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Good Ride,
Cowboy by Allison Merritt
Sometimes
all you need is one good ride to clear your head.
Thanks to
her ex-boyfriend, Sommer Allen's life is in shambles. She's headed home to
Courtland, Texas for her sister's wedding, but when a quick stop a gas station
ruins her plans, she's left stranded and at the mercy of a handsome cowboy.
Perry
Glidewell is on his way back to Texas after winning another championship in the
arena versus a bull. When he finds Sommer having a meltdown in the middle of a
parking lot, he knows he can't leave her alone. Since her hometown is near his,
it makes sense to hit the road together.
Sommer never
imagined falling for a cowboy. His manners and gallant attitude win her over
quickly, but with her future uncertain, she's not quite willing to give her
whole heart to Perry. He'll do whatever it takes to break the walls around
Sommer's heart, because beneath her tough-talking exterior, he sees she's the
type of Texas girl he's always dreamed of.
EXCERPT:
Perry opened
the door. “What the hell are you doing? Are you trying to steal my truck?”
She
glowered. “Of course not. You snore. I thought I'd be able to sleep out here. I
was asleep, until I turned a little
and set off the alarm. I'm so sorry.” She handed him the keys and knocked
something off the dash.
A lacy bra
landed on his bare feet. His gaze shot straight to her chest. Sommer's t-shirt
was tight around her breasts and her nipples made perky bumps in the material.
Perry
clenched his teeth. Of all the damn things to notice. He bent down and picked
the bra up by the strap. “Think you lost something.”
She snatched
the bra out of his hand. “You try sleeping in one of these.”
“Not really
my style, sweetheart.”
“It's not
like I have a garment bag to store it in. Anyway, you snore really bad. It's
like the cross between a wood chipper and a rabid lion. I can't spend the rest
of the night listening to you.”
“You could
have woke me up instead of alerting the whole world to where we are.” He shook
his head. “You're one strange lady.”
“Am not.”
Her lower lip slid out and she folded her arms under her breasts, pushing them
up higher.
About Allison Merritt:
A
love of reading inspired Allison Merritt to pursue her dream of becoming an author
who writes historical, paranormal and fantasy romances, often combining the
sub-genres. She lives in a small town in
the Ozark Mountains with her husband and dogs. When she's not writing or
reading, she hikes in national parks and
conservation areas.
Allison
graduated from College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri with a B.A. in
mass communications that's gathering dust after it was determined that she's
better at writing fluff than hard news.
Cowboy in
Waiting by Leslie P. Garcia
She’d
buried a hero. She wasn’t looking for another. But her cowboy in waiting was
far from a hero…
Bury enough
dreams, and you’re bound to grow up.
Diana Salas
Chester is a rancher’s daughter and a hero’s widow. There isn’t a lot she can’t
do, from raising her daughter Gwen to facing down the loss of dream after
dream. And then a birthday celebration goes wrong, and Diana winds up in Border
Patrol Agent Ray Bennett’s bed.
Not many of
her acquaintances approve of Ray “Baby” Bennett. But is he just the cowboy
she’s been waiting for? Ray Bennett spent his life running away from the
demands of his cowboy brothers and the ranching life. So when he wakes up in
bed with his Border Patrol partner’s sister, he doesn’t want the complications.
But suddenly the choice isn’t his to make.
EXCERPT:
Across from him, Di straightened in her chair. He looked her over
appreciatively. The halter dress she wore plunged deeply, the icy blue
contrasting with a smooth, even tan that went enticingly lower than he would
have expected. Compassion headed toward desire. Hell, toward lust. Maybe if the
night went suddenly better…
She tilted her head a little, then shook it. “You…what kind of car do you
drive?” she asked abruptly.
“Yellow Corvette.” He waited for the gleam of appreciation.
“Then you’re the idiot in the yellow car!” She closed her fingers around
her drink glass so hard he thought it might break, and gulped half the drink
before slamming it down again.
