Brendan Waddell requires a place to recuperate. Lauren Everman needs a place to conceal. It’s likely to be an unexpectedly intimate Xmas at Bluebird Ranch.

Brendan Waddell offers always considered Bluebird Ranch a little piece of heaven: an idyllic ranch that pairs abused kids with abused horses, run by one of is own old Marine buddies. Now, recovering from an on-the-job injury, Brendan feels the ranch is the perfect spot to spend Christmas healing up.

When Lauren Everman was a seventeen-year-old about All is Quiet: A Lonestar Christmas Novella foster kid, Bluebird Ranch was the safest place she knew. Right now it’s the perfect hideout for a female away from home. As the witness to a murder, Lauren requirements somewhere to rest low, and her skill with horses means she’ll have the ability to assist with the stressed kids at Bluebird — without responding to too many questions.

Lauren’s rich hair, high cheekbones, and dark eye immediately get Brendan’s attention — but so does her secretive behavior. This Special Ops/Intel man understands a woman away from home when he sees one, and he’s not really about to allow her put Bluebird Ranch at risk.

As Brendan and Lauren get to know one another, their suspicions evaporate and romance starts to sizzle. But this would-be couple has more to worry about than each other — there’s a killer within the loose who would like Lauren kept silent.