A lovely cozy romantic story between two characters that get to know each other as persons and develop a friendship while by a chance encounter they get to spend a few days together not knowing exactly who is who in real life or in the eyes of the society.
It's a good story that apparently was first released a few years ago and it's just romance at its best in historical world.

I loved this book! Lady Sophie’s Christmas Wish is a classic Grace Burrowes romance – if you like her other works, you’ll adore this fourth installment of her Whindam series. A warning for those who may have read the series before – this is a reissue of the story that was first released in 2011.

Lady Sophie is just trying to get some time to herself. In a huge (she’s one of eight living siblings!), ducal family, she is both constantly surrounded but also feeling lonely. The holidays are a trying time for her following the death of one of her brothers around the holidays last year. She maneuvers things to get a few days to herself at her parents’ home in London before her three brothers (main characters in the three previous books) will pick her up to all travel to the family estate together for Christmas. Her plans for a quiet respite go a bit awry however when a housemaid abandons her son with Sophie at a nearby inn.

Meanwhile, Wilhelm (Vim) Charpentier – Lord Sindal – stops at the same inn on his way to his uncle/aunt’s home for the holiday. Vim is his uncle’s heir, but after a bad incident several years ago while he was visiting, he hasn’t returned, doesn’t like the holidays either, and has spent his adult life travelling the world in the shipping industry. His aunt and uncle have written to him about various problems they are having at the estate and he finally decides to return home out of concern for them.

Vim runs into Lady Sophie and the baby (Kit) at the inn and quickly understand the situation – and that Sophie is in desperate need of some assistance from someone experienced with children (Vim had younger siblings and has several nieces/nephews). Vim and Lady Sophie (and Kit) proceed back to her family’s house in London and end up spending several cozy days together. Neither know that the other is a member of the aristocracy and just get to know each other as people. Things of course get complicated when Sophie’s brothers eventually show up, they learn who the other is, and all travel to Kent together (of course, coincidentally, they are neighboring estates).

This is a really cozy romance – perfect to curl up with under a blanket and read in the winter. It’s a good long read too (as are most of her books). The obstacles the couple face are more internal than “bad guys” trying to stop them and it’s not a fast-paced adventure story or anything, but it is sweet and thoughtful. Both characters are smart and very kind and really respect each other.

I highly recommend this entire series – even though the stories don’t overlap a ton, the characters really do and you get the full emotional connection if you read the entire series. And, this particular book was definitely a strong and lovely part of the series!

Lady Sophie is left with her maid's abandoned baby at the family mansion, stranded by herself in the house during a snow storm. A stranger happens to come along and help her with the baby. Vim, of noble birth, assumes she is the house keeper, way underneath his status, thus any romantic feelings should be a no-go.

This was a fairly unlikely setting for historic England where no servants were around and the lady is hanging out with a man in the mansion by herself (and the baby, of course). This, itself, was a bit distracting, yet the characters were very likeable and the romance sweet.
This being the 4th book in a series it would probably have helped a bit to have read the first three books to understand some of the family dynamics.

This title was originally published in 2011, this edition is a re-release. It’s possible that you’ve read this title, so please, check your bookshelves before purchasing the same book twice.

LADY SOPHIE’S CHRISTMAS WISH continues The Windhams family saga with an entertaining Christmas Romance between two unlikely people who find themselves slowly falling for each other as they tend to an adorable baby and weather an unexpected winter storm trapping them in place.

Vim has not returned home for years, an unresolved issue has kept him traveling, wandering really until it became necessary to return. The last thing he expected was to tend to a baby as though it came quite naturally to him, or to be falling in love with a lady who would be perfect for him if she would only stop saying “no” to his heartfelt proposals. Yes, multiple proposals.

Sophie has longed for a family of her own but finds herself completely at a loss as to caring for the baby now in her care. She’s managed to get some time to herself to deal with her own issues but one little baby must come first. Luckily Vim steps in to help and to confuse as she is convinced he’s proposed not out of love but because of society’s rules. One misunderstanding leads to assumptions that needed to be cleared up fast.

I enjoyed LADY SOPHIE’S CHRISTMAS WISH. I had read this one when it was first released in 2011, so this was definitely a re-read for me. It’s not my favorite story in The Windhams series, but it’s a touching romance with laughter, tears, misunderstandings, and two people finally coming to their senses about each other.

*I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley. That does not change what I think of this story. It is my choice to leave a review giving my personal opinion about this book.*

This is a rerelease of a Windham family tale, out just in time for the holiday season. It can be read as a stand alone, but seeing as 1/4 of the novel is a Windham brothers road trip adventure, it definitely makes more sense if you’re already at least mildly familiar with them. I wish Burrowes had spent a little more time developing Sophie and a little less time with His Lord Baby, but still a very enjoyable story.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

I have voluntarily read and reviewed a copy of this title given to me via NetGalley. Lady Sophie’s Christmas Wish is the first book in the new The Windhams: The Duke’s Daughters series and it was so good. I loved getting to enter this new world and meet these new characters. I just fell in love with this story and these characters and I am so excited to see what this author writes next.

