After being jilted at the altar, Sara Dawson never expected her ex to show up at her Texas ranch on Christmas Eve, claiming he had orders to kill her. Joe Ryland had rescued her once before…and she fell hard for him. Now the deputy US marshal was asking her to trust him to get them both out of this—alive. Joe knew he should have put Sara in protective custody a year ago. Instead, he left her at the altar…and brought gunrunners to her doorstep. As the Texas lawman follows a trail of betrayal that could implicate one of his own, finding out who put a hit on the woman he loves could take a Christmas miracle. And time isn't on their side…