title: Christmas Stories for the Heart
author:  Alice Gray 
description: Alice Gray is an inspirational conference speaker and the creator and compiler of the bestselling Stories for the Heart book series, with over 5 million in print. She and her husband, Al, live in Arizona.<br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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  His Heart
  
  for
  
  Christmas
  
  Aileen Fish
  
  HIS HEART FOR CHRISTMAS
  
  ©2012, 2016 Aileen Fish
  
  
  This book was previously released as Helena’s Christmas Beau.
  
  Chapter One
  
  
  29 November 1818
  
  
  Little Bookham, Surrey, England
  
  Duncan Chapman winced at the crash ringing from the nursery above his
  brother’s study. “You didn’t consider the noise your darling hellions could
  produce when you chose this room as your sanctuary, I take it.”
  
  Philip Chapman, Viscount Steepleton, chuckled. “The children weren’t born when
  we moved in here. Paul has become much more active since the weather turned
  cool. They’ve been rather quiet today, though.”
  
  Shaking his head, Duncan returned to gazing out the window overlooking the
  kitchen garden. A young woman wearing a drab gray dress, unadorned black cloak
  and equally plain bonnet paced back and forth in one corner.
  
  There was nothing about her to hold his attention, but he continued to watch.
  
  Suddenly she turned, shieldin