Rancher and Protector by Judy Christenberry

Author:Judy Christenberry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Rosemary relieved one of the cowboys who’d been caring for the herd since 2:00 a.m. that morning. She knew he was expected to ride out after eating his breakfast. Being a cowboy might look glamorous to some people, but Rosemary knew once you’d done the job, you realized the strength and stamina it took.

She and the two other cowboys assigned to the herd for the day circled the cows they’d found. Rosie spent her time trying to estimate the number of cows they now had collected. Her best guess was a hundred and fifty head. Which meant they weren’t that far from their goal Of course, even if they had two hundred head of cattle at the end of the day, they still had a lot of land to cover, but they expected to find most of the missing cattle in the rough hills.

If they found more cattle in the flatter land, that would give them some operating funds for the winter. Rosemary hadn’t wanted to think about the winter. There was less work in the winter, but the costs skyrocketed when the weather got bad. She’d need to buy some hay as their own crop wasn’t enough to make it through the snowy months.

Doing the monotonous work of riding around the herd, Rosemary had time for a niggling worry to build into a massive fear. Would she retain the ranch only to lose it when she couldn’t keep it going? Even thinking about that caused her stomach to twist. She couldn’t let that happen. But the weight of everyone who depended on her made it even more difficult.

Would she even be able to sleep at night, worrying about handling all the duties and costs of running a ranch?

And was that really what she wanted, or what she thought her parents wanted for her? No, she knew she wanted to be a rancher, to live on the land and find a way to make ends meet.

But it was going to be a challenge. The biggest of her life.

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