Ski instructor Annie Bennett must spend the holidays helping her parents with their big Colorado ranch, but rugged surveyor Marshall Stone becomes a potent distraction.
Annie Bennett reluctantly returns to her parents' Colorado ranch to recover after a skiing accident in Aspen. When Marshall Stone, a handsome and mysterious stranger, appears on the Bennetts' land and claims to be surveying the backcountry, Annie and her father are deeply suspicious of his story and motives. Marshall can't tell Annie he's really in Velde to investigate a land swindle. Can this prickly pair stay together long enough to discover the spirit of Christmas?
Janet Anne Haradon Dailey (born in Storm Lake, Iowa) was an American author of numerous romance novels as Janet Dailey (her married name). Her novels have been translated into nineteen languages and have sold over 300 million copies worldwide.
