Christmas at Holly Hill Martha Rogers (Winds Across the Prairie, New, 2012, Pbk, 293 pgs)

New with slight shelf wear on cover and pages. Pages are lightly discolored. ISBN 9781616388379

Can Clayton Barlow prove he has changed his ways in time for Christmas?

It is October 1898, and Clayton Barlow has just returned home after serving time in prison for his part in a bank robbery. His family welcomes him, but the townspeople are skeptical. Bored with life in the small town but determined to make a new start, he goes to work with his father, hoping to regain the town’s trust.

Clayton recognizes the schoolteacher at the Prairie Grove School as his childhood friend, Merry Lee Warner, and old feelings surface. Still, he doubts that he could ever get a woman like Merry to love him.

As the townspeople prepare for Christmas, their suspicions about Clayton lead to trouble. (Realms; 2012; 293 pages)