A woman and baby on the runâ
just upended a cowboyâs life
Noah Carson did not plan to have a woman and a baby under his roof. But his new housekeeper is in danger, and the solitary Wyoming rancher will do whatever it takes to protect Addie Foster and her nephew. He thinks they can overcome anything together, but he doesnât know who sheâs running from. What he does know is the longer Addie and Seth stay, the more Noah believes that they belong hereâwith him.
Carsons & Delaneys
NICOLE HELM grew up with her nose in a book and the dream of one day becoming a writer. Luckily, after a few failed career choices, she gets to follow that dreamâwriting down-to-earth contemporary romance and romantic suspense. From farmers to cowboys, Midwest to the West, Nicole writes stories about people finding themselves and finding love in the process. She lives in Missouri with her husband and two sons and dreams of someday owning a barn.
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ISBN: 978-1-474-07949-5
WYOMING COWBOY PROTECTION
© 2018 Nicole Helm
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To my husband, who always asks,
âDo you need time to write?â
Chapter One
August
Addie Foster watched from the carâs passenger seat as a whole new world passed by her window. If sheâd thought Jackson Hole was like nothing sheâd ever known, Bent, Wyoming, was an alien planet.
Sheâd grown up in the heart of Boston, a city dweller always. Occasionally her family had traveled up to Maine for quaint weekends or vacations in little villages, enjoying beaches and ice-cream shops.
This was not that. This wasnât even like those dusty old Westerns her grandpa had loved to watch as heâd reminisced about his childhood being a Delaney in Bent, Wyomingâas if that had ever meant anything to Addie.
It meant something now. Seth fussed in his carrier in the back seat and Addie swallowed at the lump in her throat. Her sister had died trying to protect this sweet little man, and Addie had spent the past nine months struggling to protect him.
The babyâs father hadnât made it easy. Addie had been able to hide Seth for three months before Peter Monaghan the 5th had discovered her sisterâs deception, and no one deceived Peter Monaghan the 5th.
For six months, Addie had crisscrossed her way around the country, running out of false identities and money. Until sheâd had to call upon the only person she could think to call upon.
Laurel Delaney.
Addie had met Laurel at Addieâs grandpaâs funeral some twenty years ago. Theyâd taken an instant liking to each other and become pen pals for a while.
Theyâd drifted apart, as pen pals always did, once the girls got into high school, and Addie never would have dreamed of calling Laurel out of the blue until desperation led her to think of the most faraway, safe place she could imagine. Someplace Peter would have no reach. Someplace she and Seth would be safe from his evil crime boss of a father.