It’s a week before Christmas when Jess Smith, a thirty-year-old London copywriter, is hoping that her childhood friend Matthew Churchill will honour a decade-old pact and ask Jess to marry him. But on the eve of the deadline he announces that he is marrying her old school bully instead. The heartbroken Jess flees to the beautiful frost-covered village of Birling Grove to stay at her parents’ farm cottage. However when she clashes with the local earl and they fall for each other, will the … [Read more...] about A Christmas Romance with the Earl by Kate Harriet