Delightful Christmas

Experience the magic of CP Ward’s Delightful Christmas series with this boxed set containing the first nine novels in the series.

Maggie Coates is frustrated. Her longterm boyfriend, Dirk, recently moved to London to take a job she fears puts him out of her league. Despite the assurances of her best friend Renee, Maggie is convinced Dirk is slowly drifting away. All Maggie wants is to get married and settle down, but maybe Dirk has other ideas. Convinced by Renee to make one last throw of the dice, Maggie books a romantic holiday for two in the quaint Scottish village of Hollydell. But will Dirk show up? And if he doesn't, what if there is a perfect man waiting for her?

Unlucky-in-love and long-term loner Lucy Drake can find no excuse not to join her parents on a Christmas trip to the Cornish coastal town of Tintagel, not when her father's company is sponsoring the inaugural Christmas Extravaganza. Hoping to hide an embarrassing secret and generally keep out of sight, Lucy finds herself attracted to local surfing dentist, Dan. But when his ex-girlfriend and social media starlet Elizabeth Trevellian shows up to expose all of Lucy's insecurities, Lucy will need all of the magic of Christmas to help her untangle the ensuing mess.

Struggling to cope with the death of the grandmother who raised her, Emily Wilson finds herself in the tiny Devonshire village of Cottonwood, hoping to escape from both her grief and her responsibilities. Cottonwood, however, is under the control of a mysterious but powerful recluse determined to prevent Christmas at any cost.

Gifted a hundred-year lease on a famous cafe situated in the middle of a mythical theme park, Bonnie sets off with her best friend, Debbie, on an adventure to a hidden valley in the Lake District where they will find new friendship, love, and happiness, all set against the magic of Christmas...and more marshmallows than they can possibly eat....

Plumber Jessica Lemond is determined not to follow in her parents' footsteps by living off her famous grandfather's fortune. However, when the old-timer himself elopes to Scotland with suspicions over the recent death of his much younger third wife hanging over his head and a private detective on his tail, it is left to Jessica to follow and clear up the mess. Happy to escape from her nightmarish lodger, she heads to the remote Snowflake Lodge with her young trainee in tow. However, Snowflake Lodge—with its oddball staff and dodgy plumbing—is not how it appears in the brochure.

Christmas is coming, but hardworking single mother Sophie Wilkins is tired. Teenage stropfest daughter Elizabeth and oddball, outcast son David take up so much of her energy that she has little left to cope with her second ex-husband, the irritating Jeremy, who won’t take no for an answer. When her parents suggest a family Christmas trip to a Scottish campsite resort called Log Fire Cabins, it could be just what she needs. Peace and quiet in the middle of a secluded pine forest…but will things really turn out as she hopes?

When Annie Collins inherits her grandfather’s sprawling Lake District mansion shortly before Christmas, she has enough to handle without the attention of the eccentric locals and the longtime staff, many of whom seem as old as the house itself.

It’s the weekend before Christmas, and 35-year-old office nobody Julia Adams is heading home from Brentwell to spend the holidays with her family. Fresh from seeing her ex-boyfriend locked up after stealing and trashing her car, it doesn’t matter that less desirable family are visiting and her old room had been given to her nightmarish cousins, home is home.

When Brentwell Public Library closes over Christmas for renovations, young librarian Lizzie Cotton finds herself unexpectedly unemployed. With a credit card bill to pay, she finds herself googling for a Christmas miracle, and it comes in the form of a little secondhand bookshop desperately seeking a new manager. There’s only one problem. It’s in Scotland, at the other end of the country, in a little village that Lizzie can’t even locate on a map.