An Unlikely Lady (33 page)
Authors: Rachelle Morgan
Lucia Macro
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I firmly believe in two things: Life is too short to waste cleaning house and every soul has a mate.
Thankfully my family has become quite adept at wielding a broom and dust rag, because it gives me more time to devote to finding perfect mates for my characters.
Even as a child, I was deeply fascinated with the nineteenth-century American West and often dreamed of living at the Ponderosa or in the Little House on the Prairie. So when I began writing, it seemed only right that I tell stories of the eraâof cowboys, gamblers, mountaineers, lawmenâand the spirited women who capture their hearts.
When I'm not playing matchmaker for my imaginary friends, working at my “outside” secretarial job, or carting my brood of four around to their various activities, I avoid housework by dragging my family on research trips, watching football with my husband, making a dent in Mount To-Be-Read, or surfing the Net.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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AN UNLIKELY LADY
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