This a full length audiobook by Emma Ashwood.

The Widow's Christmas Gift

Chastity  has spent fifteen years nursing a husband who came home from Shiloh broken, and nearly a year mourning him. Now she sits at the end of the table with the other widows, mending other people's hems and winding a gold pocket watch that keeps ticking long after the man who carried it is gone.

She will not spend another Christmas this way.

One advertisement in the Matrimonial Times catches her eye. A widowed doctor in a remote Nevada mining town needs a capable woman to help run his practice, his household, and the life of his fifteen-year-old son. He promises honesty. He asks for nothing pretty. Pretense, he writes, will not be welcome.

Dr. Edmond Wordsworth buried his heart with his first wife fifteen years ago, and he has been giving himself away to the town ever since. His son, Pierce, has run the house since he was ten. In the parlor, a rosewood piano that no one is allowed to touch gathers dust.

Chastity arrives to a marriage of convenience, separate bedrooms, and a boy who watches her as if he's waiting for her to leave. Then diphtheria strikes, the roads close, and the town's children start falling sick. Pierce is one of them.

When the quarantine lifts three days before Christmas, the shelves are bare and the children who survived are asking whether Santa Claus will still come. Two grieving hearts each make a secret sacrifice to give the town its Christmas, never guessing what the other has given up...

A tender historical western Christmas romance about second chances, found family, and the gifts that cost us everything. Perfect for readers who love mail order bride stories, a widowed hero and heroine, and a slow-burn love that will warm your heart this holiday season.

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