Voted Best Novella/Short Story in the All About Romance 2014 Reader Poll And along the way they just might learn that the best adventures are the ones you never would have thought to plan.Īmazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | iBooks | Scribd | inktera or will they? When a carriage mishap and a snowstorm strand the pair miles short of their destination, threatening them with scandal and jeopardizing all their Christmas plans, they'll have to work together to save the holiday from disaster. Let him disapprove of her all he likes-it's not as though they'll see each other again after today. She's going to enjoy the house party as no one has ever enjoyed a house party before, and in the meanwhile she's going to enjoy every minute in the company of amusingly stern, formidably proper, outrageously handsome Mr.
Lucy Sharp has been waiting all her too-quiet life for an adventure, and she means to make the most of this one. IT COULDN'T BE MORE DELICIOUSLY MIXED-UP.
So why the devil did he agree to do just that?
He has no time to dawdle, no time for nonsense, and certainly no time to drive the falconer's vexing, impulsive, lush-lipped, midnight-haired daughter to a house party before heading home. As his sister's impending marriage signals the inevitable drifting-apart of the Blackshear family, it's his last chance to give his siblings the sort of memorable, well-planned holiday their parents could never seem to provide. With one more errand to go-the purchase of a hunting falcon-Andrew Blackshear has Christmas completely under control. The clouds broke above him, he turned down a lane whose towering yews promised a bit of shelter, and trouble found him, in torrents that put the winter squall to shame.
His first glimpse of the girl would then have been indoors, seated, with her hair bound tidily back, and their first dialogue would have been an inquisition so tedious as to temper the allure of those great swooping clean-edged curves that made up her prodigal mouth.īut with no way of knowing what lay in store, he hadn't any reason to avoid the detour. The trouble, Andrew Blackshear would later reflect, might all have been avoided if he'd simply kept to the main road.
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