A slice of life with bonus short " Curly Learns a Lesson"
A Montana Christmas is about the meaning of Christmas where it comes to family and ranch living. As a novella, it's a slice of life taking characters from an earlier book, From Here to There, moving them three years ahead to Montana where Helene has gone to take care of her recuperating uncle. She wants her husband, Phillip to join her there for Christmas. Hoping to soon have a baby of their own, Helene is eager to make Christmas a time of family joy.

Phillip is busy with his consulting work, but his real reason for avoiding Christmas comes from childhood memories that make him want nothing to do with anything to remind him of those chaotic years. When he learns Helene's full plans are to also invite his family, he's less than thrilled, but back on the ranch, he has plenty to keep him busy. Thrilled by her plans or not, Phillip would do anything to make his lovely wife happy.

With all the characters in "From Here to There", this novella adds some new ones. It also suggests the start of a new romance— but to find out what that might be, read the 25,400 word novella with trailer on Rain Trueax's "youtube channel".