Grace Burrowes never disappoints. This book is #4 in the Windham series. I liked the progression of
the relationship between Sophie and Vim. I also liked reading about the characters from the past books. I thought the plot was a bit slow and would have liked it moving along at a quicker pace. Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and author for this ARC.

A heartwarming story about finding love and family at that most magical time of year. Sophie and Vim fall in love very naturally, though that love remains unspoken and misunderstood for too long. They both also fall head over heels for Kit, the adorable baby boy who’s abandoned by his teenage mother and left in Sophie’s care.
For me, Sophie is a bit too passive in her own story, which is not consistent with how she’s been helping her brothers during their past rough times, and she fails to show enough, or indeed any, initiative to achieve her own happiness which I thought a bit of a pity. I liked Vim, strangely familiar with infants as he is for a man of his station and times, though he could also do with a bit more of a spine in overcoming his past, and, like Sophie he is not the best at plainly stating his thoughts.
There’s entire cast of wonderful secondary characters, brothers, parents, aunts and uncles who all have endearing or humor-filled asides to offer the couple-to-be, though I feel that they perhaps got a bit too much time on-page and needlessly slowed down the story which was already meandering quite unhurriedly to its final conclusion.

Lady Sophie finds herself at an inn with a baby that is not her own. The baby is fussy and she has no idea what to do. But luck is on her side, when Vim steps up to help. He know just what to do to get the little tyke to settle down. Sophie learns that Vim needs a place to stay and invites him back to her family's home. While Vim only has plans to stay one night, a snow storm prevents him leaving.

While caring for the baby, Sophie and Vim end up getting closer and falling for one another. But neither has let the other know who they really are. When Sophie's brother's arrive, their real identities are revealed. Will the true separate these two?

I really enjoyed Sophie and Vim's story! The got to know one another away from the traditional methods that the ton uses, ballrooms and parlors. I loved watching them bond with the baby as much as with each other. It was also fun to be reunited with her brother...what a bunch of craziness they are!!

What a treasure of a book! I loved everything by Grace Burrowes I've read so far, but this book will have a special place in my heart. Ms. Burrowes simply writes the most likeable characters without making them perfect and therefore unbelievable. They're flawed, vulnerable, and utterly relatable. I felt so much for Sophie, the quiet, sensible sister who felt lonely in the midst of her large, boisterous family and who would rather settle for spinsterhood than a loveless marriage.
Vim was such a wonderful hero, kind and quielty funny and watching him fall in love with both Sophie and the little foundling baby gave me all the feels. They were both of them decidedly buffle-headed (a wonderful expression of Aunt Essie's which I am adopting into my daily vocabulary), but they were both guarding their hearts while falling helplessly in love, and it took the concerted efforts of a large cast of more or less helpful, hysterically funny side characters to get them together finally.
My only very small critique is that morning sickness and other early pregnancy symptoms are not very likely to show up less than a week after conception but this did not in the least spoil my enjoyment of this wonderful, heart-warming holiday treat.

Lady Sophie’s Christmas Wish by Grace Burrowes is a fun Christmas read. The book seems to be a reprint from 2011 with a new cover. I enjoy Grace Burrowes' books and reading about the Windham family.

Lady Sophia, one of the many Windham children is feeling sad. The Christmas season is a time of joy for most, but she is feeling betwixt and between. She has successfully managed a few days alone only by circumstances beyond the ordinary, she finds herself with an abandoned baby and Vim Charpentier in London during a major snowstorm.

For me, the book got better as the story moved along. I really wanted to bash the Sophie and Vim together with the stupidness that they continued to show toward each other until the end. Of course I am looking for the rest of the books to read in this series! Lady Sophie’s Christmas Wish by Grace Burrowes was a good read.

I received an ARC of Lady Sophie’s Christmas Wish from Sourcebooks Casablanca through NetGalley. What follows is my fair and honest review.

I admit to being a little bit confused about this book, or really about its publication. I received an advanced readers copy (ARC) of this book earlier this year, but when I went to find the book on Goodreads, it lists the publication date in 2011. So, I’m not sure if this is simply a re-release of a book, or if the book has been revised before being re-published, but this review is based on the new(?) version. Here’s my quick summary:

Lady Sophie just wants to spend some time by herself before being surrounded by all her family and their Christmas spirit. Her careful plans go awry, though, and she’s stuck in London with an abandoned baby in the middle of a snowstorm. But she doesn’t have to face this unexpected challenge alone. Vim Charpantier, a snowbound traveller, happens to be quite good with babies, and he is in need of a place to stay…

I loved the first half of this book, when Sophie and Vim are alone together in the snowbound London mansion. I thought Vim and his superior baby-caring abilities were a nice change from the gruff, emotionally-stunted heroes I’m encountering in a lot of my historical romance novels these days. Don’t get me wrong, I would throw down for Ash from The Duchess Deal, but there’s something very attractive about a man willing to crawl around with and change nappies for My Lord Baby.

