Tidings of Comfort by Elizabeth Ellen Carter

Not all who are lost have gone astray.

Heroic Kit Hardacre is feeling sorry for himself this Christmas. While he contemplates his feelings about being abandoned by his birth parents, he discovers what family really means when he is asked to help find a missing little boy.
But who really finds who?
Kit discovers that not all who are lost have gone astray and it is he who experiences tidings of comfort and joy.

(Note: This story was first published as part of the Dragonblade Publishing Boxed set O’ Night Divine, December 2020)