Reclaiming Tess

By Beth Shriver

Tess had grown away from her grandfather’s farm and become a corporate city woman with a busy, harrowed life. After her grandfather’s death she finds herself trying to save the ranch. She will find much more than she was looking for.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
• Release date: Jul 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781509209217

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Inc.

Reclaiming Tess

by

Beth Shriver

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.

Reclaiming Tess

COPYRIGHT  2007 by Beth Shriver

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the author or The Wild Rose Press except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

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First Yellow Rose Edition, 2016

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Dedication

To my husband Ty, who doesn't let me quit.  There are few men who can wail while they yawn, retort very poor comebacks and encourage me so completely.  I love you.

The hills were smaller than she remembered; so was the house. But the big, blue sky seemed to go on forever. Tess left her bags by the ranch house and walked to the huge, white barn. Green trim edged its perimeter, and the three Ws brand was etched above the hay loft door.

Nestled in the prairie lands in central Texas, this place felt like Tess’s best kept adventure as a kid. With all those years behind her, she couldn’t imagine why she had such fond memories of a simple piece of land with a bunch of cows on it.

Then all those memories came flooding back to her. The horse rides, swims in the river and her cousins. She took in a breath of clean country air, stretching her arms out wide and closing her eyes as she inhaled. When she opened them, he was standing right