Darn Good Cowboy Christmas

Brown’s enthusiasm for her characters and their romance elevates the carelessly plotted third Spikes & Spurs contemporary Western, set on the Oklahoma–Texas border. Every Christmas for years, Lizelle Hanson has wished for stability and a handsome cowboy. Now the former carnie has a chance for the first on her uncle’s Texas property, and the second in next-door-neighbor and horse rancher Raylen O’Donnell, though family and friends caution the couple that stability and cowboys don’t necessarily mix. Readers of the earlier books will particularly enjoy the continued developments in the lives of the O’Donnell clan. (Oct.)