An Avon True Romance: Amelia and the Outlaw
Chapter One
Fort Worth, Texas
May 1881
The first thing Jesse Lawton noticed when the train puffed into the station was the girl standing on the platform.
She was the prettiest thing he'd seen in five years.
Her blond hair was tucked up neatly beneath a frilly bonnet decorated with ribbons and bows. The tiny tips of her black leather shoes peeked out from beneath the hem of her spring-green dress.
He thought her eyes were blue, but he couldn't be certain—not from this distance, not peering through the dirty train window.
The girl jutted her bottom lip into a little pout that caused his insides to tighten. Her mouth reminded him of the plump strawberries he'd tasted at the beginning of a long-ago summer. He'd snitched them out of a garden that grew beside a house with gingham curtains fluttering in the windows and a white picker fence.
He'd convinced himself the pain in his gut was a result of being hungry—not the longing for all the comforts the folks inside the house took for granted. He'd forced himself to gobble down the ju ... read full excerpt from: An Avon True Romance: Amelia and the Outlaw ebook
