A Sweet Montana Christmas: A Clean and Uplifting Romance

The Cowgirls of Larkspur Valley #2

by Jeannie Watt

From Christmas heartbreak…

To their happily-ever-after?

Bridal shop owner Maddie Kincaid  used  to believe in happy endings. After being jilted weeks before her wedding, she retreats to a friend’s guest ranch and runs into her old coworker, ex–bronc rider Sean Arteaga. While planning the ranch’s Christmas open house together, Maddie starts falling for him…until Sean's attempt to protect her backfires. Can Maddie find a way to forgive him and finally get her own fairy-tale ending?

From Harlequin   Wholesome stories of love, compassion and belonging.

The Cowgirls of Larkspur Valley

Book 1: Home with the Rodeo Dad
Book 2: A Sweet Montana Christmas
Book 3: The Cowgirl's Homecoming

384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published September 26, 2023

About the author

Jeannie Watt lives on a small cattle ranch and hay farm in southwest Montana. When she's not writing, she enjoys making mosaic mirrors, sewing, and pretending that the house is neat and tidy.

Jeannie loves to hear from readers. Please contact her via her website www.jeanniewatt.com.

Reviews

[Kate Vale · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another in the Cowgirls of Larkspur Valley, in which Maddie Kincaid needs a break from her bridal shop business after her fiance dumps her weeks before the wedding. So she takes refuge at the guest ranch where she worked years earlier only to discover that the rodeo champ (now an ex-bronc rider) Sean Arteaga is there, too. Not good. After all, she had a crush on him in high school, but he didn't reciprocate except for one kiss back then.

Sean wants to be alone, too, while he recovers from the career-killing injuries he experienced months earlier. How can he be alone when he's tasked, along with Maddie, of taking care of the guest ranch's teen son while the parent units are on vacation in Mexico over the Christmas holidays? More to the point, can either Maddie or Sean--or both--ignore the feelings each has for the other that neither want to admit, even though Dillon, a too-smart teen, can see through what really going on between the adults, especially after Maddie learns why her ex-fiance broke up with her? Such angst in the middle of the season where Sean ends up playing Cowboy Santa for the town parade while planning to leave the ranch for schooling he's put off for years. A fun tale of stops and starts in the romance department.

[Harlequin Books]

Small Town & Rural Fiction, Western Romance, Holiday Romance, Wholesome Romance
Miniseries
The Cowgirls of Larkspur Valley (Book #2)

[Karen Torrance · Rating 5 out of 5]

Both Maddie and Sean were both hurt by ex lovers but they needed to work together with a 16 yr old high school wrestler to make Christmas great for all. Loved this book

[LuAnn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found myself smiling through this book. Here are two people who want nothing to do with each other and they are stuck in a small house in a blizzard. Yet, there is always that attraction that makes them purposely try to avoid one another, which is hard to do when you are in close proximity.
It’s a fun and easy book to read for the season.