Shayla stood cheering next to Kevin in a small crowd gathered away from the rest of the good citizens of Harland County. This announcement was just for the McCalls, Masters and Daltons. She was happy for her boss and his cousin, her soon-to-be- cousin-in-law. Her gaze fell to the diamond on her finger, heart light and happy at the prospect of marrying the man she loved in late October.
He grabbed her hand and brought it to his mouth, brushing his lips over the ring he’d placed there two weeks ago. On the one year anniversary of his polling. He was such a romantic.
“Happy?” he asked, gaze warm and affectionate.
“You know I am, cowboy,” she replied, lightly tracing his jaw with her thumb.
“Well, Kade? Come on, man. Tell us. When are you getting your ball and chain?” Connor asked, receiving a well-placed elbow to his ribs by his wife.
These were good people and she was happy to call all of them her friends. And happy to have her sister around. Caitlin had moved back in with her for the summer after Greg received a duty station overseas and felt it best if they parted as friends rather than try to make a go of a long distance relationship. Her sister stepped closer, flute of champagne in hand. Her third of the evening. Yeah, not taking the parting too well.
“We’re getting married September twenty-seventh,” Kade replied, glancing at the cheering crowd gathered around the smiling couple. “This is the tricky part, and I’m hoping Cole and Kevin can help me out.”
“Sorry, cuz, I’m spoken for. You’re going to have to handle your husbandly duties all on your own,” Kevin said, lopsided grin dimpling his cheeks. “No offense, Brandi.”
The couple laughed, and Shayla playfully elbowed his ribs.
“Behave.”
He bent toward her ear. “Since when do you like when I behave?”
Her good parts tingled, confirming they loved his misbehavior.
“Thanks, Kev. Not what I need help with though,” Kade said, his gaze turning serious. “We’re getting married up in Pennsylvania. At the resort in the Poconos Brandi’s brothers run. We’d like you all to come, so we were hoping the president and vice president of McCall Enterprises would offer up the jet.”
“Of course,” Cole said immediately, shaking Kade’s hand. “It’s at your service.”
“Hopefully, I’ll have a deputy by then so I can take a few days off,” Jordan said, hugging Brandi and Kade.
“And hopefully I’m not too big by then,” Kerri said, placing a hand over her stomach as she glanced up at her husband. Connor’s eyes about fell out of his head, and a second later, the loudest whoop echoed in the room as the big cowboy lifted Kerri off the floor and spun her around.
When the congratulations subsided, and Mrs. McCall and Mrs. Masters wiped away happy tears, Shayla squeezed Kevin’s hand and smiled up at him. “Hopefully, I’m not too big, either.”
It took him a full three seconds to realize she’d just told him what Doc Turner confirmed with a phone call a half-hour ago. Kevin touched her belly, then glanced at her.
“Yeah?”
She smiled and nodded. “Yeah.”
Unabashed joy and affection crossed his face, lighting his eyes with a brilliant light like she’d never seen as he flashed a dazzling smile. “God, I love you, Shayla Ryan. Just when I think you can’t make me any happier, you done go and blow my mind-palace to smithereens.”
As another round of cheers filled the Texas-pub, her fiancé cupped her face and kissed her soft and tender. The cowboy was so giving and so sweet, she was blessed to be creating a child with him and looked forward to filling their forever home.
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The fun began in Cole’s story Her Fated Cowboy,
and continues in Connor’s story, Her Unbridled Cowboy, Kade’s story, Her Uniform Cowboy, Kevin’s, Her Forever Cowboy, Brock and Jen’s story in the prequel, Harland County Christmas, then back to the present with Jace’s, Her Healing Cowboy, Tanner’s, Her Volunteer Cowboy, Jesse’s, Her Indulgent Cowboy, Logan in, Her Hell Yeah Cowboy, and coming in February, look for Lincoln in another Harland County/Sable Hunter Hell Yeah! Kindle World crossover, Her Hell No Cowboy! Keep an eye on the
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Lisa was always the reliable, dependable rock to her family and friends, but it was time to put herself first and go after what she wanted. Starting with a certain green-eyed guardsman the family dinner has dealt with for years. The son of her mother’s best friend. The gorgeous man who had a thing for her sister in high school.
