A Stone Creek Christmas by Linda Lael Miller, 2007 SilhouetteOlivia O'Ballivan is one of several veterinarians in Stone Creek, but she has a special affinity for animals that sometimes gets in the way of being human. When the cry of a lost reindeer brings her out in the snow late one November night she meets the contractor her brother, a retired country music star, hired to build a new animal shelter.
Tanner Quinn isn't the greenhorn Olivia first believes him to be, but his distance from everything in his life seems to tear him down. When his daughter's pony becomes depressed at the girl's absence Olivia is pulled further into Tanner's life than either of them first want. When Tanner's daughter runs away from her fortress of a boarding school Olivia gets to see the man under the mask.
Their attraction flares and they fight to keep everything under wraps with a precocious twelve-year-old in the house. Before long both realize their emotional baggage is not enough to prevent their future together. In true romance novel fashion they support each other against their respective demons and agree to a Christmas Proposal.
A Stone Creek Christmas is a light and pleasant read appropriate for more mature readers, encompassing moments of stark sexuality and themes of abandonment and substance abuse.
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