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    Kiss of The Christmas Wind
    Kiss of The Christmas Wind
    Kiss of The Christmas Wind
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    Kiss of The Christmas Wind

    By Janelle Taylor

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    A classic Christmas novella by a beloved bestselling author, now in ebook for the first time! Janelle Taylor is the author of more than 50 romance novels, with nine New York Times bestsellers and sales in the millions.

    The western frontier. Deadly winter weather. New bride Carrie Sue Jamison wonders if she will be widowed before spending even one Christmas with her husband Thad, a Texas Ranger. He's left home to track a gang of murderous bank robbers through the wilderness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBelleBooks
    Release dateNov 11, 2011
    ISBN9781611940770
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      Kiss of The Christmas Wind - Janelle Taylor

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      A classic Christmas story by a beloved bestselling author, now in ebook for the first time!

      The western frontier. Deadly winter weather. New bride Carrie Sue Jamison wonders if she will be widowed before spending even one Christmas with her husband Thad, a Texas Ranger. He’s left home to track a gang of murderous bank robbers through the wilderness.

      Kiss of the Christmas Wind

      A Novella by

      Janelle Taylor

      Bell Bridge Books

      Copyright

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons (living or dead,) events or locations is entirely coincidental.

      Bell Bridge Books

      PO BOX 300921

      Memphis, TN 38130

      eISBN: 978-1-61194-077-0

      Bell Bridge Books is an Imprint of BelleBooks, Inc.

      Copyright © 1991 by Janelle Taylor

      Printed and bound in the United States of America.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

      A mass market edition of this story was published in Christmas Rendezvous, anthology, Zebra Books, 1991

      We at BelleBooks enjoy hearing from readers.

      Visit our websites – www.BelleBooks.com and www.BellBridgeBooks.com.

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      Cover design: Debra Dixon

      Interior design: Hank Smith

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      Winter scene - © Elena Pahl | Dreamstime.com

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      I’m sorry, Carrie Sue, but I have to leave at dawn, just as soon as it’s light enough to see their tracks. It’s my job; I’m the marshal of Gates. Thad Jamison stroked his wife’s flaming red hair, mussed from the cover she’d worn while doing evening chores in the near-freezing weather. He gazed into her violet blue eyes as he continued, The little Adams girl was shot during that bank holdup; I hope she’ll be all right. And I hope you’ll be all right, too. Lordy, I hate leaving you alone again so soon, but I have to bring those two robbers to justice and get that money back. Folk here depend on me.

      An array of conflicting emotions came and went in her gaze. Carrie Sue’s voice was strained as she replied, I know, T.J., but it isn’t fair. You’ve hardly shaken the trail dust off your boots since your return. It’s almost Christmas, our first Christmas. Carrie Sue hung up the thick coat she had removed and draped her wool scarf atop it on the large peg. Her cold fingers tried to straighten her hair, but her husband grasped them between his larger ones to warm them. She looked into his smoky gray eyes. This is the first holiday season I’ve looked forward to in years. It’s my first home since I was a young girl and my parents were . . .

      Thad lightly pressed his forefinger against her wind-dried lips. Don’t think about the past again, love; it’s over.

      Carrie Sue moved his finger aside to refute, Over? How can it be over when we’re still controlled by it? My pardon was based on you taking this lawman’s job and risking your life every day. If that weren’t true, we could be ranching, like we half-do now. I’m sorry I got you into this trap. I’m ashamed of all those years I rode with Darby’s gang of outlaws.

      Thad didn’t want to bring up her dark past again, but he saw how much it was on her mind tonight; her mood had been troubled ever since the rider delivered his shocking news just before dusk. Thad’s first duty was serving as the marshal of Gates and the surrounding area; he’d been appointed by President Grant himself. If he’d been in town at his small office, he could have stopped the holdup and prevented a little girl from getting shot. But, having just returned from helping the law out in Fort Collins—north of Gates—he’d been helping his wife with chores she had done alone for over two weeks. He had been home less than three days, and now this . . .

      But he couldn’t let Carrie Sue blame herself for this predicament. He smiled gently and said, I prefer to think of you as a daring desperado who had no choice in what she did if she wanted to survive. The Texas Flame is dead, love; you’re Mrs. Thaddeus Jerome Jamison now and forever. You were trapped in that miserable life, with no one to help you break free.

      She returned his smile and caressed his chilled cheek. "Until you came along, Mr. Texas Ranger, and saved me from myself and the law. There’s so

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