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  “How do I look?” Emma asked, patting her stocking cap and setting the big jingle bell on the end of the hat jangling.

  “Like the star you are,” Paige assured her. “You’ll look all of eighteen in that outfit. You’ll be the talk of the town.”

  Emma blushed, her gorgeous blue eyes glowing with delight, slow grin lighting up her face. “You made my day. I’ve been worrying I’m too old to play Jovie.”

  “No way. You’re perfect.” Paige returned the smile, felt cheery warmth settle in her stomach and heat her from the inside out. She loved making people happy.

  It was her greatest strength, and according to her mother, her biggest flaw.

  “You gotta be a little selfish sometimes,” said her mother often—this from the woman who’d taken a powder on motherhood when Paige was ten and her brother, Parker, four. “Remember what they tell you on airplanes. Put your oxygen mask on first.”

  But if putting other peoples’ needs before her own was Paige’s worst sin, she would take it with her head held high. Because, c’mon, what was a little hypoxia if she could make the world a better place?

  About the Author

  New York Times and USA Today bestselling author LORI WILDE has sold over seventy-five works of fiction to four major New York publishing houses. She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Texas Christian University and a certificate in forensic nursing from Kaplan University. She is a member of the International Association of Forensic Nurses.

  Her first New York Times bestseller, the third book in her Twilight, Texas series, The First Love Cookie Club, has been optioned for a television movie. The town of Granbury, Texas, upon which her fictional town of Twilight, Texas, is loosely based, honors Lori with an annual Twilight, Texas weekend each Christmas.

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  By Lori Wilde

  The Stardust, Texas Series

  Love of the Game

  Rules of the Game

  Back in the Game

  The Cupid, Texas Series

  Million Dollar Cowboy

  Love with a Perfect Cowboy

  Somebody to Love

  All Out of Love

  Love at First Sight

  One True Love (a novella)

  The Jubilee, Texas Series

  A Cowboy for Christmas

  The Cowboy and the Princess

  The Cowboy Takes a Bride

  The Twilight, Texas Series

  A Wedding for Christmas

  I’ll Be Home for Christmas

  Christmas at Twilight

  The Valentine’s Day Disaster (a novella)

  The Christmas Cookie Chronicles:

  Carrie; Raylene; Christine; Grace

  Available in print as:

  The Christmas Cookie Collection

  The Welcome Home Garden Club

  The First Love Cookie Club

  The True Love Quilting Club

  The Sweethearts’ Knitting Club

  Available from Harlequin

  The Stop the Wedding Series

  Crash Landing

  Smooth Sailing

  Night Driving

  The Uniformly Hot Series

  Born Ready

  High Stakes Seduction

  The Right Stuff

  Intoxicating

  Sweet Surrender

  His Final Seduction

  Zero Control

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Excerpt from Cowboy, It’s Cold Outside copyright © 2017 by Laurie Vanzura.

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  EPub Edition APRIL 2017 ISBN: 978-0-06-246822-2

  Print Edition ISBN: 978-0-06-246821-5

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