Watch Out, Blizzard Bride!: A Western Romance

By Sharaya Lee

Watch Out, Blizzard Bride! – A Western Romance
Romantic Old West Novella
Ca. 64 pages

February 1880:
Georgia Langdon, the Blizzard Bride, is alone in her homestead far from town, when another snow storm descends, prohibiting Nate, her husband, from returning home that night. Georgia is startled when somebody knocks on her door. A strikingly handsome man with a silver star on his lapel and saddle bags bulging with money seeks shelter with her in the cabin.
Should she spend the night with this stranger?
She can hardly kick him back out into the blizzard...
What would Nate say to this...?

If you would like to find out how Georgia and Nate fell in love and what happened after that, Sharaya tells you in “Blizzard Bride” and “Come back, Blizzard Bride!” Available right here.
The story you’re presently considering, “Watch out, Blizzard Bride!” ist the third part of the series.

PLEASE NOTE:
Sherman Lee and Sharaya Lee share a desk. If you liked this story, please check out Sherman's Westerns, too.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sharaya Lee
• Release date: May 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301199938

Sharaya Lee

Sharaya and Sherman Lee own a collie dog, two guitars, and live in the country with their children.Sharaya and Sherman are sharing a desk. If you liked Sharaya's romances, you might also like Sherman's Westerns "Stormie Jones," "They Knew No Mercy" and "Hawk." Also available at Smashwords.Western romance author Lenny Davis writes in the same vein. Highly recommended.

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Watch Out,

Blizzard Bride!

by

Sharaya Lee

Sweet Romantic Old West Novella

Copyright 2013 by Sharaya Lee

All rights reserved!

Make sure you also enjoy Sharaya Lee’s

Blizzard Bride

Come Back, Blizzard Bride!

The Runaway Mail Order Bride

She Came One Spring

Sweet Western Romance Fiction

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This story is a work of fiction.

Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, and real locales is purely coincidental.

Chapter 1

Nathaniel…

To Georgia O’Reilly Langdon the name of her husband of five weeks was the sweetest one of all. After all, Nate wasn’t just the best-looking man in the West, with his handsome face, long blond hair, and kind blue eyes. He was also the most considerate and faithful one of them all.

Georgia still marveled at his steadfastness.

A few weeks ago she’d visited her parents far away and another woman—a very attractive and experienced one at that—had tried to seduce her husband—a true American red-blooded frontier male—and he’d turned her down, even though nobody was looking at the time. He turned Lynette down, because he loved her, Georgia. And nobody else.

Nate was great.

And she loved him dearly.

It was already the first week of February, 1880, and until today the weather had been mild for almost a week. Presently, however, the wind howled around the cabin and a glance through the window once again revealed swirling snow.

A farmer, the love of her life had taken the buckboard to town this morning, when it was still warm, to buy groceries, some household goods, and especially dry seed. Come March, he’d be tilling the soil again. Since the homestead was far out, he’d surely stay in town overnight. The blizzard raging outside made it quite impossible for him to get back tonight.

She sighed.

But tomorrow he’d come home and she wanted to be done when he returned. That was why she still worked her sewing machine, even though the night had fallen, the hour was late, and a break was really overdue.

Concentrating on the needle hitting the material, Georgia finished the seams on the colorful curtains she’d been stitching together. Once they’d adorn the windows, the sparsely furnished cabin would finally arrive at the homey atmosphere she had in mind.

Nathaniel had created this one-room house with his hands and had lived in it alone for more than a year. A typical man of the soil, he’d lived very simply. Everything in his house had served a practical purpose. Thus, no pictures graced the walls when she first arrived, no curtains covered the windows, and the walls, made of thick wooden beams, were mostly left unplaned. No bouquet of flowers had probably ever sat on the rough-hewn table in his house, either.

Over the last few weeks, Georgia had added her unique touch to the interior, which Nate said was very welcome. After she’d hammered a nail into a beam and hung up the first lively landscape picture on the brown wall, he’d scratched behind his ear, cracked a grin, and complimented her, saying he’d never realized what he was missing out on. He felt the pieces were coming together. She added parts to his life that he hadn’t even known were absent. She brought him joy.

She’d brought the pictures from her parents, along with the sewing machine and other items. Being the daughter of cattle baron Oswald O’Reilly, she was used to living in a mansion. As a matter of fact, her room on the first floor of O’Reilly Ranch’s main house was probably bigger than Nate’s entire cabin. But she’d entered Nathaniel’s world. Riches or not, she’d said yes to him.

Deliberately.

Because she’d wanted to.

This was his house. She was his wife now, and her job was not to look down on his world, but to be a good helpmeet to him, to make his place the best it could be.

At home, she had servants. Now she herself served Nate, living simpler than the servants at the ranch. It was a decidedly new experience. But love made her forget the hardship.

Georgia rose, her eyes on the material she was pulling from the sewing machine. She stepped toward the window and held the cheerfully-colored curtain up to the appropriate height, to check whether it now cleared the floor. As she stood there, measuring, she noticed movement behind the dancing flakes in the snowblown yard outside.

The silhouette of a horse was prancing around in the gloom out there. It lifted

Reviews for Watch Out, Blizzard Bride!

[Nancy · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Georgia Langdon a newlywed is alone at their homestead while her husband is in town getting supplies. The bank in town is robbed and one of the bandits steals the sheriff’s badge who had been shot. He and the bandits know of the small homestead with no neighbors and plan to stop there. A Blizzard has started as he rides to the homestead and impersonates the sheriff and telling Georgia a story of riding with the posse that caught up with the bandits and was able to retrieve the money and he was separated from the rest of the posse when they went after the fleeing bandits…