Clay McKettricks arrives in Blue River, TX as a new marshal. Upon his arrival, he meets a young child, Edrina Nolan and she is a daughter of Dara Rose Nolan. Dara is a widow who also has a younger daughter named Harriet.Clay will be the one who will be causing Dara Rose and her daughters to lose their home. The town brought their house for the new marshal.Learning this fate, feelings stirred in Clay's mind and he refuses to see the family out of a home because of him.Blue River is a small town and many families are suffering to keep food on their table and a roof over their heads. When the mayor gives Dara Rose only two weeks to stay in the house, Clay tells them he will not make them move out. Then the town decides they will sell the house just the same and this will still cause Dara Rose to leave.Another man comes in the picture and offers to marry Dara so she will have a home but he doesn't want her daughters, she will have to give them up.Christmas is upon this broken family and it seems that fate will not be good for the widow.This book grabs at your heart and will keep you having some mean feelings for the uncaring mayor and other things.Linda Leah Miller always give a great story line and she doesn't fail this time either. This is one of those books you read when you need something to leave you with a smile on your face when finished! The story of Clay McKettrick and Dara Rose Nolan is a well crafted Western Historical Romance that totally captures just exactly how hard life could be in the 1900's but also how fulfilling life could be as people back then never took for granted simple pleasures that came few and far between for some and not at all for others.
Do You like book A Lawman's Christmas (2011)?
This one is worth reading just for the little girl (Elrinda? something like that).
—Brenda
Disappointing that the storyline was the same as her other books.
—Grich
