Wind River Mail-Order Brides, Book 6

WESTERN HISTORICAL ROMANCE

Snowbound at Christmas

A CHRISTMAS ANTHOLOGY

One Christmas snowstorm creates havoc for three couples who find themselves snowed in together—and a chance for new love to bloom and old feelings to be rekindled. Curl up on a winter’s afternoon with this anthology of three heartwarming love stories set in the Wind River story world.

Heart’s Secret Haven

Livery owner Lilly Murdock would prefer to skip over Christmas entirely. She’s given up on finding love. What kind of man wants a wife who spends her days tending to the stable and who smells like a horse? When a snowstorm traps her with her childhood friend, old dreams come back to life. Rancher Jakob Anderson can’t think of a worse punishment than being stuck inside the barn for days with the woman he once loved and never forgot. As he spends more time with Lilly, he realizes the feelings he thought he’d gotten over are just as strong as ever…

  • Christmas
  • snowed in
  • unrequited love
  • sworn off love
  • tomboy heroine
  • friends to love

 

Her Gingerbread Refuge

Widowed bakery owner Caroline Wilson has one wish: to give her children a perfect Christmas. When a stranger and his young sister blow into her small-town bakery in the middle of a blizzard, she finds all her careful plans upended… and finds herself drawn to the driven businessman. Jerome Barnett doesn’t know what to do with a younger sisterone he didn’t even know existed until a letter arrived. It’s Caroline that helps them connect, and Caroline that begins to melt his guarded heart.

  • stranded together
  • ready-made family
  • matchmaking kids
  • second chance at love
  • grumpy/sunshine

 

Her Yuletide Protector

Heiress Lizzie Hamilton is on a desperate quest to escape an arranged marriage and finds herself trapped on a snowed-in train and mistaken for a common thief. She can’t trust anyone, not even the deputy with shadowed eyes and a vulnerability beneath his hard exterior. Deputy Slate Jackson sees everything in black and white. But Lizzie is a conundrum. Kind to small children, afraid of every noise, a sadness she can’t seem to shake. Is she really a thief or is she hiding a different kind of secret? When the snow begins to melt and the danger chasing Lizzie draws close, Slate must decide whether he can trust Lizzie… and his own heart.

  • heroine on the run
  • lawman hero/protector hero
  • different worlds
  • heroine hiding her identity
  • holiday

Coming October 2025 in Ebook and Paperback

About the Authors

USA Today bestselling author Lacy Williams is devoted to bringing her readers heartwarming love stories about cowboys and the women that tame them. She is the author of over seventy books, including the acclaimed Wind River Hearts and Sutter’s Hollow series. Her books have been nominated for the RT Book Reviews’ Seal of Excellence as well as finaled in RT’s Reviewers’ Choice Awards. She has been a puppy parent almost her whole life and often writes with one of her dogs snuggled in her lap. She is a mom of four and spends her non-writing time buried under piles of laundry and dishes. Learn more at lacywilliams.net.

Wendy Galinetti grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the eighth of eleven children, in a town just big enough to have a library. After graduation she saved $325.00 and took off in a small plane out of a cow pasture headed for Bible college in Oklahoma where she met her husband of more than 39 years. Together they planted a church in the town of Grand Blanc, Michigan where they still pastor and live happily ever after despite the challenges life throws their way. Wendy has four grown children and is GiGi to three grandchildren. When she is not writing stories or skits, creating Bible studies, leading small groups, designing stages, leading worship or preaching, you can find her at the charming boutique in town where she indulges her passion for fashion and chatting with the kind ladies who shop local. She loves to read and write emotional stories with flawed characters who are changed by truth and grace and risk their hearts and sometimes their lives for love.

Discover more at wendygalinetti.com.

Wendy Klopfenstein enjoys sunshine, sweet tea, and a good book, preferably all at the same time. Having always loved creating stories as much as reading them, she now puts the ones wandering around in her head on paper for others to enjoy. When she’s not sitting on the porch reading or helping clients in the family business, you can find her working on her next novel.

Discover more at wendyklopfenstein.com.

Traci Summeril writes inspirational romance and hopes that her stories create a sense of coming home. She confesses to being a bookworm, but still ventures into the great Colorado outdoors with her family. When not writing and caring for her four kids, she is a K-8th grade music teacher.

Discover more at www.tracisummeril.com.

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