The Cinnamon Bun Cowboy

The Cinnamon Bun Cowboy

She asked him to marry her once. He thought she was kidding.

Christmas in Staging Creek, Texas, means luminarias down Main Street, mariachis on the courthouse steps and a line around the block for Drover's cinnamon buns. This year, Toni Baker can't get the buns right. Bill Drover is in rehab after a stroke. Toni has been holding his bakery together with butter, prayer and her own checkbook. The last thing she needs is his son walking through the door at four in the morning.

Vic Drover was her best friend. He was also the boy she's loved since high school. Now he's home for the holidays, still tall and rangy, still wearing the same aftershave. One look at Toni with flour to her elbows, and Vic knows exactly what he left behind.

There's a crooked tree to cut, a Christmas Market to survive and a lighted horse parade with her little boy riding in front of Vic's saddle. Then there are the stolen kisses in the walk-in, where nobody can see. The heat between them is enough to melt the icing.

But Vic is due back on the rodeo circuit in January. Toni has never asked anyone to stay.

All she wants for Christmas is the one thing she's never let herself ask for.

A steamy small-town Christmas cowboy romance about second chances, secret recipes and the best friend who was always meant to be more.