Her Pa's Christmas Bride — Susannah Calloway

Christmas happens everywhere - except in Daniel Whitmore's house. After losing his wife during the holidays five years before, Daniel has forbidden his children to celebrate any of the traditions they once loved. It seems things will stay like that forever - until his teenage daughter Melina comes up with a plan.Abigail Keating, of Boston, misses the family she used to have. Now, with both parents passed away, all she has left is her angry, abusive uncle. When he threatens to marry her off to a gambling hall owner to whom he owes a debt, the time has come to run away and strike out on her own. An advert for a Mail Order Bride in Rough Creek, Missouri, seems to be the perfect opportunity to start anew - until she arrives and finds out Melina wrote the letter on her father's behalf.With Christmas right around the corner, Abigail and Daniel start to piece together a friendship, complicated by painful pasts and grief over loved ones they have lost. Will love prevail this Christmas season?