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    The Widow And Her Cowboy
    The Widow And Her Cowboy
    The Widow And Her Cowboy
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    The Widow And Her Cowboy

    By Joyce Melbourne

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    A woman runs away from her big city life, after stowing away with a man she had just met. He finds her later and they fall in love and are married. Their idyllic life is shattered one day and Rose has no idea what she’ll do to maintain her sanity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSusan Hart
    Release dateJul 11, 2015
    ISBN9781310566967
    The Widow And Her Cowboy
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    Joyce Melbourne

    Joyce Melbourne lives in Southern California with her husband, numerous animals, and an unkempt garden, which she loves. She's been interested in romance and all of its sub genres for many years.

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      The Widow And Her Cowboy - Joyce Melbourne

      The Widow And Her Cowboy

      By

      Joyce Melbourne

      Copyright 2015 Joyce Melbourne

      Synopsis: A woman runs away from her big city life, after stowing away with a man she had just met. He finds her later and they fall in love and are married. Their idyllic life is shattered one day and Rose has no idea what she’ll do to maintain her sanity.

      Spring had come to the valley in quick time, the winter snows melting so fast that streams were overflowing their banks, happy to wander onto land previously denied, satisfied with their chance to make the grasses grow and the flowers to bloom uninhibited by any rules of nature.

      It was simply the most beautiful sight Rose had ever seen as she walked from her horse to the hilltop that she loved so much, that they loved. It was her weekly pilgrimage to join Tom for a light picnic lunch, which she carried in the basket dangling from her arm. Only, he wouldn’t join her for the sandwich, his body resting deep in the dirt of the hill where he had wanted to be buried so that he could always be with her and their memories.

      Rose spread the small blanket across the damp grass, knowing that her riding britches would absorb some of the wetness, but she didn’t care. It would actually feel good to have the wind dry the fabric as she rode back down the mile of distance between this favorite spot and her cabin, their cabin just finished by their hands a year earlier; their cabin, where love of the land and each other had been their lives -- until the day of the accident.

      She laid out the small lunch on the blanket, fixed herself a sandwich, poured her sweet tea and listened to the bluebirds that frequented the spot since she had laid Tom to rest there merely eleven months past. Rose enjoyed the birds and their dedication to each other; they were like the young couple that came to this place for the first time only three years before. Life had moved fast, but happily.

      The two bluebirds were much like her and Tom - always filling the little spaces of each other’s lives where a void, an emptiness of sorts existed. Rose had loved him with all her heart and soul, and he had loved her no less, despite their unlikely and frowned-upon beginnings together in Charleston. Rose was a debutante, Tom a rugged cowboy who just happened to be a customer of her father’s. Her mind drifted backwards to the time when she had first met him as it often did.

      Tom had come to Charleston on business with her father, namely for the arrangement of shipping goods to Nebraska where Tom was already making a new and prosperous life for himself. He was doing some prospecting for gold, but his main reason for living there was his horse ranch and an investment in the

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