In Book 1, The Belles of Lordsburg Series: The Senator’s Other Daughter, a western romance Christian fiction novel by Christy Award winning western author Stephen Bly
As a female telegraph operator in the 1880s, Grace Denison’s cherished anonymity is soon lost when life spins out of her control. Thanks in part to a cowboy who makes her want to run to him and from him at the same time. When he learns the secret within her locket, will he break her heart too?
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Excerpt from Stephen Bly’s Christian fiction western romance novel The Senator’s Other Daughter:
Grace could feel the sweat form at the high collar of her jacket. She pulled a white linen handkerchief out of her pocket and dabbed her neck. “I didn’t mean to sound like I was giving orders. I’m tired. I’d like to get to my room, if you don’t mind assisting me now.”
He didn’t move a muscle. Instead he studied the two women still perched in the upstairs window across the street. “Are you always this bossy?”
Another explosion. She glanced at the buildings on the far side of the street. No one came out of the station this time. There was another shot. She looked back at the man. Someone is shooting up the town and no one cares. He is toying with me. I do not like that. Especially while he’s looking at those women. “I am not bossy, but I have never in my life had so much trouble finding someone to assist me.”
“No, I reckon you haven’t.” He pulled the revolver out of his holster.
“What did you mean by that? And what are you doing with that gun?”
“You expect folks to jump when you talk.” He half-cocked the hammer and spun the cylinder. “And what I’m doin’, obviously, is checkin’ to make sure I’m loaded up.”
The Senator’s Other Daughter, a Christian fiction western romance novel originally published by Crossway Books.
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