Mountain Magic: A Classic YA Western Adventure (The McIntyre Adventures Book #8)

Redemption rides on the wind… and not everyone makes it out of the storm.

Before he becomes a trusted ally to Gus McIntyre and Walter Hamilton Jr., sixteen-year-old Buford Wineguard is just a bitter, brawny bully with a chip on his shoulder and no direction in life. When his aunt sends him into the San Juan Mountains to fetch a Christmas tree, Buford expects a simple chore. What he gets instead is the fight of his life.

Caught in the deadliest blizzard the Colorado high country has ever seen, Buford finds himself alone, freezing, and near death. But fate has other plans. Deep in the snowbound wilderness, he encounters Gyselle, a mystical forest sprite who offers him one impossible choice…continue down the path of anger that claimed his father, or embrace a different future.

Haunted by chilling visions of what might become, Buford must confront the darkest parts of himself. To survive the storm, he’ll need more than muscle—he’ll need courage, humility, and the will to change.

A magical, heartwarming Western fable in the tradition of A Christmas Carol, Mountain Magic is a soul-stirring journey through snow, memory, and redemption.

Will Buford change his destiny—or freeze in the footsteps of the man he swore he’d never become?