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Romance · 2021 · PG-13

Once Upon a Winter’s Eve

by Tessa Dare

A wounded soldier and a Spindle Cove innkeeper's daughter fall for each other over one snowbound Christmas.

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, chilled, bleeding, and speaking in an unfamiliar tongue. Only Violet understands him. And she knows he’s not what he seems. She has one night to draw forth the secrets of this dangerously handsome rogue. Is he a smuggler? A fugitive? An enemy spy? She needs answers by sunrise, but her captive wou

For14+GenreRomanceLength100 pagesRead time~2 hours

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Violence

Some

One notable scene depicts a woman carving a letter into a man's chest, jarring against the otherwise light holiday tone

Language

Barely any

Mild for the genre

Sexual Content

Some

Rated 3/5 'open door' steam level

Substance Use

None

Not a factor

Emotional Intensity

Barely any

A slut-shaming subplot involving one of the secondary characters is noted by reviewers

What this book is about

A Regency-era holiday novella set in Dare's Spindle Cove world, following a returning military man and the woman determined to warm his cold winter's night — a quick, steamy holiday read with some family friction stirred in.

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A scene involving a character carving into another's chest

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