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: What a Waste of Holidays!
  
  
  
  
  
  I havent liked these holidays one bit, said Bets, dolefully, to Pip. No
  Larry, no Daisy, no Fatty - a real waste of summer holidays!
  
  
  Well, youve had me, said Pip. Havent I taken you for bike-rides and
  picnics and things?
  
  
  Yes - but only because Mother said you were to, said Bets, still gloomy. I
  mean - you had to do it because Mother kept saying Id be lonely. It was nice
  of you - but I did know you were doing it because it was your duty, or
  something like that.
  
  
  I think youre very ungrateful, said Pip, in a huff.
  
  
  Bets sighed. There you are - in a huff again already, Pip! I do, do wish the
  others were here. Its the first hols that every one but us have been away.
  
  
  Well, the other three will be back in a few days time, said Pip. We shall
  still have two or three weeks left of these hols.
  
  
  But will there be enough time for a mystery? asked Bets, rolling over to
  find a shadier place on the gras. We nearly always have a mys