by Nicole Helm
How often Summer had spent lonely holidays with only her mother, or only strangers, or even occasionally all by herself. This was certainly her Christmas miracle.
“I’d like to make a toast.” Dad’s voice rumbled through the room, garnering curious looks from his children and their spouses.
Though Summer had been moved by Dad’s words and gifts, both to her and to Mel and Caleb, she hadn’t expected him to engage quite so much. She could see the strain of it in the lines around his mouth, in the bags under his eyes.
But he was doing it anyway, and that made her heart fill more—if that was even possible.
Dad lifted his glass. “To family,” he said simply.
It was all that needed to be said. Because here they all were, surrounded by family. Shaws, Sharpes, Rogers, and Lanes. Three generations of strong-willed, flawed, loved people.
“To family,” Summer repeated with everyone else. She clinked her glass with everyone she could reach, and underneath the table she linked hands with Thack.
She looked around at the smiling faces, her siblings and their spouses, her niece dozing in Mel’s lap, Kate all but bouncing in her seat next to the grandparents she so deserved to get to know. Mrs. Bart and Mr. Lane smiling happily at each other.
Family. Love. Hope. Happiness.
A Christmas miracle, indeed.
About the Author
Nicole Helm writes down-to-earth contemporary romance specializing in people who don’t live close enough to neighbors for them to be a problem. When she’s not writing or taking care of her two rambunctious boys, she spends her time dreaming about someday owning a barn. Visit her at www.nicolehelm.wordpress.com.
Rebel Cowboy
Book 1 in the Big Sky Cowboys Series
by Nicole Helm
Under a big sky
For hotshot NHL star Dan Sharpe, hockey isn’t just his job—it’s his everything. But when claims of cheating get him bounced from the ice, he finds himself feeling lost. Everyone thinks he’s crazy for taking on his grandfather’s ramshackle Montana ranch, but, hey, he’s Dan Sharpe: How hard can it be?
As it turns out? Plenty hard.
Mel Shaw has been fighting tooth and nail to keep her family from falling apart. The last thing she needs is a distraction, but taking a job as some city slicker’s consultant may be her only chance to save the land she loves. She never expected someone like Dan to come roaring into her life, and it doesn’t take long for Mel to realize this hockey star turned cowboy has the power to upend her carefully ordered world—and heart—for good.
“Full of emotion, a little heat, and some great banter.” —Long and Short Reviews on Flight Risk
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Outlaw Cowboy
Big Sky Cowboys
by Nicole Helm
BIG SKY TROUBLE
Ever since his father’s accident, Caleb Shaw vowed he’d mend his wild ways, and he means to keep his word. He’s a changed man. A better man. And he knows he should want absolutely nothing to do with his crazy old life…or the maddening temptation that is Delia Rogers.
Delia’s been stealing her sisters away from their violent father ever since she was old enough to fight back. But now, with the police on her trail and all her bridges burned, there’s nowhere left to run but back into the arms of the one man she knows she shouldn’t need. Caleb has always been too good for her, no matter how bad he claimed to be. Yet when close quarters turn into something more, Delia and Caleb are forced to decide what really matters: mending their reputations or healing their wary hearts…
Praise for Rebel Cowboy:
“Plenty of sexual tension and scintillating love scenes… A true page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly
“A beautifully crafted romance.” —USA Today Happy Ever After
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Reckless in Texas
Texas Rodeo
by Kari Lynn Dell
Texas Homecoming
Violet Jacobs is fearless. At least, that’s what the cowboys trusting her to snatch them from under the hooves of bucking bulls think. Outside the ring, she’s got plenty of worries rattling her bones: her young son, her mess of a love life, and lately, her family’s struggling rodeo. When she takes business into her own hands and hires on a hotshot bullfighter, she expects to start a ruckus, but she never expected Joe Cassidy. Rough-and-tumble, cocky and charming, Joe’s everything a superstar should be—and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out he’s way out of Violet’s league.
Joe came to Texas to escape a life spiraling out of control. He never planned on sticking around, and he certainly never expected to call this dry and dusty backwater home. But Violet is everything he never realized he was missing, and the deeper he’s pulled into her beautiful mess of a family, the more he realizes this fierce rodeo girl may be offering him the one thing he could never find on his own…
Praise for Kari Lynn Dell:
“An extraordinarily gifted writer.” —Karen Templeton, three-time RITA award-winning author
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How to Wrangle a Cowboy
Cowboys of Decker Ranch
by Joanne Kennedy
A city girl whose love for her inherited ranch won’t pay off a mountain of debt…
A rugged ranch foreman raising his little boy all by himself…
Amid the exhilarating scent of hay and sagebrush under the wide-open sky, these two tenderhearted, stubbornly idealistic people face conditions they can’t control. Going toe-to-toe against each other won’t get the job done. At the end of the day, Lindsey Ward and Shane Lockhart can only make the right choices if they make them together…
Praise for Joanne Kennedy:
“When it comes to capturing the appeal and feel of the west, nobody does it better.” —Booklist
“Absolutely perfect.” —Fresh Fiction for Cowboy Fever
“Kennedy’s characters are sexy, smart, troubled, flawed—real. If you are a fan of Western romances, Joanne Kennedy should be at the top of your list of favorites.” —Fresh Fiction
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