Wild West Christmas / Kathleen Y'Barbo, Lena Nelson Dooley, Darlene Franklin, Vickie McDonough 364 p.
Four single daughters live with their widowed father on a cattle ranch in Horsefly, Texas in the 1800s. Each are blessed with a talent. Charlsey, "Charlie", can ride, rope and work the ranch with the best of them. Accountant Harold Miller III almost blows it when he courts Charlsey and ignores that dusty cow-puncher "Charlie". Sharp-shooter Lucy brings home the meat for the family. When she joins Major Paulson's Wild West Show, shades of Annie Oakley, she begins to fall for the Major's evangelist son, Gordon. Although Sarah is the horse-trainer on the ranch, cattle rustling is a serious crime. She fights her attraction to Mexican drifter, Carson Romero when he seems to be a prime suspect. When Texas Ranger Josef Mueller rides back into town, he brings back the insecurities and hurts she felt when children chanted the rhyme he coined about Bessie Mae, Bessie Mae, plain as day. Josef is there to do his job, find the bad guy. He is drawn to beautiful Bessie Mae, but he escaped Horsefly once and he isn't going to return for good.
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