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Jill Haymaker brings you back to magical Peakview, Colorado in this feel good holiday romance. Only five days until Christmas, and FAITH OWENS has had enough. Not willing to spend one more holiday with her abusive, alcoholic husband, she loads her two young daughters, Gracie and Hope, in her car and leaves her life in Scorpion, New Mexico behind. Newly divorced, ZANE WILDER, faces his first Christmas without his son, Ace. He can’t wait for the holiday to be over. To escape sitting home sulking, he travels from Montana to Colorado to spend the week training his young horse, Storm Cloud. ...

Discover the heartwarming story of two broken souls finding love and family in a small mountain town. MELANIE GENTRY came to Peakview, Colorado to find a father she never knew. Now she’s established a home for herself and her teenage daughter. HANK DALTON left his past behind and settled into his life as the head wrangler at Peaktop Guest Ranch. He’s a loner and he likes it that way. That is until he runs into Melanie, who makes him want to reconsider that decision. There’s just something about her. When Melanie adds a foster child and a rescue dog to her family, Hank decides he’s ...

Never let your past define your future. Single mom, HALEY DUNN, is ready for a new start for herself and her four-year-old son, Noah. When she loses not only her job and home, but the man who she thought cared about her, she decides to leave her hometown in Michigan and head to the west coast. Why not get as far away from her past as possible? What she doesn’t plan for is getting stranded in a small Montana town in a snowstorm. Cowboy, RYDER BROOKES, has been on his own since he left his family’s horse ranch near Pine Meadows, Montana eleven years ago. He hasn’t intended to ever go ...

The warmth of the holiday season can melt even the most frozen hearts. Kelly Charm's life in Prairie, Nebraska is dull and unfulfilling. As a single mother, she dreams of a better future for herself and her teenage son, Ethan. So, when she stumbles upon an ad for a hardware store manager in the charming town of Peakview, Colorado, she takes a leap of faith. Forty-six year old, Jake Midnight, is the most renowned EMT in Peakview County. But while he may excel professionally, his personal life is a different story. After a failed marriage, he's content to live alone with his menagerie of ...

A heartwarming romance that will leave you cheering for love to conquer all obstacles. What Colby Harte didn’t ask for at Christmas was his wife to empty their bank accounts and leave him and his eight-year-old daughter, Emma, a few days before the holiday. At a loss as to how to move on, he takes a new teaching job in the tiny Montana mountain town of Pine Meadows. A new start may be just what they need. Cheyenne Wilde loves her job at the Pine Meadows Resort in her hometown. The trouble is she’s just turned thirty and can feel her biological clock ticking away. She’s never met a man...

A man she never thought she'd see again--a child he didn't know he had. What could go wrong when Justin Thorne returns to Aspen Ridge, Colorado? Riley Beckman has spent the last six years trying to be the perfect single parent to her daughter, Ava. The result of a one-night-stand with a handsome cowboy, Riley didn’t even know his last name when he rode off into the morning sunrise. By the time she discovered she was pregnant, all she could do was make the best of the amazing gift she’d been given. She hadn’t needed a man to establish a happy home for herself and her daughter. Justin ...

Colette Case thought she had it all - a prestigious career as a Denver divorce attorney, a marriage to a prominent defense attorney, and a beautiful home. But when her marriage falls apart, she's left facing her first Christmas alone. Desperate for a change of scenery, she accepts a young associate's invitation to spend the holiday in the small mountain town of Peakview, Colorado. Little does she know, this trip will change her life forever. In Peakview County, rancher Jess Curry has been struggling to move on from the loss of his wife to cancer. But when his nephew brings home a pretty co-...

The tiny, mountain town of Peakview, Colorado, wouldn’t be the same without Violet’s Café, and its owner Violet Woods. Widowed in her fifties, she leads a solitary life with only her cat Lucky to keep her warm at night. All thoughts of romance died with her late husband Stan. They had a wonderful, long, happy marriage, and she’s content to live out the rest of her life with her memories.

What if you had a second chance with your first love? Pamela Emery, aged fifty-six, walked out of the courthouse with her divorce papers in hand. Life as she’d known it was over. Why had she let her son and his wife talk her into going with them on a vacation to a Colorado Dude Ranch? She just wasn’t in the mood, but she wouldn’t let them down. She’d spend a couple weeks with her adorable grandchildren, and with any luck, she’d come back home in a better frame of mind. Kenneth Tucker glanced around the Peaktop Dude Ranch dining room at all the young families. He felt more than a ...

This Holiday season author, Jill Haymaker, brings you home to the small Colorado mountain town of Peakview, Colorado, where everyone has the chance of love. Cynthia Welch has made a name for herself as one of Chicago’s top divorce attorneys at the expense of her personal life. Burnt out, she heads to Peaktop Guest Ranch for a couple of months of solitude over the holidays. AJ Coulter, a cowboy from Wyoming, has been a loner and a drifter ever since his divorce and his teenage daughters leaving for college. He finds a temporary job at Peaktop Ranch as the head wrangler. When their paths ...

