Cowboys & Mistletoe – Day 3 – Kit Morgan

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Hi, Kit Morgan here! The Christmas season is upon us and all that comes with it! Including heartwarming, swoon worthy and uplifting Christmas stories. Some with suspense thrown in! Such is the case with Christmas in Clear Creek where an outlaw wannabe named Bowen Drake can’t do anything bad to save his life!

It all stems from a bad relationship with his father, a doctor who was too busy saving everyone he could from a horrible outbreak of influenza. In fact he was so busy, he failed to save the most important person in Bowen’s life. His mother. Bowen then decides to do the opposite of everything his father wants him to in an act of revenge. 

His father doesn’t want him to drink, so Bowen takes to drinking but soon finds his sensitive stomach can’t take it, so he gives it up – but let his father think he hadn’t. Instead of finding a nice respectable girl to marry, he tries womanizing, but that turns out even more disastrous. Before Bowen has the chance to break anyone’s heart, whatever woman he’s with finds their perfect someone, gets married, and lives happily ever after – all while thanking him for his superb matchmaking skills. Clearly, he would have to try harder to disappoint his father and punish him for letting his mother die.

Unfortunately, Bowen’s gift for doing good follows him as he heads west and joins an outlaw gang. Within two weeks of joining, half of them come down with a bad case of “the guilts” and turn themselves in!
Now brought even lower – and decidedly persona non grata in the criminal community – he figures it can’t get any worse if he pursues crime as a solo career. Wrong again. His one attempt to rob a bank goes awry due to a wagon he’d set aflame as a distraction. Because of a shift in the wind, the local gambling house catches fire as well, and he winds up on the fire brigade along with everyone else in town. The gambling hell is destroyed, which is a darn shame for the gamblers, but the local Ladies’ Society for Godly Living rejoice that their prayers have been answered and their husbands are now home at night.

Can you see his dilemma? But when Bowen stumbles upon the tiny town of Clear Creek and decides to rob the bank, he runs into even more trouble when half-frozen, some of the townspeople find him passed out in the snow. One of which is Elsie Waller, whom takes an immediate shine to him. Can she help him see what he truly is? That his “gift for good” is more than sheer dumb luck? Or as he sees it, bad luck?

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If Bowen had stumbled upon a town of snow people instead, who would find him?  What’s your snowman’s name?

I’m giving away this lovely ornament to one lucky snow villager! Just tell me about the last time you built a snowman and of course, give me your snowman’s name! Don’t worry, I’ll announce your real name too when I tell you who my winner is!

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USA Today bestselling author Kit Morgan is the author of over 180 books of historical and contemporary western romance! Her stories are fun, sweet stories full of love, laughter, and just a little bit of mayhem! Kit creates her stories in her little log cabin in the woods in the Pacific Northwest. An avid reader and knitter, when not writing, she can be found with either a book or a pair of knitting needles in her hands! Oh, and the occasional smidge of chocolate!

61 thoughts on “Cowboys & Mistletoe – Day 3 – Kit Morgan”

  4. Candy McSparkle.

    We built a snowman last Friday in central Minnesota. But, my grandsons transformed it into a fort so they could have a snowball fight! Loved the tidbit about your book too!

  5. Built a snowman with my late hubby years ago after our little chimney fire. We used the chunks of soot for the eyes; mouth and buttons. (Thanks be to God no damage was done from the fire!) Magic McGlisten ;o)

  7. The chart for names is fun, Cookie McSnowballs here. Where I live it doesn’t snow and I’ve never made a snowman! My brother lives in Chicago and when I’ve visited in the winter, I’ve always made my way into the house, looked out the window and said ‘Oooohhh pretty’ and stayed inside until it was time for me to clutch his arm while he got me into the car (in the garage haha) to be whisked off to the airport. When you never see snow it seems hard to deal with, well really it’s the ice that scares me.

  8. We so rarely get snow. I think my children were tiny the last time we got enough snow to build a snowman. They are in college now. 🙂
    My snowman name is Pinky McGlisten haha!

  9. The last time I built a snowman, my children were small – over thirty years ago. LOL. My snowman is Festive McSnowflake.

