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    The Price of Love
    The Price of Love
    The Price of Love
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    The Price of Love

    By Dawn Luedecke

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    In wild and untamed country, there's not much choice for an unwed woman. June doesn't need a man to keep her alive in the new town of Hellgate, Montana. But when the nephew of her father's sworn enemy begins to court her, she must choose between independence and love. Does she give her heart to the man she thought was her enemy, or turn her back on love?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDawn Luedecke
    Release dateJul 18, 2018
    ISBN9781386078265
    The Price of Love
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    Dawn Luedecke

    A country girl born and bred, Dawn Luedecke has spent most of her life surrounded by horses, country folk, and the wild terrain of Nevada, Idaho and Montana. As a child she would spend many afternoons reading books, watching western classics, and Rogers and Hammerstein movies. When she grew up she decided to leave the quiet country life for a chance to find adventure by serving a successful tour in the United States Coast Guard. During that time she found her soul mate (and alpha male) and started a family and writing career. She enjoys writing historical and paranormal romance and spends as much time as she can working on her current manuscript. For more information visit www.dawnluedeckebooks.com.

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      The Price of Love - Dawn Luedecke

      CHAPTER ONE

      Hellgate (A new settlement ) Missoula County Montana 1863

      From somewhere behind June Havens, the soft crunch of dried pine needles drew ever closer as someone, or something, approached. She kneeled in the huckleberry patch with skirts cascading around her like ripples in the water, but she wasn’t unprepared. For within her basket sat a gun powerful enough to take down a grizzly.

      God knows she’d already had to use it once in this wild, untamed country.

      The crunch sounded again, this time slightly to her left. Closer. The animal wasn’t very big, as far as predators go. An Indian? Black bear? A wolf? Certainly not the massive bear she’d killed while out picking berries last July. In fact, she’d been at this same huckleberry patch when the grizzly had found her the year before.

      She wrapped her hand around the butt of the pistol and spun around to fight. Ready to kill. Her skirts twisted around her body to pin her in place, but she managed to point the gun directly at the heart of the sound.

      Blast it, William Webber! June lowered the weapon and struggled to fix her skirts and sit back on her bottom. I almost shot you.

      You’d have a hard time since it wasn’t cocked. William tipped his mouth back in that infuriating grin of his. The one he gave her every time she came across him in that three-building place they called a town. Which, luckily for her, wasn’t often seeing as though his uncle was her father’s sworn enemy.

      William didn’t seem to care about their familial war. Instead, he stayed rooted to the grass below his feet. With brows furrowed, he surveyed the trees surrounding them, and then turned back to her and smiled. What would your daddy say if he came home from peddling goods to find his dear little daughter eaten by a mountain lion?

      I’m more likely to get shot by one of your big bug family members than eaten alive by a wild animal.

      William placed his hands over his heart in a dramatic tale of injury. She started to smile at the playfulness, but thought better of it. To do so would only encourage him.

      Plus, if she was going to hurt the blasted man, she preferred to do so where it would count most. His ego.

      I would never aim a weapon at such a pretty woman, he claimed, but the words only managed to irritate her further. I can’t say the same for the rest of my family, though.

      He wasn’t lying, either. His uncle would just as soon lynch a member of her family than buy her father a round of whiskey.

      If it wasn’t for the way William looked at her all to often, she’d think he was the same as the rest of them. But he was different.

      At least he seemed to be.

      June tossed her gun back into the basket, squishing a few berries in the process, but she didn’t care. What do you want?

      William searched the trees around them again, but June didn’t worry. This far into the mountains, she’d find the man foolish to not be aware of his surroundings. He focused once more on her. I was out hunting and saw a flash of blue the same color as the one you wear whenever you come off that little piece of homestead your family has over there. Imagine my surprise when I found you all alone on the mountain. Dangerous. What’s so important that you need to pick berries alone in bear country?

      "Jam. My mother

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