Diana's Drummer Dilemma

Other ladies receive lovingly penned letters from their husbands servingon the battlefields of Europe. Lady Diana Lazenby receives…drummers.Drummer boys, to be precise. Ten of them so far. If her wayward husbandthinks the arrival of these wounded, wary lads will alleviate the paincaused by the death of their son or her husband's five-year absence,then he is sadly mistaken.Shattered by the guilt of his son's death, Wyndam Lazenby had no ideahow to converse with, let alone comfort, the wife he has adored sincechildhood. He bought his commission a week after the funeral and darednot look back. He hadn't meant for the orphaned drummers to replace the child she'd lost.He simply doesn't want her to be lonely.With Napoleon's final defeat, Lady Diana expects Wyn to return to theirestate in Cumbria. But after eighteen months of waiting, she's given up.And then the great fool shows up on her doorstep fully expecting to passa quiet Christmastide at home. Little does he know she and the army hehas provided her will drum him out of her life forever, if he doesn'tgive her the Christmas gift she wants most—the heart of the man shestill loves.