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An Ellora’s Cave Romantica Publication

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Ben’s Wildflower

ISBN # 9781419909276

Edited by Helen Woodall.

Photography and cover art by Les Byerley.

Electronic book Publication: April 2007

This book may not be reproduced or used in whole or in part by any means existing without written

permission from the publisher, Ellora’s Cave Publishing, Inc.® 1056 Home Avenue, Akron OH 44310-

3502.

This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales

is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously.

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S – ENSUOUS

E – ROTIC

X – TREME

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rotic), and X (X-treme).

The following material contains graphic sexual content meant for mature readers. This story has been

rated E–rotic.

S- ensuous love scenes are explicit and leave nothing to the imagination.

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B EN ’ S W ILDFLOWER

Carol Lynne

Acknowledgement

I would like to thank Helen for her tireless work. You’d never know we live on two

separate continents. Thank you for believing in me when I needed it most.

Trademarks Acknowledgement

The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of the

following wordmarks mentioned in this work of fiction:

Bon Jovi: Bon Jovi Productions

Charlie Brown: United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

Denver Broncos: Empire Sports, Inc.

NASCAR: National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc.

Wrangler: DaimlerChrysler Corp.

Ben’s Wildflower

Chapter One

The crowing of the rooster just before dawn woke him. Ben Thomas rolled over and

hit his alarm clock and went back to sleep. The rooster crowed again and once again a

big beefy hand slammed down on the poor clock. The third time the rooster sounded

Ben sat up and reached for the electrical cord. Coming out of the hazy feeling from too

little sleep, Ben shook his head. His brain still felt a little foggy but at least he laughed.

“Damn rooster.”

Ben had lived on the Crawford ranch for two weeks. He’d bought half of the ranch

and had gone into partnership with Kate Crawford. Kate was insisting that they change

the name of the ranch. Ben was just too tired to care about the name of his new home.

Ben fell back down on the bed. Kate. Just thinking about her got him tied up in

knots. He remembered the first day his friend Jake drove him over to meet Kate. He’d

wanted to talk to her about buying her ranch. Jake had told him she might be willing to

sell. It seemed she’d been having trouble running the ranch on her own. The bank was

only months away from foreclosure and Kate was trying to do it all on her own.

The problem with the ranch wasn’t the ranch itself. The problem was things kept

mysteriously breaking that needed to be fixed. Fixing farm and ranch machinery could

get very expensive and from talk around town poor Kate had the worst luck. Every

time she’d save up enough money to help pay down the mortgage loan something else

would break and she’d get further behind.

Jake had brought Ben over to meet Kate and see if she was ready to throw in the

towel. The late summer day when they’d pulled into the ranch yard changed Ben’s life.

Jake had pulled up to an old two-story farm house.

The house needed work but it appeared to be well cared for. Flower boxes

brimming over with pretty red geraniums and dark purple petunias sat under every

window in the front of the house. A freshly painted dark green porch swing sat beside

two equally green rocking chairs. The green was further carried out on the shutters

bracketing every window. As soon as Ben saw the house he could picture himself

sitting in one of the rockers drinking a glass of iced tea after a long day of ranch work.

Jake walked up the front porch steps and knocked on the door. When no one came

to the door Jake turned and looked toward the barn. “Maybe Kate’s in the barn.”

Ben followed Jake to the big red barn with white trim. Walking through the door

into the barn, they allowed their eyes to adjust to the dim light and called for Kate.

When no answer came Jake shook his head. “I’ve no idea where she could be. She never

leaves the ranch. Let’s keep looking.”

They checked out a few of the smaller ranch buildings and headed back to the

truck. “Let’s take a drive out into the fields. There’s a dirt road of sorts we can follow.”

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