I Will / Three French Hens / Father Christmas

"***I Will*** " by Lisa Kleypas When a Georgian bluestocking is propositioned by a rakish noble, she finds the unlikely deal he proposes is the gift of a lifetime. "***Three French Hens***" by Lynsay Sands A twelfth-century scullion gets the chance to play a lady's maid--and win the true love of an impoverished lord. "***Father Christmas***" by Leigh Greenwood Delivering a young widow's baby during the holiday season transforms the heart of a lonely drifter in the nineteenth-century Arizona Territory