Aphrodite

 Aphrodite (#1,353) is the second in the Regency Goddesses series by D.G. Rampton, and much of it takes place at a Christmas house party.

April Hartwood is stunningly beautiful. Things weren't too bad in rural Cornwall where she grew up, but now that she has moved to London with her newly engaged mother and her fiance, men's reactions to her can be downright embarrassing.  For her part, April's just anxious to get her mother happily married off to the man who adores her, and go back to managing her heavily mortgaged estate of St. Maw.  Too bad her domineering grandmother has other plans for her - marriage to the Duke of Claredon.  Or is that really her grandmother's plan?

You'll have fun finding out the answer in this clever romance.  Can't wait to read Aurora, the last book in this delightful series.