The Courting Cowboy by Tara Janzen

Author:Tara Janzen [Janzen, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Amazon: B0079V5Z1C
Publisher: Tara Janzen
Published: 2012-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

Ten

Maybe she was being completely irrational, Victoria thought a week later, letting herself get swept up by a handsome cowboy and his wild kisses. Her life wasn’t supposed to be wildly romantic. She was Victoria Miranda Elizabeth Willoughby, a woman who’d tried marriage once and found it stifling, a scientist of small personal acclaim but of international standing within a carefully defined academic circle. She was the co-founder of the Willoughby Institute, and until Charles’s children dissolved the trust, her name would remain on the stationery.

So what was she doing sitting in her car in front of the Sky Canyon Ranch homestead on Thanksgiving eve with a suitcase in the backseat?

Taking chances. The answer was obvious. She was taking a big chance with a near total stranger whom she might be falling in love with. But then, didn’t all people start out as strangers? With only a powerful, irresistible attraction to pull them together and make them something more?

Of course they did. And if the truth were known, her attraction to Ty Garrett was very powerful and irresistible. He confused her, but she wanted him. With his kisses he had awakened needs in her she’d never known existed.

Would it be so terrible if just once in her life she did something the way other people did? If just once in her life she let nature take its course? Both her father and Charles had always emphasized the rare opportunities she’d been given, to travel, to study, to be in the hallowed company of themselves—to always be the youngest person in a fifty-mile radius, to be sheltered from sophomoric conceits, whims, and fancies, to never have to put up with silly adolescents her own age. It had been a mixed bargain at best. Would it be so terrible if just once she did something normal, if she just once gave herself a chance with a man her own age?

Probably not.

So here she was, trembling with excitement and nerves, about to embark upon a four-day expedition the likes of which she’d never known. There wouldn’t be any ancient awe-inspiring buildings, no documents steeped in historical arcana, no quizzes afterward. There would be only Ty Garrett, his son, and the matchmaker, Lacey. There would be only Ty, and his kisses, and the way he made her feel. High adventure. Her first trip into the uncharted waters of the human heart. Her stomach knotted in anticipation.

Taking a deep breath, she forced herself out of the car, telling herself she was being ridiculous. Uncharted waters, indeed. As a mere child she’d crossed the Rub‘ al Khali, the Empty Quarter, on camelback. Before her fifteenth birthday she’d navigated portions of the Nile, the Amazon, the Mississippi, and the Yangtze. Good Lord, at seventeen she’d survived three back-to-back excruciatingly proper months at Lady Blackwood’s School for Young Women. Four days with Ty Garrett could hardly compare to all that.

Could it?

* * *

If her first evening was any indication, Victoria knew she had sorely underestimated the thrills and excitement possible with the men of the Sky Canyon Ranch.

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