Welcome To Wyoming
WHAT KIND OF SITUATION HAS SHE WALKED INTO?Seeking justice for his murdered colleagues, Detective Simon Garr has gone undercover as infamous jewel thief Jarrod Ledbetter. All is going to plan until he finds out that Jarrod’s mail-order bride is on her way to Wyoming! Simon can’t afford to jeopardise his cover, which gives him only one option – he must marry the woman!When his poor bride Natasha O’Sullivan arrives she doesn’t have a clue what she is walking into – but Simon finds there is more to her than first meets the eye. Because Natasha has brought along secrets aplenty of her own…Mail-Order Weddings - From blushing bride to Wild West wife!
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Suddenly their kiss became so much more.
It was as if theyâd been standing in a calm, sunny field, and suddenly a tornado had swept in and blasted around them. The wind caught, the weather shifted, and he and his emotions were whipped into a furious storm. The pressure of their mouths mounted, their lips pressed firmer and deeper, and their tongues brushed. He wanted her.
Their bodies pressed closer. His hand dropped from her ribcage to her waist and down lower as he gripped her buttock and imagined what it might be like to throw her onto the bed and truly do everything he fantasised.
Break it upâ¦he must break itâ¦.
With a shudder, he tore himself away.
Cool air rushed into the space between them. He gazed down at her shocked expression. Perhaps it had been too much for her, too, the unexpected jolt of passion and desire that had seized them.
âWelcome to Wyoming,â he whispered.
âWhat a welcoming,â she said softly.
Kate Bridges invites you to her
MAIL-ORDER WEDDINGS
From blushing bride to Wild West wife!
The Great Fire of Chicago might have changed best friends Cassandra Hamiltonâs and Natasha OâSullivanâs lives for ever, but theyâre determined to carve a new future for themselves as mail-order brides in the West.
Then along come their gun-slinging, horse-riding, breathtaking new husbandsâit seems Cassandra and Natasha have got a whole lot more than they signed up for!
RANCHER WANTS A WIFE
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WELCOME TO WYOMING
April 2014
DEDICATION
For Greg, who loves a good adventure.
Award-winning and multi-published author KATE BRIDGES was raised in rural Canada, and her stories reflect her love for wide-open spaces, country sunshine and the Rocky Mountains. She loves writing adventurous tales of the men and women who tamed the West. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Kate worked as a paediatric intensive care nurse. She often includes compelling medical situations in her novels. Later in her education she studied architecture, and worked as a researcher on a television design programme. She has taken postgraduate studies in comedy screenwriting, and in her spare time writes screenplays. Kateâs novels have been translated into nine languages, studied in over a dozen colleges on their commercial fiction courses, and are sold worldwide. She lives in the beautiful cosmopolitan city of Toronto with her family. To find out more about Kateâs books and to sign up for her free online newsletter please visit www.katebridges.com
Previous novels by the author:
THE DOCTORâS HOMECOMING
THE SURGEON THE ENGAGEMENT THE PROPOSITION THE CHRISTMAS GIFTS THE BACHELOR THE COMMANDER KLONDIKE DOCTOR SHOTGUN VOWS KLONDIKE WEDDING KLONDIKE FEVER WANTED IN ALASKA HER ALASKAN GROOM ALASKAN RENEGADE RANCHER WANTS A WIFE*
*Mail-Order Weddings
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Contents
Chapter One
Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, August 1873
Simon Garr adjusted his hat, peered down the railroad tracks to the train chugging its way up the gulley and damn well hoped his bride-to-be wasnât on it.
Theyâd never be right for each other.
He was a liar and imposter.
She wasnât.
Other folks waiting on the platform jostled to look down the tracks. Simon bristled in his itchy wool suit. Heâd feel more comfortable in denim jeans. Heâd always worn charity-donated jeans while growing up barefoot on the plains, having to fend for himself since the age of eight.
No matter what he wore, it was hard to conceal his gritty determination, the need to be able to control everything around him, especially in dangerous situations like these. He enjoyed the weight and feel of his concealed weaponsâthe revolver in his shoulder holster, derringer pressed into his back, knife strapped to his ankle. Heâd taught himself how to shoot when he was a kid. The first living thing heâd ever shot was a raging bear thatâd mauled a friend. The second living thing, years later, was a man whoâd murdered innocent villagers for three gold coins.
The checkered suit wasnât his usual style, but it was the attire that jewelers wore.
And that was what he was supposed to be. A jeweler. He was working undercover, impersonating a man named Jarrod Ledbetter, leader of the Ledbetter gang.
Ledbetter and his pack were not only jewelers, but clandestine train robbers. The real Ledbetter was dead. He and two other scum from their filthy group had been fatally shot last week in an undercover stakeout by Simon and other lawmen of the district. Word of their deaths was being closely guarded by authorities. The railroad bigwigs didnât want to release the information until they recovered the goods stolen days before the shoot-out, worth three hundred thousand dollars.
