Heart of Texas Volume 3: Nell's Cowboy

Nell’s Cowboy

Lone Star Baby

Debbie Macomber

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

To Anita and Allen Greenstein, who love the Florida sunshine and good wine as much as Wayne and I do.

CONTENTS

Nell’s Cowboy (#u5d4d3c1d-ee03-5e65-9709-a1eeb1f71010)

Lone Star Baby (#litres_trial_promo)

Nell’s Cowboy

CAST OF CHARACTERS

THE PEOPLE OF PROMISE

Nell Bishop: Thirtysomething widow with a son, Jeremy,

and a daughter, Emma; her husband died in a tractor accident.

Ruth Bishop: Nell’s mother-in-law; lives with Nell and her

two children.

Dovie Boyd: Runs an antiques shop and has dated Sheriff

Frank Hennessey for ten years.

Caroline Daniels: Postmistress of Promise.

Maggie Daniels: Caroline’s five-year-old daughter.

Dr. Jane Dickinson: New doctor in Promise.

Ellie Frasier: Owner of Frasier’s Feed Store.

Frank Hennessey: Local sheriff.

Max Jordan: Owner of Jordan’s Town and Country.

Wade McMillen: Preacher of Promise Christian Church.

Edwina and Lily Moorhouse: Sisters; retired schoolteachers.

Cal and Glen Patterson: Local ranchers; brothers who ranch together.

Phil and Mary Patterson: Parents of Cal and Glen; operate a local B and B.

Louise Powell: Town gossip.

Wiley Rogers: Sixty-year-old ranch foreman at the Weston ranch.

Laredo Smith: Wrangler hired by Savannah Weston.

Barbara and Melvin Weston: Mother and father to Savannah, Grady and Richard; the Westons died six years ago.

Richard Weston: Youngest of the Weston siblings.

Savannah Weston: Grady and Richard’s sister; cultivates old roses.

Grady Weston: Rancher, and oldest of the Weston siblings.

Contents

Chapter One (#uf2af5acc-a3c9-58b0-b585-2c955814c393)

Chapter Two (#uedf268a0-0e03-56e3-9d81-0290eb9fb35c)

Chapter Three (#u3d59faee-f5bd-5aa1-8402-9629fa221dcb)

Chapter Four (#u13f3e96c-88ec-51ea-bfe7-74b236430893)

Chapter Five (#u37324e98-8273-5ad2-8d61-27ce1bc6e546)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

One

Nell Bishop barreled down the highway, heading home, racing against the approaching storm. The March winds whipped against the pickup as she hurried toward Twin Canyons Ranch, thirty-four miles south of Promise, Texas.

Her mother-in-law was with the children, but Jeremy and Emma would have difficulty getting the animals into the barn without help. Ruth would do what she could, but the older woman’s heart wasn’t strong and... Nell didn’t want to think what might happen if she didn’t make it back in time.

Her life had been on a fast-moving treadmill for the past three years, ever since her husband died in a tractor accident. Storms were the least of her worries, considering the financial challenges she’d faced working the ranch without Jake. Not a day passed that her husband wasn’t in her thoughts. Twenty years from now, forty years from now, he’d still be a part of her.