By Kristy McCaffrey
A Cowboy To Keep is out!!
I'm pleased to be included in this fabulous collection of contemporary western romances, which includes my brand new long novella BLUE SAGE.
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Catch a cowboy … Keep a cowboy …
THE LEGEND OF BAD MOON RISING by Carra Copelin
Dinah Horne is in danger of losing herself. Leaving her
friends and family for Dallas, Texas, she’s determined to make her mark.
Unfortunately, the big city has other ideas. When her money runs out, she
returns to her hometown and the man she can’t forget.
Ben Hammond is sheriff of the small community of McTiernan,
Texas. Once he’s over the woman who stole his heart and shattered it, he
decides to buy the Hard Luck Ranch and settle down. Problem is, odd things are
happening that may be tied to the previous owners. As he begins his
investigation into the past, he is faced with an even bigger problem—the
reappearance of Dinah Horne.
CITY BOY, COUNTRY HEART by Andrea Downing
Rodeo star and rancher Chay Ridgway has left Wyoming to
follow his girlfriend, K.C. Daniels, to New York. Leaving behind all he knows
for a small bite of the Big Apple, Chay discovers the canyons of city streets
may be too claustrophobic for this cowboy, especially when the trauma is
compounded by the fact K.C.’s parents dislike him, their housemate is a
harridan, friends are few, and the only job he can get is rounding up dinner
plates.
As K.C. continues her two years of study for her Master’s degree,
can she also keep a rein on Chay’s heart? Will this cowboy become a city boy,
or will the wide-open spaces of Wyoming call his country heart home?
BLUE SAGE by Kristy McCaffrey
Braden Delaney has taken over the family cattle business
after the death of his father, but faced with difficult financial decisions he
contemplates selling a portion of the massive Delaney ranch holdings known as
Whisper Rock, a place of unusual occurrences. The sudden appearance of a pretty
relic-hunter while he’s collecting his livestock, however, is about to change
his mind.
Archaeologist Audrey Driggs arrives in the remote wilderness
of Northern Arizona searching for clues to a life-altering experience from her
childhood. When she rolls off a mountain and lands at the feet of rugged cowboy
Braden Delaney, it’s clear she needs his knowledge of the area to complete her
quest. But if she tells him the truth, will he think she’s crazy?
Together, they’ll uncover a long-lost secret.
THE DRIFTER’S KISS by Devon McKay
Addison Reed doesn’t want to believe her foreman and family
friend is responsible for her missing stock, but the man isn’t making it easy.
Hoping to prove he’s innocent, she follows him into a seedy bar and finds
herself in a bigger mess…kissing a complete stranger.
Drifter Sawyer Dawson never settled anywhere for long. In
fact, landing a job on a ranch as the new foreman fell into his lap, and he
figured Montana was as good a place as any to settle down for a while. Of
course, sticking around might have something to do with a sexy blonde with an
affinity for kissing cowboys.
HER MAN by Hildie McQueen
When someone is murdered, it's definitely not a normal week
in the usually quiet town of Lovely, Montana.
With the sheriff gone, deputy Mark Hunter had planned for another
slow week at work, but when the first murder in twenty years happens, his past
as a city detective comes to life. It’s no time to fall in love.
The last twenty-four hours have been hell. Between a fight
with her ex that left her with a bruised face and now finding a dead man, Eliza
Brock can barely keep it together. But despite the mess, she still manages to
feel an undeniable attraction to the handsome deputy, and damn if she can’t
resist him when he knocks on her door.
BORDER ROMANCE by Hebby Roman
Leticia Villarreal is lonely. Widowed for eight years, she
keeps busy with her ranch and charity work, but they don’t fill the empty place
in her heart. When she considers establishing a Quarter horse racing stable,
her new endeavor reunites her with an old acquaintance and exposes her horses
to danger.
John Clay Laidlaw, a handsome, self-assured, millionaire
rancher, has been attracted to Leticia since high school. When he was young and
first divorced, he tried to get Leticia to date him, but she didn’t like his
arrogant and high-handed ways. Separated from his second wife, John Clay offers
to help Leticia with her new racing horse. Remembering how he acted when they
were young, she doesn’t trust him. But when someone tries to harm her horses
and John Clay rushes to her rescue, can she open her heart to him?
PHOENIX HEAT by Patti Sherry-Crews
Harper Donovan thought she had it all when she turned her
dream into a reality—opening a restaurant in New York City. But when the
venture fails and her fiancé leaves her, Harper has little choice but to return
to her family in Arizona.
When she meets handsome firefighter and cowboy Frank Flynn,
she decides it’s time to get in the dating game again. Except Flynn shows no
interest and dodges her, but not before claiming they’ve met before. Solving
the mystery of the complicated Flynn gets under Harper’s skin, making her even
more determined to seduce him.
When the two finally come together, the smoldering passion
ignites into a heat that rivals the Phoenix desert. Now that Flynn has opened
his heart, can Harper handle this wounded cowboy who’s playing for keeps?
READ AN EXCERPT FROM Blue Sage
Northern Arizona
September
The damned calf was stuck in the brambles again.
Braden Delaney swung down from his horse, his spurs
jangling, and approached the mewling youngster. The calf thrashed in a mess of
bushes beneath a stately juniper tree with shredded, red-colored bark. It
reminded Braden of pulled-pork barbecue. It was on the menu tonight if Lewis,
wrangler and cook during roundups, had been telling the truth this morning
before the five of them had headed out.
It was late in the day and Braden’s stomach rumbled in
response.
He’d take care of this problem and then head back to base
camp—two airstream trailers and a horse trailer with a built-in bunk for
Braden.
Braden knocked the brim of his Stetson up a notch and went
to work prying the animal from the tangled jumble of branches. His gloved hands
made fast work of the situation, and before long he’d set the calf on all
fours. The animal took off at a lope, headed toward a band of larger cows, one
of whom was likely his mama.
“You’re welcome,” Braden uttered under his breath.
It was the third rescue he’d performed on the calf in the
past two days. The contrary little beast had a knack for wandering and getting
into untenable predicaments. He should just usher it to the makeshift corral a
few miles to the southeast, but Braden wasn’t quite ready to bring in this
cluster of cattle, and he didn’t want to separate the calf from its mother.
Billy Lasco, his range foreman, would be up in a few days
with two large semi-trucks to collect the cattle they’d gathered and transport
them to the Delaney Ranch fifty miles to the south. Braden would guide the
wayward calf and his mama into camp then. His current plan was to simply flush
the cows and steers hiding out in the rocky hillside into the open plain below.
As he returned to his horse, a scream and a crash spun him
around.
Had a steer just rolled down the slope? Braden circled,
searching for an injured critter.
But it was no animal.
A woman lay on her back, grimacing.
Braden moved quickly to her side. “Are you all right, miss?”
She pushed to sit, leaves and sticks in her brown hair,
askew in a haphazard ponytail. She wore trail pants, hiking boots and an ivory
t-shirt. His eyes jerked back to the shirt, not sure he’d read correctly the
word printed on it. Yep, he had. BOOBIES covered the spot where those very
things resided, round and nicely shaped. Then he saw the image above the
word—two birds with blue feet. Blue-footed boobies. Despite the dire situation,
a smile tugged at his mouth.
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