmas and woman-who-loves-it storyline.The Holly and the Ivy by Elisabeth Fairchild.It sounds cute and fun, like a Christmas romance should be. A lady wants to go travel around Europe and a “happy bachelor” is determined to marry her…and take her to Europe (?). This is something like 7th or 7.5 in a series, but I don’t think it’s a series in which you need to read all the others in order to enjoy it.The Earl’s Christmas Bride by Ella Quinn.A warning: I haven’t read any of these (a common theme for my Top Ten Tuesday lists), so read at your own risk. I naturally went for 5 Regency romances in a nod to my reading streak along with 5 contemporary ones. But if you do manage to sneak a book in, and you enjoy a good seasonal romance, you might want to add these to your list. Not that you’ll have time to, what with the movie watching, cooking baking, gingerbread house decorating, present wrapping, and so on and so forth. This week is a freebie, so naturally I had to go with 10 Romances to read around Christmas. You know the drill – Top Ten Tuesday is brought to us by the lovely ThatArtsyReaderGirl.