It’s 1813, and twelve drummers drumming are about to bring love into Jemima's life…
Jemima Fitzroy is tired of being ignored by her loud, rambunctious family - especially as she attempts to campaign for veterans in a world that doesn't appreciate them.
Soldiers are returning home from Napoleonic France, and Captain Hugh Rotherham knows he will never be the same again. Not just because of what he's seen, but because of what he's seeing right now: a startlingly beautiful woman who stirs something so passionate in it, the drumming of his heart matches that of his regiment.
Jemima knows she shouldn't be meeting this soldier without her family's knowledge. Hugh knows he cannot cross the line from respectability to scandal.
It doesn't matter. Twelve drummers drumming will change their lives - and the rhythm that can tease out exquisite pleasure…
Meet the Fitzroy family: twelve cousins falling in love over Christmastime!