A Match Made in Texas by Margaret Brownley is out now!
Welcome
to Two-Time Texas:
Where tempers burn hot
Love runs deep
And a single woman can change the
course of history:
There’s a new sheriff in town.
Amanda Lockwood gets more than she
bargained for when she’s elected Two-Time Texas’s first female sheriff. Anxious
to prove herself, she sets out to stop crime in its tracks—taking down wanted
man Rick Barrett in the process. But there’s something special about the
charming outlaw. Common sense says he must be guilty…but her heart keeps
telling her otherwise.
So what’s a sheriff to do? Gather an
all-female posse and ride to save the day.
Things sure don’t look good for Rick.
If he doesn’t convince the pretty sheriff to let him go, he’ll soon be pushing
up daisies. But his plan to woo her to his side backfires when he’s the
one who falls head over heels. Now he must choose between freedom or saving the
woman he loves…and the clock is ticking.
Who
knew A Match Made in Texas could be such sweet, clean, madcap fun?
Enjoy this excerpt from A Match Made in Texas!
Could
she trust him? Dare she trust him?
The man—a stranger—looked like one tough hombre. Perched
upon the seat of a weather-beaten wagon, he sat tall, lean and decisively
strong, his sunbaked hands the color of tanned leather. The only feature
visible beneath his wide-brimmed hat and shaggy beard was a well-defined nose.
The beard along with his shoulder-length hair suggested he had no regard for
barbers. From the looks of him, he wasn’t all that fond of bathhouses either.
“Need a ride?” the
stranger asked, looking down at her with open curiosity.
She hesitated. It wasn’t as if she had a lot of choices.
If she didn’t accept his offer, she might have to spend the rest of the day and
maybe even the night alone in the Texas wilderness with the rattlers, cactus
and God knows what else.
“Where you headin’?” he asked.
This time she answered. “Two-Time.”
“Same here,” he said with a gruff nod, as if that alone
was reason to trust him.
His destination should have offered no surprise. Two-Time
was the only town within twenty miles. Still… “Why there?” she asked.
Her hometown had grown in leaps and bounds since the
arrival of the train, but still lagged behind San Antonio and Austin in
commerce and population. Most people, if they ended up in Two-Time at all, did
so by mistake.
He shrugged his wide shoulders. “Good a place as any.”
Moistening her parched lips, she shaded her eyes from the
blazing sun as she gazed up at him. No sense beating around the bush. “You
don’t have a nefarious intent, do you? To do me harm, I mean?” A woman alone
couldn’t be too careful.
The question seemed to surprise him. At least it made him
push back his hat, revealing steel blue eyes that seemed to pierce right
through her. What a strange sight she must look. Stuck in the middle of nowhere
dressed to the nines in a stylish blue walking suit.
“Are you’re askin’ if your virtue is safe with me?”
She blushed, but refused to back down. The man didn’t
mince words and neither would she. “Well, is it?”
“Safe as you want it to be,” he said finally. His lazy drawl
didn’t seem to go with the sharp-eyed regard, which returned again and again to
her peacock feathered hat, rising three stories and a basement high above her
brow.
It wasn’t exactly the
answer she’d hoped for, but he sounded sincere and that gave her a small
measure of comfort. Still, she cast a wary eye on his holstered weapon. The
Indian Wars had ended, but the possibility of renegades was real. The area also
teemed with outlaws. In that sense, it wouldn’t hurt to have an armed man by
her side. Even one as surly as this one.
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