A Ridgeway Christmas

By Kianna Alexander

A Season For Family and Friends
The year is 1886, and it's Christmastime in the small enclave of Ridgeway, California. As the town gathers at the Taylor Hotel for the first Ridgeway Holiday Social, memories are shared, secrets are revealed, and new attractions are discovered.

Family is Everything
Ricardo and Lilly Benigno have journeyed by ship to his home in Barcelona, to introduce their son Leo to his Spanish roots. For Ricardo's parents, meeting their first grandchild is a delight beyond compare- but old wounds still exist between Ricardo and his elder brother, Hernando.

A Secret to Tell
Back home in Ridgeway, Prudence is keeping a secret from her husband, the Reverend Derrick Emerson. Between keeping their home, chasing after their young daughter Chloe Grace, and helping take care of the needs of their parishioners, she's hardly sure of when she'll have the time to tell him what's on her mind-but the Christmas social presents the perfect opportunity.

A Choice to Make
Sheriff Noah Rogers and his wife Valerie are still in the throes of newlywed bliss, and are looking forward to finding every sprig of mistletoe the staff at the Taylor hotel has hung. Watching little Abraham grow up makes Valerie long for another child- but will Noah agree, when he has his eye on the mayor's seat?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bryant Street Publishing
• Release date: Sep 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781094440286

Kianna Alexander

Like any good Southern belle, Kianna Alexander wears many hats: loving wife, doting mama, advice-dispensing sister, and gabbing girlfriend. She's a voracious reader, an amateur seamstress and occasional painter in oils. Chocolate, American history, sweet tea, and Idris Elba are a few of her favorite things.  A native of the TarHeel state, Kianna still lives there with her husband, two kids, and a collection of well-loved vintage 80's Barbie dolls.

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A Ridgeway Christmas

A Roses of Ridgeway Historical Romance

Kianna Alexander

BRYANT STREET PUBLISHING

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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A Ridgeway Christmas

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Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

-Washington Irving

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DECEMBER, 1886

Castelldefeis, Spain

Ricardo took in the familiar scenery of his family's home as he stepped down from the seat of the hired hack. He would have preferred to travel the countryside on horseback, as he did in his youth, but traveling with a wife and small child necessitated the use of a vehicle. The Benigno family estate occupied twenty good acres just outside the boundaries of the city of Castelldefeis, situated on the Spanish coast just south of Barcelona. The cool winter air held the familiar, salty scent of the Mediterranean, and he inhaled deep breaths of it to refresh himself from the long passage.

Lilly, cradling young Leo against her, remained atop the seat. First, she handed the sleeping youngster down into his arms. Once he'd cradled his son safely in the crook of one arm, he extended his other hand to help his wife down from the vehicle.

Once her feet were planted on solid ground, she smiled up at him. "I'm