The Cowboy Who Broke The Mold

The Cowboy Who Broke The Mold
Cathleen Galitz

Women to Watch"Cathleen Galitz has captured the essence of the Western man. Her characters are as unique as the land that spawned them." – Award-winning author Carolyn LampmanHE WAS ROUGH, UNTAMEDAn arrogant, blue-eyed, half Native American cowboy with an attitude who thought prim one-room schoolteacher Carrie Raben couldn't hack it in the wilds of Wyoming. Guess again, cowboy.SHE WAS SOFT, INNOCENTChaste Carrie was running from heartbreak, and she had something to prove to herself…as well as to Judson Horn. And neither the enormity of the open range nor this potent man of the land could intimidate her. Instead, she was about to tame this know-it-all virile cowboy and teach him about the explosive power of opposites attracting.Women to Watch. For classic tales with a sexy twist, dazzling debut author Cathleen Galitz is our Woman to Watch….

Table of Contents

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Dear Reader (#u0a2bc04a-73aa-56e2-9a0f-d59b56fe57bd)

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Dedication (#u65834c20-77e5-512e-bd65-2ab58c3febff)

About the Author (#u9d1da5fb-c52a-5f69-9993-0840e0d5caed)

Chapter One (#u74ff0eb9-d346-5761-9a60-49e825685c82)

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Chapter Three (#u0aac5f77-6d2d-50c9-af5e-27e0b238b4e5)

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Her mother had warned her to stay away from such men.

Men whose eyes could undress you and possess you in the self-same glance. Men whose toughness in word and manner covered their feelings. Men whose rough hands conjured up unladylike images of silken bodies entwined. Men who could break your heart just as surely as they could break a wild mustang and abandon you the instant you were tamed….

But despite her mother’s warning, Carrie felt herself unable to resist the enigmatic cowboy.

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What a special lineup of love stories Silhouette Romance has for you this month. Bestselling author Sandra Steffen continues her BACHELOR GULCH miniseries with Clayton’s Made-Over Mrs. And in The Lawman’s Legacy, favorite author Phyllis Halldorson introduces a special promotion called MEN! Who says good men are hard to find?! Plus, we’ve got Julianna Morris’s Daddy Woke up Married—our BUNDLES OF JOY selection—Love, Marriage and Family 101 by Anne Peters, The Scandalous Return of Jake Walker by Myrna Mackenzie and The Cowboy Who Broke the Mold by Cathleen Galitz, who makes her Silhouette debut as one of our WOMEN TO WATCH.

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The Cowboy Who Broke The Mould

Cathleen Galitz

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

To Brian—the man who,

in a world beleaguered by bottom-liners, puts us first.

CATHLEEN GALITZ,

a Wyoming native, teaches English to students in grades seven to twelve in a rural school that houses kindergartners and seniors in the same building. She lives in a small Wyoming town with her husband and two children. When she’s not busy writing, teaching or working with her Cub Scout den, she can most often be found hiking or snowmobiling in the Wind River Mountains.

Chapter One (#ulink_c374ec28-a388-588a-91ba-023f6f4f9a80)

Judson Horn had no more difficulty in picking out the new schoolteacher as she stepped off the plane at Rock Springs than if she had been holding a gigantic placard. Ms. Carrie Raben was, after all, exactly what he had expected.

The dark-haired cowboy shook his head in disgust. “No more sense than a calf straying into a barbecue,” he muttered to himself.

Wearing a matching dark skirt and blazer, and sporting an expensive leather briefcase, Ms. Raben looked infinitely better suited to running an executive board meeting than to teaching a raggle-taggle group of schoolchildren in the middle of nowhere. Her light brown hair was cut in a chin-length bob that swung neatly with her every movement. It was precisely the no-nonsense sort of hairdo Judson had the woman figured for before he’d ever laid eyes on her.

It took less than a minute for Judson Horn to size Ms. Raben up as just another lost cause from back East. He’d had his bellyful of ‘em—those cosmopolitan types who insisted on accompanying their husbands deep into the backwoods on the hunting expeditions he guided. Without fail they were whining, spoiled creatures who wanted to go home the day after he had set up camp. To them he was merely an anomaly of nature—a blue- eyed half-breed who piqued their cultural curiosity. De- spite their obsequious panderings to the plight of the American Indian, what most of these social matrons re- ally wanted was a savage lover to turn their blue blood to fire.