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    She had been in New York so long , living, working and playing the way city people did, that her father probably wouldn’t recognize the woman she’d become. She’d become citified the epitome of a city slicker, the antithesis of how she had been brought up on The Double R.
    She had become her mother.
    More than Jeremiah’s call informing her of her father’s accident and summoning her back to her childhood home, , she hated being anything like the woman who had abandoned her when Tamara barely got out of diapers. But she couldn’t escape her heritage or the truth.
    From all the things she had heard about Jasmine Carpenter, Tamara thought herself more like the woman than not, more like her than she wanted to admit.
    She already knew how much she looked like the woman—not because her dad kept any pictures of her mother around, but because everyone who’d ever known her mother told her so as Tamara grew up. And, from as far back as she could remember and according to her father, she had suffered from the same wanderlust that had her mother up and leaving the ranch without a backward glance.
    In the last few days, however, she’d been wondering more and more about her mother and the circumstances that had led to her departure, especially after her own fiancé, James’ defection no more than a couple of weeks ago.
    She squeezed sketchy information out of her father at best.
    Jeremiah and his wife Paula, her surrogate mom, had filled Tamara in on the sordid details of her parents’ relationship and breakup, and even then they shared their biases, couldn’t get passed their friendship with her father. On the other hand, Jeremiah and Paula portrayed her mom as a materialistic, wild, and reckless opportunist who’d only married Tamara’s father for the glamorous life she thought his participation on the rodeo circuit could provide.
    When the injuries piled up and the tournament victories and money fell off, her father decided to call it quits and settle down. He Ebook piracy is stealing. It is a federal offense.
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    said he didn’t want to live on the road away from his wife and baby so many weeks out of the year, the rodeo lifestyle not what he wanted for his family.
    To hear Jeremiah tell the story, it had been a match made in heaven—her father’s good fortune that The Double R had an opening for ranch foreman and The Double R’sgood fortune to land a man like her father to help run it.
    What her father lacked in experience, according to Jeremiah, he more than made up for in raw talent and enthusiasm. And the rest, as they say, was history. The two men’s working relationship spawned a thirty-plus-year friendship, and the inception of Tamara’s upbringing on the ranch.
    As a lawyer, and curious by nature, Tamara didn’t think things this cut and dried. She liked to hear every side of a story. After all these years, she had only heard her father’s side. She loved him and Jeremiah and cherished Paula’s memory, but that wasn’t enough anymore.
    She wondered what kind of picture her mother painted of her ex-husband when she related the tale of their separation and divorce to her friends. Did her mother paint Dad as the bad guy in her scenario the way Tamara painted James?
    Tamara gritted her teeth, angry at herself for breaking her promise. She wasn’t supposed to think about her breakup with James.
    This trip should have been the perfect opportunity for her to get her mind off of him. She wasn’t glad her father had been injured, but she welcomed the excuse it gave her to get out of New York and away from the flaming failure of her relationship with the man engaged to marry her until a few weeks ago.
    How quickly things changed.
    At least she wasn’t a toddler or little kid anymore and could take