Christmas in Jubilee Book
Five winters. Five brides. One small Colorado town where a woman's yes is her own.
High in the mountains, the town of Jubilee makes its marriages by mail — but never the way the rest of the world does. Here a woman comes west on terms written in her own hand: she is given the whole winter to know the man who sent for her, she owes no answer until the spring thaw, and the word she gives when the snow melts — yes or no — is hers alone, and kept safe by the whole town. No woman is hurried. No woman is bought. Every bride is chosen, and every bride chooses back.
Across five Christmas seasons you'll meet them all: a clever milliner who has said no twice and means it; a hard, honest orchard woman matched to a man everyone likes and no one truly knows; a quiet newspaperwoman who has been read all her life and never once seen; a girl whose refusal becomes a rule that protects every bride after her; and a woman who crosses a whole country to be let into a family, not to fix one.
Snowbound courtships and firelit kitchens. Faith woven gently through. Clean love stories kept honest to the very last, each winter ending in a spring worth waiting for.
Begin with Book One, Christmas at the Teel House, and stay through all five winters in Jubilee.
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.
