Beguiled on a Christmas Morning

Holidays are best spent with the ones you love, especially when adventure is in the offing.

Its the Christmastide season, and the Hawkins family is at their country estate in Kent. Emmaline, the Countess of Archewyne, is excited, for its her first Christmas with her little family as well as one of the few shes spent in England.

Passing his leisure time with his loved ones gives Miles Lawrence Hawkins, the fifth Earl of Archewyne, great pleasure, as does anticipating their faces when they open his gifts. And hes found the most splendid thing for his wifea fresh archeological dig of ancient Roman origin on his property.

When plans for Christmas Eve preparations go awry and Miles is taken hostage at gunpoint, Emmaline is at her wits end. Heartsick and worried, only a clue from some overly affectionate geese will be able to save her beloveds life. If she can reach him in time, theyll both...