Wagon Train Cinderella

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Shirley Kennedy. Wagon Train Cinderella

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Books by Shirley Kennedy

Wagon Train Cinderella

Copyright

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Epilogue

Meet the Author

Acknowledgements

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Love can lead you out of the wilderness…

1851, Overland Trail to California. As a baby, Callie was left on the doorstep of an isolated farmhouse in Tennessee. The Whitaker family took her in, but have always considered her more a servant than a daughter. Scorned by her two stepsisters, Callie is forced to work long hours and denied an education. But a new world opens to her when the Whitakers join a wagon train to California—guided by rugged Indian, Luke McGraw…

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Luke watched the three young women head back across the meadow. Lydia—pretty but not a brain in her head. Nellie—passably pretty if she smiled more and lost that permanent pout. Callie—poor creature, so obviously beaten down and made to feel inferior by the entire Whitaker family. She wasn’t pretty…well, maybe she could be if she didn’t have that work-worn look about her, like she lived in fear of not getting her chores done. Her figure wasn’t bad. Despite that poorly fitting dress, he could tell that like Lydia, she had a good-sized bosom, tiny waist and slender hips. Nice face if it wasn’t so pale and strained all the time. She should laugh more. Even her hair wouldn’t look so bad if she didn’t have it all pulled back in a scraggly bun, like she couldn’t bother to spend more than a couple of seconds fixing it each morning.

Something about her intrigued him. What it was, he didn’t know. It didn’t matter because Caleb Whitaker had chosen to take the long journey alone. Beyond tomorrow, he’d never see any of them again. What a fool Caleb was, but that was his choice.

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