Saddle up for Love: The Pancake Club, #4

By Marilyn Conner Miles

Barbara “Barb” Sessions is a wrangler and sometimes babysitter at the local dude ranch, Saddle Up. She meets lots of “weekend dudes”—older men, couples in love and families with children, but never any men her age, except for losers. Could it be because she’s always in jeans and cowboy boots? She can’t even remember the last time she wore a dress and heels. On top of that, one of the wranglers fancies himself in love with her. Will she ever meet Mr. Right? Dirk Adams is new to town and new owner of the Mercy Ridge Large Animal Veterinary Mobile Clinic. This is his first real job as a veterinarian. He grew up in Seattle. He isn’t much used to small towns other Stanwood where he did his internship and Pullman, the campus of Washington State University where he was a student. He’s heard that small towns often don’t warm up to new people moving there, and now he’s getting ready to replace their beloved, retiring Doctor Nick. How will they react to his new ways?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books To Go Now
• Release date: Apr 27, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386363996

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Saddle Up For Love

It had been quite awhile since she’d gone on a date. The dating pool—or corral as she thought of it—was limited in Mercy Ridge. She’d grown up with most of the thirty-something men around there and she wasn’t interested in any of them that way. And they didn’t seem to be any more interested in her. In fact, most of them were married or engaged by now. Dolan and Chad she considered her pals, anyway. And she wouldn’t date the ranch guests. The only man interested in her, Jack, was the bane of her existence. Loud-mouthed, heavy-drinking,

chew-spitting, smelly Jack was the assistant wrangler at the Saddle Up. If there was any reason not to like her job, it would be him. Otherwise, Barb loved her job. She’d worked there since she was a teen and never grew tired of it. But when Mr. Thomas had a slight stroke and his doctor ordered him to slow down, he’d hired Jack.

Barb sighed as she pulled off the main road into the long, dusty driveway under the sign that read, Saddle Up Dude Ranch. She’d hoped to beat Jack to work, but there he was, jabbering—probably bragging as usual—to some poor, unsuspecting ranch guest. Oh no. He’d obviously seen the dust kicked up by her Jeep and turned her way, a big grin on his face. She sighed again. What a way to start her workday.

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Saddle Up For Love

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Copyright © Marilyn Conner Miles 2017

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Sweet Romances

Acapulco Adventure

Holiday Heart

Saddle Up For Love

Belle's Christmas

Rescued By Christmas

Trilogies

Trails to Love

Anthologies

The Pancake Club Anthology

Christmas Romance (Volume Two)

Christmas in the Country

Pancake Club Christmas Collection

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Dedication

To my co-authors in The Pancake Club series—Jenni, Jackie and J.W..

Y’all were wonderful to work with.

We were a great team.

Let’s do it again!

Chapter One

Have you heard anything about Doc Nick’s replacement? Barbara, Barb Sessions asked as she sipped her coffee and then looked around the booth at her fellow Memories Diner Pancake Club members.

You’d be more likely to need his services first, with all the animals you have out at the Saddle Up, police officer Dolan Nash replied between bites of pancake. Or maybe Chad’s folks.

Yeah, but Doc’s been so tight-lipped, for the first time in his life, I haven’t heard a word. He keeps saying to wait for his retirement party when he introduces the new vet. We don’t even know if it’s a man or a woman. She paused to swig down the rest of her coffee, and then held up the cup. Hey, Sami! Got any more of this stuff? she called to the waitress, currently wiping down another table in the café. Not that I’d care, she added as she watched the waitress approach their table. "Can I get the