title: Disenchanted Christmas
author: Sookoo, Sandra
description: Bethany Cundiff needs a Christmas miracle. What she gets is a proposition from a rich gentleman! It's ten days before Christmas. Out of work and responsible for her young niece and nephew, Bethany doesn't have many choices. She'll just have to take a chance and hope the holiday spirit and the power of love will be the miracle she needs.  Christmas in 1899 starts as a joyless affair. Bethany Cundiff has hit a rough patch in life. While caring for her young niece and nephew, she's evicted from her residence and fired from her job ten days before Christmas. To make matters worse, a gentleman who desires her company for the holiday, and has the money to back up the promise, propositions her for sex.    Blake Wenchal is a disenchanted elf that's been banished from the Northern Realm and Santa's court because he's lost the spirit of compassion and charity. Lonely from years spent by himself, he's thrown off balance when Bethany accepts his ill-advised offer of paid bed mateexcept she arrives on his doorstep with children in tow.  Neither one counted on the power of love, acceptance and the miracle of family to make the holiday unforgettable.