Heartland Cowboy Christmas

He's too serious. She's too prissy. Neither of them knows that they're both not what they seem.Shawn Barclay can't seem to get out of the shadow of his goof-off reputation, despite the fact that he'd been working his own farm, successfully, for years.So, when his match-making parents suggest he head to Ohio to help a friend of a friend who's been in an accident, it isn't hard for him to sell and move, hoping to reinvent himself in the process.Maybe he'll find a girl who is just as serious as he plans to be.When Bridget Rallings's father is hurt in an accident, she fully intends to continue to take care of everything on their family farm herself.But her dad hires some out-of-state guy from down south – a real stick-in-the-mud who never smiles and wouldn't recognize a joke if it slapped him in the forehead.She doesn't want to spend five minutes working with a guy like that, let alone end up in a relationship with him.But after working with him for a while, she realizes he's not quite what he seems, and when the community has trouble accepting an outsider, a relationship with the hometown girl might be just what that farmer needs, as long as she doesn't lose her heart. About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.

They got married in secret then her prison sentence came between them. Can they recapture what they once had?Braxton Emmerson was born and bred in the heartland. He loves his farm and his family, but he was willing to give it all up for the woman who stole his heart.But she didn't want to give up her career and insisted on keeping their romance a secret. But then her business partner doubled crossed her and she ended up with a prison sentence for tax evasion.Now she's out and she's much wiser. Family is more important than her career. Unfortunately, she'd hurt Braxton deeply and the only reason he's coming to see her is to give their daughter a Christmas with her mom.Will two weeks and a little Christmas cheer be enough to help them see they've always been meant for each other? About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.

He saved her life. She owes him a summer. The price might be too high for both of them.Armstrong Brant stepped between Glory Baldwin and a charging cow. He ended up with broken ribs and a farm and family he couldn't care for through the pain.At the prompting of The Sweet Water Piece Makers Quilting Club, Glory volunteers to watch Armstrong's four children while he recovers. She owed him and it made sense. But she never expected to fall for a man with four boys.Armstrong isn't comfortable sitting around. And he's definitely not comfortable watching someone else do his work. But he's downright surly at the idea of allowing another woman into his life after his ex simply walked away.Still, he doesn't have much choice since he can't even change a diaper with his broken ribs.Spending a summer together might convince both of them they could take a chance on each other, but when his ex walks back into his home, he's faced with a choice: does he walk away from the best thing that's ever happened to him? Or will he come home to stay? About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.

Elias Emerson has worked hard and become a successful businessman. Fellow businesswoman Catherine Hutchison has been with him, helping him, all his adult life, but he's never really paid attention to her. She's just there.Never noticed how much she did for him behind the scenes. How much she lifted him up and made him better. How much she sacrificed to give him the support and encouragement he needed.Until she announces that she's quitting her job and moving away from Prairie Rose.Catherine Hutchison has spent almost two decades working with Elias knowing he often took her presence and help for granted, but she considered him a friend and believed in him. Friends don't keep score.Maybe she had a crush on him in high school, but he'd never returned her feelings and they'd remained friends and business partners. His family was family to her, too.Now, she's facing the test of her life and needs to move closer to family.Except Elias has a perfect solution she'd never considered.Can two friends become more with the help of a crazy family and a Christmas miracle? About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.

After her husband walks out, leaving her with three small children, Shelby isn't interested in romance. She just wants her roof to not leak and the furnace to work.Keene Emmerson is ready to settle down, but he's not expecting to find love in a single wide trailer amidst the chaos of kids and construction and a pair of September sky blue eyes.When Keene volunteers to take some Christmas gifts out to Shelby's place and help put an addition on her trailer, he doesn't expect to start falling for the down-on-her-luck single mother. He's only thinking he'll spread a little Christmas cheer and do a good deed or two.But when a snowstorm collapses Shelby's roof and forces them together for the holidays, he realizes he's falling for the woman who swore never to marry again.Can he convince her that a good man is worth risking her heart for? About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.

