Jacqueline Hopper: 2 books

Christmas Eve of 1895 will be the loneliest one yet for Trucker, a nomadic cowboy. Raised without a father's guiding hand, Trucker had been run out of Pine Valley when he'd stood up for what he'd deemed to be the right thing to do. While traveling around the country and winning races...

Keren Joel has a phobia and, without realizing it, she's passed it on to her son, forcing her to seek professional help. What she doesn't expect to find is the man who'd been her best friend, twenty years earlier, and his shrine to a moment that forever changed the adults they became.