title: The Cowboy's Reluctant Bride (Harlequin Historical)
author:  Debra Cowan 
description: <i>The Cowboy's Reluctant Bride</i><span>is a 2015</span><span>Rita Award Finalist. It's</span><span>connected to the novella,</span><i>"Once Upon a Frontier Christmas",</i><span>in the</span><b>All A Cowboy Wants for Christmas</b><span>anthology.</span>
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  # Hope
  
  
  ### BRIDES OF THE Rio Grande
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Peggy McKenzie
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright 2019 by Peggy McKenzie
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
  mechanical means , including information storage and retrieval systems,
  without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief
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  Editor-Julia Tague
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # About this book
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **_BOOK THREE_**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **_BRIDES OF THE RIO GRANDE SERIES_**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Hope Anderson has been in love with Creede’s bad boy since the first moment
  she laid eyes on him. And now, he’s given her every indication he’s going to
  propose. So what’s the problem? He confessed in front 