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    Jousting In The New Mexican Desert
    Jousting In The New Mexican Desert
    Jousting In The New Mexican Desert
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    Jousting In The New Mexican Desert

    By Doreen Milstead

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    A woman’s father sends her off via a matchmaker to a man with a castle in New Mexico. Diego takes reenactments and old Spanish artifacts to the extreme. He holds frequent jousts, with his cowboys as participants, and has decorated his castle in a medieval style. One day, a chalice is discovered in an ornate wooden box buried in the desert. Then, the miracles start to happen.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSusan Hart
    Release dateJan 11, 2016
    ISBN9781310866111
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      Jousting In The New Mexican Desert - Doreen Milstead

      Jousting In The New Mexican Desert

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      Doreen Milstead

      Copyright 2016 The Sweet Romance Network

      Synopsis: A woman’s father sends her off via a matchmaker to a man with a castle in New Mexico. Diego takes reenactments and old Spanish artifacts to the extreme. He holds frequent jousts, with his cowboys as participants, and has decorated his castle in a medieval style. One day, a chalice is discovered in an ornate wooden box buried in the desert. Then, the miracles start to happen.

      Cynthia and Diego prayed long and hard for Manuel to stop bleeding. And then, the Grail began to shine…

      Cynthia Taylor was married to Don Diego del Cruces on May 13, 1875 in a small town outside Las Lunes, New Mexico. She had been married off to him by her merchant father who was seeking to establish his large shipping firm as a major player it the seafaring trade.

      His father had been a dock worker and this fact drove him close to insane whenever anyone would bring it up. The Honorable James Taylor had managed to get ennobled by doing some work for the British government and, although it could not be passed to any of his children, he did get a title out of it. Desiring to establish his name in some foreign court he went searching for a suitable match for his only daughter.

      The matchmaker company searched long and hard and found a rancher of Spanish descent living in New Mexico, USA. Although the man was an American citizen by birth, he had steadfastly refused to acknowledge any authority other than Ferdinand the Second of Aragon. Whenever anyone pointed out to Don Diego that His Catholic Majesty had been dead hundreds of years, he would reply that he had not seen the body and must assume he still reigned.

      The Honorable Master Taylor sent his daughter off to the coast of Texas where she took a train and coach to meet her new husband on the dusty hills of New Mexico. However, before he would meet with his new wife, he made certain she was instructed in the Catholic Christian faith by his family priest, Father Simon, who had worked for the local bishop.

      A month after the church had decided she was sufficiently educated and had gone through her catechism, she was baptized by the bishop himself. When he had received notice from the bishop, Don Diego then sent for his wife from the small hotel he had put her up in Alamogordo.

      The wedding was an elaborate affair with neither groom nor bride seeing each other until the bishop had pronounced them married at the cathedral. It was attended by cattle merchants from both sides of the border that had ties to his family for generations. Don Diego actually spoke English better than Spanish, as his father had been too busy making money to attend much to his son. His mother had died early leaving the young man to be raised in the company of private tutors, clerics and the occasional nursemaid.

      Don Diego had been known as Dan to most of the cowboys on the ranch until his father passed away. Upon inheriting the family fortune, he put it into his real interest: the study of medieval history. He found proof of descent from a conquistador of ancient times and took the title and name Don Diego.

      He had also been searching for a suitable match, but for himself. Even with all the documents he could furnish none of

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