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NIGHT WIND'S WOMAN

Sheri Whitefeather

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Epilogue

Chapter 1

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Kelly Baxter waited at her neighbor's door, miles ofWest Texassurrounding her. During the long, dusty
ride, she had driven past cattle ranches and crooked wood fencing, abandoned trucks and fields of
bluebonnets. And now she stood on the front porch of a large country house, sidestepping an
arrangement of potted plants and sun-bleached cow skulls.

The Western charm hadn't eased her frazzled nerves. She had argued with her mother about making this
trip. "You shouldn't be traveling alone," her mom had said, "and you shouldn't stay in some run-down, old
cabin in the middle of nowhere, either. Not when you have a paternity suit to consider."

Kelly rested her hand on her protruding tummy. She had inherited the cabin from her grandpa and, at
this particular time in her life, the middle of nowhere suited her just fine. But to appease her mom, she
promised to stop by Dr.McKinley's, the neighbor Grandpa had considered a friend. She would introduce
herself,then be on her way.

When the front door finally opened, she could only stare. The man on the other side wasn't Dr.
McKinley. He was much too young and much too dark to fit Grandpa's description of the
fifty-some-year-old veterinarian.

"I'm Kelly Baxter," she said hastily. "And you must be Shane Night Wind." The doctor's half-Comanche
son, the man Grandpa had deemed "part wildcat."

"Kelly Baxter?"

He returned her stare with a deeply-fixed gaze, brown eyes shimmering with tiny flecks of gold. Those