title: The Reduced Shakespeare Company Christmas
author: Adam Long
description: "A lot of fun crammed into an hour." -- <i><i>Austin American-Statesman</i></i><br /><br />"Comic gold." -- <i><i>Washington Post</i></i><br /><br />"Gloriously, relaxingly funny." (<i>The Financial Times</i> (London)) -- <i><i>The Financial Times</i> (London)</i><br /><br />"The Reduced Shakespeare Company never fails to find the knee-slapper of a gag at the core of the work. I can't wait for them to do Tolstoy." -- <i>Robert Siegel, <i>All Things Considered</i></i>
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  On A Cold Christmas Eve
  
  By Bethany M. Sefchick
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to
  be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations
  or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  Copyright ã 2013 Bethany M. Sefchick
  
  All rights reserved
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
  "Honest, me lord. I'm just waitin' for a package is all."
  
  Adam St. Vincent, the Duke of Enwright, glared at the man standing on the
  hand-hewn stone steps below him, not believing that drivel any more than he
  had the last five minutes worth of conversation that had spewed from the
  worthless cur's mouth. A package, indeed. As if Adam was stupid enough to
  believe whatever lies fell from the mouth of someone who looked, not to
  mention smelled, worse than a footpad from the worst areas of London.
  
  "Be that as it may," Adam finally said, his rage barely control