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    The Lonely Cowboy: Rocky Mountain Romance, #1
    The Lonely Cowboy: Rocky Mountain Romance, #1
    The Lonely Cowboy: Rocky Mountain Romance, #1
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    The Lonely Cowboy: Rocky Mountain Romance, #1

    By Maggie West

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    Tyler Barrett has just finished horseshoeing school in Kansas and moved to Soda Springs, Colorado to start his new business, but there’s just one problem. He’s broke. Without customers and horses that need to be shod, Tyler is in danger of losing everything and having to head home with his tail between his legs. 

    When Angela Winston, the owner of eleven head of horses, hires Tyler, he thinks his troubles are over, at least for the time being. Little does he know that this older woman, who is married to boot, is more than he bargained for. Will her seduction of the young farrier pay off? Can Tyler keep this customer happy in more ways than one? 

    Things heat up on the ranch, and Tyler wrestles with how to let the older woman down gently after meeting someone he really cares about. 

    Short Story: 66 pages (about 1-1/2 to 2 hours reading time) *** This romance is suitable for most readers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaggie West
    Release dateMay 2, 2016
    ISBN9781533755612
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      The Lonely Cowboy - Maggie West

      Chapter One

      Tyler Barrett steered his beat-up green Dodge pickup truck to the side of the dusty road, eased his foot down on the brake, and put the truck in park. He needed a minute to think.

      The late summer evening sun was setting against the mountains, and the shadows darkening the landscape were just about the only thing left to see at this hour. Dusk. This was always a time when Tyler felt a mix of emotions. Relief and regret. Relief that his day’s work was done, that is if he had any work, and regret that he only had his dog Sadie to go home to. Adjusting the rear view mirror, Tyler took in his reflection.

      Damn, I need a haircut, he said aloud, brushing his brown hair to one side with his fingers. His chiseled cheekbones and jawline were more pronounced now, he noticed. He knew the look; it was caused by the stress of the move. And all the changes all at once.

      Tyler had finished horseshoeing school a month ago and moved to Colorado less than two weeks ago. To say he was still getting settled in Colorado would be an understatement. He grew up in rural Kansas but always loved the Rocky Mountains, vowing that one day he would live there. Besides, he knew Colorado was full of horses, and Tyler knew that wherever there are horses, he could find work. Tyler settled in Soda Springs, Colorado, a sleepy mountain town tucked in the paradise of the San Juan Mountains.

      After finding a place to live, he had business cards printed with his name and cell phone number, along with his business name, Barrett Horseshoeing, centered at the top. Tyler handed out his cards wherever he went, telling each person that he would give discounts to new customers, which he thought to himself, included everyone at this point, since he’d never once been paid to shoe a horse. Yet.

      He visited ranches and horse sales, and passed out his cards and talked to the horses’ owners. When Tyler stopped anywhere to eat, he made sure to ask the waitress or bartender if they would mind passing out his cards to anyone they knew with horses. Every waitress seemed happy to oblige, some smiling at Tyler in a seductive way. He would just smile back, a crooked smile showing off his white teeth.

      When he'd first made the move, Tyler felt good. He had done it—finished horseshoeing school after working on farms for too long and moving to his dream spot—and all before he was thirty. He had turned twenty-eight while he was driving to Colorado, and he was ready for his new life to begin. Tyler had wanted to move to Colorado and get set up in business before he was thirty and damn, if he hadn’t done it. He was confident that soon he’d have more work than he could keep up with. At least he hoped that would be the case. Now, a little more than a week later, he felt unsettled. He hadn’t anticipated how expensive renting a place in this paradise would be or his truck breaking down on the trip west. He was scraping the bottom of the barrel and he needed some work.

      Tyler liked the little cabin he’d found nestled near the forest at the bottom of a mountain rise. Even though the owner had given Tyler a deal on the rent each month in exchange for fixing the fence that surrounded the pastures around the place, Tyler was feeling the pinch of making such a big move. Truth was, his money was about all gone, and he’d taken to eating only two meals a day—a stack of pancakes for breakfast and rice and beans or spaghetti for supper. Anything filling and cheap that he could fix at home. Tyler didn’t mind the sacrifice but damn, his face was showing it. If anyone here knew him they’d know this was his gaunt look. He got it any time he was stressed out or poor, and in this case the culprit was both factors. Right now, it was flat out caused by half starving himself. The worry was just a side benefit. But Tyler was determined to make a go of it.

      In the meantime, while Tyler waited for all that business to come rolling in, he busied himself fixing up the little cabin and

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