"Northern Idaho cattle rancher Sienna Naples isn't actually looking to hire a husband two weeks before Christmas, despite the ad her best friend puts in their small town's newspaper on the day Sienna's year-long, brutal divorce finalizes. Her plan is to hide out in the dangerously beautiful Frank Church Wilderness until the holiday season is over, riding fences and ignoring her wounded heart. Sienna's family has taken care of this land for generations and Sienna can't imagine any other life. But at Christmastime, with her parents gone and her marriage finally over, it's full of memories...and incredibly lonely. Until a tall, handsome stranger and a little girl walk into her life and suddenly the holidays are alive again. It was just a joke, but when single father Guy Maple shows up to answer the ad, the handsome Montana construction worker isn't joking. Money is tight this Christmas, and Guy's four-year-old daughter Emma is dying of stage-five chronic kidney disease. She needs a kidney transplant, but if Guy can't prove that he can afford Emma's anti-rejection medications, his daughter isn't going to stay on the transplant list. Guy's willing to do anything, including marrying a stranger, to keep her safe. It's an impulsive marriage of convenience, and Sienna knows this isn't real, no matter how much she adores Emma or how well Guy fits in to the ranching life. But the more time she spends with her new family, the more she fears losing the fragile, feisty little girl and the kind, devoted, hard-working, incredibly attractive man who is her husband--but is it only in name?"--
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1 primary bookHeart of the Wilderness is a 1-book series first released in 2024 with contributions by Sarah Morgenthaler.
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The Christmas you Found me by Sarah Morgenthaler
The ink isn't even dry on her divorce papers but her friend puts an ad in the newspaper to get Sienna a new husband. It was meant to be a joke but for Guy Maple, he is desperate enough to see if it is true. The stability would get his 4 year old daughter in stage 5 kidney failure on the transplant list.
Something in Sienna cracks wide open and they start a marriage of convenience to save a little girl who desperately needs a Christmas miracle.
The book made me cry so hard but don't worry, it has a HEA and you will feel every emotion working through you by the time you get to the end. I'm not gonna lie. A ton happens in the space of a few weeks. I love a good insta love story but this one was fast even for me.
You won't not fall in love with Guy. He literally would do anything for his daughter and he is so gentle and kind with Sienna that she doesn't know how to reconcile who her new husband is compared to the man she was married to before. Emma, his daughter will worm her way into your heart too.
This is the wholesome kind of love that every hopeless romantic dreams of and I couldn't get enough. The audio was phenomenal.
Definitely worth the read.
5 stars
