A Lawman’s Christmas by Linda Lael Miller

A LAWMAN'S CHRISTMAS (McKettrick Series) by Linda Lael Miller is a must read this Christmas season. Yes, I know there are tons of holiday stories out there on the shelves, but for those of you who are already LLM fans this I have to say is one of her best. I feel like I can say that simply because the character development was outstanding, realistic and downright additively charming.

I was already laughing out loud at the audacious personality and pure gumption of Dara's eldest little daughter. She had spirit and that only masked her underlying vulnerability. The dynamics between her alone and Clay takes off in the first couple of pages and only grows throughout the story.

A hard life ahead of her Dara is on her own with her two little girls and about to be kicked out of her home. A marriage on convenience Dara and Clay are attracted instantly, but the slow work up to trust won't let them act on that lust. A lust that soon turns into love. Not just theirs but the love that grows between Clay and the girls is palpable and just sweet. A down home story that just makes you feel warm and cozy inside, just in time to gather your Christmas spirit as it wraps around you like a toasty blanket.

Yes it will be a happy ending, but the struggle to get there is what draws you in. Will Clay kick the beautiful and vulnerable widow out in the snow, if he is anything like some of the leaders of the small town they would have been left out in the cold not long after Dara's husband, the now dead sheriff, was killed in a brothel.

LLM never fails to deliver and you won't be disappointed with her Christmas installment to the McKettrick Series! Passion, heartache, love and a budding friendship fill the pages in this holiday heart warmer!

Love comes home for the holidays in a brand-new McKettrick tale from New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller

The sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman…and twenty-five-year-old Dara Rose Nolan without a husband. As winter approaches and her meager seamstress income dwindles, she has three options. Yet she won’t give up her two young daughters, refuses to join the fallen women of the Bitter Gulch Saloon and can’t fathom condemning herself to another loveless marriage. Unfortunately she must decide—soon—because there’s a new marshal in town, and she’s living under his roof.

With the heart of a cowboy, Clay McKettrick plans to start a ranch and finally settle down. He isn’t interested in uprooting Dara Rose and her children, but he is interested in giving her protection, friendship—and passion. And when they say “I do” to a marriage of convenience, the temporary lawman’s Christmas wish is to make Dara Rose his permanent wife…