Freedom and Fresh Starts
Romance · fiction

The Shoes Beside His Fire

The cowboy laid three silver dollars in the auctioneer’s palm, walked toward nineteen-year-old Annabeth, and dropped to one knee. When his gloved hands reached toward her dust-caked shoes, she screamed. It wasn’t because he hurt her. He barely touched her. She screamed because, for most of her life, men had stood over her....

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Cover of The Shoes Beside His Fire
Genre
Romance
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
Editorial responsibility
My Life Story Editorial

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Freedom and Fresh Starts

Chapters

  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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