A Cowboy In Shepherd's Crossing. Ruth Herne Logan
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Название: A Cowboy In Shepherd's Crossing

Автор: Ruth Herne Logan

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Вестерны

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isbn: 9781474090438

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СКАЧАТЬ hills and valleys of western Idaho, a place that drew men and women courageous enough to settle a land that can be harsh yet amazingly giving.

      I hope to hear from you! Email me at [email protected], friend me on Facebook, where I love to play and pray and talk farm stuff with you, or stop by my website, ruthloganherne.com, and check out what’s going on in books or at the pumpkin farm!

      And may the sweet Lord bless and keep you, not just today but in all days!

      With love,

       Ruthy

      Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.

      —Luke 6:37

      This book is dedicated to Christina,

      a wonderful young woman who won my heart

      from the very beginning... Thank you

      for becoming a true “overcomer.” Your story

      is the kind of thing that inspires others

      to do their best. To try harder. To never give up.

      I love you, kid.

      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

       About the Author

       Booklist

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Introduction

       Dear Reader

       Bible Verse

       Dedication

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Epilogue

       Extract

       About the Publisher

       Chapter One

      The last thing Jace Middleton wanted was to leave the place he loved so well. The place he knew, the town he’d called home for nearly thirty years and the land that beckoned him like a cow calls a calf. But the town had fallen on hard times, and the choices he wanted no longer existed in Shepherd’s Crossing.

      He ran one hand across the nape of his neck as he studied the family farmhouse that had been passed down for three generations. Three generations that ended with him.

      He shoved emotions aside and studied the old house from a builder’s perspective. The faded gray house lacked...everything.

      Not the essentials. The modest one-and-a-half-story home was solidly built, and the mid-twentieth-century addition nearly doubled the first-floor living space, but there was nothing about this house that tempted folks to make an offer anywhere near his asking price. The way Jace saw things playing out, he would be left with two choices.

      Walk away, begin life anew in Sun Valley and let the Realtor handle it. Or fix the place up, except...

      He sighed.

      He couldn’t do it. He was good at tearing apart other folks’ things and putting them back together. The thought made him flex his arms. There was nothing Jace liked better than reconfiguring something old into something new, but every time he went to change something in his parents’ home, he ground to a stop. These were family walls. Family memories. They belonged to him and his younger sister, Justine.

      These walls held all he СКАЧАТЬ