A Bride For Liam Brand

Liam Brand is done with waiting.

The time has come to finally claim his bride!

Single mom Kate King is juggling a daughter with a disability, a bustling horse ranch and a disappointing ex. Finding room for romance is more than challenging. But Liam has loved Kate for decades, and it’s time to make his move. Getting to the altar, however, proves to be the easiest part of his plan. Convincing their families is another matter entirely.

JOANNA SIMS is proud to pen contemporary romance for Mills & Boon. Joanna’s series, The Brands of Montana, features hardworking characters with hometown values. You are cordially invited to join the Brands of Montana as they wrangle their own happily-ever-afters. And, as always, Joanna welcomes you to visit her at her website: www.joannasimsromance.com.

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A Bride for Liam Brand

Joanna Sims

www.millsandboon.co.uk

ISBN: 978-1-474-07727-9

A BRIDE FOR LIAM BRAND

© 2018 Joanna Sims

Published in Great Britain 2018

by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF

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Dedicated to my sister, Beth Elaine…

Thank you for being one of my first editors and shaping the writer I have become. I love you.

Contents

Cover

Back Cover Text

About the Author

Booklist

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Extract

Chapter One

“Mommy!”

Callie’s scream caused Kate King to drop the heavy Western saddle she was carrying and run toward the sound of her daughter’s voice.

“Mommy!”

“Callie!” Kate ran down the wide, center aisle of her fifty-stall barn. “Callie!”

The mother and daughter nearly collided when Kate rounded a corner at the end of the long, concrete aisle.

“What’s wrong?” Kate put her hands on her daughter’s shoulders, giving her face and body a cursory check with her concerned eyes.

Callie’s round face was flushed bright red and drenched with tears and sweat. Her daughter was eighteen-years-old, an adult by any standard, but Callie had been born with Down syndrome. Negative emotions, in particular, were difficult for Callie to process.

“Take a minute.” Her daughter was gasping for air, struggling to speak. “Catch your breath.”

Callie leaned forward a bit, closed her eyes, coughed several times and followed her mother’s instructions.

“Visa...” Callie finally got the words out. “He’s hurt, Mommy!”

Kate was, at first, relieved that her daughter wasn’t the one injured, but the last thing a horse owner wanted to hear was that one of the herd was injured. So, the relief she had originally felt was fleeting.

“It’s okay, Callie.” Kate gave her daughter a steady look. “Let’s go see what’s going on with him.”

It was just a fact of life that her daughter didn’t have many friends in their community; Bozeman, Montana, was a small town surrounded by ranches and uninhabited swaths of land. There simply weren’t any other young adults with a similar disability living close by—so every animal on their ranch was Callie’s friend. And she took it hard if any of her friends were injured or sick.