Living in the present is impossible when your heart is stuck in the past.
The only thing Donovan Ellis, Seventh Duke of Gatewood, wants for Christmas is for it to be over. Too much sadness surrounds the holiday. Horrors he’d just as soon forget. Oh, there’s one present he yearns for with all his heart, but he can’t have her. His foolishness pushed her into the arms of another. So if he can’t have the one thing he truly desires, then he just wants to be left alone to drown in his own misery.
But when a ghostly apparition visits him, claiming things can be set right, can Donovan believe? Can he trust the duke of Christmas past? Or will meddling in the past bring more heartache than he already has to bear?
Series: N/A
Release Date: 11/01/2013
Publisher: Escape Publishing
Source: Publisher
Reviewer: SammySosa
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The Duke of Christmas Past is a quick moving novella about a Duke Donovan that made some mistakes eight years ago. I found the story picks up right from the beginning. We are shown a small glimpse of Donovan’s past, then plunge into current time with Donovan sitting being miserable and feeling sorry for himself thinking about Christmas past and how horrible his life turned out to be.
Donovan has been given a second chance at fixing the past. I found each character to be very likeable and even though Donovan was miserable and had a huge chip on his shoulder at the beginning I was hoping for a good ending for him. It is a nice change to the original Christmas Carol, with the only ghost of Christmas past being his former self. Β It’s definitely a very sweet Christmastime read!
