![]() ![]() The setting sun hung just above Shaw Mountain, named after Henry’s ancestors who’d settled the rich valley below. He poured himself a bourbon and looked out the small window above his work bench. Henry hated anything that interfered with his plans. ![]() God and women and disease had a way of interfering. Then Johnny had found Jesus and June and his career had gone to hell in a hand basket. Before Johnny had found religion, he’d been one kick-ass carouser. He plugged an old eight-track cassette into its player, and the deep, whiskey-rough voice of Johnny Cash filled the small tack shed. The red glow from a space heater touched the creases and folds of Henry Shaw’s face, while the nicker of his beloved Appaloosas called to him on the warm spring breeze. Late at night when my mind is quiet, I can still remember the scent of my mother’s skin and the texture of my father’s spiky crewcut, and I know that I have been blessed. With love to my mother and father, Al and Mary Reed. Returning home to Truly, Idaho, to attend the reading of her stepfather's will, pretty hairdresser Delaney Shaw finds herself back in the arms of the sexy, devil-may-care, motorcycle-riding Nick Allegrezza and sparks a scandal. ![]()
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