title: Upon a Midnight Clear
author: Erickson, Lynn
description: Bless the beasts and the children...especially at Christmas!
  
  After nearly a hundred years, there are wolves in Colorado again. And Brigitte Hartman, a field biologist working with the Fish and Wildlife Service, is one of the people responsible. The reintroduction of a wolf pack to the Flat Tops Wilderness area is her job-but it's also her passion.
  
  Local ranchers, like Steve Slater, are passionate about the project, too ...though not in quite the same way. They're against it. They believe the wolves are a threat to their cattle, their livelihood.
  
  Considering how he feels about the wolves, Steve finds that his life is complicated-to say the least by his attraction to Brigitte. Falling for Steve complicates her life, too. Particularly when she grows close to his young daughters and begins dreaming of a family Christmas. This family. This Christmas. And a husband called Steve...