Cowboy Comes Back / The Cowboy's Convenient Bride: Cowboy Comes Back / The Cowboy's Convenient Bride

Cowboy Comes Back / The Cowboy's Convenient Bride: Cowboy Comes Back / The Cowboy's Convenient Bride
Wendy Warren

Jeannie Watt

Dare to dream… these sparkling romances will make you laugh, cry and fall in love – again and again!Cowboy Comes BackNow that his rodeo career is over, Kade has nowhere to go but back home. He just wants to keep his head down, fix up his father’s ranch and sell it so he can afford to spend more time with his daughter. Unfortunately, after ten years he can’t avoid Libby Hale…or the way she still owns his heart.The Cowboy’s Convenient BrideClaire needs a job and she needed it yesterday. But when the single mum arrives at Pine Road Ranch, she doesn’t expect to be greeted by churlish former rodeo champ Fletcher. Turns out sexy Fletch isn’t looking for a housekeeper – he’s looking for a wife

COWBOY

COMES BACK

JEANNIE WATT

THE COWBOY’S

CONVENIENT BRIDE

WENDY WARREN

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

COWBOY

COMES BACK

JEANNIE WATT

About the Author

JEANNIE WATT lives with her husband in an isolated area of northern Nevada, and teaches junior-high science in a town forty miles from her home. She lives off the grid in the heart of ranch country and considers the battery-operated laptop to be one of the greatest inventions ever. When she is not writing, Jeannie likes to paint, sew and feed her menagerie of horses, ponies, dogs and cats. She has degrees in geology and education.

I’ve never met an Ellen I haven’t liked. In fact,

one of the Ellens I like very much mentioned that

Ellens in fiction are always nice friends or neighbors.

Never villains. I decided to employ the rule of opposites

and do something about that.

This book is dedicated to all the nice Ellens in

my life—fellow Superromance author Ellen Hartman,

fellow teacher Ellen Too, and my former high-school

classmate and college roommate, with whom I threw

vanilla wafers at the neighbor’s window,

Ellen Swanson.

Dear Reader,

Imagine what it would be like to have the most important person to you, your soul mate, betray you. This is what happened to Libby Hale when her childhood friend and fiancé, Kade Danning, left her to marry another woman. Libby is not the forgiving kind, so she has no intention of renewing any kind of relationship with Kade when he comes back, divorced and in the process of rebuilding his life, ten years later. Unfortunately for her, kade has other plans.

Libby was first featured in The Cowboy’s Redemption as the hero’s best friend. She was an irreverent, straight talking, no-nonsense woman, and so much fun to write that I knew I had to explore her character further. Thus Cowboy Comes Back was born, a story of second chances—for a man, a woman and a horse.

I love to hear from readers. Please e-mail me at jeanniewrites@gmail.com or visit my website at www. jeanniewatt.com.

Happy reading,

Jeannie Watt

CHAPTER ONE

ROUGH OUT JEANS. RIDE with the Best.

Until you screw up, that is.

Kade Danning grimaced as he walked past his own self-assured face smiling from an old advertisement still tacked outside the local feed co-op. Sort of a Kade Danning memorial. Damn, but he’d been cocky back then.

Well, he wasn’t feeling so cocky now. And he wouldn’t be posing for photos or endorsing jeans again anytime in the near future. Nope. He’d screwed up that deal royally.

Only one pickup sat in the parking lot—a fancy, shiny red one with duallies and running lights. So there was a chance the store would be empty soon. Good. He wanted to talk to Zero Benson alone.

Earlier that day, he’d driven the fifty miles from Otto, Nevada, to the larger town of Wesley, where he’d dropped off an application at the personnel office of the Lone Eagle Mine. He’d also put in a general application at the Wesley employment office and then, on the way home, he’d decided to stop at the feed store. Zero would know of any ranch work that might see him through until he was able to find something more permanent.

Zero was standing behind the barn-wood counter when Kade walked into the store, deep in conversation with a man Kade didn’t know—a money guy, from the looks of it. Creased Wranglers, neat white shirt, neat white mustache. His hat alone would pay for the new fridge Kade had a feeling he’d need to buy to replace the monstrosity in his father’s house.

Neither man had noticed his arrival, so Kade hung about at the back of the store, near the racks of halters and bridles, scanning the want ads tacked to the wall while he waited for the conversation to end. Horses for sale. Tractor services. Shoeing. Nothing in the Help Wanted.

“Have you tried his brother?” Zero asked the guy.

“I don’t like his brother,” the man stated adamantly.

“Then I don’t know what—” Kade glanced up when Zero abruptly stopped speaking, and he saw the older man’s mouth gape open. “Well, hell’s bells!” Zero said, lumbering out from behind the counter and sidestepping a pallet of feed bags. “Kade. How are you?”

“Good,” Kade lied. Zero’s face was rounder and more wind-burned than the last time he’d seen him ten years ago, but other than that, his former part-time employer looked the same. He might even have been wearing the same overalls and flannel shirt.

“So are you back or just visiting?” Zero asked, clapping Kade hard on the shoulder.

“I’m working on my dad’s house, getting it ready to sell.”

The man with the white mustache frowned at Kade, obviously trying to place him.

“This is Kade Danning,” Zero explained to the man. “Kade, Joe Barton. Mr. Barton bought the Boggy Flat ranch last year.”

“Zephyr Valley ranch,” Barton corrected him.