A Very Cowboy Axe-Mas

My grandfather hired me to protect his Christmas miracle worker. Keeping my hands off her wasn’t in the contract.

Coming home for Christmas wasn’t my idea.

Neither were the alpacas in ugly sweaters, the gift shop, or the woman turning my family’s ranch into a holiday attraction.

Lyla Appleby is all sunshine, curves, and Christmas spirit. She’s also being threatened by a disgruntled vendor—which makes keeping her safe my job.

Simple enough. Until she starts feeding me molasses cookies and looking at me like she sees something worth keeping beneath all this grump.

Then a mountain snowstorm traps us in her little house.

Only one bed. Nowhere to go. And a curvy Christmas enthusiast who’s getting dangerously hard to resist.

I should remember she’s my assignment.

Instead, I’m chopping her firewood. Learning how she takes her coffee. Finding excuses to touch her—and running out of reasons to stop.

But Lyla’s spent her life making room for everyone except herself. She’s already preparing for me to leave.

Good thing this cowboy has other plans.

A Very Cowboy Axe-Mas is a steamy grumpy/sunshine Christmas romance featuring a protective cowboy bodyguard, a curvy heroine, snowed-in forced proximity, only one bed, found family, and a guaranteed HEA.