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Lady Jenny’s Christmas
Portrait
...Will break both their hearts
What Lady Jenny wants for
Christmas…
REVIEW: Grace Burrowes brings dignity and passion to the
questions of ambition and love in Lady Jenny’s Christmas
Portrait. Burrowes offsets the steamy sensuality of human
nature against the formal society of the English aristocracy and
the extravagance of Holiday celebrations. The reader of Lady
Jenny’s Christmas Portrait is immediately aware of characters
with depth, wisdom, and burning sexuality.
Grace Burrowes
Historical Romance
Heat Rating: 4
For Christmas, soft-spoken Lady
Jenny Windham craves the
freedom to pursue her artistic ambitions, though it will mean
scandalizing her ducal parents and abandoning all hope of a
family of her own. She confides her plans to successful artist
Elijah Harrison when he’s commissioned to paint a portrait of
her small nephews, because assisting Elijah will bring Jenny
that much closer to her heart’s desire--won’t it?
Elijah Harrison finds in his unlikely assistant not only an
inspiring muse and unappreciated talent, but also a lovely
and passionate woman. If Elijah supports Jenny’s career, his
own professional interests will suffer, but more significantly,
he will lose Jenny forever. Both Jenny and Elijah must choose
between true love and a lifelong dream.
Christmas Season is the backdrop occasion for Lady
Genevieve Windham (Lady Jenny) to indulge in the
whimsical magic of romance against most polite conventional
contradictions. Mr. Elijah Harrison, an artist of portraiture
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