Love Under Two Mavericks by Cara Covington (top romance novels .TXT) 📕



The Lusty, Texas Collection 39

Love Under Two Mavericks

[Siren Menage Everlasting: Contemporary, Menage, Western/Cowboy, Romantic Suspense, MFM, HEA]

Michaela is the last Powell standing. But she doesn’t know if she can open her heart and her life to a couple of Montana Benedicts. Lewis and Randy left Montana on their way to find their place. A stop in Lusty was only supposed to be for a short visit. And then they met Michaela.

Michaela tells herself she can’t get involved. She’s on a mission to restore the family farm, and they’re only here temporarily, anyway. But then she injures herself in the midst of those renovations. Lewis and Randy step up to take care of her and to help her with achieving her goal.

The men quickly understand that what they’d been looking for wasn’t a place—it was her. As they grow closer, they all three come to realize what’s truly important in life.

It doesn’t surprise Michaela when someone tries to sabotage her efforts. But who could have expected for things to turn deadly?

Length: 63,400 words

LOVE UNDER

TWO MAVERICKS

The Lusty, Texas Collection 39

Cara Covington



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Love Under Two Mavericks

Copyright © 2020 by Cara Covington

ISBN: 978-1-64637-144-0

First Publication: April 2020

Cover design by Harris Channing

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

These are scary times. I’m not a nurse or a doctor; I wouldn’t be much good volunteering out in the open because of those darn underlying health conditions they say make me vulnerable.

But I can write.

I can bring you stories that will hopefully transport you away from the stress and the fear of these days; and in so doing help you catch your breath.

So thank you to all of my readers for doing just that. Know, that each time I sit at the keyboard to bring you the next adventure in either Lusty Texas or maybe the Lyon’s Den, that my goal is to draw you into my “world”, to occupy your mind, to make you smile and yes, maybe shed a tear or two. Cleansing tears, and God knows we need those, too.

I’m grateful to Angie Buchanan Jones and Sandy Ebel for beta reading. Ladies, I appreciate your keen sense of story. And double thanks to Angie for her wonderful banners and memes.

Devin, you’re an amazing editor. Thank you for being tough and keeping me honest. With each story you make me a better writer.

Gratitude in bunches go to the rest of the amazing people of Siren-BookStrand for your continued hard work and professionalism. I am truly grateful, beyond words not only for all you do, but for allowing me to do what I do.

DEDICATION

As always, to David, for more reasons than I can list—considering my 65 year old memory and all.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Morgan Ashbury, also writing as Cara Covington, has been a writer since she was first able to pick up a pen. In the beginning, it was a hobby, a way to create a world of her own, and who could resist the allure of that? Then, as she grew and matured, life got in the way, as life often does. She got married and had three children, and worked in the field of accounting, for that was the practical thing to do, and the children did need to be fed. And all the time she was being practical, she would squirrel herself away on quiet Sunday afternoons and write.

Most children are raised knowing the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. Morgan’s children also learned the Paper Rule: Thou shalt not throw out any paper that has thy mother’s words upon it.

Believing in tradition, Morgan ensured that her children’s children learned this rule, too.

Life threw Morgan a curve when, in 2002, she underwent emergency triple bypass surgery. Second chances are to be cherished, and with the encouragement and support of her husband, Morgan decided to use hers to do what she’d always dreamed of doing—writing full-time.

Morgan has always loved writing romance. It is the one genre that can incorporate every other genre within its pulsating heart. Romance showcases all that humankind can aspire to be. And, she admits, she’s a sucker for a happy ending.

Morgan’s favorite hobbies are reading, cooking, and traveling—though she would rather you didn’t mention that last one to her husband. She has too much fun teasing him about having become a “Traveling Fool” of late.

Morgan is blessed to have two surviving children, six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. She lives in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, with her husband of forty-seven years, fellow retiree and aspiring author, David, and two new fur babies: Missy and Bear, progeny of our beloved Mr. Tuffy.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LOVE UNDER TWO MAVERICKS

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

LOVE UNDER

TWO MAVERICKS

The Lusty, Texas Collection 39

CARA COVINGTON

Copyright © 2020

Prologue

West of Waco, Texas, 1880

Ezra Powell didn’t think. He just jumped.

Leaping from the moving train, he tucked and rolled and absorbed the shock of the ground and a few nasty fucking rocks that banged and bruised his body until his rolling motion stopped.

Shit like this was a lot easier to do when I was younger. He stood and dusted himself off and then looked around. To his left, the train he’d just leapt from