The Duke's Progress — Edith Layton

Here are five all-new stories of Christmas by the highly acclaimed authors you love to read all year 'round. These heartwarming holiday tales touch on all the great themes of the season -- joyful homecomings, bittersweet reunions, renewals of the spirit, and the joys of giving. They are stories of lovers and families, of heartbreak, and of tender devotion--bringing together the extraordinary talents of five prize-winning authors in one exquisite collection.

Cyril Hampton, Duke of Austell, is too sophisticated to believe in the miracles of Christmas, but he keeps trying to find them. It takes a small boy, an old memory, a magical Christmas globe and a woman he didn't dare believe existed, to save him from despair, and bring him happiness for Christmas and all his life thereafter.