A young woman, desperate to have one last lovely Christmas, brings the spirit of the season to the Harrington household. Grace Ashman has lost everything: her mother five years ago, and now her father and her home just a week before Christmas. She lives on the streets until one kind man invites her inside for a meal before the holiday. What she couldn’t know is that his kindness will change her life forever. Joshua Dibbs has been the butler at the Earl of Harrington’s London town home since 1809. If there is one thing Dibbs is known for, it is doing things properly. At least until now. Alas, when the earl arrives unexpectedly, the butler is reliant on help from a homeless woman to keep the household running until the staff returns!

When the earl’s valet falls desperately ill with a fever the household isn’t sure what to do, until one housemaid steps forward to care for him. Sissy Devonport has known her share of grief. Her family was laid low by a fever that only she survived. Now a member of her new household appears to be suffering from the same illness and she is the only one sure she can care for him without falling ill herself. Whit Whitman is a known flirt. A clever man who prefers to tease and gossip rather than do anything of substance. To his surprise, his illness has upset the household. And garnered the attention of one woman he thought he could never have.

A young woman needs escort to see her brother in London. The man who can help her is also the one who has been waiting to ask that brother some questions after the Congress of Vienna. Family relations turn sour, but her escort refuses to leave Town until after Christmas. Will that magical season put all their troubles to rights? Krystyna Rokiczana wants her brother to fulfill his responsibilities and this is her last chance to talk to him before she is a married lady. Their family has a destiny, a future, unless he throws it all away. If she can set aside her own feelings and plans for the advancement of their family, then why can't he? Hans Von Rosen has not adjusted well to retirement from service, but the wars, and the negotiation for peace, are over. Now the sister of a former colleague needs assistance. As her goals align with his own, he agrees to help her. What he didn't expect was to become so enchanted by her. Or to discover she was already engaged to marry another man.

Harry Bobbins has been the right hand man of Robert Bittlesworth for better than a decade. First in his hometown of Truro, unwittingly assisting a Home Office investigation. Then in London, as Robert's official butler and unofficial enforcer. Now he undertakes confidential investigations while his employer is overseas, and that means keeping his network of informants active. Miss Davies is an excellent informant, which is a much better thing to focus on than how distractingly attractive she is. Lily Davies still remembers the first time she saw Bobbins. She'd knocked on the door to ask after the laundry, and he'd towered over her like Poseiden risen from the sea, shirt sleeves turned up and brows lowered in suspicion. Butlers are intimidating by nature, but usually by dint of personality and station rather than sheer physical brawn. However, she'd found his rare smiles far too likable, and he'd done her too great a service for her to ever repay. Yet now she must turn to him again in the hopes he will do her another favor.