UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR

**Exciting. Moving. Another page-turner by the author of Aspen and Night Whispers

Bless the beasts and childrenespecially at Christmas!**

After nearly a hundred years, there are wolves in Colorado again. And Brigitte Hartman, a field biologist working with the Fish and wildlife Service, is one of the people responsible. The reintroduction of a wolf pack to the Flat Tops Wilderness area is her jobbut it's also her passion.

Local ranchers, like Steve Slater, are passionate about the project, toothough not in quite the same way. They're against it. They believe the wolves are a threat to their cattle, their livelihood.

Considering how he feels about the wolves, Steve finds that his life is complicatedto say the leastby his attraction to Brigitte. Falling for Steve complicates her life, too. Particularly when she grows close to his young daughters and begins dreaming of a family Christmas. This family. This Christmas. And a husband called Steve