Calico

**MAGGIE**

The West had never known a woman as rough and ready as this Irish spitfire ... Steady with a pistol and sharp of tongue, she vowed to open the New Mexico mines she inherited and run them as well as any man. Especially the one man who stood in her way...

**McCREADY**

To Maggie he was a thieving scoundrel, a land-hungry snake who could cheat the sun from the sky ... She despised him -- and yet was bound to him in a stormy marriage of convenience. McCready was determined to win this battle of the sexes. But first he had to tame the wildest heart in the West…

An Irish spitfire meets her match in a Western romp from national bestselling romance author Raine Cantrell.

Maggie O’Roark knows how to walk, talk, and fight like a man. When Maggie inherits her uncle’s profitable silver and gold mines, she’s determined to prove she can operate them on her own, even as her wedding date approaches. When Maggie’s groom is kidnapped just before the wedding, Maggie is convinced saloon owner C.V. McCready is responsible, in a desperate bid to keep her from re-opening the mines.

McCready is a silver-tongued con man, but when he sees Maggie in her wedding finery, he becomes obsessed with protecting her from less savory men who would do anything to get their hands on her mines. McCready kidnaps Maggie and claims her in a marriage by proxy, setting the stage for the fiercest and funniest battle of the sexes in the West.