Book Blurb:
Mesa
Arraguso writes about hot cowboys for a living. Being a romance writer has it
perks and its drawbacks. She spends a lot of time alone in front of her
computer, but she gets to fantasize about incredibly hot men wearing cowboy
boots and Stetsons. While visiting San Antonio, Texas for a writer’s
conference, she finds herself stranded on the back roads of Bandera only to be
rescued by one of the most gorgeous men she’s ever encountered, be it fantasy
or for real.
Joel Young is a cowboy. From the top of his Stetson to the tip of his dirty
cowboy boots, he’s cowboy through and through. Along with rescuing women when
they do silly things like running out of gas miles from town on a dirt road, he
spends his days herding cattle, fixing fences and breaking horses.
Can one handsome cowboy and a city-girl from LA find common ground is the Hill
Country long enough to see beyond a quick fling?
Teaser #1
A moment later a tap, tap, tap on her window startled her
out of her thoughts. She jumped and screamed as a face appeared near her door.
Blue eyes with long lashes stared back beneath a black cowboy hat. Black hair
ruffled slightly with the wind.
“Ma’am? Are you all right?”
“I’m fine.”
“You need to get this car out
of the water. You’ll be washed away. It’s rising fast.”
“I can’t. I’m out of gas.”
“Open the door.”
“Hell, no. Do I look crazy to
you?” she asked, her voice shrill with terror.
“Trust me. If I were a serial
killer, I wouldn’t be out in this shit trying to find women to abduct. I’m
going to help you, but you need to get out of the car first before we’re both
swept away.”
Mesa bit her lip. Should she
trust him?
“Ma’am?”
“All right.” She eased open
the door to find the water almost reached the bottom of the car. The cowboy
pulled the door the rest of the way as she grabbed her purse.
“We have to hurry,” he said,
offering her a hand to help her from the car. “Let me help you. This water is
rushing pretty fast.”
A red horse stood patiently
several feet away with its head down, riding out the storm the only way horses
knew how. A cowboy on a real horse out here in the middle of nowhere? Surely, it’s
safe. I mean serial killers don’t ride horses, right?
Teaser #2
They continued chatting about
mundane things as they plodded along. The constant shift of the horse’s rump
made her realize how long it had been since she’d ridden. How far was this place anyway? “Joel?”
“Yeah.”
“How much farther?”
“A mile or so.”
“Hell.”
“Somethin’ wrong?”
“I’m gonna feel every step
this horse took tomorrow.”
A deep laugh started beneath
her fingers and rumbled up his chest until it burst from his lips. “You are too
much, Mesa.”
“I’m glad I could make your
day,” she grumbled, a little put out by his laughter. “I haven’t been on
horseback in ages. My thighs are already screaming mercy.” She felt his body
quiver from laughter again. “How do you ride all day without dying?”
“I’m used to it. I ride all
day everyday so it doesn't bother me.”
“You live on a working
ranch?”
“Yep. Longhorns and city
folk.”
“Huh?”
“We have what most folks call
a dude ranch. We let people come and stay on the ranch. Do ranch work, ride
horses…you know, play at bein’ a cowboy for a while.”
“Really? That sounds like
fun.”
“How long are you in town
for?”
“The conference is over in a
couple of days.”
“So you’re flyin’ or drivin’
home afterward?”
“Flying, yes.”
He got quiet for several
minutes as the horse continued to walk along under his expert guiding hand.
“What kind of books do you write?”
There it was. “Westerns.”
“Oh yeah? Like cowboys and
Indians? Louie L’Amour type stuff?”
She shook her head and almost
unseated herself from the back of the horse. A fistful of his shirt kept her in
place. “No. Like cowboys and the love of their lives. I write erotic modern
westerns.”
Teaser #3
Her reflex was to pull her
hand back, but Joel grabbed it in his before she could. “You’re a beautiful
woman. Other than guests, which are normally families with young kids, we don’t
get a lot like you around here. Prepare to be overwhelmed.”
He kissed her fingers before
he let his grip slacken on her hand so she could pull it free. The zing that
raced up her arm bothered her. Those things only happened in her novels, not in
real life. “Um, okay.”
As they rounded the doorway,
the volume of noise increased tenfold. Several people either sat at the picnic
tables chatting away or they were lined up at the serving area with plates in
hand. One long table she hadn’t noticed before took up an entire wall. When she
did a double take she noticed nine people, eight men and Joel’s mother, who sat
there chatting while they waited for the others to be served. Holy shit! How many freakin’ brothers does
he have again?
“Eight. There are nine of us
boys.”
“Stop reading my mind.”
“Sorry. I can tell by the
look in your eyes what is running through your head. You have very expressive
brown eyes.” Joel tugged her hand and brought her to the spot where there were
two empty seats. “Hey, ya’ll. This is Mesa.” A chorus of hellos echoed through
the room, shushing the rest of the conversations going on around them. Joel
quickly introduced the brothers around the table and that’s when she noticed
two more who looked like…ohmigod. There
are three of him? Yes, you could tell they all were brothers by the similar
features, but…
“We’re triplets,” he
whispered next to her ear with a chuckle.
Ah, hell! One gorgeous hunk to tantalize my senses is enough, but
nine of them? And two who look just like him? I’m so screwed!
About the Author:
Sandy Sullivan is a romance author, who, when not writing, spends her time with her husband Shaun on their farm in middle Tennessee. She loves to ride her horses, play with their dogs and relax on the porch, enjoying the rolling hills of her home south of Nashville. County music is a passion of hers and she loves to listen to it while she writes.
She is an avid reader of romance novels and enjoys reading Nora Roberts, Jude Deveraux and Susan Wiggs. Finding new authors and delving into something different helps feed the need for literature. A registered nurse by education, she loves to help people and spread the enjoyment of romance to those around her with her novels. She loves cowboys so you'll find many of her novels have sexy men in tight jeans and cowboy boots.
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