"The beloved author of the Mystic Creek series gifts readers with a novel of homespun good cheer, as two families discover the joy of hope and redemption--just in time for the holidays. As summer gives way to fall in Rustlers Gulch, widow Maddie McLendon begins to have second thoughts about uprooting her life to move there with her son and grandson. Contractors have yet to break ground on their new house, leaving them--along with four horses, three dogs, and six cats--to live in a makeshift camp of trailers, tents, and sheds, while a brutal Montana winter looms on the horizon. ... Millionaire rancher Sam Conacher doesnt take kindly to his foolish new neighbors, but then he hasnt taken kindly to anyone since his wife died six years earlier. Hes content to wallow in his grief alone, while keeping a tight rein on his twenty-six- year-old daughter. But now Sams daughter has gone and fallen in love with Maddies no-good son. ... Though drawn together by their love-struck kids, Maddie and Sam never see eye to eye on anything, until a near-tragedy gives them a true glimpse into each others souls. And as the first snowflakes begin to fall, theyll discover the secrets and slipups that have brought each of them to this point in their lives--to when an open heart is the biggest gift of all. . ."-- Provided by publisher.