A Coldwater Christmas is the final installment in the Coldwater, Texas series and Kace will finally have his happily ever after. What can I say about this read but oh my between the stink bombs, the penis balloons and the strippers it was an interesting read. I can tell you that Ms. Fossen doesn’t disappoint in the least with this storyline and how the Laramie brother’s father has come back into their lives. Then there is also how Kace’s ex-wife has come back into Kace’s life with her adorable little girl. I couldn’t believe how attached she was with Kace and how it felt like if she knew him for her short period of life. She would latch onto him and he would let her. Feelings between Kace and Jana is undeniable they still have feelings for each other but they both try fighting it. They are going to have a rocky road before they can have their happily ever after only because her ex-husband comes back and makes threats to take their daughter away from her then there is someone trying to frame her for Kace’s dads accident. Her mother is a looney that wants to help but just makes things worse and worst of all she finds out that the person that she loved betrayed her and maybe didn’t love her like she thought. Jana is going to be tested and in the end she will overcome everything because she is a strong willed woman that has gone through life fighting for what she wants and nothing is going to stand in her way. Kace will be there to hold her and let her know that he will support her in anyway he can.

I can’t believe that this series is over I still want more of each of the couples, I want to know more about their lives and what happened to each of them and their new families. They each had formed a family with kids with the exception of Callen and Shelby. I totally recommend this read. I can’t wait to read more of Ms. Fossen’s books.

Enjoyed reading the many adventures of the town folks of Clearwater, Texas. Some are quirky, some are rather amusing but there is always a story about everyone there. Can’t wait to read the next book in this series.

Going to Cold Water and meeting the Laramie brothers and their extended family is always like going home. A chaotic home, where emotions are high, where everyone wants to know the other's business, yet are willing to stand up for each other when need arise.
When it comes to creating a world where readers feel like part of the community is just one of the reasons why I love Fossen's books.
The oldest brother, Kace, has been the caretaker of everyone else since their father walked out on the family, and he truly deserves a happily forever after.
I loved the connection and palpable attraction between Kace and Lana. And the way Lana's little girl reacted to Kace, was truly heartwarming. Lana and Kace seemed to be on the same frequency, the same wavelength, they understood each other and why they were the way they were. Even though I am not big on angst, I wish there would have been a bit more about why Lana and Kace divorced the first time and a clear solution to those issues. But I felt them at the bottom of my heart, rarely is there a couple - even in romance novels - who so tangible belong to each other.
Even in the tumultuous disarray of all the family drama and Coldwater reacting to it, this tale delivers all the feels of family and home, a community where you belong to, and love that will survive even in the toughest times and the biggest obstacles. I laughed, I sighed and I swooned, and mostly I enjoyed the last installment of the saga of Laramie brothers.
~ Four Spoons

Relooked at this one for Christmas in July and the story just wasn’t working for me between the divorced couple coming back together and the storyline of them trying to stop their parents from marrying. Divorced couples isn’t one of my favorite tropes. Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this book!

*I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*

A Coldwater Christmas by Delores Fossen is the fourth book in the Coldwater Texas series but the first I have read. It is a Christmas romance about Kace and Jana, who fate has bought back together after their divorce.

I liked this holiday romance. It was an easy read and a lot of fun. The story involves a number of practical (and naughty) jokes played on Kace's father which was the best part of the book. It was really very funny in parts and had me laughing out loud.

I really liked the characters. Kace and Jana are both very likeable and interesting. I easily got behind them and enjoyed reading their story play out.

What didn't quite work for me was the romance. Kace and Jana have a lot of chemistry between them but not a lot else. The issues that caused their marriage to break up in the first place are never really addressed and there really wasn't any romance. I didn't see how things had changed between them from the beginning of the book to the end.

Everything else was great and made A Coldwater Christmas an enjoyable read that I would recommend to all romance readers.

Sheriff Kace Laramie and his brothers moved to Coldwater, Texas, as foster children. He briefly married local Jana Parker. After that marriage ended, he vowed to never marry again and pushed thoughts of his ex from his mind until she arrived in town needed his help.

Jana comes back to town after her second divorce to create a new life for her and her daughter and to try to stop her (rich) mother from marrying his gold-digging biological father.

Sparks fly as they work together to try to stop the marriage and overcome obstacles thrown in their way and it was fun to watch their relationship reignite.

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Favorite Quotes:

“Kace, the baby whisperer,” Nico joked. Kace gave him a look that could have frozen hell.

… a nurse came moseying into the room. Kace knew her, of course, and he groaned softly. It was Annabelle Mason. She was eighty if she was a day and as slow as a sloth unless it came to gossip.

In addition to bad art, her mom also had a penchant for experimental furniture. There was the tiger print couch, complete with roaring tiger heads for sofa arms. Odd-shaped yellow-and-green leather accent chairs that looked like blobs of melting butter or the remnants of a bad cold.

He was like a big ice-cream sundae to a dieting woman. Delicious and very much wanted.

