Tessa Dare

This novella was originally published in November 2011. It has been reissued with a new cover. Some wallflowers bloom at night… Violet is a quiet girl. She speaks six languages, but seldom raises her voice.The gentlemen aren't beating down her door. Until the night of the Spindle Cove Christmas ball, when a mysterious stranger crashes into the ballroom and collapses at Violet's feet. He's wet...

A Christmas Eve ball. A light-hearted beauty. An earl who needs to come in from the cold. All year long, Chloe Garland's been trading witty remarks and heated glances with her nemesis, the arrogant Lord Cheverell. But when Chloe tricks him into wearing a hideous waistcoat—complete with sequins, pompoms, and jingle bells—to her family's Christmas Eve party, she may have gone too far. Her penalty...