​Judy Baker chatting about her Historical Western Romances: Better She Die 
Better She Live
Better She Love
​Better She Lie
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                       MAUD'S CALAMITY
                                AMAZON
Silver Sage Creek, Texas, 1874
​Maud will never marry. She doesn't need a man to support her. Most of her life has been controlled by men. No more. Women lose their identity when controlled by men. Her years in the orphanage is now in her past. She knows who she is and won’t allow her emotions to overpower her need for women’s rights. 
Maud had worked hard in a factory to support herself even with a controlling boss made advances toward her. Now living in a small Texas town, Maud knows her life might have headed in a different direction if she had never made her way to Silver Sage Creek. For the rest of her life, she would be known as Maud Tennyson. No matter what comes about, she would never allow another man to touch her or control her.
Strong and determined to be independent, Maud comes face to face with a man endangering her strong-will of freedom. Yet, she will not allow any man to take advantage of her again, not even the one stirring her heart revealing her need to be love.
Has her life come to a place where she could live without worrying about tomorrow? Can she finally belong?
Can she live a contented life, without love? 

Better She Lie

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She’s a schoolmarm with integrity, but in truth, she’s a liar and a murderer. He’s a Bounty Hunter, naturally suspicious, especially when it comes to the new schoolteacher.

​A Silver Sage Creek Novel, Better She Lie
To escape the danger of a ruthless man, Lenora Whitfield boards a westerly bound train disguised as a man. She can’t believe her luck changes when an opportunity arises. She takes on the identity of a school teacher moving to Silver Sage Creek, Texas, but there’s one problem, the opportunity comes with a baby. Can she pull it off? Can she become a lady, a schoolmarm, and a mother?
One lie leads to another causing her to doubt herself, especially when the suspicious bounty hunter takes a liking to her. Can she keep up a life of lies?
How can Ethan Langdon fall for a beautiful liar? Unable to keep his emotions from deepening, he discovers another lie. He’s frightened for her when the web of lies lead her to the hanging rope.

Better She Die

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With her half-breed son and her abdomen growing with child, returning to the white man society is a struggle, even with the Ranger’s help.

Silver Sage Creek Novel, Book One
Better She Die

In 1858, Clare Rose Coulson of Silver Sage Creek, Texas, is traumatized as a band of Apache Indians murder her husband, her father, and best friend. When kidnapped, she tries to escape only to be captured by another band, but quickly learns this band is Comanche and different. They aren't warriors or savages, but a peaceful, loving people. While living with the band, she learns to respect the Indian ways and settles into a life she never dreamed.

Four years later, Captain Drury Burchett, a Texas Ranger, rescues Clare Rose. Only, the beautiful redheaded woman is angered by her rescue. He's bewildered by the compassion she shows for the Comanches, especially since his hatred for the savages digs deep into his soul for all they've taken from him. What makes this woman so strong in her beliefs and needs to defend the Indians?
“Well written and beautifully crafted story. I look forward to book two.”
The Romance Market Place Reviews
Search keys:  Western romance, half-breed, kidnap and murder, Texas Ranger, rescue, marriages, strong beliefs
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A saloon woman…alone…unloved, surrounded by murder, deceit, and love

Silver Sage Creek Novel, Book Two
​Better She Live
 
Ruby Thornton, the proprietor of the Silver Sage Saloon is a business woman, not a prostitute. But, because she runs a saloon, the proper folks of Silver Sage Creek treat her as such, until the wealthy Richard Webster moves into town. His reputation of being a gentleman and a lucrative railroad businessman has the entire town smitten, including Ruby.
When a cowboy named Jesse Stryker comes along working for the wealthy Webster, Ruby is torn by her conflicting emotions. His angry eyes contradict his proposition for a night of pleasure. She’s tempted. Only, she isn’t a prostitute.
 Ruby’s first instincts about a person is usually right, until now. Who’s the shrewd and fiendish man, the wealthy Webster or Stryker? Caught up in a charmed life, Ruby’s backed into a corner of kidnapping and murder, putting her life and others in danger. Who can she trust?
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​How can she compare the Comanche half-breed’s kisses to the man she’s going to marry, when he had only kissed her on the cheek?

Silver Sage Creek Novel, Book Three
 Better She Love
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Dr. Millicent’s family never spoke the word love. When she travels to a quaint western town in Texas, and within a few days, she hears the word often from a father she never knew, and a mother she thought dead. After a short time on the ranch, she has doubts about returning to her life in Atlanta? How can she give in to her grandmother’s demands, go back, and marry someone she doesn’t love?
When Sam Coulson meets the high society, prim and proper doctor, he doesn’t think she can fit into the rude, crude and untamed life of the west. But, a vision of her saving him, and her stubborn independence, draws him in until she owns his heart.
Can a kiss, a flashflood rescue, a shooting, and a mad rabid wolf, chase her into the arms of a Comanche half-breed, and convince her she belongs with him? 
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