Next Christmas in Girouette

In the Epilogue, Autry and Oxana exchange theories on where the valuable presents came from and what happened to the Rocky Mountain Santa.  From the Cupola atop the haunted hotel, they begin to plan their next Christmas in Girouette.

In Chapter Thirteen, Autry and Oxana are witnesses to yet another inexplicable mystery, when all the children who show up in Girouette are treated to valuable vintage presents on Christmas morning.

In Chapter Twelve, Autry, Oxana and The Captain—along with the other inhabitants of Girouette—find themselves playing host to a horde of families lost in a snowstorm on Christmas Eve.

In Chapter Eleven, Oxana discovers—on Christmas Eve—what went wrong in the relationship between her father and The Captain, and determines to make it right once again.

In Chapter Ten, Autry has a dream in which he becomes his grandfather and relives the events of 60 years earlier when The Captain crossed the impassable Rockies in a sleigh drawn by wolves.

In Chapter Nine, Autry and Oxana, with all their elderly friends sitting around the deSpain’s fireplace, are dismayed to hear The Captain explain what really happened on Christmas Eve 60 years earlier.

In Chapter Eight, Autry and Oxana listen as Imo, Edgar, Joe and Ron Running Elk, a Blackfeet Indian, recount the mysterious events of Christmas 1940, which left them all believing in Santa Claus.

In Chapter Seven, Autry and Oxana, learn about the early years in Girouette through a story that weaves the history of Lewis and Clark with the magical beginnings of the Rocky Mountain Santa.

In Chapter Six, Autry and Oxana are nearly trapped in an abandoned copper mine.  Later, challenged by a cowboy, Autry competes in a race on a barely broken gelding across the snow-covered prairie.

In Chapter Five, Autry and Oxana begin to learn about their grandfather, The Captain, when he drives them up into The Rockies on Going-to-the-Sun Road and shares a strange local legend with them.

In Chapter Four, Autry and Oxana discover the serialized newspaper adventures of “The Rocky Mountain Santa,” which were written by the radio personality, Montana Mike, 60 years earlier.

In Chapter Three, Autry and Oxana meet Edgar and Joe deSpain, who once published the local newspaper and who recall the town’s history through the archives of the Girouette Dispatch.

In Chapter Two, Autry and Oxana discover that Girouette hasn’t quite given up the ghost when they meet Imo, the elderly proprietor of a café for lonely cowboys and the owner of a haunted hotel.

In Chapter One, Autry and Oxana Quinn are spending a dreary Thanksgiving with their gruff old grandfather in the tiny town of Girouette, Montana when their father becomes desperately ill.