Book excerpt: Can Christmas Be Saved Orphaned as a child, twenty-year-old Christmas Rawls only wants a real family and loving husband. Ripped from the orphanage, she is sold to a whorehouse by the corrupt orphanage director where she realizes she's not the first to be victimized. Noel Brooks and August Hamilton are lonely cowboys with nothing but a ranch that needs a woman's touch. On a trip to Blessing, Texas, they see a terrified woman whose innocence touches them. Instead of buying cattle, they purchase the woman. Saving her is the plan, but in doing so, they throw all of them into more danger than they can handle alone. Determined to stop the nefarious director, can Christmas save the children or will she be silenced for eternity? Can two cowboys, who are forever transformed, save Christmas?