A Husband for Christmas — Paula Tanner Girard

SHE WANTED A SPLENDID MATCH...NOT A WAIF, A BANDIT, AND AN ABDUCTION!

Lady Caroline Cavendish is the ton's Incomparable -- the greatest beauty of the Season, even is she is a charming schemer, and an irrepressible flirt. Alas, none of her shenanigans has gotten her the perfect beau for Christmas. Instead, she's been given a babe! Someone has left a darling baby girl names "Poppy" in her carriage, and Lady Caroline is enchanted. But fate soon puts them both in the clutches of the infamous Bandit King, a dashing kidnapper who wanted a young fop to hold for ransom, and instead got two exasperating hostages. If anyone can reform him, its Lady Caroline, if anyone can capture her heart, it's this remarkable rogue. And with a little child to guide them, they may find what everyone needs for Christmas -- the incomparable gift of love.

Hero: Lord Kendale Blackmere (The Bandit King)
Heroine: Lady Caroline Cavendish