Everybody loves Owen Keller. That's the problem.
He's the charming brother. The one who shows up to every town event with a grin and a six-pack and makes everyone laugh. He volunteers for the Christmas tree cutting, strings lights on the town gazebo, and flirts with half the county without ever letting anyone close enough to matter.
Nobody knows why.
He's fine. He's always fine. He's been fine for two years and he'll keep being fine until a woman with flour on her nose and zero tolerance for his act walks into Maggie's Diner and calls him on it.
Casey Welles is in Grizzly Ridge for one month. Her sister Sienna moved here in the fall, married a cowboy, and apparently lost her mind — and Casey is here for Christmas to confirm that diagnosis. She's a pastry chef between jobs, she's sleeping in Sienna's guest room, and she has no intention of getting tangled up with the local flirt who keeps showing up wherever she is with hot chocolate and increasingly terrible excuses.
He's charming. She's not impressed.
He brings her a Christmas tree she didn't ask for. She bakes him cookies he didn't deserve. He fixes her sister's oven at midnight without being asked. She catches him alone on his porch at 2 a.m. staring at the snow like it owes him answers — and for one second, the grin is gone and the man underneath is someone she wasn't prepared for.
He calls her "trouble."
She calls his bluff.
Christmas With The Naughty Rancher is a steamy standalone holiday romance featuring a charming cowboy hiding a broken heart behind the world's best smile and the sharp-tongued pastry chef who refuses to let him get away with it. Christmas trees. First snow. Cookies left on porches. No cheating. No cliffhanger. Guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Romance
He's the charming brother. The one who shows up to every town event with a grin and a six-pack and makes everyone laugh. He volunteers for the Christmas tree cutting, strings lights on the town gazebo, and flirts with half the county without ever letting anyone close enough to matter.
Nobody knows why.
He's fine. He's always fine. He's been fine for two years and he'll keep being fine until a woman with flour on her nose and zero tolerance for his act walks into Maggie's Diner and calls him on it.
Casey Welles is in Grizzly Ridge for one month. Her sister Sienna moved here in the fall, married a cowboy, and apparently lost her mind — and Casey is here for Christmas to confirm that diagnosis. She's a pastry chef between jobs, she's sleeping in Sienna's guest room, and she has no intention of getting tangled up with the local flirt who keeps showing up wherever she is with hot chocolate and increasingly terrible excuses.
He's charming. She's not impressed.
He brings her a Christmas tree she didn't ask for. She bakes him cookies he didn't deserve. He fixes her sister's oven at midnight without being asked. She catches him alone on his porch at 2 a.m. staring at the snow like it owes him answers — and for one second, the grin is gone and the man underneath is someone she wasn't prepared for.
He calls her "trouble."
She calls his bluff.
Christmas With The Naughty Rancher is a steamy standalone holiday romance featuring a charming cowboy hiding a broken heart behind the world's best smile and the sharp-tongued pastry chef who refuses to let him get away with it. Christmas trees. First snow. Cookies left on porches. No cheating. No cliffhanger. Guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Romance