Penguin Publishing Group The Texan and the Lady

True McCormick needed a hero, so she hired one-a greenhorn named Seth Atherton, a man with foolhardy dreams of gun smoke and justice. She's grown up wild and free among the Texas Rangers and Harvey Girls of the untamed west. Now True McCormick is a famous published author, writing Wild West adventures under the name "Granite Westwind." But trouble has a way of riding double in True's life-her publisher wants to send Granite Westwind on tour! She has two choices. She can 'fess up to her true identity-or hire someone to play the part of the lightening-fast gunslinger. She's found her man in a Galveston jailhouse. Seth Atherton is a hardware store clerk with foolhardy dreams of gun smoke and justice. But True is determined to turn this handsome young greenhorn into a larger-than-life hero. Filling the boots of a legend isn't easy. Especially when the bullets begin to fly-and True begins to fall in love with the hero she created. ...