Her mom was in a Peter-and-her-against-the-world kind of mindset that didn’t allow for the possibility that she was marrying an anus wart.

She wouldn’t have gotten that answer right even with a multiple choice.

My Review:

I have barely scratched the surface on this prolific wordsmith’s body of work, but I have vastly enjoyed every Dolores Fossen book I have ever picked up. Her engaging small-town stories are laced with quirky homespun levity, feature likable and relatable characters, and are easy to fall into and a snap to follow. Each time I have read one of her books, I have experienced a strong craving to stop and read her entire listing. A Coldwater Christmas was one of her best and a second-chance, adult contemporary, small-town romance that was as highly amusing as it was actively paced. I smirked and giggle-snorted at the delightfully comical visuals her clever words effortlessly called to mind. Ms. Fossen has a lifer fangirl in me - unless she switches genres and starts writing about zombies.

I've been enjoying Delores Fossen's Coldwater series since its inception, and she pulled out all the stops with this fourth novel in the series. While I did have a few issues with it, I found it to be the zaniest of her novels so far--it kept me going from amused to laughing out loud, and for the sheer enjoyment of reading it, it get 4 stars from this reader.

As second-chance romances go, this novel won me over from the get-go. This novel is eldest Laramie brother, Kace's story. He's the sheriff in small-town Coldwater, Texas. He's been divorced from his ex-wife, Jana, for years and although he's had no shortage of female company in his bed, he's not fallen in love again, although his current friend with benefits, Belinda, would have it otherwise. His day starts out with a a run-in with Petunia, an escape artist longhorn who always winds up in town, and another run-in with the town flasher. But he certainly wasn't expecting a visit from Jana and her adorable toddler, Marley, who takes to him immediately, and it was very hard not to fall in love with that precious little girl.

Jana is back in town to prevent the marriage of her mother, Eileen, (who never approved of Jana's short marriage to Kace when both were in their late teens, and Jana thought she was pregnant). The man Jana's mother intends to marry is none other than Peter Laramie, 17 years Eileen's junior, as well as the man who fathered and abandoned Kace's mom and their 4 sons decades ago, and who was also the cause of their mother turning to drugs, the overdose of which killed her, and which landed the Laramie brothers in horrific, abusive foster families after her death. The 4 brothers finally ended up with a good foster family, and have their foster father, Buck and his wife, to thank for that.

Jana is also in the middle of divorcing her second husband, Dominick, who, in only a few years, caused her to lose her ranch, where she raised and trained horses, drained her bank accounts, and is still trying to bleed her dry, and if he can't get the money from her, he knows that Jana's mom is filthy rich. Jana is convinced that Peter Laramie is only marrying her mother for her money. She can't seem to convince her mother of that, and she enlists Kace to help her stop the wedding.

From the moment Kace and Jana meet again, the sparks start flying--the one place they never had a problem with was their sex lives, and that clearly hasn't changed, despite all the weird things going on, like stink bombs going off, Peter's car accident, strippers showing up at Eileen's ranch complete with phallic shaped balloons, the sudden appearance of boxes filled with vibrators--and that's just for starters. Jana also believes that her father, who abandoned them 20 years earlier is still alive, and has a private investigator trying to locate him, although Eileen considers him dead, and no impediment to her upcoming marriage.

While I generally avoid romantic comedies, this one was a hoot and a half, and while I loved the zaniness and sexiness, I couldn't quite buy this as a second chance romance, primarily because while Kace and Jana had sex practically every time they were in the same place at the same time, that seemed to be pretty much the extent of their relationship--where was the romance? Where else were they compatible? Aside from trying to break up Eileen and Peter's marriage and deal with Jana's ex, they barely had time to have an actual conversation, and as far as romances go, you need more than hot sex to hold a marriage together. Additionally, although the title leads one to believe that this is a Christmas romance, Christmas was barely mentioned.

In addition to the bizarre goings-on, there were some real dramatic elements in this novel, but I don't want to include any spoilers, so I'll conclude by saying that if you're looking for a funny, sexy, relatively lighthearted, sometimes dramatic, second chance western romance, this one will certainly fit the bill.

I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions expressed are my own.

As with all the Coldwater Books, Delores Fossen turns up the heat in this town as she sets the oven to sizzle. When Sheriff Kace Laramie swears of marriage, he means it. At least until an old flame strolls back into town with a young daughter in tow and in need of some help. Both try hard to resist, but soon it is very clear the embers are stoking back up. Will the promise of never marrying again still reign true?

I always enjoy the Coldwater books. Like Whiskey Creek and Silver Springs, Fossen uses her knowledge of small town life to give this one a wonderful atmosphere that welcomes you in book after book. Give Coldwater a try.


Thanks to HQ for the ARC. All opinions are mine.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Harlequin Romance via NetGalley and I also purchased one on Harlequin's website.

