It's Christmas Eve, and Connor McBride is still haunted by a woman he talked to for only five minutes one month before. He still isn't sure if it had been the way her blue eyes had told him she was sweet but sassy, or the way she drank her beer, holding the nozzle to her lips and tilting back her head. It had been so damn sexy he'd wanted to lean over the bar, rip it out of her hands, and kiss her like it was his last night on planet earth. Little does he know that she will come back into his life in a dramatic and shocking way. April Sullivan has been aching to return to McBrides Bar and Grill. She'd met a handsome cowboy there who had taken her breath away, but her life has taken a bizarre and dangerous turn. A stranger in the small town, she has no-one to whom she can turn for help, but her inner voice tells her if she can find a way to the bar, Connor will save her from the peril in which she finds herself. Will the heat that sizzles between them be enough to keep Connor at her side? Will he believe her story, and protect her from the evil swirling around her, and with so much at stake, will his reassuring take-charge attitude, along with his hot spanking hand, be enough to make her listen and do what he says?