"Stilettos to Stetsons" is a modern day true romance story with a twist.This is a fascinating and compelling true story that Janice has written about the path that her life took beginning on one cold January afternoon when she suddenly and unexpectedly became a widow. The story ends some seven years later by which time she was now living in Texas and was the wife of a cattle rancher. She describes the emotions and experience of being suddenly widowed with depth and passion. As her story evolves, she is able to give a British woman's take about life on a Texas cattle ranch, describing the funny, frightening and bewildering incidents that occured to her. She describes being widowed with sensitivity and realism. Within a few days, she had discovered devastating secrets about her husband and realised that she had been married to a man for many years, whom she did not really know at all. As the months went by, she pieced back together her shattered life and eventually felt that she was ready to start another relationship. Her encounters with would-be suitors proved to be fairly disastrous as it seemed that all the men who tried to enter her life either had nothing in common with her or had ulterior motives. Her best interests were certainly not at the top of their agendas. Thoroughly disheartened, she accepted the fact that now in her mid-fifties, she would most likely end up as a lonely little old lady. That was when while on holiday in America, she met a cowboy. A few months later, it only took one brief stay with that cowboy on his cattle ranch in Texas for them both to realise that they were deeply in love with each other and both knew that they wanted to be together, despite the little matter of six thousand miles and the huge cultural divide between them. Janice made the momentous decision to start a new life with her cowboy. She knew that the transition was not going to be easy, and describes with passion and humour how she endured the searing heat of the Texas summers and the extremes of the Southern Plains weather. She recounts her experiences with the indigenous Texas wildlife and describes the huge cultural differences that she had to experience. In short, she describes how a Cornish school teacher became a fully fledged Texas cowgirl.
About the Author: Janice was born in post-war south-east London, but went to school in Hampshire and as the step-daughter of a soldier, in West Germany. Following "A" levels, she worked with thoroughbred racehorses in the UK, France and the USA. Janice returned to college in her early twenties, gaining a Batchelor's Degree in Education from King Alfred's College, Winchester, which she later followed with a Master's Degree in Education. She spent most of her teaching career in West Cornwall. She now lives in central Texas, where she and her husband, a retired professional rodeo cowboy run a cattle and commodities ranch.