With the help of saintly Gentleman Jack Oakes, love warms the hearts of a miner and a laundress, turning a 19th-century California mining camp golden in the glow of the season, in Emma Craig's "Jack of Hearts". An angel becomes a matchmaker to earn her wings in "The Shephards and Mr. A handsome man with curiously pointed ears fulfills a lonely woman's wish and learns that the spirit of the season is alive and well in modern-day New Orleans, in "The Yuletide Spirit" by Kathleen Nance. And in Stobie Piel's "Twelfth Knight", two honorable thieves--one a knight and one a young woman--have only the 12 days of Christmas in which to traverse medieval England and find a secret treasure.