THE COWBOY LASSOS A BRIDE
by Cora Seton
BLURB:
Jake Matheson loves everything
about ranching the Double-Bar-K, except for his father’s controlling nature.
It’s bad enough the old man won’t step down and let him run things his own way.
Now Holt has demanded that Jake find a wife—in the next thirty days. Jake knows
just the woman he wants–Hannah Ashton–but they haven’t even gone on a date, let
alone been together long enough for him to propose. He’ll have to work fast to
secure her hand in marriage before his time is up.
Hannah Ashton loves the fifteen hundred pound bison she rescued
from being the object of a trophy hunt. She’s grateful for Gladys’s temporary
home on the Double-Bar-K—and for the chance it gives her to see Jake on a daily
basis. But now his father, Holt, is threatening to kick Gladys off the ranch—or
eat her!—unless Hannah follows some very strange instructions.
Jake is thrilled when Hannah agrees to move into his cabin, but
his family seems dead set on breaking them apart. Meanwhile, Hannah is all set
to head off to veterinary school, but Jake seems to want a traditional wife.
Will a pregnancy scare unite Jake and Hannah in a common goal? Or
will it drive them apart for good?
Excerpt 1
Because that’s
what Jake was doing. Seducing her. Reeling her in until he was the only thing
she could think about. It was working, too.
“Let’s test that
theory, shall we?” Suddenly he was pulling her back through the tables, across
the reception hall and out into a corridor. He traced its length, trying the
handles of the doors they passed to storage rooms, smaller meeting rooms and
the like. Hannah stumbled after him, not caring who saw them or what they
thought. She just wanted to be with Jake. Anywhere he wanted to be.
Finally one
opened. Hardly bigger than a closet, it appeared to be a break room for the
staff. Jake spun her back into his arms, backed her up against a counter and
kissed the daylights out of her.
Hannah only had
a fleeting thought of Cody at home on his rundown couch, in his boxers and a
T-shirt, a six-pack and a bag of chips on the coffee table, television remote
in his hand. Then she could think of nothing else but Jake. The man’s mouth on
hers, devouring her, kissing her until she had to gasp for breath, his hands
smoothing over her waist, almost dipping down, but hesitating, not crossing
that threshold.
Not yet.
Hannah knew this
could go as far as she wanted to take it. Knew too that Jake was too much a
gentleman to push for more than she was willing to give. How much was she
willing to give? She wasn’t sure. Except with each passing moment she felt
closer to wanting to give him everything. The champagne she had drunk lent a
warm glow to the workaday room. Jake’s arms around her, his mouth on hers made
her forget everything else.
She wondered
briefly who this wanton woman was. It couldn’t be her—safe, quiet Hannah who’d
supported herself since she was barely eighteen. She’d never done something so
reckless, so out of character. But she couldn’t stop. She didn’t want to.
As she twined
her arms around Jake’s neck, he lifted her suddenly and placed her on the
counter. Never breaking off the kiss that was searing her straight down to her
soul, he pulled her tight against him and she reflexively wrapped her legs
around his waist, her gown riding up over her thighs.
“Hannah,” he
groaned as he trailed kisses down her neck. “Hannah, you drive me wild.”
e part where another woman sleeps
with my son?”
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Cora Seton loves
cowboys, country life, gardening, bike-riding, and lazing around with a good
book. Mother of four, wife to a computer programmer/eco-farmer, she ditched her
California lifestyle nine years ago and moved to a remote logging town in
northwestern British Columbia.
Like the
characters in her novels, Cora enjoys old-fashioned pursuits and modern
technology, spending mornings transforming a neglected one-acre lot into a
paradise of orchards, berry bushes and market gardens, and afternoons writing
the latest Chance Creek romance novel on her iPad mini. Visit www.coraseton.com
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8 comments:
Thanks for sharing the excerpt.
Thanks for hosting! The next book in the Cowboys of Chance Creek series--The Cowboy Rescues a Bride--is due to release on May 4! And the first book in my follow on Heroes of Chance Creek series--The Navy SEAL's E-Mail Order Bride--is already available as part of the SEALs of Summer Box Set - find it here: http://amzn.to/1t0xe0P
I'd love to know if your readers have ever visited a ranch?
I've been to farms, but never a ranch per se...
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I love The Cowboys email Order Bride and I can't wait to read more of these book.
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I'm not into cowboys, though I love watching them on the screen, so I think I'll pass on this. Thanks for sharing though!
Love my cowboys & loved this series. Plenty of farms around my rural communitybut never been on a ranch
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like cowboys
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Enjoyed the excerpt.
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