Moonlight Enchantment

Writing as: Deborah Martin

Moonlight Enchantment

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Siam was no place for a proper young English lady to travel unchaperoned. But when a vicious rumor destroys her good name, Esme Montrose flees her father’s Bangkok home rather than salvage her reputation by marrying a man she loathes.

Running from the clutches of her hated fiance, she meets the dashing Lord Ian Winthrop. And though she would gladly linger in his arms, Winthrop wants nothing to do with a girl of her tawdry reputation. Her happiness imperiled, Esme has to prove she isn’t a shameless doxy—or she will lose the only man she has ever loved.

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Regency Tidbit

The term “Boxing Day” actually shows up during our period, but the concept of giving a “box” to the poor or to those in service began much earlier, at least as far back as the Middle Ages. I read an account from the mid-18^th century that described a man with a comfortable income giving anywhere from a shilling to a half-a-crown to servants and several merchants he had dealings with. On a large estate, the owner might give boxes of food and other gifts to each tenant and servant. It mirrors the American practice of offering Christmas gifts to public servants or business associates, except that in countries which practice it, it occurs the day AFTER Christmas.

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