A Husband for Christmas by Carol Finch: Victoria Thurston needs a husband to fool her wealthy parents so she can stay and run her business out in West Texas. Who better to play the role than Marshall Logan Daniels and it doesn’t hurt that the hardscrabble lawman sends her heart fluttering. But how to ask and how to handle going home for the holidays if he accepts? Logan is stunned at the proposition the proper Miss Victoria makes—but he’s even more stunned at his acceptance. Especially when he considers his totally unsuitability for rubbing elbows with swells. But something about Victoria compels him to help her—but who’s going to help him? Tantalizing and warm like homemade apple pie that has you clamoring for more.

The Homecoming by Elizabeth Lane: Elise McAllister was betrayed by her husband, the man she loved, when he was thrown into prison for killing a man in a brothel. Not only did he betray her heart but he left her to wallow in poverty, the money from the cattle mysteriously gone missing along with his brother. Clay McAllister couldn’t wait to get back to his wife and child to celebrate their first Christmas together in three long years, but he can’t believe his eyes when he sets sight on the now tumble downed ranch. The cold reception from his loving wife is another mystery—that soon gets cleared up when he realizes his brother never reached home with the money or the real story of his incarceration. When he learns Elise’s secret, his devastation is complete. Can either forgive the other much less his brother’s treachery that caused this mess? An emotional story with strong characters and an important message, especially this time of year, about the value of forgiveness—of others and ourselves.

The Cattleman’s Christmas Bride by Pam Crooks: Socialite Allethaire Gibson is in a mess and running away to her father in Montana to spend Christmas seems the only way she’s going to find some space to sort out the embezzlement accusations against her. Things have been difficult enough since her kidnapping at the hands of desperate men three years ago. So when the train’s robbed by some of these same desperate men and she’s detained by the authorities because of the embezzlement charges coming to light, she never expects that another former Basque bandit turned honest rancher, Mikolas Vasco will come to her rescue, kidnapping her yet again. But this time, the danger is of a very different kind…. Action-packed with a yummy romance to warm up the Christmas season.