A year in godforsaken Storafalt, Wyoming? No big deal…or so traveling tutor Veronica Silver tells herself. She needs hands-on experience with a special group of students to qualify for a grant, and her assigned passel of ranch kids are special cases, all right. Ronnie loves a challenge, but pitted against a small town’s far-too-active grapevine and a woeful lack of amenities, she worries she won’t be able to hack it. With the education system in Storafalt sorely lacking, rancher John Lundstrom thought hiring a private tutor would ease some of his considerable stress. What he didn’t expect was a powerful mutual attraction with Ronnie or her steadfast refusal to let him properly court her. She’s on a one-year assignment and wants no entanglements when it’s time to go home to North Carolina. An unplanned pregnancy and Ronnie’s ensuing deception spins the Lundstrom ranch into a major upheaval. John refuses to let Ronnie run away with his daughter, but he may be forced to compromise when her homesickness threatens to drive a wedge between the two lonely hearts once and for all.

A Storafalt short story. Grace Carol has never met a man who’s excited her more than her trusty cowgirl boots. At age twenty-six, she’s resigned to loneliness if her only other option is to settle. In the small town of Storafalt, Wyoming, everyone knows her past, and more than a few disparage her for it. When a lost stranger arrives bearing a package meant for a resident across town, Grace has her breath taken away for the first time. Rafael Soto is kind, charming, and eager to help with the heavy lifting at her tiny ranch. But…he won’t touch her. Ex-pilot Rafael is looking for a forever home and thinks it might be in Storafalt. He wants Grace, blemished past and all, but he doesn’t want to lead her on. If he can’t stay, he doesn’t want to leave her more broken than he found her.

No one expected a womanizer like Joachim “Mojo” Koch to experience love at first sight, much less Mojo himself, but he’s become the newest victim of the “Storafalt Switch.” Now that he’s met new schoolteacher Derrin Copeland, he sees the light. In a place where men outnumber women two to one, cowboys have to straighten up and fly right if they want to win a lady, and Derrin’s got the quiet fortitude that makes Mojo want to settle down. Unfortunately, his own family doubts he can hack it. He worries that they’re right. Derrin didn’t move to Wyoming on Christmas Eve to find a man, but now she can’t imagine being without one in particular. Mojo’s the perfect balance to her timid reclusiveness—he makes her want to connect instead of hide. In fact, he could be the bridge joining her to her new community. But just when she thinks she’s gotten the charmingly assertive ranch hand figured out, he flips the script. Something’s holding Mojo back. Holiday magic might have brought them together, but maybe now it’s up to the wallflower to keep them from drifting apart. \\\_ Storafalt Stories can be read as stand-alones and in any order. Other Storafalt stories available now: -Teaching the Cowboy -Love on Delivery (short story) -Back to Storafalt -Shame and a Disgrace (a Den of Sin crossover novella)

—A Den of Sin/Storafalt Stories crossover novella. This story stands alone.— Phil Oxendine knew hooking up with cowboy Landon Lundstrom would be a mistake from the very beginning, and a few years into their relationship, he's finally committed to setting the younger man free so Landon can experience life...and heartbreak. The problem is, Landon's not willing to go. He may only be twenty-three, but he knows what he wants and is mature enough to demand it. At The Den, he hopes to make Phil understand that age is just a number, and while he's at it, satisfy some long-ignored cravings as well. —Contains scenes of explicit male/male sensuality.—