A Pioneer Christmas Collection: 9 Stories of Finding Shelter and Love in a Wintry Frontier - Tapa blanda

Journey along with American settlers who learn that despite where the trail takes them or how primitive their lodgings may be Christmas is all about the heart. Determined to honor Christ’s birth, these pioneers find a way to make Christmas happen in places like a cave, a tipi, and a dugout. Modern readers will enjoy a peek into life before commercialism took over the sacred day, distracting us from the true blessings of faith, hope, and love. Enjoy nine original novellas of Christmas romance as penned from many of today’s leading Christian authors, including Lauraine Snelling, Kathleen Fuller, and Vickie McDonough.

Christmas and Romance Follow Pioneers into Untamed Lands

The wild and untamed lands of America called to the brave and determined pioneers who desired a new way of life. Faced with primitive lodgings—a cave, a dugout, a sod house, a barn—settlers face their first Christmas in a new land with both trepidation and hope. From the mountains of North Carolina to the woods of Michigan, across the plains of Oklahoma and deserts of Arizona, these settlers soon learned that wherever the heart dwells, Christmas and romance can find a place to call home.

In this exclusive collection of nine Christmas romances, readers will relive a pioneer Christmas with all its challenges and delights as penned by some of Christian fiction’s beloved authors, including bestselling authors Kathleen Fuller and Lauraine Snelling.

1780 North Carolina – Defending Truth by Shannon McNear

1820 Ohio – The Calling by Kathleen Fuller

1830 Michigan Territory – A Silent Night by Anna Urquhart

1862 Nebraska Territory – A Pony Express Christmas by Margaret Brownley

1867 Arizona Territory – A Christmas Castle by Cynthia Hickey

1883 Dakota Territory  – A Cowboy’s Angel by Lauraine Snelling

1884 Dakota Territory ­– A Badlands Christmas by Marcia Gruver

1889 Oklahoma Territory – Buckskin Bride by Vickie McDonough

1897 Alaska – Goldrush Christmas by Michele Ule

Filled with inspiration and faith, each story will become a treasure to be enjoyed again each holiday season.

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Defending Truth by Shannon McNear

Left to care for her siblings at their mountain farm while her father fights the British in the East, Truth Bledsoe tries to remain brave when she finds an emaciated Tory hiding in a cave. Can Micah Elliot convince her that his political leanings have changed and that he can be trusted when her family is put in serious danger?

The Calling by Kathleen Fuller

Milly Kent loves her life working in her father’s stage coach stop in the young state of Ohio. She’d be truly happy if only she could find a man like Elijah Montgomery to work alongside her. But Elijah travels the stagecoach line in preparation to finally head farther west as a missionary.

A Silent Night by Anna Urquhart

Lorna Findlay follows her husband to the wilds of Michigan Territory.  Her resolve is shaken, though, when her husband never returns from the forest.  Unexpectedly, a gruff pioneer offers Lorna his assistance—in exchange for her hand in marriage.  

A Pony Express Christmas by Margaret Brownley

Stranded alone in Nebraska Territory with a broken wagon and two stubborn mules, Ellie-Mae Myers has no way to continue searching for her twin brother along the deserted Pony Express route or of returning home to Kentucky. Could a man on the verge of being hanged be the answer to her prayers?

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A Christmas Castle by Cynthia Hickey

Married by proxy in Missouri, Annie Morgan sets off for Tombstone, Arizona, to join her new husband as a cattle rancher. But too soon she finds herself a widow with an unexpected daughter and butting heads with her handsome neighbor.

A Cowboy’s Angel by Lauraine Snelling

Jeremiah Jenson, a cowboy on his way to the northern plains to find work, encounters a dying man in the Dakota snow. Belle Stedman’s husband has been gone for six weeks and she has just given birth to her second child alone in a snow shrouded dugout. When a stranger appears at her door with a miraculous story to share, will she welcome him or send him away?

A Badlands Christmas by Marcia Gruver

Noela Nancarrow and her pampered sister have been dragged into the Badlands by their adventurous father to live penniless in a sod house. When a local rancher invites Noela to a lavish Christmas party, will her holiday spirit return or will she learn a lesson far greater from the experience?

Buckskin Bride by Vickie McDonough

For six years Mattie, her father, and sisters have been living off the land like nomads in a portable teepee. When Conall Donegan discovers the girls parked on his newly acquired ranch waiting for their father’s return, he doesn’t know if he should be angry or concerned. Can trust be bridged in time to avoid disaster?

Goldrush Christmas by Michele Ule

When Samantha and her twin Peter book passage to Alaska in search of their missionary-minded father, they never imagined getting caught up in the rush for gold or that their neighbor would follow them. Soon their youth and inexperience is challenged on all fronts.