#1 New York Times bestselling writer Stephanie Laurens brings you the delights of a long-ago country-village Xmas, having a grandmother, her grandchildren, an artifact hunter, the lady who catches his vision, and three old coins that pull them all jointly in a Xmas treasure hunt.

Therese, Woman Osbaldestone, and her household again pleasant her more youthful daughter’s kids, Jamie, George, and Lottie, plus their cousins Melissa and Mandy, all of whom have insisted about spending the about Lady Osbaldestone’s Plum Puddings: Woman Osbaldestone’s Xmas Chronicles, Volume 3: 1812 three weeks prior to Christmas at Therese’s house, Hartington Manor, in the community of Little Moseley.

The children are looking forward towards the village’s traditional events, which year, Therese has arranged a new distraction-the plum puddings she and her staff are building for the entire village. But while washing the coins donated as the puddings’ good-luck tokens, the kids discover that three aren’t cash of the realm. When consulted, Reverend Colebatch summons a pal, an archaeological scholar from Oxford, who confirms the cash are Roman, raising the possibility of the Roman treasure buried someplace near. Unfortunately, Professor Webster is certainly facing a deadline and cannot assist in the search, but together with his niece Honor, he will stay static in the village, writing, remaining available for consultation if the kids and their helpers uncover even more treasure.

It soon turns into very clear that discovering the source of the coins-or even which villager donated them-isn’t a straightforward matter. Then your children come across a personable gentleman who understands a good deal about Roman antiquities. He introduces himself as Callum Harris, and they agree to allow him to help, and he gets their search back again on track.

But while the manor five, assisted with the gentlemen from Fulsom Hall, scour the village for who had the cash and search the countryside for indicators of excavation and Harris combs through the village’s country-house libraries, amassing evidence of a Roman compound somewhere near, the site that the coins actually came remains a frustrating secret.

Then Therese recognizes Harris, who’s more than he’s pretending to be. She also records the romance burgeoning between Harris and Honor Webster, and provided the lady doesn’t know Harris’s name, let alone his fraught relationship with her uncle, Therese techniques in. But while she can engineer an effective resolution to one romance-of-the-season, and a reconciliation lengthy overdue, another love that strikes much closer to house is certainly beyond her ability to manipulate.

Meanwhile, the seek out the source of the coins goes on, but period is running out. Will Therese’s grandchildren and their Fulsom Hall helpers locate the Roman merchant’s villa Harris can be sure lies near before they all must leave the village for Christmas with their own families?