Rocking Horse Christmas: A Sweet Small Town Holiday Romance

"e;The mare wouldn't let anyone near her.The rancher wouldn't let anyone in.She just drove four hours through a blizzard to break all the rules."e;Twelve years ago on Christmas Eve, Brock Morse made a mistake that cost him his little sister.Ever since, he has locked himself away in the frozen mountains of Vermont, running a sanctuary for rescue horses nobody else wanted.The bay gelding from the auction.The paint mare tied to a highway fence.And Christmas-the spirited chestnut mare his sister left behind, still wearing a tiny brass bell on her neck and carrying a twelve-year-old injury Brock could never bear to touch.Brock swore he'd never let anyone open that barn door again.Enter Dr. Traci Cano: New York's sharpest equine surgeon.Her golden rule? Fix the bones. Never the broken hearts.When an impulsive holiday detour leaves her car in a snowdrift and puts her on Brock's doorstep, she expects a routine emergency. Instead, she finds a towering, broody mountain man whose glare could freeze fire-and an untouchable mare who walks straight up and puts her nose in Traci's hand.Snowbound in a historic blizzard, there's nowhere left to hide.As surgical tension turns into late nights by the fire, Traci uncovers the relics Brock hid in the dark for twelve years-including a dusty, hand-carved wooden rocking horse waiting for fresh red paint and a child to love it again.She came north to perform an impossible surgery.She never expected to heal the shattered cowboy who held the reins.