The O'Connells

Christmas is coming, and love is in the air. But so is some dark mayhem. Will the crime behind the curtain ruin a happy-ending holiday for the Oā€™Connells? ā€œEach book in the Oā€™Connell Family series makes me fall more in love with this family.ā€ Rebmay Owen Oā€™Connell wants only one thing: to put a ring on the finger of his long-time girlfriend, Tessa Brooks. But when her past fears become an obstacle between them, Owen may not get the new beginning and the happily ever after he truly wants. Meanwhile, Suzanne Oā€™Connell finds herself in a year-long slump, being the live-in girlfriend of Deputy Harold Waters. Jobless and searching for something to give her life meaning, she finds herself on the wrong side of the law when she stands up for the rights of a stranger who is targeted by the community. Suzanne, who is known for her stubbornness and her obstinate sense of right and wrong, ends up taking on a woman no one else will, and in doing so, she tests her relationship not only with Harold but with every one of the Oā€™Connells. As the Oā€™Connells work together to keep their sister out of jail, can big brother Owen, who has been a father figure to all his siblings, achieve the future he dreams of with the only woman heā€™s ever truly loved?