A Christmas Crime, a Comte, and Miss Mifford - Regency Murder and Marriage 7 - Claudia Stone - English

Miss Charlotte Mifford is facing another Christmas — and birthday — as an impoverished spinster living on the charity of her relatives.
When a tall, dark, and exceedingly handsome French Comte arrives in the cosy village of Plumpton, Charlotte sensibly assumes he would never look twice at a woman like her.
But when the annual Christmas Pudding Contest turns unexpectedly — and quite literally — poisonous, the Comte gallantly offers to help Charlotte clear her aunt’s name.
It is simply good Gallic manners, she tells herself… even as her treacherous heart suggests otherwise.
Gabriel, Comte de Roche, is accustomed to stares.
Tall, dark, and (if he may say so) a touch terrifying, he rarely inspires anything but wary admiration. Hoping for a peaceful holiday with an old friend after retiring from a life at sea, he instead finds himself drawn into a murder investigation, a riotous Cotswolds Christmas, and an unexpected infatuation with a relentlessly cheerful Englishwoman — one who does not seem to realise, in the slightest, where his attentions are leading.

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