title: Painted Montana Sky: A Montana Sky Series Novella
author:  Debra Holland 
description: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Debra Holland wears several hats when it comes to writing. As a psychotherapist, she writes nonfiction books. The Essential Guide to Grief and Grieving is her first nonfiction book. More nonfiction books about grieving, boundary setting with difficult people, and relationships, are forthcoming. Debra also writes fiction--Historial Western Romance, Contemporary Romance, Fantasy Romance, and Science Fiction. Her Montana Sky series, sweet historical Western romances, is published by Amazon Montlake. The Gods' Dream Trilogy (fantasy romance) is available on Kindle. The common publishing philosophy is that an author should take different pen names for different kinds of book or "the reader will be confused." Debra thinks her readers are smart enough to distinguish between her various books. Thus, she's publishing everything under her own name. Debra lives in Southern California and has one dogs and two cats. She's a second degree blackbelt and teaches martial arts. She also is a corporate crisis/grief counselor. You can join her newsletter subscription list or learn more about her at www.drdebraholland.com.
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  MONTANA SKIES
  
  
  By Mary Alford
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Copyright 2016
  
  
  Written by: Mary Alford
  
  
  Published by: Forget Me Not Romances, a division of Winged Publications
  
  
  Cover: Cynthia Hickey
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  the product of the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is
  coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
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  ## Chapter One
  
  T he snow started on the outskirts of Carson City, Nevada and it followed her
  all the way up to the Montana border. There, the puffy snowflakes had promptly
  turned to foreboding pellets of sleet, as if even the weather were trying to
  warn her. Don’t go back there. Don’t go…home
  
  
  For Cara Stevens there was no other choice. She’d fight the fear and
  uncertainty of the future, the weather, she’d ignore all the warning signs
  because she had no other place 