The McKettricks Christmas Box Set

Book excerpt: Celebrate the holidays with two popular McKettrick tales by #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller—the Queen of Western Romance! A Lawman’s Christmas It’s 1914, and the sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman…and Dara Rose Nolan without a husband. A cowboy at heart, Clay McKettrick plans to start a ranch and finally settle down. He isn’t interested in uprooting Dara Rose and her children, but he is interested in offering her protection, friendship—and passion. And when they say "I do" to a marriage of convenience, the temporary lawman’s Christmas wish is to make Dara Rose his permanent wife… An Outlaw’s Christmas Sawyer McKettrick isn’t ready to settle down on the Triple M family ranch in Arizona. So, in 1915, he heads to Blue River, Texas, to seek a job as marshal. But he’s injured in a blinding snowstorm—and collapses into the arms of a prim and proper lady in calico. The shirtless, bandaged stranger recuperating in teacher Piper St. James’s room behind the schoolhouse says he’s a McKettrick, but he looks like an outlaw to her. As they wait out the storm, the handsome loner has Piper remembering long-ago dreams of marriage and motherhood. But how long is Sawyer willing to call Blue River home?