A Cowboy for Keeps

By Jody Hedlund

Book #1 in the Colorado Cowboys series

A desperate bargain: marriage for survival. Can love bloom amidst chaos?

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341 pages

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Greta's journey to save her sister goes awry when bandits strike and her fiancé dies. Stranded in Colorado, she faces a dire future. Wyatt, a struggling rancher, is offered a deal: marry Greta to gain a cattle investment. As they navigate this unexpected union, old fears and new truths emerge. Can they find hope and love in a marriage born of necessity?

From the publisher

Greta Nilsson’s trip west to save her ailing little sister, Astrid, could not have gone more wrong. First, bandits hold up her stagecoach, stealing all her money. Then, upon arriving in Fairplay, Colorado, she learns the man she was betrothed to as a mail-order bride has died. Homeless, penniless, and jobless, Greta and her sister are worse off than when they started.Wyatt McQuaid is struggling to get his new ranch up and running and is in town to purchase cattle when the mayor proposes the most unlikely of bargains. He’ll invest in a herd of cattle for Wyatt’s ranch if Wyatt agrees to help the town become more respectable by marrying and starting a family. And the mayor, who has promised to try to help Greta, has just the candidate in mind for Wyatt to marry.

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