Christmas at the South Grass: A Sweet Christian Mail-Order Bride Romance (Christmas in Jubilee Book 5)
About
She has spent nine years helping other women find their way to a new life. Now, it is her turn to step through the door.
For nine years, Verity Hargrave has stood on the platform in Council Bluffs, watching women board the westbound trains toward husbands, homes, and futures she helped them choose. She has read their letters, mended their coats, told them the truth, and seen hundreds of them safely on their way.
But Verity has never been the woman getting on the train.
At thirty-one, she finally admits what she has spent years refusing to name: she wants a life of her own. So she does the one thing she has never done before. She leaves everything she knows behind and travels a thousand miles west to Jubilee, Colorado, to take part in the town’s unusual winter courtship tradition.
There, she meets Alonzo Baca, a quiet, respected cattleman who lives with his family on the open country known as the south grass. He is honest, steady, and far more difficult to read than the letters Verity has spent years deciphering. He has agreed to her carefully written terms, but he is not a man who easily reveals what lies beneath his silence.
Verity soon discovers that the hardest part of her journey is not learning a new country, riding across unfamiliar grass, or facing a Colorado winter. It is learning to stop being the woman who fixes everything for everyone else—and to allow herself to want something simply because it is hers.
As Christmas draws near and Jubilee gathers for a celebration unlike any before it, Verity and Alonzo find themselves drawn into a quiet courtship shaped by faith, honesty, patience, and the courage to let another person truly see them.
But when a woman has spent her whole life standing in the doorway of other people’s lives, stepping through one of her own may be the bravest thing she has ever done.
Christmas at the South Grass is a heartfelt Christian historical romance about love, faith, belonging, and the courage to finally choose a life of your own.
The Christmas in Jubilee books:
Book One — Christmas at the Teel House — Adelaide, a clever milliner who has said no twice and meant it, comes to Jubilee for one careful winter with a quiet rancher, Josiah.
Book Two — Christmas at the Sawmill — Frances, a hard, honest orchard woman, is matched to Gideon, a man everyone likes and no one truly knows, up at the mountain sawmill.
Book Three — Christmas at the Parsonage — Thea, a newspaperwoman read all her life and never once truly seen, meets Barnabas, an assayer with a wound of his own.
Book Four — Christmas at the Wheel Shop — Honora, who has never once been let to choose for herself, makes a refusal that becomes a rule protecting every bride after her — and finds Ira, the wheelwright who mends broken things.
Book Five — Christmas at the South Grass — Verity crosses a whole country to be let into a family, not to fix one, and loses her heart to Alonzo Baca on the high winter grass.