Righteous Lies (Book 1: Dancing Moon Ranch Series) (34 page)

MISS PHIPPS AND THE CATTLE BARON

Having a close resemblance to
Queen Elizabeth I, and claiming descendance, served Priscilla Phipps well when
as a girl she was teased mercilessly about her carrot-red hair and
bleached-white skin. So on arriving in Cheyenne, Wyoming, when she implies as
much to avoid a humiliating situation, she suddenly finds herself sought after
by the matriarchs of Cheyenne's wealthy British cattle barons. But Priscilla
didn't come west to be sucked up into British society. She came on a wagon
train with homesteaders to start a newspaper addressing the needs of women, and
she will not be deterred from her goal, even if it means facing up to the
powerful Wyoming Stock Grower's Association and cattle barons like Adam
Whittington who want every homesteader run out of the territory. But Adam has
his own means of handling the troublesome spinster who's stirring up a cauldron
of controversy with her
Town Tattler
scandal sheet, alienating every cattleman in the area, and even threatening his
run for mayor.

PERILOUS
PLEASURES

Loving
a man who faces death every day of his life can be wearing Joanna Livingston
learns, soon after Stefan Janacek joins the show with his big cat act. Before
Porter Brother's took Stefan on, Joanna was star of a major vaudeville show
that traveled the Mississippi on a luxurious stern wheel steamer. Then a man
with the charm of a British lord and the body of a gladiator joined the show
and stole the limelight, along with Joanna's heart. But working with big cats
is all Stefan knows, which means being under contract with a major show. So
ultimately Joanna has to make a painful decision: stay with the show and live
in fear, or leave the show, and Stefan, and at last have peace of mind.