A Christmas Not His to Keep
(2026)(A book in the Santa Hat Christmas Romances series)
A novel by Kayce Lassiter
Her father died saving his life. Twelve years later, she needs a place to sleep.
Nona Sheffield comes back to Cold Springs, Wyoming with sixty-one dollars, a Corolla she owns outright, and her mother three weeks in the ground. She means to stand at her father's grave, say goodbye, and go.
Reed Mackenzie is at the cemetery too, clearing snow off a headstone that reads HE DID NOT HESITATE. Twelve years ago Todd Sheffield went into January water and pulled Reed out—and never came back up. Reed has been carrying the bill ever since.
Reed offers her a job on the ranch and a cottage of her own. Nona agrees to stay through Christmas. Not a day past. She needs the work—even if she can't tell anymore whether she's grieving her father or billing Reed for the life her father never got to live.
Neither expects the attraction between them. And neither knows what to do when it becomes something more. Reed has spent twelve years trying to repay a life with a life. Nona has spent those same years nursing her resentment and trying to calculate the cost of a life lost.
Now they're falling in love across a debt neither of them knows how to settle.
A Christmas Not His to Keep is a heartfelt, closed-door Western Christmas romance about grief, forgiveness, unexpected love, and finding a family where you least expected one. Guaranteed happily ever after novella.
Welcome to Cold Springs, where real cowboys wear Santa hats.
Genre: Romance
Nona Sheffield comes back to Cold Springs, Wyoming with sixty-one dollars, a Corolla she owns outright, and her mother three weeks in the ground. She means to stand at her father's grave, say goodbye, and go.
Reed Mackenzie is at the cemetery too, clearing snow off a headstone that reads HE DID NOT HESITATE. Twelve years ago Todd Sheffield went into January water and pulled Reed out—and never came back up. Reed has been carrying the bill ever since.
Reed offers her a job on the ranch and a cottage of her own. Nona agrees to stay through Christmas. Not a day past. She needs the work—even if she can't tell anymore whether she's grieving her father or billing Reed for the life her father never got to live.
Neither expects the attraction between them. And neither knows what to do when it becomes something more. Reed has spent twelve years trying to repay a life with a life. Nona has spent those same years nursing her resentment and trying to calculate the cost of a life lost.
Now they're falling in love across a debt neither of them knows how to settle.
A Christmas Not His to Keep is a heartfelt, closed-door Western Christmas romance about grief, forgiveness, unexpected love, and finding a family where you least expected one. Guaranteed happily ever after novella.
Welcome to Cold Springs, where real cowboys wear Santa hats.
Genre: Romance