Be Mine

Cowgirl Love Stories

By: Renee Riva

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

Four sweet novellas that tell the humorous tales of young cowgirls who grow up to marry their childhood crushes : FARLEY'S FIVE AND DIME: A Charming Waltz Down memory Lane“It was just me and Daddy and Sammy that made up our family after Mama went to heaven in 1956. I was only nine years old when she left us. I remember thinking she must have been needed pretty bad up there, ‘cause I sure needed her down here, but heaven got her anyway. The three of us ran the dimestore winter, spring, summer, and fall, without any outside help. We lived right above the store with a slide that landed us in the backroom, so we could look forward to going to work everyday. Summers were my favorite time of all and got a little crazy at times—but a good kind of crazy—‘cause when it got real busy, I got to work the soda fountain counter. The best part about that was getting to know everybody’s business, and believe me, there was a lot of business to know in Hog Eye Holler. “There is something special about one’s first crush, and first waltz at the innocent age of twelve, especially in a small Southern town in the 1950’s. Farley’s Five and Dime is all of that, and more~ SUMMER OF THE CAROUSEL A charming time in a charming town~ “Me and Nellie watch to see who won Miss Hog Eye Holler this year. You don’t find out who won ‘til she comes floating down Lavender Lane on her royal float, waving and chucking candy at everyone. “How long ago was it that you won Miss Hog Eye Holler, Nellie?” I ask her.Nellie shakes her head and laughs. “Too many moons ago to count!” she answers. Nellie is still pretty as can be so it couldn’t have been that long ago. Just as we are talking about it, who should come around the bend but Miss Sandra Jane Jacobs in her long lavender sequin gown and purple high heels on top of her pink and purple floral float. Sandra Jane is the older sister of Emma Jean, who is the girlfriend of Billy Ray Baxter, who is the hunk of Hog Eye Holler. So I’m just a tinge bit jealous that Emma Jean gets to ride up there on that float with her beauty queen sister. “I sure would like to ride on that float myself someday,” I told Nellie, “but only if I can wear my over-alls instead of that skimpy long dress and high heels. I would trip for sure in those tall shoes right off the side of that float, trying to wave and throw candy at same time. I’d bust my front teeth right out, and then I’d look just awful for the newspaper photo.” This is what I say so when the time comes for me to lose the Miss Hog Eye Holler contest, I won’t feel quite so bad.Nellie smiles. “Oh, you still got a few years yet to practice.”~ A summer like this comes along only once a lifetime~ RELUCTANT COWGIRL: When Amy Landers inherits Aunt Polly’s Inn, located on a bluff above the Columbia River in Wishram, Washington, she has no plans to stay any longer than it takes to sell it. Even though Amy spent her childhood summers with Aunt Polly in cattle country, she’s lived the past fourteen years as a refined city girl in Seattle. She has no desire to change... until she sees her childhood playmate, Jesse Drake, now a strapping cattle rancher next door. Amy can barely stand the sight of a tumbleweed, and refers to Country Western radio as the Book of Job put to music. It will take more than a cowboy in a nice pair of jeans, to win this city girl's heart. Join the round up and enjoy the ride! TO LOVE A COWBOY: Brandy Jo Danner made up her mind in the third grade that someday she was going to marry Dane Bronson. Determined doesn't begin to describe Brandy Jo... sassy would be more accurate.Dane has wanted to ask Brandy Jo out for the past fourteen years, but his shyness has kept him at bay.It appears two people could not be more different..... the saying opposites attract is an understatement