Marcus doesn’t celebrate Christmas anymore. Not since the holiday massacre of his entire family left him an orphaned child, traumatized and alone.

Taken in by a reclusive billionaire with a secret identity, Marcus was trained to take the older man’s place when he could no longer serve as the elusive crime-fighter known as the Guardian.

By New York Times and USA Today Bestselling, RITA® Award winning author, Maggie Shayne

“Maggie Shayne delivers romance with sweeping intensity and bewitching passion.” #1 NY Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz.

*Originally titled Fairytale.

A little boy’s haven…

As a child Adam found respite from his father’s cruelty in the woods around their home. During one of his forest adventures, he crawled through tunnel and emerged into another world, a magical world, where a beautiful fairy child splashes in an enchanted pool.

It was just imagination…

Eastham, Cape Cod, 1715 - Captain Samuel Bellamy is an adventurer who sails into a puritanical Massachusetts town looking for backers to finance his treasure-hunting expedition in Florida. What he's not looking for is love, but he finds it in innocent young Maria Hallett. When he sails away to seek a fortune big enough to convince her family to let them wed, he never dreams that he's left her in disgrace ...