After traveling around the globe for over a year, Cole Linden is more than ready to return home to Montana, so when his fiancée, Sunshine, suddenly cuts their trip short and books them flights back to Chance Creek, Cole feels like the holidays have come early this year. He hopes she’ll love the present he bought her: a restaurant space downtown. If only he can transform it into the sleek, modern … modern style she likes before Christmas, maybe she’ll finally agree to set a date for their wedding.
Sunshine can’t believe she’s pregnant, but she is, which means it’s high time to get back home. It also means she needs to re-think her career goals. She can’t run a world-class restaurant in tiny Chance Creek—especially not with a baby. So Cole will have to be the breadwinner of the family. Which means he needs a ranch. Luckily she’s found one. Three hundred acres of prime ranch land and a wonderful—if dilapidated—house. With Christmas looming, she’ll need to race to turn it into the comfortable family home they’ll need as soon as they get married.
But when a delayed flight results in the loss of their hotel room, Cole and Sunshine realize they’ll have to couch surf through the holidays. Staying with each of their friends in turn leads to a series of revelations that might undermine their relationship for good. Can Cole and Sunshine make it until Christmas?
Or will this be the holiday that ends it all?
The Cowboys of Chance Creek Series:
BOOK 0: The Cowboy Inherits a Bride
BOOK 1: The Cowboy’s E-Mail Order Bride
BOOK 2: The Cowboy Wins a Bride
BOOK 3: The Cowboy Imports a Bride
BOOK 4: The Cowgirl Ropes a Billionaire
BOOK 5: The Sheriff Catches a Bride
BOOK 6: The Cowboy Lassos a Bride
BOOK 7: The Cowboy Rescues a Bride
BOOK 8: The Cowboy Earns a Bride
BOOK 9: The Cowboy’s Christmas Bride
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A nice Christmas book it was a good easy read for the holiday season!
Good book but not as well written as her previous books
I enjoyed reading the book.
I have never been disappointed by Cora. I fall in love with all her books. I tend to read them more than once.
Great read
I laughed through out the book.
Once again I am starting a series at the end not the beginning but that is certainly okay. Chance Creek has several series set within it and I wanted a Christmas story. This one is definitely what I wanted.
Cole and Sunshine have been traveling the globe, getting to know each other better and enjoying learning about world cuisine and cultures. Now after years of travel they are heading home to Chance Creek, hopefully to stay.
While they are both excited to return, they are both keeping secrets. In an unexpected twist, they run into one of Cole’s old girlfriends at the airport, Fran is anything but subtle as she describes that relationship. Although Sunshine knows her relationship is secure, doubts creep in.
Once in Chance Creek, their reserved hotel room has been given away, then the fun starts.
From the moment Cole finds a room for them at Ethan and Autumn’s Bed and Breakfast you know this is going to be an interesting couple of weeks. They will only have this room for one night, then other friends step up and offer a room a night, right up to Christmas.
The thing is, Cole has bought a restaurant for Sunshine. It needs a lot of work before Christmas and his friends offer assistance in the project. He wants her to have what she wants, he also has to find a home for them. He isn’t kicking Scott Preston out of the apartment attached to his rifle range. He’d done so much while Cole and Sunshine were traveling.
Sunshine’s surprise is twofold, she is pregnant and she’s bought a ranch for Cole sight unseen. A ranch that Carl Whitfield wants to buy so badly he’s offering double the amount paid in cash. This has Sunshine questioning herself and Cole even as she and the other women start making the house livable.
Much hilarity as they make up excuses for not being where they said they were. That leads to a rock band and the guys taking dance lessons.
A fun read, with renewed friendships, new goals, and lots of love. I now have to go back and read the other books to see how all these friends became couples.
I Could have done without the steamy scenes.
Cora Seton does it again. Glad we got Sunshine back in town!
Finally
Cole and Sunshine were brought together because of her aunt. They worked their differences out and fell in love. Then Cole gave her the world. Now they both were back in Chance Creek to settle down. Both got each Christmas presents they didn’t tell each other about. He bought her a restaurant, she bought him a ranch. And they are pregnant. Now they just need the wedding and Christmas.
I found it to be a quick easy to read and follow along. Well written perfectly paced story pulling you in from the start. A small town where you have no secrets from the town. This one is about Cole who grew up in the town and Sunshine who moved to town and found her love for Cole. Plenty of couples and children but you have no problem keeping everyone straight.
It was nice that this book was a continuation/conclusion to Cole & Sunshine’s story.