Mary Connealy
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Mary Connealy is the author of the Lassoed in Texas series which includes Petticoat Ranch, Calico Canyon and Gingham Mountain. inspirational, suspenseful, historical western romantic comedies. She is also the author of Nosy in Nebraska a colleciton of romantic comedy cozy mysteries. She lives on a Nebraska ranch with her husband and a couple of hundred cows. She has four grown daughters and her first grandchild.
The Husband Tree
Belle Tanner buries her third worthless husband and makes a vow over his shallow grave. She’s learned her lesson. No more men.
Silas Harden just lost his second ranch because of a woman. The first deserted him when times got tough. Now he’s had to quit the whole state of New Mexico to avoid a trumped-up shotgun wedding and the noose of matrimony. He’s learned his lesson. No more women.
Belle needs hired hands to move a cattle herd late in the season and there’s no one around but seemingly aimless Silas. She hires him reluctantly.
Silas signed on, glad for the work, though worried about a woman doing such a thing as hiring drovers, only to find out he’s the lone man going with five woman, including a baby still in diapers. After the cattle drive is over, he might as well shoot himself to speed up the process of being embarrassed to death.
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Cowboy Christmas
Elijah Walker’s lost his father at the hands of a deceitful woman. The one thing he can’t abide is lies.
Citified Annette Talbot is on the run from something and Eli knows a liar when he sees one.
Walker can’t help protecting her, especially since God pretty much dropped Annette straight into his unwilling arms.
But helping her isn’t the same as trusting her, and that he will never do.
As Christmas approaches the bickering twosome will get one special chance to heal old heartbreaks and follow their own star.
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Cassie Griffin is widowed and left heavily in debt, and pregnant. The crude cowboys who want her make her wonder if joining her husband in the grave might even be better. Red Dawson has a soft spot in his heart for Cassie, even though most of the townspeople see her only as spoiled and snooty. He’d sweeping her off her feet—except she’s a nonbeliever.
The most powerful rancher tramples everyone to claim Cassie. . .and the property that goes with her. Red can’t allow Cassie to be forced into marriage with the brutal rancher so he marries her himself. Cassie’s well meaning but disastrous efforts to help around the ranch make Red wonder if someone doesn’t need to rescue him.
Will Red win over this seemingly fragile and spoiled woman . . . and survive her “help” in the meantime? Will Cassie find true love with her cowboy—and his God?
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