What I found frustrating about this book was how silly the conflict was once they left London. Sophie and Vim clearly love each other and Baby Kit, but they can’t be together because...Sophie doesn’t think Vim loves her? Vim was embarrassed fifteen years ago and can’t deal? I know miscommunication is part of many romance novels, but in this story it felt particularly nonsensical. I just had a hard time believing the characters would fight so hard for the things that kept them apart then to be together. Thus, I ended up feeling slightly annoyed or just confused for much of the second half of the book.

I kept reading because I’m a sucker for Happily Ever Afters and because the second half of the book introduced new characters and more humor into the book. Sophie’s brothers, who I assume are the heroes of the other books in the series (The Windhams), Sophie’s parents, and Vim’s aunt and uncle, all brought a lightheartedness to the story that helped balance out the (unnecessary) angst of Sophie and Vim’s (unnecessary) separation.

I would recommend this for romance readers who love tropes (snowbound! baby!) and/or holiday stories.

3.5 stars

A special story of Christmas magic and wishes coming true when least expected. Lady Sophie, a duke's daughter is the eldest of five sisters and also has five brothers. Can you imagine? How wonderful that would be... She is such a kind hearted soul who takes in strays and always supports everyone. Well this becomes her time when she finds herself left with a baby very unexpectedly. But to make it very special she has the aid of a terribly handsome gentleman who helps her once she figures out the baby's mother is not coming back.
Enchanting, two people who do not really know who the other truly is, ie a duke's daughter and he a baron but as they are stuck together during the snow. There is humor and sweet moments, building feelings for each other and shared memories, often painful and of course sweet Kit the baby who engages their common affection.
Get lost in this sweet story that will make you smile and sigh as you turn the pages. A definate keeper!

If you’re looking for a gentle, undemanding sort of romance between two very nice people with not an enormous amount at stake for either of them, this could very well fit the bill nicely. Lady Sophie Windham is a duke’s daughter with a soft heart and a habit of taking in strays, left literally holding a baby when her good nature if taken advantage of. Vim Charpentier steps in to help out, and, trapped by a prodigious snowstorm, the two start falling for each other.

It’s easy to look at Sophie and Vim and think their problems are Rich People Problems - they both have plenty of money and supportive families - not every story has to be about struggle and suffering. Sophie has to come to a conscious decision about what direction she wants her life to go in and Vim needs to get past some youthful issues which have been holding him back.

This is a rather charming, introspective romance with a large side of Adorable Baby thrown in with some Trapped In A Snowstorm trope action. Don’t expect a lot of action or high stakes, but if you’re in the mood for something restful and soothing with two rather nice people discovering they’re the answer to each other’s wistful dreams, this might be the book you’re looking for. Four stars.

This is a delightful holiday story from Grace Burrowes. Sophie is fiercely independent and just wants to be left alone. Unfortunately that is not to be. Vim is desperate to get his life straightened out. The two find themselves stuck together and coparenting a baby that belongs to neither. As they spend time together they find common ground and love. This author tells a story that draws in the reader. She uses familiar characters that always lets the reader feel like they are visiting with friends.

This is my fair and honest review in return for this ARC. A sweet Christmas story. Great characters and tale.

A sweet Christmas romance of two strangers getting snowed in, bonding over an orphaned baby and falling in love. I love this series and this is another great book in the series. This author is one of my favorites and I've loved every book I've read of hers.

I enjoyed this well-written historical romance. The development of the relationship between Sophie and Vim was sweet and enjoyable. All the characters were interesting and the story held my attention. I would recommend this book to others and look forward to reading more books by this author.

Great historical read. Lady Sophie’s servant abandons her baby and Sophie ends up caring for it. Luckily Vim is there to help her but he thinks she is a servant. Sparks fly while they are staying at her father’s home and taking care of the baby, during a snowstorm. Will they share their feeling for each other and reveal who they really are? Fast-paced read with plenty of drama and steam. I really liked it.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Lady Sophie's Christmas Wish is book 1 in Grace Burrowes new series of the Windham family, The Duke's Daughters. Available 9-24-19, it's given me 3 books for my TBR pile. I liked Sophie's brothers so much that I want to read their stories, it's an interesting family. Although I enjoyed the characters, the plot seemed to stick in several places. I got a Men Are From Mars vibe. Our couple are both socially awkward and it makes for quite a few awkward scenes, I wanted to shake both of them till their teeth rattled. At least I was invested in their relationship.

Lady Sophie Windham is lonely, even in a crowd. She'd like a husband & children of her own but it has to be a love match. Mr. Right hasn't come along and she's given up hope. Now all she wants is a few days alone, no family, no servants, just her own company and thoughts. I can't fault her for that. A maid runs off without her baby and it's up to Sophie, there's a snow storm & she's stuck. Along comes Vim Charpentier, he's stuck by the storm too, handsome, kind & knows about babies! They get to spend a couple of days together & never give away their titles, they're just Vim & Sophie. For 2 people so right for each other they can't seem to communicate. Superficial talk & baby lessons go fine but anything deeper is a mess. They, of course, get their HEA but it's a miracle. By the end I was exasperated with these two knuckleheads.

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