A Coldwater Christmas

Sometimes a little Christmas magic can rekindle the most unexpected romances…

Sheriff Kace Laramie and his brothers found long-awaited happiness when they moved to Coldwater, Texas, as foster children. But the feel-good story has one bittersweet twist—his brief marriage to local rich girl Jana Parker. When that blew up, Kace vowed never to marry again and has kept Jana mostly off his mind…until she comes back to town, needing his help.

Recently divorced for a second time, Jana just wants to create a good life for her young daughter—and keep her mother from marrying Kace’s gold-digging father. Asking him for help may be wrong given their history. But as the stakes—and their chemistry—make the Christmas season sizzle, Jana knows how much more wrong it would be to let a love this magical slip away again…

My Review


What made this book for me was Kace and Jana. I liked these two together. Jana was headstrong but nothing that Kace could not handle. You could tell that they still loved each other; despite the fact that they were divorced. Yet, I did find it a bit of a twist that Jana's mother was going to marry Kace's father when her mother is the one that encouraged Jana to leave Kace. 

Speaking of the engaged couple. I thought they were fine. They definitely acted like the children and Kace and Jana the adults in the story. After a while, I did find this behavior to be too much. In addition, there seemed to be a lot of different things happening all at once in the beginning. Some of it was unnecessary. Also, this book felt a little less holiday spirit. 

While, this book may not have been a five star read for me, I still enjoyed reading it and would read the next book in this series.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

USA Today bestselling author Delores Fossen is a former Air Force officer who’s sold over 100 novels. She’s received the Booksellers’ Best Award for romantic suspense, the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award and was a finalist for the Rita ®. You can contact the author through her webpage at: www.deloresfossen.com

EXCERPT
Wincing and rubbing her knee, Jana motioned for Kace to follow her. He did—while rubbing his shoulder.
“I need to tell you I’m sorry,” she said the mo ment they reached the front door, “and don’t wave that off until you hear what I have to say.” He had indeed been about to wave that off, but Jana just rolled over him and kept talking. “Since I’ve come back to Coldwater, I’ve thrown your life into chaos, and I want you to know that I’ll fix that.”
“Chaos?” he repeated. That seemed to put way too much importance on her return. “I’m just doing my job,” Kace said, opening the door.
Since she frowned and huffed, that obviously wasn’t the response she wanted. “I’m talking about the whole package. You having to see me because of the Smelly Bobs and Peter. You having to see my mother. And now me being your neighbor. But I swear once things settle down, I’ll do my best to stay out of your way. I won’t even come into town unless it’s necessary.”
Hell. It made him feel crappy that she would have to rearrange her life. Especially with a baby. After all, there’d be times when she needed stuff for Mar ley, and he didn’t want her postponing her errands just because she was worried about running into him.
“It’s okay,” he assured her. The cold air was start ing to seep in, a reminder that he should finish this conversation and head out. “What happened between us was a long time ago. We’ve both moved on with our lives, and it won’t bother me to run into you.”
Kace was proud of himself. That actually sounded good. A “water under the bridge” outlook.
“Oh,” she muttered.
That put a halt to his heading out plan. For such a little word, it seemed to mean a whole lot. But what?
Kace was trying to figure that out when Jana took a deep breath. One of those soft, silky sounds that took him back to another time, another place. When there was no bridge over the water.
Kace made the mistake of looking at her face, and their gazes practically collided. This time, he was the one who took a deep breath when her attention lowered to his mouth.
His attention lowered to hers, too.
He couldn’t have told anyone how it happened, but suddenly there was no space between Jana and him. One or both of them had closed the distance, and Kace found his hand on the back of her neck. All in all, it wasn’t a bad place for his hand to be because he used it to haul Jana to him. And then he broke every rule in the frickin’ book.
Kace kissed her.