Dear Reader,

I have often wondered what makes people happy at Christmas. For a young woman, it might be a proposal and a diamond ring. For a young man, a fancy new vehicle. For a newly married couple, the news that their first baby is on the way. But for parents of young kids, I think it is simply that their children have a merry Christmas holiday, full of love, and free from strife.

This is exactly what Alex McCabe has planned for his quadruplet kindergarten-age sons. They want a Shetland pony for their ranch? He has his eye on one. They love bugs? He knows about a fancy new insect catcher that will allow them to observe to their hearts’ content, and then set the insect free. The one thing they really need, however, is a mom to love and care for them. That is a little harder to arrange.

Until… Kate Taylor, shows up on his ranch. They haven’t seen each other since they worked together at a shelter during Hurricane Inga, eight years before. The fast friendship and fierce attraction they felt then went nowhere because both were pledged to others, and did not even learn each other’s last names. Now, she magically appears for a chef gig on his ranch. They quickly find out their chemistry is stronger than ever. His boys adore her, too and want her to be their bonus mom.

Can she marry without romantic love? Kate hadn’t thought so. Now that she is happier than ever, she wonders. Are hope and faith, love and giving enough to build a marriage—and happy family--on? Only time will tell.

I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I loved writing it! Have a wonderful holiday season!

Merry Christmas to all!
Cathy Gillen Thacker

Read an EXCERPT of A COWBOY'S CHRISTMAS GIFT and check out the other books in the MARRYING A MCCABE series.

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