Flame-haired Irish lass Mara Despencer embarks upon a plan to take back her family's castle, Kulhaven, after it was confiscated by the English government under Oliver Cromwell's brutal Protectorate. She will lure the castle's new master, the scandalous Hadrian Ross, the Bastard Earl of St. Aubyn, into a marriage that will allow her to become mistress of Kulhaven once again.

Mariota MacKay believes both her virtue and her life are in jeopardy from one of her clan’s guards. Though she repels his advances, she knows one day he’ll succeed, and because her father cannot accept that his heir is truly at risk, she sees no way to save herself but to run.

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Readers who fell in love with Lucien De Montforte, the powerful and manipulative Duke of Blackheath in Danelle Harmon's internationally bestselling De Montforte Brothers Series, will welcome his reappearance -- and interference -- in this heartwarming Christmas novella set in England of 1779.