Falling for the Cowgirl
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- ¥1,100
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Years ago, he shattered her heart. Now she must trust him with her life.
As the only girl in her family, and with four older brothers, Ivy McQuaid can rope and ride with the roughest of ranchers. She's ready to have what she's always longed for--a home of her own. She's set her heart on a parcel of land south of Fairplay and is saving for it with her winnings from the cowhand competitions she sneaks into--but her dream is put in jeopardy when the man she once loved reappears in her life.
After two years away, Jericho Bliss is back in South Park as an undercover Pinkerton agent searching for a war criminal. He has no intention of involving a woman in the dangerous life he leads, but one look at Ivy is all it takes for him to question the path he's set out for himself.
Even though Jericho tries to resist his longtime attraction to the beautiful and vivacious Ivy, he finds himself falling hard and fast for her. In the process, his worst fear comes true--he puts her smack-dab in the middle of danger. With Ivy's life in the balance, will Jericho give her up once again, or will he find a way back to her, this time forever?
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The rousing fourth entry in Hedlund's Colorado Cowboys series (after To Tame a Cowboy) follows a young woman bristling against the constraints of domesticity in 1869 South Park, Colo. Ivy McQuaid plans to become a landowner and rancher, and to that end she disguises herself as a man to earn money as a cowhand competitor. After competing one night, she runs into Jericho Bliss, her crush whom she hasn't heard from since he helped Ivy's brother flee town to escape a gambling debt two years earlier. Jericho quickly sees through her disguise but agrees to keep her secret. He struggles to fight his feelings for Ivy because he fears his job as a bounty hunter for the Pinkerton Agency could put her in peril. When Ivy's brothers figure out her charade and demand she stop, Ivy teams up with a dentist and a barber to look for a treasure that would enable her to buy the land she's had her eye on. Unexpected dangers arise, and Jericho, believing himself responsible for putting Ivy in harm's way, skips town and prays for guidance on how to do right by Ivy. The McQuaid family dynamics are believable and the romance between Ivy and Jericho tugs at the heartstrings. This one's worth rounding up.
