There had been a time when Joe hadn’t dreaded Christmas so much. So Joe played his role, ho ho ho’d, and smiled for the camera while the brat on his lap asked him for a pony. The photographer’s words were more of a warning than a cue to get ready for the second picture. If he really were Santa, he would give her coal in her stocking and a letter advising her parents to put her in the naughty corner.
Now, after she’d pulled on his Santa beard during the picture, he knew better. The kid was maybe five years old, had blonde hair, blue eyes and dimples galore. Joe looked at the small spawn of Satan currently sitting on his lap and held in the urge to growl.
But Mercy realizes that, with Vivienne's presence, it will take far more than just alienating Emily from her father to secure Mercy's own position.Īnd the depths she sinks to will shock them all.If one more kid tried to pull his beard, he was going to roar. Simon and Vivienne must determine whether or not they can join forces to save Emily without giving in to their feelings for one another. The longer Vivienne remains at the isolated country estate, Edgecomb Manor, the more she realizes just how ruthless Mercy Milthorpe is-and how hopeless she is to resist the earl. But her desire to help Emily is complicated by her attraction Simon. Vivienne instantly falls in love with Emily, a child so painfully haunted by her mother's death and so tormented by the insidious whispers of her grandmother that she has become like a ghost herself. Desperate for help, he turns to the Darrow School and the lovely Miss Vivienne Alcott for aid. But over time, Simon came to realize that Mercy was poisoning Emily against him for reasons that he could not fathom. Her mother, Mercy Milthorpe, had been a godsend to him in the beginning as she'd provided the help he needed to raise his young daughter. Widower Simon Montclair, Earl of Eastlington, has been battling more than his guilt over the questionable death of his late wife. Welcome to book 5 in the bestselling series The Hellion Club by USA Today Bestselling author Chasity Bowlin!
And if he let it continue, it would become something else altogether-something his honor could never permit.
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