Texas Bound
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He was standing outside the bank leaning against the building waiting for Hobie and watching the traffic on the busy street, when he spotted a pretty young woman carefully picking her way across the muddy street. He didn't realize he had been staring until she was standing in front of him and spoke. "Hello Seth," she said smiling up at him. "You don't remember me do you?" she asked as she noted the puzzled look on his face. Looking into her soft brown eyes that were almost as dark as his, he couldn't help noticing she was even more beautiful up close than she had been walking across the street. He thought frantically, trying to remember where he had seen her before.
Not wanting to admit even to himself he didn't remember this vision of beauty that was standing before him. As he stood there trying to recall who she was, it gave her the opportunity to study him. Normally she didn't care for men in buckskin. She had always felt they made a man look coarse and un-kept but this was one cowboy who wore his buckskins with class and dignity.
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Seth had never cared for the easy life. When things got too comfortable he always found trouble--or it found him. He had found at an early age the prosperous plantation that had been in his family for four generations did not offer enough challenges to make him happy. In fact, the whole state of Virginia was too tame for him. So, as soon as he graduated from William and Mary, he struck out to find someplace he could have the freedom and space he desired. In 1836, after nearly a year of searching, he finds himself in Texas.
He enters the territory just days after the small, inexperienced Texas army, in it's attempt to win Texas' independence from Mexico, has met a devastating defeat at the hands of the large and powerful Mexican army. After establishing a rather large and prosperous cattle ranch in the Texas hill country he meets the woman who makes his life complete. They raise a family and together meet the challenges of the unsettled frontier. Together they establish a Texas dynasty and leave their footprints in Texas history.
About the Author
Reading has always been one of Connie's favorite past times. During her early school years her favorite reading material was about animals, especially horses. While in high school she began reading historical fiction and claims to have learned more history from fiction than from textbooks. Shortly before retiring from her government job Connie decided to write a book of her own. She didn't know what time frame she wanted to write about but she knew she wanted it to be something about the settling of early America.
After much research and thought she chose to begin by writing about life during the American Revolution. While writing her first book Colonial Romance she got to know the characters so well she decided not to end the saga there. Hence came The Bugle's Call about the second generation of the Black family and then came Texas Bound about the third generation of the family. Watch for The Marshal's Lady. This fourth book of Connie's also takes place in early Texas.