It's July in Smallwood, Nevada. Time to try, once again, to bring the two halves of the community together to plan the town's holiday festival.

As usual, the craftsmen and women on bar owner Wild Bill Toohey's side want the holiday celebration to reflect the rowdy, fun-loving Gold Rush Days of the west. On the other side of town, Smallwood Inn's Clive Pritchert and members of the Handcrafter's Co-op see the winter holiday as a more mellow, family affair.

Longtime resident Harold "Gizzard" Ramsey thinks if he can just get Bill and Clive together to plan the yearly event, everything will be all right. Glenglory Ski Resort management thinks their event planner, Sylvia Marsden, will whip the town into shape.

Who will win in this holiday planner's nightmare? Gizzard's betting on love.



Pat Henshaw, born and raised in Nebraska, has lived on the U S's three coasts, in Texas, Virginia, and now California. Before she retired, she held a number of jobs, including theatrical costumer, newspaper features reporter and movie reviewer, librarian, junior college English instructor, and publicist. She also loves to travel and has visited Canada, Mexico, Europe, Egypt, and Central America as well as almost all fifty US states.



Now retired, she enjoys reading and writing as well as visiting her older daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren on the East Coast and playing havoc with her younger daughter's life in NorCal. She thanks you for reading her books and wants you to remember that every day is a good day for romance.



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