Wind on the River — Richard Barre

Third in Richard Barre's series of redemptive, mysterious Christmas novels from Capra Press, including Bethany (2003), The Star (2002). Dakota Territory, 1879: Played-out gunman Jubal Pyne, hours from the posse that would hang him and the blizzard that would freeze and bury him, crosses the Cheyenne river into Laney Van Rensslaer's high-plains farm. From then on nothing is the same not for Jubal, not for Laney and her 5-year-old daughter, not for the injured and comatose husband Laney tries to will back to life.