Three tales of winter second chance romance will help keep
you warm; personally I love to sit and relax with a book on
snowy days.
CHRISTMAS WITH MY COWBOY is something of a
misnomer. We only see cows in THE SNOW MAN by Diana Palmer,
in which a young woman who inherits the ranch she left for
a more sophisticated life has to make some difficult
decisions. I'm surprised that Meadow Dawson keeps thinking
of her (strangely unmarried) neighbour rancher Dal Blake as
infuriating, insufferable; these terms befit romances of
generations ago, while today we'd just call the man rude.
Maybe a joke has to go a long way in those parts, but we
seemed to get about ninety references to a red dress Meadow
wore when she has seventeen. I enjoyed the large cat and
dog who seem to be doing their best to draw the pair
together, while a lively undercurrent is generated by
Meadow's taking a job as police researcher.
KASSIE'S COWBOY by Lindsay McKenna is about a furniture
maker, although he has two horses snugly rugged up in the
barn during a Wyoming blizzard. As a former soldier, Travis
Grant has found that carpentry is a good way to cope with
occasional PTSD. A nice touch is that former girlfriend
Kassie Murphy, whom he rescues from a crashed car on the
icy road, runs a coffee shop to employ returned female
soldiers. Kassie says one of the women gets stressed if she
goes into a small dark store room to get things, so the
solution Kassie found was to ask someone else to go there.
What about providing safe lighting? Almost all this tale is
told in thoughts about backstory, with this the only way to
introduce other characters during the four day wait for the
weather to clear.
Margaret Way has written the antidote to snow; a Christmas
in Australia. HER OUTBACK HUSBAND provides a timely change
of setting and weather. Scott and Darcey MacArthur appeared
to be the perfect couple, but in a prologue lasting over
thirty pages, Darcey's guardian aunt breaks the news that
Scott has cheated and the other woman has confessed. Scott
does actually have a family cattle station, but we never
see it because we spend Christmas in the city of Brisbane
instead. Parties and long ball gowns are the order of the
day. Darcey has started her life again, but something tells
her there is more to this tale than meets the eye.
Vigorous romances about determined women are a good way to
start the year, so treat yourself to a good book by your
favorite authors.
From the snowy, wind-whipped prairie to the remote
Australian Outback, a cowboy’s loving kiss makes this
Christmas merry and bright . . .
“The Snow Man” by Diana Palmer
Meadow Dawson needs Santa to deliver a solution to her
management of the Colorado ranch she’s inherited. Cattleman
Dal Blake just wants his pretty neighbor’s dog to quit
digging under his fence. This Christmas, the unexpected gift
of love will surprise them both.
“Kassie’s Cowboy” by Lindsay McKenna
A brutal blue norther is battering Wyoming just in time for
Christmas when solitary former Marine Travis Grant finds his
childhood sweetheart, Kassie Murphy, injured in her car just
beyond the ranch where he works. For Travis and Kassie, this
snowy silent night will be one last chance to put the
painful past behind them—and treat the wounds only love can
heal.
“Her Outback Husband” by Margaret Way
Scott and Darcey MacArthur were the perfect couple, devoted
to their life together on the family cattle ranch. With one
blistering rumor, it ended in heartbreak—but Scott’s mother
has a scheme that will reunite them in the Outback for a
holiday that will prove it’s the season for forgiveness.
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