A Christmas Carroll, Leanna Renee Hieber
A Christmas Carroll, Leanna Renee Hieber
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A Christmas Carroll
A Strangely Beautiful Series Novella

Author: Leanna Renee Hieber

Narrator: Leanna Renee Hieber

Unabridged: 3 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/26/2021

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance

Synopsis

The year is 1888 and an ancient Prophecy has just been fulfilled, leaving Rebecca Thompson, Headmistress of the mysterious Athens Academy in London, utterly ‎heartbroken. Having long served as second in command of The Guard, keeping balance between the mortal and spirit world, she has lived a lonely life in love with the leader of the Guard. But now that he is married to another woman, Rebecca fears her bleak, isolated future.  The Heart of The Guard, Vicar Michael Carroll has valiantly mitigated the emotional toils ghostly work takes on his fellows, working magic with his unique brand of empathy and contagious joy. But secretly he has always harbored a passionate love for the Headmistress, who has never noticed him as anything other than a friend. As he gathers his courage to tell her the truth, he finds the whole of the spirit world is there to help him. Three ghosts set the Headmistress and the Vicar on a dizzying course of change. Wrenching journeys through the past, present and future collide with unexpected dangers from the spirit world. True love, teamwork, scheming ghosts and guardian angels conspire to save the hearts, minds and souls of two deserving mortals at the mercy of immortal powers…just in time for the holidays.

About Leanna Renee Hieber

Leanna Renee Hieber is an actress, playwright, artist and the award-winning, bestselling author of Gothic Victorian Fantasy novels for adults and teens such as the Strangely Beautiful, Eterna Files, and Magic Most Foul sagas. She grew up in rural Ohio inventing ghost stories, graduating with a BFA in Theatre and a focus in the Victorian Era from Miami University. She began her theatrical career with the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and began adapting works of 19th Century literature for the stage. Her novella Dark Nest won the 2009 Prism Award for excellence in the genres of Futuristic, Fantasy and Paranormal Romance. Her debut novel, The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker hit Barnes & Noble's bestseller lists, won two 2010 Prism Awards, the 2010 Orange County Book Buyer's Best Award and other regional genre awards. The Perilous Prophecy of Guard and Goddess won the 2012 Prism Award. Books one and two are now available as Strangely Beautiful in a revised, author-preferred editions from Tor/Forge as is Perilous Prophecy. Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul hit the Kid's/YA Indie Next List as a recommended title by the American Booksellers Association and a Scholastic Book Clubs "highly recommended" title. Leanna's short fiction has been featured in anthologies such as Willful Impropriety: Tales of Society and Scandal, "Too Fond" a short story on Tor.com, "Charged" in Queen Victoria's Book of Spells and the Mammoth Book of Gaslight Romance. Her new Gaslamp Fantasy trilogy The Eterna Files, is now available and complete from Tor/Forge. Her next series The Spectral City launches 11/2018 from Kensington, Rebel Base Books. Her books have been translated into many languages and have been selected for multiple book club editions. Leanna is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers. She is proud to be a co-founder of the original Lady Jane's Salon Reading Series in New York. Leanna was named the 2010 RWA NYC Chapter Author of the Year. A member of Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA, Leanna has been featured in film and television on shows like Boardwalk Empire and Mysteries at the Museum. An enthusiastic public speaker about the history of the Gothic novel, she loves nothing more than a good ghost story and a finely tailored corset, wandering graveyards and adventuring around New York City, where she also works as a ghost tour guide.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lexie

To clarify, this is only one of three novellas available in the anthology A Midwinter Fantasy. However having not read either of the other two authors before, nor the series for which those novellas reside in, I made the executive decision to wait to read them until I have read the books. Plus I was......more

Goodreads review by Andrea

Set in Victorian era England, this story inspired by Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" does not miss center. A group of Demon hunters reeling from loss find the true meaning of love and friendship. I had not read any of Ms. Heiber's work before this one, I now have to read all the works in her "Strangely......more

Goodreads review by Matt

Though this book has some fun twists of the Dickens classic, it has a lightly developed depiction of the spirit world, and the climax of the book could be more satisfying.......more

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