Texas Lily by Patricia Rice is 1st in her Too Hard To Handle series of western historical romances, originally published by Topaz in 1995 and now free courtesy of ePublishing Works! (exclamation mark theirs).
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Description
Lily Porter is newly a widow with a child to raise and a cattle ranch to run in the Texas frontier aflame with violence, and where a woman is to be seen not heard.
She needs a man to stand up for her land.
His name is Cade. Part Apache brave and part Mexican grandee, Cade has a past and a secret. But he possesses the power and passion to command all in his path.
Lily welcomes Cade into her struggle against treachery and terror—and discovers a love worth risking everything to keep.