Wildblossom

Wildblossom

Matthews Novel #2

by

Cynthia Wright

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Thank You.

Novels by Cynthia Wright

(many now available as

Special Author's Cut Editions

in eBook format)

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Beauvisage Novel #1

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TOUCH THE SUN

A Beauvisage/Hampshire Novel

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SILVER STORM

Raveneau Novel #1

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SPRING FIRES

Beauvisage Novel #2

(A Beauvisage/Hampshire/Raveneau Novel)

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SURRENDER THE STARS

Raveneau Novel #2

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NATALYA

Beauvisage Novel #3

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SILVER SEA

(previously published as BARBADOS)

Raveneau Novel #3

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YOU AND NO OTHER

St. Briac Novel #1

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OF ONE HEART

(previously published as A BATTLE FOR LOVE)

St. Briac Novel #2

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FIREBLOSSOM

Matthews Novel #1

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WILDBLOSSOM

Matthews Novel #2

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BRIGHTER THAN GOLD

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CRIMSON INTRIGUE

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coming in 2012: TEMPEST - Raveneau Novel #4

Dedication

For Ciji Ware,

treasured, steadfast friend

and fellow historical author.

Prologue

Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Deadwood
,
South Dakota

March 1902

"What in Sam Hill are you wearing?" Benjamin Avery exclaimed as he peeked into his niece's bedroom.

Shelby Matthews spun around, her gamine's face radiant with high spirits. "Mama and Daddy are waiting for me at the breakfast table, and I just can't resist the temptation to make an entrance they'll never forget!"

Ben fondly shook his sandy head. "Hard to believe that you went East to a fancy college, Shel."

Reaching for an outrageous pair of white curly angora chaps, she gave him a grin, waving good-bye as he went off to run a bath. "Hurry, Uncle Ben! I'm so eager to be on our way!" Within hours, the pair would depart within hours for Cody, Wyoming, where they, with family retainer Titus Pym, would run her parents' new ranch.