The Major's Christmas Return

Twelve years ago, she broke his heart to protect him. Now he has come home-and neither of them can escape the truth of what they lost.

Major Charles Danvers has spent twelve years away from Ardleigh.

A soldier shaped by war, loss, and hard experience, he has learned to leave the past where it belongs. But when his aging mother asks him to return home for Christmas, Charles finds himself snowbound beneath the same roof as the one woman he has spent twelve years trying to forget.

Rowena Selby is no longer the young woman he remembers. She is a widow now, living a quiet, respectable life and determined to leave the past undisturbed.

But Charles soon discovers that the story he has carried in his heart for twelve years may not be the truth at all.

Why did Rowena refuse him when they were young? Why did she marry another man? And why, after all these years, does being near her make the old feelings impossible to ignore?

As Christmas closes the roads around Ardleigh, Charles and Rowena are forced into a house filled with memories, unfinished questions, and the consequences of choices made long ago.

Charles must decide whether he can forgive the woman who took their future out of his hands.

And Rowena must finally face the painful truth that love cannot be protected by making another person's choices for them.

Through quiet acts of kindness, difficult honesty, prayer, and the grace of forgiveness, two people who have spent twelve years living with the consequences of one decision must learn to lay down the past-and trust God with what comes next.

Because sometimes the greatest Christmas gift is not getting back what was lost.

It is finding the courage to choose love freely, to accept forgiveness, and to finally make room for the life that might still be waiting.

The Major's Christmas Return is Book Four in An Ardleigh Christmas Romance, a clean Christian Regency Christmas romance series filled with snowbound country-house Christmases, slow-blooming love, faith, forgiveness, emotional healing, and second chances.