“I will never forgive Rachel for this—this nightmare! My best friend? How
could she set me up with some stupid, stuck-up, oversexed jerk in a yellow car?
Damn you, Rachel!”
He gaped for a moment, then slowly closed his mouth. “Just one thing,” he
asked. “Who’s Rachel?”
About Leslie Garcia:
Leslie P. García
grew up lost among a crowd of six siblings and a menagerie that included more
than twenty horses and ponies, uncounted dogs and cats, possums, raccoons—even
a lion and monkeys. Then she moved to Texas, fell in love, was disowned—and
embarked on her real adventures, raising 4 children, teaching hundreds, and
loving 9 grandkids through forty years of marriage. The fabric of that colorful
life has always been writing. In A Cowboy
Heart, Leslie celebrates two of her passions—cowboys and the ever present
chance at redemption in spite of past mistakes. Leslie loves hearing from
readers and can be found all over cyber space, including these places:
The
Heartbroken Cowboy by Melissa Keir
Love isn’t found at the bottom of a
bottle…
Johnson
O’Neill joined The Heartsong Ranch to escape his addiction. One night at a
friend’s wedding, stress causes him to fall off the wagon and into the arms of
the woman of his dreams.
Debra
Donahue lost her husband to alcohol then pulled herself up by her bootstraps
becoming a million-dollar selling real estate agent. One night with a sexy
cowboy and a bottle of whiskey, Debra falls hard.
Can an
alcoholic cowboy and a brokenhearted woman find love despite their fears? Or
will the bottom of a bottle claim another happily ever after?
EXCERPT:
“I don’t
drink, but could use a strong one, right now. Not this sissy stuff.” He lifted
the glass to his lips, downed the contents, and shoved his now-empty champagne
flute away before he leaned in toward her. The smell of alcohol on his breath
hinted that he’d already had too much to drink. “Know anyone around here with
some whiskey?” The dark sapphire of his eyes chilled her. This was a man used
to getting what he wanted. “I’d even share.” His voice deepened and became
husky with his offer and she shivered.
“I don’t
drink with men I don’t know.” Debra stuck out her hand. “I’m Debra, and you
are?”
The man
grabbed another glass of champagne off a passing waiter’s tray and guzzled the
drink in one swallow. “The name’s Johnson O’Neill. Now about that whiskey.” He
reached out and drew her up to standing then tugged her in close to him.
Wrapping his arm around her back, he moved her body in a slow two-step motion.
Debra gazed
into his eyes. “You don’t have to seduce me for the whiskey.” She stepped out
of his embrace and put her hands on her hips. She frowned.
“That’s not
why I drew you into my arms. You were tapping your foot when I arrived—and I
thought you might like a dance. A pretty woman like you shouldn’t be sitting
alone.” He stretched his palm out again in a plea.
About Melissa Keir:
Melissa
Keir has always wanted to be an author when she wasn’t hoping for a career as a
race car driver. Her love of books was instilled by her mother and grandparents
who were avid readers. She’d often sneak books away from them so that she could
fantasize about those strong alpha males and plucky heroines. In middle school
and high school, Melissa used to write sappy love poems and shared them with
her friends and still has those poems today! In college her writing changed to
sarcastic musings on life as well as poems with a modern twist on fairy tales
and won awards for her writing. You can find many of these musings along with
her latest releases on her website and blog.
As
a writer, Melissa likes to keep current on topics of interest in the world of
writing. She’s a member of the Romance Writers of America, Mid-Michigan RWA
Chapter, and EPIC. She is always interested in improving her writing through
classes and seminars.
Melissa
doesn’t believe in down time. She’s always keeping busy. Melissa is a wife and
mother, an elementary school teacher, a movie reviewer, an owner of a
publishing company as well as an author. Her home blends two families and is a
lot like the Brady Bunch, without Alice- a large grocery bill, tons of dirty
dishes and a mound of laundry. She loves to write stories that feature happy
endings and is often seen plotting her next story.
