"One Wish -- A Christmas Story", involves Sam Thompson and the mercantile owner, Margaret Allison, finding love during a Texas blizzard for two unlikely souls.

James Elliott III, searching for pink bluebonnets in "Naughty Or Nice", finds instead, during the same blizzard, the love of his life with the owner of the Rusty Bucket Saloon, Anna Ross.

The Christmas season also gives Sloan Sullivan a new chance at life in "The Christmas Bell" when he becomes the life support for the stranded train in a blizzard near his farm. Many people are on a train heading to Kasota Springs, including Tess Whitgrove who is attempting to deliver the Christmas bell. Tess, a spinster from a wealthy banker's family, takes her chance with the recluse as she discovers the kindness that lives within the man.

The final beautiful story of the Christmas spirit in Kasota Springs, "Away In The Manger", provides a new family to a lonely blacksmith, Randall Humphrey. Grieving his dead wife and child, Sarah Callahan, stranded at his home in the blizzard with her twin children, brings love and happiness at Christmastime.

Each story, perfect in execution, centers on the most wonderful time of the year, Christmastime, during the worst blizzard of the year in the Texas panhandle. The residents of Kasota Springs are brought to life in touching and revealing holiday tales to make the reader smile and sigh. A TEXAS CHRISTMAS a most enjoyable read is full of love and caring and difficult book to put aside until the last page has been turned. The warm feelings surrounding the holiday are certainly portrayed in these great tales from these talented authors and we look for more from them in the future.

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