Harlequin Historical December 2026 – Box Set
By Ann Lethbridge, Christine Merrill, Lara Temple, Marguerite Kaye, Ella Matthews & Emma-Claire Sunday
- Release Date: 2026-11-24
- Genre: Historical Romance
Description
Harlequin Historical – December 2026 – Box Set 1 of 1
Harlequin ® Historical brings you a captivating quartet of thrilling new romances in one collection!
This boxset includes:
INVITATION TO A REGENCY CHRISTMAS
By Ann Lethbridge, Christine Merrill, Lara Temple
(Regency)
In Governess's Winter Awakening by Ann Lethbridge, governess Lizzy won’t let her attraction to her charge’s uncle, Lord Marcus, jeopardize her position. Can her frosty resolve weather his relentless sunshine, especially while snowbound?
In Mistletoe and Mischief by Christine Merrill, Mariah is caring for little Gwendolyn over Christmas. When Gwen’s snowball strikes a stranger, Mariah is shocked to discover he’s an earl—and Gwen’s extremely handsome guardian!
In Twelve Nights with the Earl by Lara Temple, rakish earl Alex needs a Christmas miracle to stop his mother’s matchmaking. Sophie agrees to a fake flirtation, but their mistletoe kiss feels dangerously real!
THEIR CHRISTMAS MARRIAGE CHARADE
Part of Yuletide Redemptions
By Marguerite Kaye
(Victorian)
When an unexpected inheritance demands brooding mill owner Adam Robertson travel to the Scottish Highlands and select a local bride, he’s appalled! Reluctantly attending a Christmas Eve house party en route, he never expects fate to deliver him the perfect solution…
Enter Millie Muirhead—independent, guarded and hiding secrets. Accepting Adam’s Christmas proposal of a temporary union is as out of character as the heat building to an inferno between them! Adam needs her loyalty. Millie needs her freedom. But if the truth about Millie’s past emerges, their fragile charade—and their hearts—could shatter irrevocably…
THE DUKE’S WIFE RETURNS
By Ella Matthews
(Regency)
After a devastating loss on the battlefield, Alex, the Duke of Pembrokeshire, has retreated from the world and his convenient wife. Alex is resolute—he will not allow his grief to sully Georgiana’s light. But this winter, she’s arrived on his doorstep to begin their marriage…
Tired of gossipmongers saying she’s not fulfilling her duties as a duchess, Georgiana strikes a deal with Alex: They’ll have separate lives…once they conceive an heir! In close quarters, Georgiana slips past Alex’s defenses, exposing the dormant fire within him—and stoking flames of her own! Their reunion is just for Christmas, but could their fledgling family last forever?
HOW TO COURT A COUNTESS
By Emma-Claire Sunday
(Regency)
Former pickpocket Amelia is trapped in a life of servitude to the man who caught her. He offers a deal: Help him win the hand—and fortune—of Countess Beatrice by posing as a governess. In return for information that will help his courtship, he’ll grant Amelia her freedom.
Complications arise when Amelia meets the jaw-droppingly lovely Beatrice. Amelia feels startlingly at home in the Countess’s household, and their clandestine meetings in the music room quickly become a nightly habit… Amelia can’t deny their connection—but when her liberty depends on Beatrice’s marriage to another, can she risk following her heart?
