St. Pirate

Taken from the only life she knew…

Caught up in a custody feud, Miss Joy Lynn Thatch barely remembers her father. Treated as a servant by her vengeful grandparents, she was glad to be sent away to boarding school. Now years later, Joy teaches there, content with life, yet she dreams of a home and family of her own. Every Christmas Eve she makes the same wish: a husband who will love her forever. When she's convinced by an old friend, an eccentric sailor – who looks a lot like Santa Claus – to accompany one of her students home for the holiday, Joy starts to believe that Christmas wishes can come true!

Questioning his purpose in life…

Daniel Raymond, the new Earl of Rainmount, is a man who has lost his way. Tired of the endless parties and meaningless relationships that money and power provide, he withdraws from life. Saddled with the responsibilities of the Earldom, his young sister is the only kindness in his stodgy world and he vows to make this Christmas happy for her. When he concedes to his old friend – a retired pirate – to allow a teacher at his sister's school to coordinate the Rainmount Family Christmas House Party, Daniel never expected to feel his cold heart melting. But when he sees the beautiful Joy, he realizes this Christmas can be happy for him too…if he can persuade Joy to be his wife.