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ROMANCE NOVEL NO. 209 By Fauna L. Tabbycat

Pat was a pert five-foot three-inch brunette with a knack for brassy banter

and a willing smile that could brighten twilight into day without a crease.

But she was so lonely.

Jim was a placid plainsman with a plaintive drawl that belied his firm

convictons – and a gut tough enough to bend a blade back on its kerf.

He was lonely, too.

The trouble with Pat and Jim, so perfectly matched, was a simple matter of

time and place: She was a generation younger than Jim; he lived thousands of miles from Pat.

She was poor; he was rich.

He was svelte; she, dumpy.

She belonged to Mensa; he could hardly read his own signature.

They didn't know each other or, had they known of one another, want to.

Their destinies were not on a collision course.

What a shame -- their love affair would have made a great story.