Linda Mellor McKethan

Queen Texas Linda Mellor McKethan

Julie and Rome have sexual chemistry the moment they meet, despite Julie pointing a pistol at his mid-section. It's 1894 in the wild-west town known as "Six-Shooter Junction. Cotton has replaced longhorn cattle as the moneymaker for Texas. Prosperity is soaring and the city fathers of Waco want to promote cotton products to the entire country and abroad. The Cotton Palace, a fair and huge exhibition hall is constructed to house a "fair to end all fairs" to showcase all things cotton. It is an astonishing event beginning with a massive parade and the crowning of King and Queen Cotton and ending a month later with a masked ball. Julie and Rome must overcome a fraudulent land scheme, attempted murder. rumors and misunderstandings. They are a young couple on the brink of the twentieth century.