Regan Walker - Once Upon a Christmas Past

Regan Walker

Paula Quinn

Catherine Kean

Brenda Jernigan

My gratitude goes to photographer Kenny Muir for allowing me to use his beautiful photograph of Dunnottar Castle, dressed in winters splendor, for my cover. A special thank you also goes to those who helped me make this novel historically authentic: Simon Cruickshank, the proprietor of The Ship Inn in Stonehaven, built in 1771, who confirmed that the inn had sufficient rooms in 1819 to accommodate William Stephens guests; and Paul at Big Game Indicating Dogs, who read my scene of the deer stalking with Ailies setters and assured me it could well have happened that way.

In addition, I must thank my beta readers for their contributions, especially Liette Bougie and Dr. Chari Wessel, whose contributions were invaluable.

Ms. Walker has the rare ability to make you forget you are reading a book. The characters become real, the modern world fades away, and all that is left is the intrigue, drama, and romance.

Straight from the Library

The writing is excellent, the research impeccable, and the love story is epic. You cant ask for more than that.

The Book Review

Regan Walker is a master of her craft. Her novels instantly draw you in, keep you reading and leave you with a smile on your face.

Good Friends, Good Books

an example of how to in good story building a multilayered novel adding depth and yearning.

InDTale Magazine

Spellbinding and Expertly Crafted The path to true love is never easy, yet Regan Walker leads the reader to an entertaining, realistic and worthy HEA. Walkers characters are complex and well-rounded and, in her hands, real historical figures merge seamlessly with those from her imagination.

A Readers Review

Walker stuns with her gift for storytelling, magically entwining historic fact and fiction to create a thought-provoking, sensual romance, one that will stay with you.

Chicks, Rogues & Scandals

Walkers detailed historical research enhances the time and place of the story without losing sight of what is essential to a romance: chemistry between the leads and hope for the future.

Publishers Weekly

an enthralling story.

RT Book Reviews

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Aileen (Ailie) Stephen

T he crowd surged around Nash like a living thing. Voices of children mingled with those of their parents anxiously awaiting the man they believed would give eloquent voice to their long-ignored cries for reform.

Unmindful of the smoke from the citys factories marring the blue of the midday sky, thousands had flocked to the vast green field. Mothers wore their Sunday best, some carried babes in arms. Their presence only added to Nashs fears.

The conversations he and his twin brother Robbie had overheard in Manchesters taverns had educated them to the peoples hope that such a large gathering would rouse the government to act. They wanted representation in Parliament and relief from the heavy taxes that took bread from the mouths of their children.

Nash had seen for himself the hunger and sickness that stalked the overcrowded city like a destroying angel, claiming lives old and young.

Manchesters huge population lacked even a single Member of Parliament while some villages with a dozen people and a few cows had their own MP, a situation that kept votes in the hands of the landed few.