Sleigh Bells Ring

Santa Claus is coming to town. And if Joanna has anything to say about it, so are her sisters. Admittedly, Joanna's Christmas list reads more like a to-do list: Ready the family horse farm to sell. Check. Convince her older sisters to pretty-please-with-sugar-cookies-on-top come home for one last holiday at the homestead. Check. And maybe . . . even be wrapped up in the hired hand's arms? Reality check. It will take a miracle to get Jed to see her that way. But it is Christmas. Miracles are known to happen. And who knows? Maybe the greatest time of year will be the greatest thing that ever happened to them. Now that would be the best present she could ask for: a merry Christmas and a happy rest of her life.

There's no place like home for the holidays-or so she's told. One last white Christmas on the horse farm is enough to make Isabella Tucker see red. Not that she had much of a choice in coming. Between her kid sister's begging and her boyfriend sweet-talking her out of Chicago, Bella finds herself at her old Kentucky home, where the only skyscrapers are the Christmas trees. At least decking the stalls is better than mucking them, and it's not like she and David will stay forever, right? When Bella realizes wild reindeer couldn't drag David back to the city, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas will be their last holiday together.

Walkin' in a winter wonderland is no stroll in the park . . . Forget asking for a pony. Sophia Tucker and her sisters have inherited an entire horse farm for Christmas. The money from selling the place should be enough for Soph to open her own veterinary clinic. Finally. All that's left to do is return home for one last Christmas. But there's a catch. His name is Matt Weatherly, a former Marine medic and childhood friend. Nurse to her late father, Matt sets to work helping the Tucker sisters bring the family homestead back to its former glory. However, it's anything but peace on earth when Matt considers reenlisting. Is it possible for Soph to have herself a merry little Christmas?

In the air there's a feeling of Christmas... and something fishy. Her heart ought to be on the naughty list. Amy has hardly shown her son around the family horse farm or brushed a thoroughbred before she's fraternizing with the enemy. It's been awhile since her husband died, since her heart felt this way. But after real estate developer Dan Wentworth has been so cozy with her sisters about selling their newly inherited property, Amy can't be sure if he's warming up to her. Or merely warming her up to the idea of letting the family homestead be bulldozed for a housing development. She doesn't want to hurt her sisters, but the money from Dan's proposal could go a long way in making single-motherhood merry and bright.

Santa Claus is coming to town, and so are the Tucker sisters. Never mind a pony. The Tucker girls have inherited their father's horse farm for Christmas. Make that a run-down horse farm. It needs some serious TLC in order to make it sell-ready. Joanna knows that by recruiting her sisters and one handsome ranch hand they can fix up the place and even celebrate one last Christmas while they're at it. However, to Isabella, returning to their home in Kentucky bluegrass country for Christmas seems like an impossible hurdle. Can her Chicago boyfriend make life merry and bright again? One thing's for sure: nothing is peace on earth for Sophia as a new beau brings up old wounds. And when the fate of the horse farm is put in jeopardy because Amy accidentally fraternizes with the enemy, tensions rise. But it's not like the land developer stole Christmas... just her heart. Can the Tucker sisters have themselves a merry little Christmas?