The Rancher's Christmas Song
Keep a song in your heart this holiday season… Music teacher Ella Baker's plate is already full. But when single dad Beckett McKinley's wild twin boys need help preparing a Christmas song for their father, Ella agrees on one condition: they teach her to ride a horse. She's hoping that'll help mend her strained relationship with her rancher father; it certainly has nothing to do with the crush that's lingered since her one and only date with Beck.It isn't disinterest spurring Beck to keep his distance – if anything, the spark is too strong, with Ella reminding him of his ex-wife. Soon what started as an innocent arrangement is beginning to feel a lot like family. But with the holidays approaching, Beck and Ella will have to overcome past hurts if they want to keep each other warm this Christmas…
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Keep a song in your heart this holiday season...
Music teacher Ella Bakerâs plate is already full. But when single dad Beckett McKinleyâs wild twin boys need help preparing a Christmas song for their father, Ella agrees on one condition: they teach her to ride a horse. Sheâs hoping thatâll help mend her strained relationship with her rancher father; it certainly has nothing to do with the crush thatâs lingered since her one and only date with Beck.
It isnât disinterest spurring Beck to keep his distanceâif anything, the spark is too strong, with Ella reminding him of his ex-wife. Soon what started as an innocent arrangement is beginning to feel a lot like family. But with the holidays approaching, Beck and Ella will have to overcome past hurts if they want to keep each other warm this Christmas...
Praise for New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne
âRomance, vivid characters and a wonderful story; really, who could ask for more?â
âDebbie Macomber, No.1 New York Times bestselling author, on Blackberry Summer
âEntertaining, heart-wrenching, and totally involving, this multithreaded story overflows with characters readers will adore.â
âLibrary Journal
âThis holiday-steeped romance overflows with family and wintry small-town appeal.â
âLibrary Journal on Snowfall on Haven Point
âA sometimes heartbreaking tale of love and relationships in a small Colorado town.... Poignant and sweet.â
âPublishers Weekly on Christmas in Snowflake Canyon
âThis quirky, funny, warmhearted romance will draw readers in and keep them enthralled to the last romantic page.â
âLibrary Journal on Christmas in Snowflake Canyon
âRaeAnne Thayne is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors.... Once you start reading, you arenât going to be able to stop.â
âFresh Fiction
âRaeAnne has a knack for capturing those emotions that come from the heart.â
âRT Book Reviews
âHer engaging storytelling...will draw readers in from the very first page.â
âRT Book Reviews on Riverbend Road
RAEANNE THAYNE finds inspiration in the beautiful northern-Utah mountains, where the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author lives with her husband and three children. Her books have won numerous honors, including RITA® Award nominations from Romance Writers of America and a Career Achievement Award from RT Book Reviews. RaeAnne loves to hear from readers and can be contacted through her website, www.raeannethayne.com.
To my dad, Elden Robinson,
who loved Westerns and cowboy music and who made the best popcorn west of the Mississippi. I miss you more than words can say.
Contents
The twin terrors were at it again.
Ella Baker watched two seven-year-old tornadoes, otherwise known as Trevor and Colter McKinley, chase each other behind the stage curtains at the Pine Gulch Community Center.
In the half hour since they arrived at the community center with their father, they had spilled a water pitcher, knocked down a life-size cardboard Santa and broken three ornaments on the big Christmas tree in the corner.
Now they were racing around on the stage where tonightâs featured act was set to perform within the next half hour.
She would have to do something. As organizer and general show-runner of this fund-raising event for the schoolâs underfinanced music program, it was her responsibility to make sure everyone had a good time. Peopleâs wallets tended to open a little wider when they were happy, comfortable and well fed. A gang of half-pint miscreants had the potential to ruin the evening for everyone.
She had tried to talk to them. As usual, the twins had offered her their angelic, gap-toothed smiles and had promised to behave, then moments later she saw them converge with four other boys to start playing this impromptu game of tag on the stage.
In order to tame these particular wild beasts, she was going to have to talk to someone in authority. She gave a last-ditch, desperate look around. As she had suspected, neither their uncle nor their great uncle was in sight. That left only one person who might have any chance of corralling these two little dynamos.
Their father.
Ellaâs stomach quivered. She did not enjoy talking to Beck McKinley and avoided it as much as possible.
The man made her so ridiculously nervous. He always treated her with careful politeness, but she could never read the expression on his features. Every time she spoke with himâwhich was more often than she liked, considering his ranch was next door to her fatherâsâshe always felt like she came out of the encounter sounding like a babbling fool.
Okay, yes. She was attracted to him, and had been since she moved back to Pine Gulch. What woman wouldnât be? Big, tough, gorgeous, with a slow smile that could charm even the most hardened heart.
