B.M.Bower LONESOME LAND (B. M. Bower Westerns # 13 ) Western Novels Comparable to Louis L'amour Westerns
Tawny-haired Valeria Peyton, with her Down-East conscience and romantic dreams of the West, arrived in the desolate little cowtown of Hope to marry Manley Fleetwood. He was not there to meet her and in his stead was taciturn Kent Burnett, cow hand, with evasive excuses. Later, when Manley did appear, her pride would not let her see the change in him and they were married in Kent’s disapproving presence. The rambling ranch house of the rising young cattle rancher, which she had been led to expect, proved to be a forlorn shack far out in the Lonesome Land. Here she valiantly tried to adjust herself to the bleak outlook of a prairie wife. For months the change in Manley and his repeated absences were unexplained, until Val – the girl who had been reared to abhor drink – discovered that she was married to a drunken weakling. Rising above her disgust and disillusionment, she tried to help him but he sank lower and lower. Then disaster fell….
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B.M.Bower LONESOME LAND (B. M. Bower Westerns # 13 ) Western Novels Comparable to Louis L'amour Westerns
Tawny-haired Valeria Peyton, with her Down-East conscience and romantic dreams of the West, arrived in the desolate little cowtown of Hope to marry Manley Fleetwood. He was not there to meet her and in his stead was taciturn Kent Burnett, cow hand, with evasive excuses. Later, when Manley did appear, her pride would not let her see the change in him and they were married in Kent’s disapproving presence. The rambling ranch house of the rising young cattle rancher, which she had been led to expect, proved to be a forlorn shack far out in the Lonesome Land. Here she valiantly tried to adjust herself to the bleak outlook of a prairie wife. For months the change in Manley and his repeated absences were unexplained, until Val – the girl who had been reared to abhor drink – discovered that she was married to a drunken weakling. Rising above her disgust and disillusionment, she tried to help him but he sank lower and lower. Then disaster fell….
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| BN ID: | 2940012303073 |
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| Publisher: | Ryetown Classics |
| Publication date: | 04/13/2011 |
| Series: | WESTERNS Comprehensive Collection of Classic Western Novels , #13 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Sales rank: | 577,235 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
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