Cowboy in Trouble
by Autumn Piper
A
cowboy on the run and a girl on the rebound make for a messy fling.
Colby may be
having the worst day ever. He wakes up at gunpoint, “hired” by a stranger to do
a new job he doesn’t want. Worried the load he’s hauling is contraband, he
walks off the job once he’s out of sight of his new employer. Running may not
be his best plan, but he needs time to find a way out of this mess.
Delta’s day
starts off rough when her pickup stalls on the side of the road. Lucky for her,
a handsome cowboy comes along and works mechanical magic on the poor old truck.
They strike a deal: he’ll help her out around the farm in exchange for a place
to lay low for a few days. He turns out to be handy in all the right ways. A
real keeper…not that she’s interested in keeping a man right now. She can
afford a rebound fling, but nothing more.
Besides,
once Colby gets rid of the crime boss breathing down his neck, he’ll hit the
trail. A rodeo circuit cowboy from Oklahoma wouldn’t want to stick around on a
little farm in Colorado. Or would he?
EXCERPT:
The door
across the hall opened and by the time she turned around, Colby stood there in
nothing but a towel. Hubbahubba, a very small towel, since she kept her nice
big ones downstairs and hadn’t remembered to provide him one.
Um.
Dripping, mostly naked, and looking as surprised as she felt… Wow. Those
shoulders looked even better without a shirt. He had the prettiest eyes. Did
guys like their eyes being called pretty? Whatever. Nice green-gray. And oh,
how she’d appreciate a wardrobe malfunction right about now, just a little
slippage of that towel. Although the healthy bulge beneath might not allow it
to slip far.
“Ahem.”
“Er,” she
answered ever-so-intelligently. “Sorry.”
“Sorry,” he
said at the same time. “Forgot my bag in here.”
Caught leering. Her face must be
flame-red. “Thought I had time to make up the bed for you.”
“I’ll just…”
He indicated his bag on the floor by the window.
“Oh. Sure.”
She stepped aside so he could get to it. Lord,
please grant us a wardrobe malfunction...
He picked up
his bag without the towel slipping, although she had to say it had soaked up
water in some prime spots and clung just right.
As he passed
by her, he paused, and she tore her eyes away. Reluctantly. God. Her mother had
definitely taught her it was rude to stare. The poor guy probably worried she’d
attack him in the night. He was hot enough, it had probably happened before.
“Ditto,” he
said.
“Huh?”
With his
free hand, he rubbed his thumb over her chin. “Whatever you’re thinking, right
back atcha.” Looking up into his eyes was like riding the downhill part of a
rollercoaster. Her heart screamed Weeeee!
About Autumn Piper:
Born
and raised in itty-bitty Rifle, Colorado, Autumn Piper studiously avoided
trouble…but is now inclined toward it, particularly in her novels. She thinks
the best things in life are funny, and the runners-up, romantic.
An
admitted carb addict, Autumn writes, edits, manages two teenagers, two cats, a
box turtle with a huge personality, one husband and many supersize houseplants,
and does the cooking and cleaning when forced to.
A Cowboy’s
Heaven by Sara Walter Ellwood
From the hell of lost love, can they find
heaven together?
Katie Chester is alone in the world. After
losing her husband and then her parents, she’s left to run Heaven, a thousand-acre
ranch encompassing nearly an entire Montana mountain. She rents out a suite of
rooms, but ends up with a boarder who shakes her to her foundation.
When Pennsylvanian ex-Army doctor Collin
Kirkpatrick lost his wife a year ago, he lost his world. He needs to escape the
pain, and where better than in an isolated town in the West? He answers an ad
for resident doctor in Evansville, Montana, but is surprised to find Heaven and
the angel residing there.
But can they leave their grief and pain in
the past to blaze a new path into the future?
EXCERPT:
He smirked
at her as he sat beside her on the hay bale. “You’re laughing at me.”
“Not at all.
