by Kim Cox

Historical Western Romance

of about 65,000 words

(in planning stages)

Lady Cauley's mother lies on her sick bed, telling her eldest daughter of  sixteen she's dying.  Lady's father has been long left  for greener pastures when her baby sister, Beth was born.   Beth is now a year old.

Before Virginia Cauley passes away, she tells Lady the secret to her success--the secret that can save her from the life she  will live if she stays in the Godforsaken desert of Arizona.  Handing Lady a compiled list of Southern gentlemen, Virginia points to the one she's circled. She has betrothed Lady to marry a man more than twice her age.  Alexander Smith is expecting her to be his wife in six short months.  Virginia tells her to be nice to the gentleman and he'll be nice to her.

After her mother dies, the neighbors swarm into their little shack like hornets to take Beth away to an orphanage where she's to be adopted by a couple from Missouri within a  few weeks.

Lady sends Alexander a letter, agreeing to marry him and he sends her a train ticket.  She alters her mother's dresses to fit--dresses left over from Virgina's days as a young, Southern Belle.

On the train destined for Atlanta, Georgia, a debonair cowboy, Lucas Quinn saves Lady from an attack by a gang of bad men.

The gunslinger makes her heart pound as it never has before.  Will Lady make it to her destination and her husband to be?  I surely hope not.

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