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Winter's Charms
Celebrate the winter with three novellas about love, family, and what it means to be home after the Great War.
Casting Nasturtiums brings a family together.
Seth has no idea what's happened to Golshan since that awful day in the trenches in 1918. Now he's demobbed, Seth can track down Golshan, love Dilly (his wife), and get back to his woodwork. Of course, it's never that simple. Seth has to fight a bureaucracy, Golshan needs to reclaim his life, and all three of them need to figure out how their lives work now. (Polyamorous MMF romance set in 1919.)
Country Manners finds Kate and Giles happy in the life they are building together.
When the winter holidays require a visit to his family estate, Giles and Kate make the best of it. Fortunately, they stumble into a mystery along the way, inspiring Kate to take a new approach in dealing with his family's disapproval of just about everything. (This tale takes place in December 1921, between their engagement and wedding.)
Thesan, Isembard, Ibis, and Pross find themselves Chasing Legends during the winter holidays at Schola.
It's long past time to revive some of Schola's older traditions. As a few staff and guests settle down for a feast during the school holidays, a resounding knock on the door brings a knight out of ancient tales and a challenge that will need every one of their combined skills. (December 1926, on the anniversary of Thesan and Isembard's wedding.)
All three novellas in this collection can be enjoyed on their own without reading other books of Albion. However, they do contain some spoilers for the events of those books. Kate and Giles meet and fall in love in Wards of the Roses. Thesan and Ismebard's romance can be found in Eclipse, and Pross and Ibis's can be found in Magician's Hoard.
Come enjoy all the delights of winter with Winter's Charms! Get your copy now for enchanting holiday reading full of kindness, magic, and love.
Casting Nasturtiums brings a family together.
Seth has no idea what's happened to Golshan since that awful day in the trenches in 1918. Now he's demobbed, Seth can track down Golshan, love Dilly (his wife), and get back to his woodwork. Of course, it's never that simple. Seth has to fight a bureaucracy, Golshan needs to reclaim his life, and all three of them need to figure out how their lives work now. (Polyamorous MMF romance set in 1919.)
Country Manners finds Kate and Giles happy in the life they are building together.
When the winter holidays require a visit to his family estate, Giles and Kate make the best of it. Fortunately, they stumble into a mystery along the way, inspiring Kate to take a new approach in dealing with his family's disapproval of just about everything. (This tale takes place in December 1921, between their engagement and wedding.)
Thesan, Isembard, Ibis, and Pross find themselves Chasing Legends during the winter holidays at Schola.
It's long past time to revive some of Schola's older traditions. As a few staff and guests settle down for a feast during the school holidays, a resounding knock on the door brings a knight out of ancient tales and a challenge that will need every one of their combined skills. (December 1926, on the anniversary of Thesan and Isembard's wedding.)
All three novellas in this collection can be enjoyed on their own without reading other books of Albion. However, they do contain some spoilers for the events of those books. Kate and Giles meet and fall in love in Wards of the Roses. Thesan and Ismebard's romance can be found in Eclipse, and Pross and Ibis's can be found in Magician's Hoard.
Come enjoy all the delights of winter with Winter's Charms! Get your copy now for enchanting holiday reading full of kindness, magic, and love.
350 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 8, 2021
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About the author
Celia Lake
48 books76 followersCelia Lake spends her days as a librarian in the Boston (MA) metro area, and her nights and weekends at home happily writing, reading, and researching.
Born and raised in Massachusetts to British parents, she naturally embraced British spelling, classic mysteries, and the Oxford comma before she learned there were any other options.
Born and raised in Massachusetts to British parents, she naturally embraced British spelling, classic mysteries, and the Oxford comma before she learned there were any other options.
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January 2, 2026
4.5 stars (rounded up). Review to come.
February 13, 2023
I've reviewed a number of Celia Lake's books before and this one is much the same. I love these gentle, sweet books about kind, competent people learning how to get along, build relationships, and solve problems and mysteries. This volume contains three novellas. It’s not the best place to start reading her books since the stories are all basically follow-ups to previous stories and include some minor spoilers. But this was one of my favorite books yet. I loved getting to see past the initial romance and having a view of favorite characters settled lives and I love how dedicated the characters are to figuring out how to make their relationships work and thrive. These books are absolutely my go-to comfort reads!
April 24, 2022
Very Good Novellas
Winter’s Charms is a collection of three novellas. I enjoyed all three very much. Seth/Dilly/Golshan’s story was very touching, and something I wanted to know more about since reading Eclipse. Kate and Giles’s trip to his family was good. The final story about Thesan, Isembard, Ibis, Pross and their quest within Schola pulled me in. A very good collection.
Winter’s Charms is a collection of three novellas. I enjoyed all three very much. Seth/Dilly/Golshan’s story was very touching, and something I wanted to know more about since reading Eclipse. Kate and Giles’s trip to his family was good. The final story about Thesan, Isembard, Ibis, Pross and their quest within Schola pulled me in. A very good collection.
December 27, 2021
Quite literally a charming holiday novella collection that revisits characters and mythologies from Lake's previous books, I especially enjoyed the somewhat Dungeons and Dragon's section set at the magical school (Schola).
June 16, 2022
This is some of Celia Lakes best writing
September 29, 2023
In 3 novellas set in an alternate magical post-WWI Britain, 3 war-damaged survivors (one blind, one paralyzed, one with PTSD) remake their lives with the help of loving family & friends. The Albion universe is the society of magic-users of Great Britain.
March 28, 2025
Delightful. More visits with favorite characters, problem solving and mysteries.
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