Dashing Through the Snow

A Holiday Regency Duology

By: Lauren Smith

Narrated by: Will Thorne

Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

Daphne Westfall is a lady desperate for a future, one that doesn't involve her dark past. On a cold night she receives aid from a mysterious stranger, one who tells her she can change her destiny, as long as she agrees to marry the man who wins her.

The brooding Scottish lord that offers her his name and home is handsome but there's something sorrowful in his eyes that feels all too personal to her....

Lachlan Grant never wanted to be an earl, but fate has been less than kind to him. At the insistence of a friend, he seeks out a bride and comes face to face with a woman who bewitches him instantly.

But they each hold secrets that will haunt them both. With a love blooming delicately between them, will their new found happiness together wilt and fade beneath the frost of the past?

Contains mature themes.

©2018 Lauren Smith ("Bewitching the Earl"); Copyright 2019 by Lauren Smith ("Seducing an Heiress on a Train") (P)2020 Tantor

Loved it!!!

What I loved most about it was the honesty of feelings. Sadly the duty that so many aristocratic heirs felt due to pressure from family to secure their way of over-indulgence, & the means that so many had to succumb to to make that happen, this story strayed from that, & truly demonstrates the need to break that cycle. Americans helped at times to somewhat perpetuate, as enablers to that out-dated cycle, per this story. But hats off to the author for research, having just returned from Edinburgh Scotland I so appreciated the accuracy of the description & places of the locations mentioned , we stayed so close, across the street from where these characters went 150 years ago, loved loved that!!!! I totally visualized it because nothing has changed, same buildings there, many hundreds of years old. My only slight negative to the book is that I have listened to this narrator before & love his male voices but his female voices sound curt to me, not a soft loving woman as some of characters should sound. Just my opinion. But loved loved everything else about the writer & book!!!! This book delivers!

This book is an absolute yes!!!

I loved both stories!!! The first story actually made me tear up a little bit and warmed my heart at the same time. Great short story! The second story was also wonderful. I geeked out when there was a little connection to the League of Rogues in the second story. I highly recommend this book.

Lovely … even if not very Christmas-y

Two heartfelt novellas with only passing connection to the holidays. If anything, the theme should be the miracles that happen during the winter season. Both have decent spice and Mr. Thorn’s intimate narration. I would have liked more humor or feisty dialogue, but with the shorter length I can forgive a mellower listen.

Bewitching an Earl
This one’s a broody tearjerker as Daphne is rescued from ruin by Lachlan, an Earl with less than honorable intentions. However, Daphne’s kindness thaws his cold heart in the best spirit of Christmas.

Seducing a Heiress on a Train
This one’s sweeter and settles in like cozy socks on a winter’s day. Oliver needs an heiress by Christmas to save his family home. American original Rayne is the perfect gift, both wealthy and charming.
But things get tricky as Rayne is keen to avoid fortune hunters. Can Oliver have his cake and eat it too,
or must he choose between money or love?

Two Short stories

Bewitcthing the Earl and Seducing an heiress on a train. I didn't realize this was two short stories but with Lauren Smith as the author , it matters little. If you like her , you know what you're in for.

2nd Story was worth it.

Both stories are great, but the second one is some great marshmallow fluff with some spiced hot chocolate on a train.