Christmas Sleigh Ride

About the Book

Tyler Lacey was riding down the cattle trail, looking for strays along the upper mountain ranges of the Flying T2 Rough Stock and Cattle Ranch. It was his job this month to be the line rider and move the cattle and strays to the lower meadows before winter set in. He was just about to ride deeper into the woods to look for more strays, when he heard the sound of a wagon coming up the narrow trail. He knew it had no business being up here on the upper range land of his family’s ranch. Deciding to check it out to see what was going on, he walked his horse Biscuit down the trail to see the approaching wagon. At first glance, he was startled to see a young woman at the reins of an old small canvass-covered wagon. Calico Gunderson had made two wrong turns with her mule team on the way to her uncle’s Broken Arrow Ranch outside Smithville, Arizona. She found herself going up a mountain trail in the wrong direction. The trail was getting very narrow the farther along she drove, and she found she could not turn the mule team and wagon around. She halted the wagon and picked up her shotgun in self-defense when she noticed a rider coming down the cattle trail toward her.

About the Author

Diane M. Cece is the best-selling author of the Southwest Trails Series. Her works include Trails Southwest, The Cattle Drive from Southwest, The Rodeo Southwest, Whispering Ridge, Bitter End Trail, and Riding Judgment Trail. She is now retired after working twenty-five years as a management assistant for supervisory military personnel. She was an unpublished Nashville songwriter, a designer and seamstress for custom eighteenth-century-period clothing, a living Civil War history reenactor, a historian for the mountain-climbing Morris Canal in New Jersey, and a historic interpreter for Waterloo Village. She lives in a small New Jersey farming community and follows the local and Midwestern pro-rodeo action of the rough stock riders and the roping events. She can be reached on her website www.dianesoldwestnovels.com by going to the guest book tab.