Free e-book for the Winter Solstice

It’s the time of year when we can cosy down and enjoy the darker evenings as we approach the Winter Solstice on 21^st December, preferably with a book in hand. As this is my favourite time of year, I don’t yet want to think of the days beginning to get longer (unlike my husband) so I appreciate every day of autumn into winter.

I wanted to make one of my full-length novels free as a gift for this time of year, so what better than Midwinter Masquerade, a historical novel set in the lead-up to the Winter Solstice of 1816, often called the year without a summer.

Edinburgh, December 1816, young widow Lady Lenora Fitzallan accepts an invitation to the country estate of Edward Montgomery, the man she once thought to marry seventeen years previously. Until he left without explanation.

Accompanied by her godmother, Lady Pettigrew, Lenora forms a friendship with Edward’s young niece and ward, Annabelle, who has a propensity for getting into scrapes and falling in love with the wrong man.

As the Masquerade Ball approaches at the Winter Solstice, the past unravels, the villain is unmasked, and Lenora must decide with whom her future lies.

You can see the little trailer here.

Midwinter Masquerade is available to download free from Amazon UK and US, or wherever you are, from Friday 19^th through Tuesday 23^rd December.

Wishing you a Happy Christmas and Health for 2026.

Rosemary