A Prairie Christmas Collection - Softcover

Bateman, Tracey V.; Peterson, Tracie; Griffin, Pamela; Grote, JoAnn A.; Langer Smith, Maryn; Mindrup, Darlene; Raney, Deborah; Spaeth, Janet; Stengl, Jill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1624162614 ISBN 13: 9781624162619

Publisher: Barbour Books, 2013

Synopsis

Experience Christmas on the historical American Great Plains as retold by nine different multi-published authors, including Tracie Peterson and Deborah Raney. Follow pioneers, immigrants, and orphans through their adventures, heartaches, challenges, victories, and romances. You are sure to find more than one favorite among the nine holiday romances in this unique collection to warm your heart and inspire your faith.

About this title

Book Description:

An instant holiday treasure, this fiction collection is penned by nine multi-published authors, including Tracie Peterson and Deborah Raney. Each of the nine short stories promises a sweet Christian romance that weathers the adventures and challenges on the historical American Great Plains.

From the Back Cover:

A Treasure of Historical Christmas Romances

 

Settling the vast open prairies, weathering the winter storms, and finding joy to celebrate during Christmas epitomizes the pioneer experience. In this unique collection of nine Christmas romances, readers will relive a prairie Christmas with all its challenges and delights as penned by multi-published authors, including Tracie Peterson and Deborah Raney.

 

Take me Home by Tracey Bateman

One Wintry Night by Pamela Griffin

Image of Love by JoAnne A. Grote

The Christmas Necklace by Maryn Langer

A Christmas Gift of Love by Darlene Mindrup

God Jul by Tracie Peterson

Circle of Blessings by Deborah Raney

Christmas Cake by Janet Spaeth

Colder Than Ice by Jill Stengl

 

The warmth of Christmas will radiate in new love from the high plains of Minnesota and Dakota Territory, across the rolling hills of Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois, and down into the flats of Kansas. Filled with inspiration and faith, each story will become a treasure to be enjoyed again next year.

 

[Front flap]

Take me Home

by Tracey Bateman, a past president of American Christian Fiction Writers from Missouri.

Just Take Me Home is Abigail’s one request for Christmas. But diphtheria strikes her family and traveling home to them becomes impossible. How can Abigail have a “real” Christmas without the traditions of family gatherings, gifts, and sleigh rides?

 

One Wintry Night

by Pamela Griffin, a homeschool mom and full-time writer from Texas.

Ivy Leander has been displaced from Boston society by her father’s marriage and move to a small Nebraska town—and she would do anything to return home. She avoids making friends, but Craig Watson has seen through her frosty exterior. Can he teach her about the true meaning of Christmas—and love?

 

Image of Love

by JoAnne A. Grote, a multi-published author from Minnesota.

Mantie Clark lives with her brother and his wife and is raising her deceased brother’s children. She doesn’t mind adding Lane Powell to the family’s Christmas circle as another brother, but after losing her first love to the War Between the States, she is not interested in a suitor. A moonlight ride starts to soften her resolve, but the risk of loving may be too great for her scarred heart.

 

The Christmas Necklace

by Maryn Langer, an author from a long line of storytellers who lives in Idaho.

When the great Chicago fire steals the lavish home Lucinda Porter once shared with her deceased husband, she takes employment in the country. Wrongly accused of theft and promptly displaced right before Christmas, she meets David Morgan during her homeless wanderings. Can he, a student of the law, help her find justice? Or are there things of more value they must discover together?

 

A Christmas Gift of Love

by Darlene Mindrup, a radical feminist turned radical Christian from Arizona.

Rose Johnson has lost the most important man in her life—her father. At age thirty-five, she is now along on the forlorn prairies of the Dakota Territory. Alone except for her father’s friend Ward Taylor. When Ward proposes a marriage of convenience, Rose is stunned. Will she accept this gift of love?

 

[Back flap]

God Jul

by Tracie Peterson, a beloved bestselling author from Montana.

Sigrid Larsson of Lindsborg, Kansas, may be resigned to spinsterhood, but she is not ready to sell the family homestead and move in with well-meaning relatives. When two men begin to vie for her attention, in whose ear will Sigrid choose to whisper “God Jul” (Merry Christmas)?

 

Circle of Blessings

by Deborah Raney, a Christy Award winning author from Kansas.

Stella Bradford has finally found the love of her life. It doesn’t matter to her that he is her English professor at the university or that he seems to be hiding something from his past. But convincing her father that James Collingwood is the man she should marry is going to be a daunting task.

 

Christmas Cake

by Janet Spaeth, a dedicated author and mother from North Dakota.

Elizabeth Evans wants her first Christmas with her husband to be perfect. She is used to a prairie Christmas, but her husband is from the East were traditions are established in wealth and finery. All Elizabeth has is a little egg money, so she sets out to recreate an Evans’s family recipe. Do her Christmas dreams rely only on the outcome of a baking experiment?

 

Colder Than Ice

by Jill Stengl, a homeschool mom and animal lover from the Northwoods of Wisconsin.

Cold as ice describes Estelle’s heart. Since her fiancé died in the Civil War, she believes Christmas no longer worth celebrating and balks at helping her niece prepare for a holiday wedding. Who would think of offering Estelle a romantic sleigh ride?

About this edition

• Publisher: Barbour Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1624162614
• ISBN 13: 9781624162619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448