  15. Jingle McGlisten.
    It has been awhile since I built a snowman, maybe like 8yrs ago. Your book sounds like a great read, and what a Beautiful boot ornament! Thank you for the chance.Have a great day and a great rest of the week.

  18. Magic McSlushy
    We used to make snowmen every winter where I grew up and enjoyed it as kids. Now we live in a moderate climate.

  22. Great story esp. for Christmas. Sounds like another happy ever after. always glad to hear about other books available. This is from Hope McFrosty a/k/a susan payne

  25. I was probably in 1st or 2nd grade the last time I made a snowman!

    I’ve added your Christmas in Clear Creek to my Christmas TBR list. It sounds so good.

    Hope McSnowballs

  27. Candy McFreeze – it has been probably about 6-7 years since help build a snowman. I was a preschool teacher. One year we built an igloo and made a small opening in it. The children loved it.

  28. The name is Sweetie McIcicles, and NEVER! I’m a native Floridian, and still have not seen snow!! I went to TX for Christmas last year. The year before, they had a white Christmas. Last year, no snow til after I came home. This year, they’ve already had snow.

  29. oh thanks for coming today. love this cover and the book sounds wonderful
    Magpie MeSnowflake LOL
    Last time I made a snowman, both kids were in middle school. We made it together and it came out really good. The three of us had a blast making the snow man and playing in the snow
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    • Sugarplum McBlizzard – When I was young, My family lived in the City. My sister and I were horse crazy, so I didn’t build snow men… only snow horses. My sisters and I would spend hours, sitting on our snow horses, and playing cowboys.

  31. Wow, it’s been years since I built a snowman, but I have a home video that I cherish of me building a snowman with our kiddos when they were tiny little tykes of about two & four! We didn’t get a lot of snow that day, but I wanted to get out & play with them. It must’ve been an early snow because there were almost as many dead leaves in our snowman as there was snow! 😀 haha Those kiddos are now 23 & 25! <3
    Magic McIcicles should’ve been named Leafy McSnowman! 😀

  32. I rolled snowballs into a mini snowman last winter instead of shoveling off my concrete patio. I had to do some shoveling too. Today the snow won’t pack well enough to make a snowman, too dry.
    Jingle McBlizzard

  33. Magic McSnowy
    During the long Covid winter 20/21 we spent a lot of time with my daughter’s family in Wisconsin. We helped with their at home school lessons. We made a whole family of snowmen complete with a snow dog. I also went tobogganing on their hill. Great memories!

  39. Hi, Kit! Magic MacChilly here, brrr!! I know one year I had all 3 of my girls and all 3 sons-in-law, and all 5 grandchildren here and I prayed so hard that it would snow hard enough that the ones who lived here would have to stay over with the ones who came home from Virginia for Christmas! While we were getting ready for our big Christmas Eve dinner, it started snowing. Everyone was here, and it kept coming down and they ALL stayed, and my girls stayed a couple or 3 days, even though my sons-in-law had to go feed cattle and/or go to their office. The girls and the grandkids made so many snowmen all over the front yard, side yard, back yard, and made snow angels, too. It was a gift from the Lord!

  40. Bells McSparkles. I was born and raised in NYC. Moved to Florida when I was in my early 20’s so it has been over 30 years.

  42. This sounds really good!
    I haven’t made a snowman in years, but might have to make one this year with my grandson!
    I’m Holly McSnowflake. ?

  43. This sounds really good!
    I haven’t made a snowman in years, but might have to make one this year with my grandson!
    I’m Holly McSnowflake. ?

  46. Sugarplum McBlizzard 😉

    Last winter in Olympic village in Park City/it was a fantastic family vacation!

  47. Christmas in Clear Creek sounds like a fun read. We all need more humor in our lives.

    My snow person name would be Tinsel McSnowy.

    • Oops, missed the question. We don’t get enough snow to make a decent snowman here. It has been at least 30 years since I made a nice big one. I have made mini ones within the past 3 years.

  50. Jolly McSnowballs I couldn’t tell you the last time I built a snowman because it has been many years since then. I guess it was when my son was small and he is 33 now.

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