Billie Jo and the Valentine Crow

Mail-order-bride, Billie Jo Mingo, has traveled west with her belligerent pet crow Pecker to meet her husband, a man she assumes is too fat and old to get any local women to marry him.

Aristocratic cattle baron, Jason Lee Emory, assumes he has married a gently reared lady to help him raise his orphaned daughter.

When the two meet, Billie Jo is stunned to learn that her husband is the handsomest man she has ever seen. Jace is shocked that his lady is really a scrappy, redheaded backwoods waif. The feathers fly, especially when Pecker puts his beak’s worth in.