Christmas Spirits by Jane Charles

Christmas Spirits by Jane Charles
on November 3, 2025
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Historical / Regency, Fiction / Romance / Historical / Scottish, Fiction / Romance / Holiday
Pages: 121
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Mary Soares was supposed to spend Christmas, nice and warm on her family’s estate in Falkirk, Scotland, tending to their whisky business. However, the English have made smuggling almost impossible, and so order after order is waiting at the distillery until it’s safe enough to continue shipments. Most customers understand this. Most customers are reasonable. The Duke of Danby is not most customers. So after several demands from His Grace, insisting upon his order, Mary decides to deliver the whisky herself.

Benjamin Storm, Earl of Kenley, breathes a sigh of relief when his summons from the Duke of Danby has nothing to do with matrimony or a stack of special licenses. Instead, his uncle just needs Benjamin to travel to Scotland and procure his missing whisky shipment in time for his holiday festivities. The chore sounds easy enough, at least until he encounters a most unusual smuggler on her way to Danby Castle. Benjamin’s life may never be the same.

Christmas Spirits is book one in the Spirited Storms series by Jane Charles. Oh my…I loved this little book. It is a short read and so delightful. I think I found a new book friend – Mary Grant Soares is absolutely wonderful. I loved her character, her strength and honesty. There are some delightfully funny parts to this. I found myself laughing out loud a number of times. Benjamin Storm is a great hero. My only complaint is that there wasn’t much of a description of him. “He’d known her a day, but one thing was for certain he did not want to go another day without her.” I loved it! Can’t wait to read more by Charles.