Christmas at the Ranch

By: Julia McKay

Narrated by: Kai Kennicott

A second-chance holiday romance about a woman who flees family scandal by returning to Wilder Ranch for Christmas, where she first found love—and heartbreak.

She hasn’t been in love in ten years, but she’s about to get back in the saddle.

With the holidays around the corner and her father recently imprisoned for financial fraud, disgraced journalist Emory Oakes doesn’t know where to turn. She’s only certain of one thing: She needs to get away.

Fate takes the wheel, leaving her stranded in snowy Evergreen, the picturesque town where she spent her happiest Christmas as a teen — and chronicled every moment in her journal as she fell in love with handsome local, Tate Wilder, at his family’s idyllic horse ranch — until it all went wrong.

Emory isn’t ready to face Tate, but kismet and Christmas magic have other ideas. As the love they’ve denied for a decade rekindles, the betrayals that kept them apart resurface, as does Emory’s family scandal. Yet Tate Wilder and his ranch feel more like home than anywhere ever has. Will Emory and Tate’s alchemy fizzle or will their Christmas wishes come true?

A now & then POV + second chance romance - with a sexy cowboy, a charming small town during Christmas, & quirky side characters

ARC Review | NetGalley
I am always a fan of now & then POV second chance romances - add in a sexy cowboy, a charming small town during Christmas, & quirky side characters and you've just written the recipe to a book that is right up my alley.
Being said, this wasn't my favorite holiday book that I've ever read. I'm easily entertained by cutesie-feel good stories, and that's exactly what this is!! There wasn't anything specific that I disliked about this book. But on the flip side, it didn't really make me feel anything, either. It didn't really resonate with me and I didn't find the story, plot, setting, or characters to be super relatable or stand outish. It was a fun, easy, cute holiday romance that I enjoyed overalls.