The Cowboy Meets His Match
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Copyright © 2019 by Margaret Brownley
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Contents
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
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Epilogue
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
Excerpt from Left at the Altar
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About the Author
Back Cover
What men call accident is God’s own part.
—Philip James Bailey
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Haywire, Texas
1886
The moment Emily Rose stepped off the train, she knew she’d made a terrible mistake. It wasn’t just the heat pressing down on her like a thick, wet blanket. Nor the dust that clogged the throat and stung the eyes. It wasn’t even the relentless flies.
Rather, it was the feeling of dread that settled like a lead weight in the pit of her stomach. One look at the sorrowful excuse for a town, and the trouble she’d left back in Boston seemed like a tea party in comparison.
The dark-skinned driver set to work tossing her baggage into the rear of the hotel omnibus with reckless abandon.
“Oh, do be careful with that,” she cried, grabbing her bandbox out of his hand.
Shooting her an exasperated look, the driver reached for her carpetbag and hurled it into the compartment with the rest of her baggage. Since her belongings commanded all available space, the other passengers were forced to carry their travel gear on board.

