Cats, Cowboys & Love: A Pair of Historical Romances

The Animal Lover & The Texas Cowboy With A Withered Arm - A woman is sent to a Texas cowboy by her parents, and finds herself rapidly at odds when she finds out he doesn't like cats because of something that happened to him as a child. They reach a sort of compromise but the man still doesn't like cats, until one fateful night that turns out to be the pivotal point in their relationship. The English Woman Who Loved Cats - A woman from Liverpool with an enormous talent for painting and a huge love of cats decides to go to Bakersfield California and become the wife of a farmer, even though she is very young.
She meets another young woman, another artist like herself, who creates Chinese calligraphy art. At first, she doesn't tell her husband because her father destroyed all of her paintings when she was a child, but when she does, he becomes very proud of her, but suddenly disappears for several days and she gets worried.