“You Bought the Wrong Bride,” the Cowgirl Said

That, she thought, watching him from the porch with her father’s letter still in her coat pocket, was probably an answer in itself whether she was ready to read it or not.

Cyrus did not ride out again. He went to the county seat instead, which was worse.

He filed a petition with Judge Alden Pruitt’s court—not the family’s own lawyer, but a circuit judge continue reading …