She’s all Christmas cheer. He’s all grumpy loner. Snowed in together… could they possibly fall in love?

After a career-ending injury, former U.S. Marshal Rhett Morgan retreats to a snowbound Colorado cabin to escape Christmas, people, and the ghosts of his past. All he wants is silence and solitude.

But when cheerful and chatty Holly Winters, a therapy horse trainer, arrives to check on the property for her uncle, Rhett finds himself stuck with the one woman who refuses to be ignored—and brings a horse with a personality nearly as big as hers.

When a freak avalanche cuts them off from town just before Christmas, Rhett and Holly are forced into an uneasy truce—one filled with borrowed socks, canned soup, and revealing conversations neither ever wanted to have.

But Holly isn’t just sunshine and sass—and Rhett is more cowboy than marshal. And as Christmas approaches, both will have to confront the fears that haunt them before they can discover the healing only love—and faith—can offer.  This holiday, the real rescue might not be in the mountains… but in their hearts.

Titles in the A Cowboy For Christmas Collection include:  The Cowboy’s Christmas Confession ~ The Cowboy’s Christmas Deadline ~ The Cowboy’s Christmas Rescue ~ The Cowboy’s Christmas Miracle ~

This is a clean, sweet romance with either closed doors/fade to black, or only kissing.

Title:  The Cowboy’s Christmas Rescue
Series:  A Cowboy for Christmas Collection #3
Author:  Debra Chapoton
Published:  October 6, 2025
My Rating:  4.5 stars

The A Cowboy For Christmas Collection series continues with Holly and Rhett in The Cowboy’s Christmas Rescue.  When an escort assignment went sideways, Rhett suffered not only the end of his career with the U.S. Marshals and a bullet wound, but a deep guilt that is slowly eating away at his soul.  He’s searching for quiet this Christmas season, alone, off the grid, no one in miles is his goal.  Funny how one cheerful woman and a horse full of shenanigans can change a man’s mind, perhaps helping him to find peace.

Holly is making the trek up to her uncle’s rented property, high on the mountain trail, with enough snow on the ground to be annoying, and trying to outrun the incoming storm to deliver groceries to the man who is renting the cabin.  She’s riding her therapy horse, Jiminy, just to give him some time out of the stable, never thinking they’d be caught up in a storm-driven avalanche that would keep them far from home with one grumpy man until the roads can be cleared.  A closed-off, almost snarly, deeply troubled man who can’t get her off the property fast enough.

The Cowboy’s Christmas Rescue is a powerful story, full of moments that will, frankly, break your heart for the burdens both Holly and Rhett (in different ways) are carrying.  Rhett, a man of faith, is questioning why his life was spared while a young boy died during his watch.  The guilt, the questions unanswered, are tearing him apart.  He needs Holly and even Jiminy, far more than he realizes, as they both begin to open his heart, his mind to other answers rather than the questions that plague him at the moment.  Holly is dealing with her own family issues, yet while her faith is secure, she’s not above wondering…why.  Slowly, one chatter-filled, annoyingly cheerful woman will start to melt Rhett’s heart, allow him to see events through different eyes, and perhaps, bring not only much-needed relief from his survivor’s guilt but invite love back into his life.

I enjoyed their story very much.  I chuckled at Jiminy’s antics, rejoiced as Rhett let his burdens go, and loved watching two wounded souls find peace with each other and with God once again.  Their romance is slowly unfolding, daily allowing cracks in their walls to form and start to crumble.  At some point, between the massive snowfall, the actual avalanche, and a predator at their front door, Holly and Rhett will slowly fall in love, the kind of love that accepts people for exactly who they are, and can last for a lifetime.  If that’s your kind of romance, at any time of the year but especially at Christmas, then you’d enjoy The Cowboy’s Christmas Rescue by Debra Chapoton.

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