title: Wish upon a Winter Solstice: A Highland Holiday Novella
author:  Emma Prince 
description: <b>Highland Bodyguards Series:</b><br /><br />The Lady's Protector (Book 1)<br />Heart's Thief (Book 2)<br />A Warrior's Pledge (Book 3)<br />Claimed by the Bounty Hunter (Book 4)<br />A Highland Betrothal (Book 4.5)<br />The Promise of a Highlander (Book 5)<br />The Bastard Laird's Bride (Book 6)<br />
zlib_text: ### _A Selection of Recent Titles by Anne Douglas_
  
  
  CATHERINE’S LAND
  
  
  AS THE YEARS GO BY
  
  
  BRIDGE OF HOPE
  
  
  THE BUTTERFLY GIRLS
  
  
  GINGER STREET
  
  
  A HIGHLAND ENGAGEMENT
  
  
  THE ROAD TO THE SANDS
  
  
  THE EDINBURGH BRIDE
  
  
  THE GIRL FROM WISH LANE*
  
  
  A SONG IN THE AIR*
  
  
  THE KILT MAKER*
  
  
  STARLIGHT*
  
  
  THE MELODY GIRLS*
  
  
  THE WARDEN’S DAUGHTERS*
  
  
  PRIMROSE SQUARE*
  
  
  THE HANDKERCHIEF TREE*
  
  
  TENEMENT GIRL*
  
  
  DREAMS TO SELL*
  
  
  
  
  
  * _available from Severn House_
  
  
  ## One
  
  
  Cold as Christmas, or so it seemed in the Rainey girls’ room, yet here it was,
  March. March, when it shouldn’t be still winter, when there was supposed to be
  a hint of spring. Not so’s you’d notice when you’d to face getting out of bed.
  
  
  Still, Roz didn’t mind the cold too much. Always first up, she moved fast,
  jumping from her bed, pulling on the dressing gown she’d made herself and
  sprinting down to the bathroom the Raineys shared with two other families. In
  fact, it was to reach the bathroom, on the half-landing below, bef