Living With Lies Trilogy (Books 1, 2, and 3 of The Dancing Moon Ranch Series)
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MISS PHIPPS AND THE CATTLE BARON
Having a close resemblance to Queen Elizabeth I, and claiming descendance, served Priscilla Phipps well when as a girl she was teased mercilessly about her carrot-red hair and bleached-white skin. So on arriving in Cheyenne, Wyoming, when she implies as much to avoid a humiliating situation, she suddenly finds herself sought after by the matriarchs of Cheyenne's wealthy British cattle barons. But Priscilla didn't come west to be sucked up into British society. She came on a wagon train with homesteaders to start a newspaper addressing the needs of women, and she will not be deterred from her goal, even if it means facing up to the powerful Wyoming Stock Grower's Association and cattle barons like Adam Whittington who want every homesteader run out of the territory. But Adam has his own means of handling the troublesome spinster who's stirring up a cauldron of controversy with her Town Tattler scandal sheet, alienating every cattleman in the area, and even threatening his run for mayor.
PERILOUS PLEASURES
Loving a man who faces death every day of his life can be wearing Joanna Livingston learns, soon after Stefan Janacek joins the show with his big cat act. Before Porter Brother's took Stefan on, Joanna was star of a major vaudeville show that traveled the Mississippi on a luxurious stern wheel steamer. Then a man with the charm of a British lord and the body of a gladiator joined the show and stole the limelight, along with Joanna's heart. But working with big cats is all Stefan knows, which means being under contract with a major show. So ultimately Joanna has to make a painful decision: stay with the show and live in fear, or leave the show, and Stefan, and at last have peace of mind.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Patricia Watters gave up city life and now writes from a log cabin nestled in the evergreen forests of Oregon. An author with Harlequin and Avon-Harper Collins in the past, Patricia specializes in romance, and she invites you to visit her website and drop her a line. She responds to all notes. http://www.patriciawatters.com/