ARC Review: His Lady of Mistletoe (Ladies of the Lamp #3) by Charlotte Jardine
10:00
Series: Ladies of the Lamp #3
Author: Charlotte Jardine
Published October 12th 2021 by Griffon Press
Goodreads Synopsis
A heart-warming historical holiday romance, overflowing with Victorian Christmas traditions
Some wounds come from the ballroom, not the battlefield…
Beth Maybury is more at home in field hospitals than London parlors. She’s been the victim of society’s elite before, and the scars—and the epithet ‘Mistletoe Maybury,’ are as fresh to her as the Crimean War. Now, with her spirits at rock bottom, and her mother too distracted by her charity to bother with Christmas, Beth agrees to provide round-the-clock nursing for a patient from her Bethnal Green clinic. However, the position comes with a catch: her charge’s handsome, yet curmudgeonly nephew.
When Nate Hillier, head of the Hillier’s Sweets empire, goes looking for his war veteran uncle to invite him home for Christmas, he hadn’t expected his uncle to be near-death. The old man insists on Miss Elizabeth Maybury caring for him, so Nate is forced to invite the annoying do-gooder into his home, even though it’s almost Christmas.
A rags-to-riches success, Nate has no desire to expose his family to the thinly-veiled scorn of an upper class lady playing at nurse, no matter how gentle her manner or beguiling those toffee-colored eyes. Nate is far too busy running the family business for romance… and most certainly not with a woman whose world is so different to his own.
Goodreads
Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.
Working as a nurse at the Bethnal Green clinic, Beth Maybury would much rather be with her patients than in a drawing room. But when one of her favourite patients needs around the clock care, and his family have come out of the woodwork for him, Beth knows she is giving up a lot. Spending time at the Hillier home, with the handsome son, Nate, shows her another side to society, and makes her reconsider hiding away so much.
This was a proper cute Christmassy read, and though I read it in the middle of June, I still found myself imagining it was December. Beth's past with society was difficult, and she had hidden away for so long, that her family were worrying about her. The only thing that she enjoyed was helping people at the clinic, which ultimately helps her meet Nate. Beth and Nate were a cute couple, though it wasn't easy for them to find happiness together. Being from different parts in society, and with their own hangups about the ton, they had to overcome their own barriers to let the other person in, but eventually they did.
Dates Read:
June 13, 2023
Rating
3 Stars
0 comments