Western Holiday Duet: Western Duets, #4

By Paty Jager

Two historical western romance short stories.

Christmas Eve Promise
Sheriff Jubal Denton promises Suzie Harper they'll marry Christmas Eve. Two weeks before Christmas a breakout at the Willow Bend jail sends Jubal across the state in an attempt to capture the outlaw. Christmas Eve arrives. Other members of the posse have returned but where is Jubal?

New Year's Kiss
Edda Rae Bartlett is pacing back and forth on New Year's Eve waiting for her beau, Cort Haywood. He said he had something important to tell her before the end of the year. And there were only a few hours left to this year. Her best friend arrives, dragging her to a party, and into a game her friend learned while traveling. Edda Rae likes the fact she is elbow to elbow with Cort, but soon learns everyone in the room knows something about the game but her.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Windtree Press
• Release date: Oct 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781940064987

Paty Jager

Paty Jager is an award-winning author of 51 novels, 8 novellas, and numerous anthologies of murder mystery and western romance. All her work has Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging characters. Paty and her husband raise alfalfa hay in rural eastern Oregon. Riding horses and battling rattlesnakes, she not only writes the western lifestyle, she lives it.

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Christmas Eve Promise

New Year’s Kiss

Author's Note

About the Author

Western Holiday Duet:

Christmas Eve Promise

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New Year’s Kiss

Paty Jager

This is a work of fiction, Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.

WESTERN HOLIDAY DUET

Copyright © 2014 Patricia Jager

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the author or Name of Press except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles or reviews.

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ISBN 9781940064987

Christmas Eve Promise

1888

Willow Bend, Oregon

Suzie Harper stood at the cook stove in the kitchen of her restaurant. The morning had dawned cold and rainy. Shouts and galloping horses had awakened her at three. After discovering the Eager’s gang had rousted one of their gang out of the Willow Bend jail, she knew Sheriff Jubal Denton would be called to help the local marshal find the gang.

Her cheeks were already warm from bending into the oven and pulling out fresh cinnamon buns, but thinking of Sheriff Denton scalded her face and scalp with a different kind of heat. She and