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Time is flying and it won’t be long before Santa will ride in on his sleigh. Temps are supposed to drop to 35 tonight here in the Texas Panhandle. Snow will fly soon and I can't wait. I'm praying for a white Christmas this year. CHRISTMAS IN A COWBOY'S ARMS released on October 3rd and I'm so excited to have this out! I felt truly honored to have a story in a book with Leigh Greenwood, Rosanne Bittner,  Margaret Brownley, Anna Schmidt, and Amy Sandas. Simply an amazing list of bestselling authors.  And I'm part of it! Doin' the happy dance here! These six stories are guaranteed to warm your heart and may whisk you back home. In my story – The Christmas Stranger – drifter, Hank Destry, who has no home or family is struggling to find his way through a blinding blizzard, wearing only a thin coat. He has to find shelter soon or he and his animals will perish. The drifts become too high to continue. Unable to hold on to the reins, he slides fr...

Happy release week to Leigh Greenwood's No One But You ! To celebrate, we have an excerpt to share. *** “Do you like Salty?” Jared asked. The question punctured her thoughts. The unexpectedness of it was like a physical blow. “Of course I do. I wouldn’t have married him if I hadn’t.” “You said you only married because you had to.” “Yes, but I wouldn’t have married a man I didn’t like or didn’t trust.” Jared had finished setting the table and putting out the bowls for the food, but he hadn’t put out the glasses. “Do you want him to stay after he fixes things so we won’t starve? He said he couldn’t get the land until you divorce him.” Sarah didn’t know what had prompted Jared to ask these questions. She had always tried to be forthcoming with the children, but maybe she’d told them too much. “That’s a long way in the future.” “Would you let him stay if he wants to?” Sarah dragged her attention back to the stove. She moved the potatoes off the heat and checked the bottom of the ...

 This November marks the release of Forever and Always, the final book in Leigh Greenwood’s Cactus Creek Cowboys trilogy. To celebrate, we’re sharing an excerpt from the book! “What are you doing here?” he asked. “I was hoping to catch you before you left.” “Why?” “To tell you not to come in to work tomorrow. The swelling seems to have gone down a little, but you aren’t looking very strong.” Something inside him gave way. It was a moment before he realized it was his resolve to keep his distance from this woman who obviously cared for him a great deal. He was sure she believed the swelling had gone down because she wanted it so badly. Knowing that removed the final barrier, and he reached out to take Sibyl’s hands. It was almost too much for his self-control when he received an answering squeeze. “How could I have been so lucky to find someone to care as much as you and Kitty?” “We wouldn’t care so much if you weren’t so wonderful.” The sincerity in her voice was his undoing...

When I was deciding what I wanted to do with my life, I never thought of a career as a writer.  When I was in high school it was either medicine or chemistry.  After deciding that neither was really what I wanted to do, I settled on a career in vocal music.  That meant I would be an organist/choir director, or I would teach music lectures and direct choirs in high school.  For thirty-two years I did one or the other.  The only writing I did was papers required by my teachers.  I was a good writer with excellent grammar, but I was handicapped by being a bad speller.  I usually got an “A” on content and a “C” on grammar because of misspelled words.  They didn’t have spellcheck back in the 50s and 60s The first creative writing I did was in response to an urge to write about my experience of becoming a first-time father.  All of my previous writing had been based on research.  All I had to do was gather the information, organize it, ...