It was time to supply the Bn. S4 with another option.
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Wyne and Dine
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Sparks aren’t the only things to fly whenever a certain dark-haired cowboy is near Lacey and her smart mouth. Which is often, since her brother asked his guard buddy to watch over her while he is away. Too bad she wants more than the cowboy’s delicious, dark gaze on her.
Can the two find another way to show how they feel, or will words get in the way?
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Her Indulgent Cowboy
Harland County Series: Book Seven/Jesse
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Book One: Her Fated Cowboy
Book Two: Her Unbridled Cowboy
Book Three: Her Uniform Cowboy
Book Four: Her Forever Cowboy
Book Five: Her Healing Cowboy
Book Six: Her Volunteer Cowboy
Book Seven: Her Indulgent Cowboy
Book Eight: Her Hell Yeah Cowboy (KW)
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Book Ten: Her Hell No Cowboy (KW) (rel. 2/17)
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Dangerous Curves Series
In order to keep close to an alpha cowboy her boss wants protected, Knight agent Tara Lynch draws on her acting skills to play a scared schoolteacher who witnessed the murder of a hitman, and on her restraint to resist falling for the sexy cowboy.
Former SEAL Callahan ‘Rook’ Lawe agrees to help his old commander, but with his hands already full investigating accidents on his training ranch that put his brother in the hospital, his attraction to the beautiful woman is a distraction he doesn’t need.
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Dangerous Curves Series
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Book #5: A SEAL for Paige –(tba)
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Citizen Soldier Series
Guarding the hearts of the Pocono Valley
A Harland County Spinoff
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Book One: Wyne and Dine
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Book Three: Wyne and Song
Book Four: Wine and Her New Year Cowboy
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Finn Brennan was used to his brother playing practical jokes, but this time he’d gone too far--sending him a woman as a ranch hand, and not just a woman, but a Marine.
When Lt. Camilla Walker's CO asks her to help out at his family's dude ranch until he returns from deployment, she never expected to be thrust into a mistaken engagement to his sexy, cowboy twin--a former Navy SEAL who hates the Corps.
The Corps took Finn’s father, his girlfriend and threatened his naval career. He’s worked hard for another shot at getting back to active duty and won’t let his brother’s prank interfere. The last thing he needs is the temptation of a headstrong, unyielding, hot Marine getting in the way.
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COWBOY PAYBACK
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The Wild Rose Press
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Former Marine Captain Brett Brennan loves a good practical joke—when he’s the prankster not the prankee. Unfortunately, his twin brother has learned a lesson or two from the master and springs Operation Payback on him, thrusting Brett into a fake engagement to his former corporal, Trisha Jennings, in front of her matchmaking, District Attorney father.
Relationships are so not his thing, but realizing Trisha is struggling to come to terms with a horrific incident from their recent deployment, Brett takes matters into his own hands, using their fake relationship to keep her on his family’s resort ranch, the perfect place for her to find peace and heal. After all, he would never let one of his own men down.
Except, Trisha is no longer a corporal under his command. Out of uniform, she is all woman, and his unexpected attraction to her soon has him forgetting their prank relationship is only for show. Who knew payback could be so sweet?
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Former Army Ranger Capt. Jack ‘Dodger’ Anderson would rather run naked through a minefield in the Afghan desert than participate in a reality television show, but when his brother Matthew begins to receive threats, Jack quickly becomes Matthew’s shadow. As if the investigation isn’t baffling enough, he has to contend with the addition of a beautiful and vaguely familiar new contestant.
Security specialist, Brielle Chapman reluctantly agrees to help her uncle by going undercover as a contestant on the Meet Your Mate reality show. Having nearly failed on a similar assignment, she wants to prove she still has a future in this business. But when the brother of the groom turns out to be Dodger, the only one-nighter she ever had—while in disguise from a prior undercover case—her job becomes harder. Does he recognize her? And how can she investigate with their sizzling attraction fogging her brain? Determined to finish the job, she brings the case to a surprising climax, uncovers the culprit and meets her own mate.
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