Cowboy Bred, Cowboy Born by
D’Ann Lindun
Blurb:
Freedom or family? Only love can make
the choice.
Photographer Alannah Murphy refuses to be tied
down. She watched her parents struggle to hold onto their dairy farm
until it killed them. The mere thought of the same fate makes her
shudder. When she meets rancher Sterling Gentry she has to face her
fears, or lose him.
Sterling Gentry longs for someone to hand his
ranch down to. Like his father before him, he has sacrificed
everything to hold onto the land his ancestors settled. But
finding Ms. Right proves harder than he imagined. Then he meets
Alannah Murphy with her big city ways. How he can ever take a chance
with a woman exactly like his mother, who abandoned him when he was a
child?
Despite their determination to stay the course
they’ve each chosen, attraction pulls them together as steadily as
a nail to a magnet. Can these two find a way to mesh Alannah’s need
for freedom and Gentry’s desire to hold onto his land?
Excerpt:
Still
snapping photos, the woman approached him. When she came within
speaking distance, she waved. “Hello.”
“Who
the hell are you? And what are you doing in the middle of the road?
Don’t you know better than to stand in the way when somebody’s
herding stock?”
Her
mouth opened and closed a couple times. “I didn’t think—”
“Hell
no, you didn’t think,” Gentry shouted. “Damn it anyway.”
“I’m
sorry,” she said in a small voice. “The shot was just so good…”
The
shot?
She’d ruined hours upon hours of exhausting work because she’d
wanted a picture? Who the hell would do something so stupid?
Only
a damn greenhorn.
For
the first time he noticed her get-up. A straw hat only a city girl
would wear, floaty pink top with tiny straps that left her bare
shoulders exposed to the unforgiving Arizona sun, cut-off jean shorts
and red cowboy boots. Daisy Duke personified. He shook his head in
disgust.
Reality
crashed over him.
The
New York photographer his mother had enticed out here, hoping an
article in The
Cowboy
magazine would bring attention to the Santa Gertrudis cattle they
raised.
Damn.
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