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Matt, Leigh Greenwood

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Matt

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Leigh Greenwood

The cowboys, [9]

The freedom of the range, the bawling of the longhorns the lonesome night watch beneath a vast, starry sky--they got into a man's blood until he knew there was nothing better than the life of a cowboy--except the love of a good woman. Matt's rough-and-tumble childhood had taught him to size up a situation at a hundred paces. And to end his standoff with respectable society he knew he had to take a wife. Ellen agreed to act as a mother for the two boys he'd sworn to protect, if he'd be a father for the two children she brought to the union. It was a business arrangement. But nothing had prepared him for the desires the former saloon girl incited. She gentled him like a newborn colt, until he longed to be saddled with all the trappings of a real marriage. Until he understood he'd found a woman to heal his orphaned heart