title: Her Cowboy Hero (The Colorado Cades)
author:  Tanya Michaels 
description: Tanya Michaels is an award-winning author of overforty romances, a six-time RITA nominee and the mom of two highly imaginative kids. Alas, Tanya's hobbies of reading, oil-painting and cooking keep hermuch too busy to ironclothes. She and her husband are living out their slightly wrinkled happily-ever-after in Atlanta, but you can always find Tanya on Twitter, where she chats with followers about books, family and TV shows ranging from Outlander to iZombie.
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  Cowgirl Up And Ride
  
  
  
  
  
  Rough Riders 03
  
  
  
  
  
  Lorelei James
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  Amy Jo Foster had loved Cord McKay her entire life.
  
  
  
  
  
  It didn’t matter he was thirteen years her senior. Or he’d once dated her
  older sister. Or his little sister was her best friend. She fell for him hard
  the day she’d fallen off her horse.
  
  
  
  
  
  That hot, dusty afternoon teased the edges of her memory. She’d been clip-
  clopping along on the gravel road connecting the Foster and McKay ranches when
  a rattler spooked her pony and bucked her off. She’d twisted her ankle on the
  unexpected dismount, unable to scramble away from either the angry snake or
  the truck barreling toward her.
  
  
  
  
  
  Her life flashed before her eyes.
  
  
  
  
  
  But the tires on a big Ford dually locked up and the truck skidded to a stop.
  A young man jumped out, swooped in and picked her up. His work-roughed hands
  tenderly brushed rocks from her knees and wiped the tears from her dirty face.
  He 