I should be thinking about survival. Instead, I’m dying with her name on my lips.Giada Mancinelli—the girl who owned my heart at sixteen. The girl who pulled the trigger that killed my mother. The girl everyone believes is dead. I spent years trying to erase her, bury my desire, outrun her ghost on racetracks across the world. I failed.
Crashing my F1 race car leaves me broken, drugged, and barely holding on—but wide awake when I see her. A woman in a nun’s habit standing at my bedside. For one unhinged moment, I think I’m hallucinating. Until I realize the impossible truth. She’s real. And she’s finally mine.
When attorney Sloan Lancaster returns to Adelaide Creek to care for his father, he’s shocked at Winding Creek Rehab and Care Center’s run-down state. He considers moving his dad but is drawn to his high school crush Bethany, in charge of the facility’s restoration. Moved by Bethany’s community spirit and her adorable young daughter, Heidi, Sloan makes an anonymous donation to the center as the holidays bring them all closer. But when Sloan’s identity is revealed, Bethany pulls away, anxious about conflict of interest. Can she overcome her fears to embrace Sloan’s support—and build the loving family she’s always wanted?
This is a tender, small-town holiday romance that beautifully blends second chances, forgiveness, and community spirit. Returning to Adelaide Creek to care for his recovering father, lawyer Sloan Lancaster doesn’t expect to reconnect with Bethany, his former high school crush and now the capable manager of the Winding Creek Rehab and Care Center.
Bethany is juggling the demands of single motherhood and her dream of restoring the care center to its former warmth and vitality. When Sloan quietly donates money to help fund the renovations, his secret generosity backfires, threatening their growing connection. What follows is a heartfelt journey of truth, trust, and rediscovering what really matters.
McCullough excels at capturing the nuances of small-town life—where compassion, gossip, and holiday magic intertwine. Both Sloan and Bethany are mature, relatable characters navigating love after loss and disappointment. With themes of healing, gratitude, and the courage to open one’s heart again, A Wyoming Family Holiday is a warm, uplifting story perfect for readers who believe in second chances and Christmas miracles.
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