You’re actually a pleasant surprise, Dr. Kirkpatrick.”
“I hope in a
good way.” He winked at her and quirked his lips up into a lopsided smile, then
turned his attention fully on the cow and calf, and leaned over his long legs
with his elbow planted on his knees.
The calf
suddenly lurched herself onto her back feet and Collin grinned from ear to ear.
“She’s a beauty.”
Dear God, he
more than surprised her, he overwhelmed her, and yes, it was in a good way. A
very good way.
Katie let
out a breath and violently shivered. He picked up the discarded blanket and
pulled it over her legs. “You’re going to catch your death. Were you out in
this cold all day?”
She nodded
and swallowed. No way could she tell him that the sensation had nothing to do
with the cold, and everything to do with him.
With a deep
breath to steady her racing heart, she watched as the calf latched onto one of
her mother’s teats and started sucking with loud, hungry pulls.
“We can go
inside in a few moments.” Sweet mercy, was that low, husky voice hers?
Collin only
nodded as they watched the miracle of life before him.
About Sara Walter Ellwood:
Although Sara Walter Ellwood has long ago left the farm for the
glamour of the big town, she draws on her experiences growing up on a small
hobby farm in West Central Pennsylvania to write her contemporary westerns.
She’s been married to her college sweetheart for over 20 years, and they have
two teenagers and one very spoiled rescue cat named Penny. She longs to visit
the places she writes about and jokes she’s a cowgirl at heart stuck in
Pennsylvania suburbia. Sara Walter Ellwood is a multi-published author and
publishes paranormal romantic suspense under the pen name Cera duBois.
Cowboy Proud
by D’Ann Lindun
She
left town to chase her dreams... He stayed and ignored his... Can they find
their dreams together?
All Madeline
Harper ever wanted was to escape the tight fences of Black Mountain, Colorado.
Nothing would stop her from pursuing her goals--not a devoted boyfriend or
infant son. Leaving everything behind, she landed her dream job as a Western
Girl jeans model. Her sister’s wedding is the only thing that can entice her
home. What she learns upon her return shakes her to the core…and changes
everything.
For the last
five years Shan Ellis’ life has consisted of taking care of his son and being a
cowhand on his parents’ ranch. He scarified everything to be a single dad.
College. A career. Girls. Now, the one woman he can’t forget is back in town.
Can he take a chance, and risk his heart, or steer clear and never know what
might have been?
EXCERPT:
This is how
Shan had always pictured his life.
Doing what
he loved with his wife and children.
Like him,
Mason lived to be with the horses and cows. Too bad his mother hated the cowboy
lifestyle with a passion. Shan couldn’t forget that for a second. Madeline
Harper had ripped out his guts once before—he’d be damned if he’d let her do it
again. Even if she wore a mile-wide smile and looked as at home on the back of
a horse, herding cows as well as any cowgirl she wasn’t happy here. He couldn’t
make her love the life, their son or him.
His good
mood faded.
Last night,
Callie Donovan had all but mounted him on the dance floor. He liked her well
enough, but turned down her advances because he couldn’t get his mind off the
dark-haired beauty from his past. In the five years since Maddy left town he’d
held onto to the hope she’d return.
He was a
fool.
Nothing had
changed. He wanted a family; she craved fame and fortune.
About D’Ann Lindun:
Falling
in love with romance novels the summer before sixth grade, D’Ann Lindun never
thought about writing one until many years later when she took a how-to class
at her local college. She was hooked! She began writing and never looked back.
Romance appeals to her because there's just something so satisfying about
writing a book guaranteed to have a happy ending. D’Ann’s particular favorites
usually feature cowboys and the women who love them. This is probably because
she draws inspiration from the area where she lives, Western Colorado, her
husband of twenty-nine years and their daughter. Composites of their small
farm, herd of horses, five Australian shepherds, a Queensland heeler, two ducks
and cats of every shape and color often show up in her stories!
D’Ann
loves to hear from readers! Please contact her at:
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