When youngsters Connor Hamil and Sissy Eaton were parted after months in the parish workhouse, they never expected to meet again. Ten years later, circumstances have changed drastically for them both-and love struck Connor vows to wed the young widow. But one man stands in their way, unless the spirit of the season results in a gift the couple will cherish forever.
All Lord Henry Whittaker wants for Christmas is a peach-Miss Susan Peach, to be precise. But the high-spirited young miss, his distant cousin, is far too busy scrambling up ladders to hang boughs of holly and ivy to pay attention to her very proper host, until he determines to be the first-and only-man to meet her under the mistletoe…
When penniless Miss Emily Winthrop wanders onto Lord Winter's estate, he's happy to offer her shelter-until he realizes the blasted woman is traveling with an elephant! He can't allow her to ruin the house party he's planned for the holidays, but soon enough he discovers that neither his home nor his lonely heart will ever be the same if she leaves…
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