He's dating one sister and falling for the other.Originally diagnosed with Lyme's Disease, Esther MacCartney is frustrated because she's been bedridden for months and doctors can't tell her if she'll ever be well again. The only person who's visited her regularly is her sister's on-again, off-again boyfriend, Monroe.He makes her laugh and treats her like he enjoys her company. But her sister has a job offer off the farm and Esther is afraid Monroe will propose to get her to stay.Monroe Hutchison is spending the winter in Prairie Rose, Iowa, and thinking about settling there permanently. The MacCartney sister that's he's been kind of dating would make an excellent farmer's wife, but it's her younger sister, Esther, who makes him laugh. He enjoys her company and sometimes forgets that she never gets up from the couch and could never handle the rigorous life of a farmer's wife.If he kisses one, can he forget about the other? But which sister does he want to kiss?Will Esther ever get better? Could Monroe sacrifice the dream he's had since childhood to be able to care for the sister who captivates him? Or will he be like everyone else and overlook her charm because of her sickness?They're all wrong for each other, but why does being together feel so right? About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.

Candace McClosky thought the billionaire tycoon actually loved her and would help her save her family's ranch. She fancied herself in love for the first time in her life.She was a fool.Now she's stuck with even more problems and, as the oldest, she feels responsible for helping her sisters and saving their ranch.So…she comes up with a desperate plan and pitches it to an even more desperate cowboy.Jefferson Hutchison is happy his brother fell in love, but he isn't interested in having his life upended by matters of the heart.When a woman he barely knows makes him the craziest offer he's ever heard of he's at the point in his life where he finds himself actually thinking it might not be a bad deal. And he's willing to do a good deed.For a ranch.He wasn't expecting God to use a tiny baby and a sullen teen to teach him the eternal lessons he needed in order to be a good husband.Will he allow God's refining fire to make him better? Or will he become bitter? About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.

After working beside her sisters for years on their Iowa farm, Meg McClosky finds herself alone, trying to do the work of three people.She's never been one to mope around, but she's lonely and tired and at the end of her rope – desperate enough to give serious thought to an offer that has come in for the farm…and for her.Farris Warner has spent the last ten years fighting. Fighting the cancer that took his wife's life, leaving him a widower with four small children. Fighting the government as it took the farm that had been in his family for eight generations through eminent domain for a new airport. Fighting to keep his sanity as he tried to work his farm, raise his kids and keep up with lawyers and doctors and teachers and schools.He's desperate.Desperate enough that when an old buddy makes an outrageous suggestion…he's ready to take him up on it.Can two down-on-their-luck strangers take the pieces of their lives and make something beautiful out of them? About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.

She made a mistake and married the wrong man.Once the vows were said, she had to keep them. After all, they were said to God just as much as to her loser, neglectful husband.And so for fifteen years and four children, Carmen Magnus stayed true, kept her word and did her level best to love the man she married.But she never forgot the man who could make her heart race and whose life was as straight and true as it had promised to be in high school.Preston Emerson would never love another. He wasn't the kind of man who could fall for anyone. And it was better to stay single than to be married to one woman while he constantly fought off thinking about another.After all, the woman he'd fallen in love with had married another.He could stay away from her, but he couldn't keep from helping her.But then one day a single decision changes their lives. The past comes back. Secrets come out and in the virtual storm a love that had been dormant bursts to life.Will they bank on faith and take a second chance at love? About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.

Late one night Lincoln was delivering a yard decoration when he came upon a wild, unruly teenager throwing stones at the window of his neighbor's house. He tackled the belligerent child and was about to call the cops when she informed him she was his neighbor's sister who had been locked out of the house.Oops.Not the best beginning, but it gets worse when he accidentally walks into her house and accuses her of squatting in it.Annie has never trusted large men, and Lincoln has not only attacked her, but he's thrown unfounded accusations of thievery at her as well.There is no way she'd ever fall in love with that man.Except The Snowstorm of the Century hits and the two of them are pitted against nature to try to save the elderly folks in their care.As they work together will they find out that sometimes first impressions are wrong? About Jessie Gussman Writer of Love Stories USA Today best-selling author Jessie Gussman writes sweet and inspirational romance from her farm in central Virginia. Having attended, but never graduating from the school of hard knocks, Jessie uses real life on the farm to inspire her cowboy, rural and blue-collar fiction. When she's not chasing kids, cows and the occasional roll-away haybale, Jessie enjoys wading in Naked Creek and not cleaning her house. Most of the time her main goal is to keep from catching herself on fire...again. If you enjoy fun stories with vivid characters showcasing strong families with a ribbon of faith tying everything together, you might enjoy Jessie's books.