Ladino. This item is unavailable.Ladino

Ben Cowden is no swaggering lover. He is a horseman, a stubborn son of Arizona. But now Ben is getting his lessons in the amorous arts--from the most beautiful woman he's ever laid eyes on. Margarita Elias Odoms is the unhappy new wife of the ex-Texas Ranger hired by ranch boss Duncan Vincent to drive the Cowdens out of Arizona. When Ben crosses into Sonora to save Margarita from despair, love turns to war. With a missing shipment of hijacked gold on the loose, and his sister Eileen in trouble with a crazy family named Bonner, Ben is already fighting on two fronts. But trouble always comes in threes; now there is a price on Ben's head and he must battle to the finish with a tall Texan, full of all the evil and greed that had brought him into this unforgiving, proud land...

J.P.S. Brown was given the Will Jame?s Society?s first annual Big Enough Award in 1999 for lifetime achievement in the cowboy tradition. In 2003 the Arizona Historical Society and the Pima County Arizona Library gave him the Lawrence Clark Powell Award for his contribution to Southwestern Letters. More about him can be found at http://members.authorsguild.net/jbrown