Happy Holiday to all from Jane Feather in the form of a novella titled A HOLIDAY GAMBLE. Here's the scoop it's never a gamble purchasing a book by Jane Feather even one that is obviously designed to be a short story. But don't mistake short for small. A HOLIDAY GAMBLE is big in story content and character development all distinctions of Jane Feather books.

This story takes place in Regency-era England and is rich with details of that period. Lovers of historical romance will truly enjoy A HOLIDAY GAMBLE. Each page is jammed pack with action -- so much so that I kept referring to the number of pages in this novella. Jane Feather absolutely does not shortchange her fans with this lovely engaging story line. True to form the only negative is that readers will want more.

A HOLIDAY GAMBLE introduces some very interesting characters, some likeable others not so much. So from the onset we are already choosing sides. The basic story is about Viscount "Ned" Allerton who gets caught in a blizzard and to make matters worse while hoping to find safe haven to wait out the storm he gets robbed. Ned is returning home aware that he will need to invest money and time to refurbish his family estate.

Ned considered himself fortunate that he came upon an estate that welcomed his little party to wait out the blizzard. What he found was an intriguing group of Christmas partygoers who had fun on their agenda. Ned was also confounded by an undercurrent of deception that involved several of these attendants. He was fairly certain that the young ward of his host was somehow in a precarious maybe even dangerous position. Lady Georgiana is a rather free spirit. It's that spirit and sass that attracts Ned. Now he has to decide whether to get involved in the situation Georgiana has found herself.

A HOLIDAY GAMBLE is a delight from the first page to the last. This is a reprint of a story that had appeared in a collection of holiday stories and is now being released as a solo novella.