This is a delightful conclusion to the Christmas Charms series and takes place a few years after the events of the other books in the Charms series. Caroline Bingley married Baronet Harpwell but was widowed after two years. As the new Baronet is coming to take up his inheritance, she must find a new place to live. She visits the Bingleys and Darcy’s for Christmas and meets up with her first love — Sebastian Moore. They had parted badly several years before and both came away from it feeling very hurt and damaged by the experience, neither of which ever overcame it.
I always like finding JAFF that presents Caroline in a more gentle light. It’s too easy to make her an over-the-top villain so when I learned that MJ Stratton would write a book about Caroline, knowing how well Stratton has dealt with other side characters before, I was quite excited to see this book and preordered it the moment I could. It does not disappoint.
First of all, Stratton gives us more of a look into Caroline as a child and a teenager. You see glimpses of her enjoying life and especially enjoying playing in the snow. In doing so, you see more of a basis for her extreme criticisms of Elizabeth in canon. She sees a gentlewoman behaving in a way she used to and not only getting away with it but also gaining the social status in the husband she herself had been so desperate to obtain.
Second, I liked seeing Sebastian and his status as a tradesman and new landowner. While he is an honorable man like Darcy, his personality is more impulsive and a bit more volatile. He is less reserved and controlled. Caroline’s determined search to gain Darcy or a peer or any man who was the opposite of Sebastian was an effort to get over the pain she still felt from their parting.
Watching the two of them learn to move away from the hurt of the past and accept the other is sweet. But in particular, it is enjoyable to see Caroline finally accept parts of herself that she had tried to deny, which helps her become more comfortable with herself and those around her.
This was a good conclusion to the series. I very much enjoyed it.
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