The Drifter's Christmas — Cia Leah

Sweet, western, family Christmas short story.



Stryker Steele left home at the age of fourteen when his pa married the hard-hearted Widow Vale and drifted around working busting horses and catching rustlers. He never had a place to call home. While camping out one night, hoping to find the next town, he had a feeling he was being watched. He ignored his instincts and went to sleep to wake up in the morning with a splitting headache from being hit on the head, and his horse, food, and saddlebags stolen. Following the footsteps left behind by the thieves, he found it led to a cabin and to a patchwork family in dire need of help.