Learning to Love Again
(2015)(The first book in the Cowboy Love series)
A Story by Susan Leigh Carlton
Linda Jensen was a horsewoman. When her father died at the early age of forty-five, she was left to run the Lazy J Quarter Horse Ranch. It was an overwhelming task.
She lost her heart and her virtue to Tom Myers, a handsome neighboring rancher. They made plans to combine the two ranches into one large operation. Then Linda found out he was cheating on her all over town, and washed her hands of him. He desperately wanted her ranch, so he continued trying to win her back.
Josiah Martin is the son of a veterinarian and horse rancher from Macon, Georgia. While his father was serving in the war, General William Tecumseh Sherman's Army marched through Georgia, on their way to the sea, laying waste to everything in their path. They confiscated all of the Martin's horses and burned the buildings, leaving the young Josiah and his mother only the burned out hulk in which to live. After the war, no one in their impoverished part of Georgia had money for a veterinarian, so his father Joshua, faced with foreclosure, loaded his family in a wagon and set out for Texas and the free land offered homesteaders.
In order to supplement the family income while his father was building a veterinary practice, Josiah took a job working for the Lazy J Ranch, using his talent as a "horse whisperer" to tame and train the Lazy J quarter horses. He became enmeshed in the conflict between Linda and Tom Myers, and is shot for his troubles.
Follow his courtship of Linda to the resolution of the problems.
Genre: Historical
She lost her heart and her virtue to Tom Myers, a handsome neighboring rancher. They made plans to combine the two ranches into one large operation. Then Linda found out he was cheating on her all over town, and washed her hands of him. He desperately wanted her ranch, so he continued trying to win her back.
Josiah Martin is the son of a veterinarian and horse rancher from Macon, Georgia. While his father was serving in the war, General William Tecumseh Sherman's Army marched through Georgia, on their way to the sea, laying waste to everything in their path. They confiscated all of the Martin's horses and burned the buildings, leaving the young Josiah and his mother only the burned out hulk in which to live. After the war, no one in their impoverished part of Georgia had money for a veterinarian, so his father Joshua, faced with foreclosure, loaded his family in a wagon and set out for Texas and the free land offered homesteaders.
In order to supplement the family income while his father was building a veterinary practice, Josiah took a job working for the Lazy J Ranch, using his talent as a "horse whisperer" to tame and train the Lazy J quarter horses. He became enmeshed in the conflict between Linda and Tom Myers, and is shot for his troubles.
Follow his courtship of Linda to the resolution of the problems.
Genre: Historical
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