I just adore Ms. Fossen's books. This one is no different. I just get sucked into the world that she creates and get lost there. I adored Marley (Jana's little girl). Let's just say she is the sweetest thing (especially since Marley LOVES Kace). Kace is the sheriff in Coldwater. He and Jana were high school sweethearts and each other's first love. They married young and because she came from money and Kace was a foster child, Jana's mother was able to create doubts in Jana's mind. Enough doubts for them to divorce. Jana is back in town after being gone for over a decade and her second divorce. She wants to stop her mother from marrying his father. To do that, she figures she needs Kace's help.

The story is one that just enchanted me right from the beginning. My poor e-reader really got a work out. I just couldn't put this one down. Add in stinky bombs, strippers, helium balloons of a man's certain anatomy part, a conniving ex-husband and you get a book that kept me up late into the evening. This was written in my favorite dual POV format. It really made the characters so much more humanized and someone to connect with.

This book is sexy and as such, I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone over the age of 18. Get ready to laugh yourself silly at times as well.

Delores Fossen lights up the holidays in Coldwater, Texas with A Coldwater Christmas.
Kace Laramie is having a day, then to top it off his ex wife Jana Parker shows up and his long ago ran off Father Peter Laramie is in town now what can go wrong.
This book will have you laughing and feeling all the way through!
Kudos to Delores on another excellent adventure.

This is book 4 in the Coldwater Texas series and it's Kace's story. He's surprised to see his ex-wife pull up in front of the police station but even more surprised to see his father drive by. The same father who abandoned him and his three brothers many years ago. This can be read as a stand alone but you'll enjoy all the brothers stories.Jana is in town to prevent her mother from marrying Case's dad. A good Christmas story with a few twists and turns. I received a copy of this ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review.

I really enjoyed Kace & Jana's second chance story. There was drama coming from all directions, but the re-budding relationship between them was the best part. That and Marley's fascination with Kace. The ending was a bit abrupt and a little predictable, but it was sweet regardless. There was very little Christmas about this book.

Jana's mother is planning on getting married to her ex-husbands father and wants Kaces help to stop this. But that's the least of her troubles when her newly ex-husband Dominic is starting up trouble to get as much money as he can out of her. Then there's the problematic pranks to their parents who want to get married that getting out of hands that implicating that Jana might have something to do with it to stop the wedding. Kace will do everything in his power to settle everything but with Jana around things are heating up making this even more complicated.

So there is nothing in this book that really has anything to do with Christmas so if your looking for Christmas cheer your not going to find it here. But if you are looking for a great contemporary romance with plenty of drama pretty much everywhere then you'll like this. From the moment this book starts the readers will be entertained but the hi jinks that'll happen and wondering who really is behind everything. Then there's the whole mess of Jana's money grubbing ex looking to drain her dry. Then there is the mystery surrounding Jana's father who went missing, who is thought of as dead and Jana needing to know what was the story about that. I enjoyed seeing the romance bloom between two the MC and there was plenty of steamy scenes if your into that kinda thing. You know what there is so much going on in this book that you'll want to read it and trust me when I say that you'll be hooked because there is so much that your not going to want to miss. I really enjoyed this book and personally had a hard time putting it down because I liked it that much.

A Coldwater Christmas by Delores Fossen is the fourth book in her Coldwater Texas series. Each book came be read and enjoyed as a stand alone.

Overall, this might be my least favorite in the series so far. The writing is what I expected it to be and the characters both new and friendly faces were fine but I felt it was missing something. For a book that was filled with drama after drama the connection between Kace and Jana just fell flat for me. I was more excited every time time Kace picked up and interacted with Jana's daughter. Also, for a Christmas book I felt like it was lacking the Christmas vibes and the happily ever after ending was a bit abrupt.

Even though this wasn't my favorite I still recommend the Coldwater Texas series if you enjoy a good cowboy romance.

2.5/5 stars

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Yet another great book by Delores Fossen. Always keep you interested up to the very end. Highly recommend her to friends and family.

I did not care for this book at all. I found it boring and predictable. This was my first time to read this author and will be my last.

What a great story. I laughed at all the shenanigans and cried when dad things haooened. Both Kace and Jana had issues with their dad's. Both were abandoned when they were young and suffered heartbreaking sadness because of it. How they overcame the abandonment and go on to become decent, hardworking, and caring people is a joy to read. Another great story by Ms Fossen for the Coldwater series, that I enjoyed and recommend. Although part of a series you can read this as a standalone.

I received a free ARC eBook from Net Galley and the publisher for my honest opinions.

I will leave a review on Sept 24. 2019 on Amazon

I received A Coldwater Christmas from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for my fair and honest review.

I found the book very well written, and enjoyed the storyline. There was good Chemistry between Kace and Jana, and I thought the engagement between his dad and her mom was a interesting one. The book is filled with many twists and turns, and at times I couldn't help but laugh out loud. I would certainly recommend this book to others.

A Coldwater Christmas is a very well written romance. I enjoyed the second chance plot and the setting. Romance fans will enjoy this book. My thanks to the publisher for my advance ebook. This is my unbiased review.