Love Under Two Montanans [The Lusty, Texas Collection] by Cara Covington (10 best novels of all time .txt) 📗



The Lusty, Texas Collection

Love Under Two Montanans

Jenny Collins figures romance will happen someday. She just isn’t ready for the impact of meeting Parker and Dale Benedict. Her someday is now, and those two Montanans have thrown her for a loop!

The men are drawn to Jenny, too. Once they each take a turn kissing her, and know they have the “sharing” gene, Parker and Dale set out to get to know Jenny.

Then Jenny’s adoptive parents show up, with news that puts everyone on guard. Not only did they skip a lot of red tape when they adopted Jenny, but someone has been snooping around, looking into old files. Her parents are worried, and so is Grandma Kate.

Because she knows something Jenny’s parents don’t. It’s not one party looking for Jenny, it’s two. Clearly, it’s time to circle the wagons—because the second party trying to find where that tiny baby disappeared to represents a danger to one of Lusty’s own—Jenny Collins.

Genres: Contemporary, Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Western/Cowboys

Length: 67,066

Love Under Two Montanans

The Lusty, Texas Collection

Cara Covington



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Love Under Two Montanans

Copyright © 2018 by Cara Covington

ISBN: 978-1-64243-268-8

First Publication: June 2018

Cover design by Harris Channing

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Huge thanks go first and foremost and always to my wonderful readers. You humble me with your loyalty, and I want you all to know that I am grateful beyond words. Thank you for reading my work, for contacting me, and for offering me your friendship. You are collectively among the greatest treasures of my life.

I am especially indebted to my readers’ group, the Lusty Ladies. Thank you all for being with me, reading each book, and sharing your views. I’m grateful for your untiring eagerness, on my behalf, to get out news of each new book I write. Thank you, Lisa Buchanan Philips, for being my group admin. You’re a treasure.

My thanks to my two beta readers, Angie Buchanan Jones and Sandy Ebel. I’m grateful for your time and your keen story-sense. Thank you for keeping my feet to the fire, and for your honesty.

Huge thanks to my wonderful editor, Devin. I am very grateful for your unwavering standards and your vast knowledge. You make my books better, and me a better author with each edit.

Last, but never least, thank you to the hard working professionals at Siren-BookStrand. I’m thankful for all you do for the authors under your tent.

And I remain forever indebted to Amanda Hilton, for saying yes.

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my beloved husband, David. He is beginning his journey as an author and loving it. I never expected us to be able to share this craft in quite this way. What a joy!

David, along with all three of his siblings, was adopted. I have known and loved his two sisters and his brother; we’ve lost two of the three. Carol and Tom, I’m thinking of you both and trust you’re looking down on us all.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Morgan Ashbury, also writing as Cara Covington, has been a writer since she was first able to pick up a pen. In the beginning, it was a hobby, a way to create a world of her own, and who could resist the allure of that? Then, as she grew and matured, life got in the way, as life often does. She got married and had three children, and worked in the field of accounting, for that was the practical thing to do, and the children did need to be fed. And all the time she was being practical, she would squirrel herself away on quiet Sunday afternoons and write.

Most children are raised knowing the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. Morgan’s children also learned the Paper Rule: Thou shalt not throw out any paper that has thy mother’s words upon it.

Believing in tradition, Morgan ensured that her children’s children learned this rule, too.

Life threw Morgan a curve when, in 2002, she underwent emergency triple bypass surgery. Second chances are to be cherished, and with the encouragement and support of her husband, Morgan decided to use hers to do what she’d always dreamed of doing—writing full-time.

Morgan has always loved writing romance. It is the one genre that can incorporate every other genre within its pulsating heart. Romance showcases all that humankind can aspire to be. And, she admits, she’s a sucker for a happy ending.

Morgan’s favorite hobbies are reading, cooking, and traveling—though she would rather you didn’t mention that last one to her husband. She has too much fun teasing him about having become a “Traveling Fool” of late.

Morgan lives in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a nine-pound Morkie dog who thinks he’s a German shepherd, and her husband of forty-six years, brand new retiree and aspiring author, David.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Love Under Two Montanans

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Love Under Two Montanans

The Lusty, Texas Collection

CARA COVINGTON

Copyright © 2018

Prologue

“A couple of those jobs in today’s paper looked good.” Dale Benedict slid into the booth, slipped his ball cap off, and set it on the bench beside him. He set his cell phone on the table then met Parker’s gaze. “Of course, we’d have to move in order to