Can empty nesters find a second chance at love in the mountains of Colorado? After June Meyers' devastating divorce six years ago, she remained devoted to her children and their home in Ohio. Now her youngest child is off to college, and June faces her future with a mix of anxiety and excitement. The Walker Horse Ranch in isolated Peakview, Colorado, provides the perfect setting for Jeff Walker to hide from the pain of losing his wife to cancer eight years ago. He’s raised his sons and now his ranch and horses are his life. It’s just simpler that way.

Jill Haymaker brings you back to picturesque Peakview, Colorado in this small town western romance. Sam Phillips has given up on love since the death of his wife. With only his small dog, Marshall, for company, he’s content to live out his life alone. That is until he meets the perky and vivacious, Vickie Dalton at her son’s wedding. There’s just something about her that makes him want to reopen his closed heart. Vickie, widowed at a young age, has spent her life raising her children and grandchildren in Tumbleweed, Wyoming. Romance for herself is the farthest thing from her mind when...

When cowboy Tuf Brody’s mom passes away, he discovers six postcards from his brother who he hasn’t seen in thirty years. With his only clue being postmarks from a small town in western Montana, he sets out on a quest to find the only person he ever trusted. It’s a long shot, but he has to try. Lacey Westwood has been a bartender at the Rusty Nail Saloon in Pine Meadows Montana all her adult life. Having just celebrated her thirty-fifth birthday single, she wonders if she’ll ever find true love and have a family of her own. Haunted by the memory of a small boy who she befriended as a...

Christmas is a time for love. BELLE BROOKS loves Christmas. High in the Montana mountains, where she lives on her horse ranch with her son and his family, she has the perfect life. That is until it’s time to hang this year’s Christmas lights. Her son, Ryder’s, busy schedule is preventing him from getting them up by December 1st—it’s a Brooks Ranch tradition. BART STOCKTON, a former bronc rider and rodeo star, has yet to deal with his wife’s sudden death two years ago. Leaving the home they’d shared on her family’s ranch, he’s wandered from job to job, trying to run from ...

JESS GREEN doesn’t like Christmas. The product of an abusive childhood, he prefers to be alone on his ranch with his animals and away from people. When his beloved dog, Timmy, is attacked by a wolf, he rushes him to the town vet clinic only to find that the vet he’d known and trusted has retired and been replaced by a young doctor with the ridiculous name of Candy Kane. Her office is exploding with Christmas cheer, but when she saves the life of his best friend, he has to admit that she’s not so bad. CANDACE (CANDY) KANE had been in Pine Meadows, Montana, for only six months. The ...

It’s never too late to start over. WENDY THOMPSON, manages the Pine Meadows Resort in the mountains near the small town of Pine Meadows, Montana. She’s lived at the resort her entire life, inheriting the manager job from her late father. She’s always been too busy to waste time looking for romance. She’s content to live her life with only her small Australian shepherd, Chase, to keep her company on cold mountain nights. Millionaire Real Estate mogul, BRYCE BUFFINGTON, just inherited Buffington Properties from his father. From his high rise office in downtown Boston, he struggles to ...

The assault cast a dark shadow over ANGELA RODRIGUEZ’S life for twenty-three years. Her recent move to the tiny mountain town of Aspen Ridge allowed her to escape the person, but not the nightmares that haunt her nights. Will she ever be able to overcome the fear? COLT OUTLAW owns and operates the largest cattle ranch in Peakview County, Colorado. Since his father’s untimely death, he’s not only taken care of the ranch, but also his mom and sister. There aren’t enough hours in his day for frivolous things like romance. That is until Angela walks into his life. Two hearts longing for...

The magic of Christmas can heal even the most broken hearts. When Maggie's Vinson's life is changed forever by an unimaginable tragedy, she flees to Peaktop Dude Ranch, high in the Colorado Rockies, where no one knows her and she can escape her past. For five years, she's able to put her secret and her feelings behind her, content to cook meals for other people enjoying their lives. Christmas is the hardest time of year for her, bringing back memories of the love she lost. Gary Anderson lost his wife to cancer four years ago. He's given up on ever finding romance again, but this holiday ...

Christmas miracles do happen when you realize age is just a number. Aspen Assisted Living facility is known for their festive holiday decorations, but it did little to decorate the hearts of the residents. The longer Grace Decker lives at the facility, the more she retreats into herself. What is the point? Her freedom died right along with her husband. Now strangers treate her like a child. She doesn’t even care that it’s almost Christmas. The last thing Albert Stanley, a former rodeo star, wants is to be stuck inside with not a horse in sight. Six months in this place has seemed like ...

Returning to Pine Meadows was the last thing Kara Bridger wanted. The small town was her past, not her future, but when her dad's dementia worsens, she has no choice but to return and help out on the family cattle ranch. As she struggles to cope with her father's illness, she finds an unlikely ally in Hawk Mitchell, the notorious ladies' man with a bad reputation. Having known each other since kindergarten, Kara has never given Hawk a second thought. But as she works alongside him, she begins to see a different side of him, one that she can't help but be drawn to. As tensions rise and the ...