Christmas at the Wheel Shop: A Sweet Christian Mail-Order Bride Romance (Christmas in Jubilee Book 4)
About
She crossed two thousand miles to learn how to choose for herself. She never expected her heart to make the choice for her.
For six-and-twenty years, Honora Deming has been the family’s yes.
Her mother chooses her pew. Her sister chooses her dresses. Her family has always known what is best for her—and because they love her, Honora has always gone along with it. The one thing she has truly made her own is her candy-making, a craft she has perfected over nine years and loves with all her heart.
Then Honora discovers Jubilee, Colorado, a snowbound mountain town with an extraordinary Christmas courtship custom: a woman may cross the country, meet a man chosen for her, and spend the winter deciding for herself. No pressure. No promises. Her answer can wait until the spring thaw—and it can be no.
For the first time in her life, Honora has a chance to discover what she actually wants.
But Jubilee is not quite what she expected.
There is Judd Mowrey, the good, steady freight driver she came west to meet. And there is Ira Wheelock, the quiet blacksmith and wheelwright whose shop stands three doors from the Teel House. Ira does not charm her with grand speeches or press her for answers. He simply notices things. He mends what is broken, sets things true, and seems to understand her hands and her work in a way no one ever has.
As Christmas approaches and a fierce Colorado winter closes the mountain pass, Honora finds herself caught between what everyone thinks she should want and the quiet stirrings of a heart she is only beginning to understand.
And when the whole town assumes it already knows how her story will end, Honora must learn the hardest lesson of all:
Sometimes being honest about what you do not want is only the beginning of discovering what you truly do.
Set in a warm, snowbound Colorado town filled with Christmas traditions, faithful friendships, handmade gifts, and the quiet kindness of people who look after one another, Christmas at the Wheel Shop is a tender Christian historical romance about courage, free choice, faith, and a woman finally learning to listen to her own heart.
If you love clean historical romance, strong emotional storytelling, small-town Christmas settings, quiet heroes, capable heroines, and slow-building love stories woven with faith and grace, come spend Christmas in Jubilee.
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.