Four exciting, romantic, sexy, fun novellas celebrating Christmas in 4 unique ways! From Emma Craig, "Jack of Hearts," from Annie Kimerlin, "The Shepherds and Mr Weisman," and from Kathleen Nance, "The Yuletide Spirit."

In my story, "The Twelfth Knight," 'two honorable thieves, one a spritely young woman, the other a dashing and just knight, have only the twelve days of Christmas to traverse medieval England and find a secret treasure... which just may be buried in each other's arms.'

This story was really fun - the hero & heroine are competing for a treasure, & spend most of their time trying to one-up each other for control - which soon becomes more for passion's sake than for the treasure they're hunting. In the meanwhile, their lumbering servant Alfred is bounced back and forth between them - maintaining a peculiar & too-knowing silence with plans of his own... I love a heroine who has a purpose of her own & who isn't there to be saved by the hero, but is just as ready to save him back. Dera (which means 'fiend' in Welsh, by the way) is a very lively little person, too pleased with herself & sure of her abilities. Wulf, oddly named Beowulf because I felt like it, is a man running from the dark secrets of his past, and one tiny black-haired Welsh thief is the only person standing in the way of his redemption. But even when Wulf connives to gain her as a servant, and her giant, too, he finds himself more & more besotted.