What Happens Under the Mistletoe by Jeffries Sabrina

Author:Jeffries, Sabrina [Jeffries, Sabrina]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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BY ANY OTHER NAME

Candace Camp

Love was born at Christmas.

—Christina Rossetti

Chapter One

Edinburgh, 1807

Rylla Campbell had long ago prepared her escape from the house in the middle of the night, but she had never before had occasion to use her plan. Quietly she shut her door behind her and went on stocking feet to the stairs, her heart pounding all out of proportion to the risk she was taking.

Truthfully, it would have been an easy matter if only her friend Eleanor had not been staying with them until Christmas. Her parents, at the back of the house, were unlikely to hear her above her father’s snoring. But Eleanor was a light sleeper and her room lay between Rylla’s and the stairs. Though Elly was a dear friend, she was depressingly inflexible in her standards. She was the daughter of a minister in a small town, and worse, she seemed to have little taste for adventure. If she caught Rylla sneaking out of the house dressed in her brother’s old clothes, Elly would feel duty-bound to stop her.

Fortunately, Rylla made it to the bottom of the stairs without Eleanor popping out of her room. She eased open the front door and stepped into the dark night. Remnants of yesterday’s snow lingered near the base of the houses, but it was not falling tonight. Instead, fog hung in wisps and patches and the cobblestoned streets glistened wetly from the dampness in the cold air. Rylla shivered. It was just the cold, she thought. It was not because she was scared of being alone outside so late at night. She could not allow herself to be frightened. She had to find her brother. It was almost Christmas, and she had to bring him home.

Rylla went down the steps and started up the street. It was a trifle strange to walk alone like this in the hushed night. Strange, too, not to feel the movement of skirts around her legs as she walked. But she rather liked it. There was a freedom in wearing masculine attire—not just the ability to stride along at a rapid pace in breeches but the knowledge that no one would expect her to be shy or soft-spoken or sweetly dependent. Besides, though it was odd, even a little scary, there was a tingle of excitement, too, at the risk she was taking.

It would be a scandal if she were caught—and then there were the lurking dangers people whispered about. But Rylla was certain she could pull it off. As long as she convinced everyone she was a man, she need not worry about the horrors that awaited a lone female. In fact, she quite looked forward to entering the mysterious world that only men were allowed to know.

She was proud of the costume she had scavenged from a trunk in the attic.

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