The Last Chance Ranch is busy in the week before Christmas. The matriarch Sarah is about to turn seventy, and plans for her birthday include an elaborate tooled saddle secretly purchased to order by the family. The saddlemaker Ben Radcliffe comes to deliver the goods and gets interested in the fine horses for sale. It's going to be A LAST CHANCE CHRISTMAS.

Molly Gallagher is enjoying the warm welcome at the ranch. She's a cousin and has been compiling a family history. Spending Christmas in the heart of the clan is an ideal way to finalise the genealogy and lore. She's never been a glamour girl, as teaching history is rewarding enough, but meeting the drop-dead gorgeous Ben is enough to make her regret her practical winter clothes. Not only is he easy on the eyes, he plays harmonica better than she's ever heard.

As a family party is taking place we get to meet and hear about many of the Chance extended family. A new reader to the Sons of Chance series will need to take notes, but luckily we do not meet them all in one go. A reader familiar with the stories will be happy to catch up with news. Anyway, one breathless kiss in the ice-cold barn later, Ben and Molly will take up all your attention. They jump into bed for some no-holds-barred nookie, as the professor finds someone outside her faculty to enjoy time with, and the saddler finds that she's just waiting to be awakened as a sexy lady. Ben has issues, though, which have convinced him that he's not destined to be a husband and father. Is there such a thing as the right relationship for the two of them?

Forget that it's cold outside, the bedroom is definitely steaming hot - what I like is that the story is about making love, not about casual sex. Getting snowbound seems more than desirable. Vicki Lewis Thompson has created very genuine characters and their modern dilemmas, with intimate details and warm feelings to make us love them. A LAST CHANCE CHRISTMAS will by enjoyed by all her fans and will lure new readers into tracking down the rest of her books.