Intrigued, spell-bound, horrified, angered, hopeful and, overall, very satisfied, Ms. Mills and Ms. Ward have helped me to realize that Christmas stories and romance can come in any guise. 4.5 of 5 divas  Kathy @ Dark Diva Reviews Gideon Makepeace grew up in Bill Tourney's Traveling Wild West Show, so he knows Indians better than a lot of folks of his day. He and his half-breed lover, Jedediah Buffalo Bird, are traveling east to New Orleans where Gideon hopes they'll find a home together, safe among the crowds of the big city. But it's winter in the desert and a storm is blowing in, so when they run across Kingman, Arizona, just before Christmas, they decide to take their chances and hunker down for the holiday.