Title:
Wild Ride Cowboy
Author:
Maisey Yates
Publisher:
Harlequin
Release
Date: August 29, 2017
Series:
Copper Ridge #9
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
ISBN:
9780373803644
He's
come back to Copper Ridge, Oregon, to keep a promise—even if it
means losing his heart…
Putting
down roots in Copper Ridge was never Alex Donnelly's intention. But
if there's one thing the ex-military man knows, it's that life rarely
unfolds as expected. If it did, his best friend and brother-in-arms
would still be alive. And Alex wouldn't have inherited a ranch or
responsibility for his late comrade's sister—a woman who, despite
her inexperience, can bring tough-as-iron Alex to his knees.
Clara
Campbell didn't ask for a hero to ride in and fix her ranch and her
life. All she wants is the one thing stubborn, honorable Alex is
reluctant to give: a chance to explore their intense chemistry. But
Clara has a few lessons to teach him, too…about trusting his heart
and his instincts, and letting love take him on the wildest adventure
of all.
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Excerpt:
Reluctantly,
she covered the coffee with a white to-go lid then turned to walk out
the door. She didn’t make it very far, though, because she ran
right into a brick wall.
Well,
it wasn’t really a brick wall. It just felt like one. Large, hard
and uncompromising. But breathing. Which brick walls definitely
didn’t do.
“Clara
Campbell. Fancy meeting you here.”
Clara
blinked and stared up into Alex Donnelly’s forest-green eyes and
felt a strange response that seemed to originate in her stomach and
travel upward to her chest, where it twisted, hard and sharp.
After
looking at Asher, his understated physique and much softer brown
gaze, the sight of Alex was jarring. Too intense. Too masculine. Too
a lot of things.
His
dark hair wasn’t military short anymore. It was long enough to hang
into his face. He pushed it back off his forehead and again,
something twisted, low and deep inside of her.
And
then it wasn’t only his features that seemed too sharp. It was
seeing him at all. She had been studiously avoiding him ever since he
had moved back to Copper Ridge. If ever she’d caught a glimpse of
him out of the corner of her eye, she’d gone the other way.
The
last time she’d seen him up close had been at Jason’s funeral.
Pain
washed through her, canceling out all of the good Asher feelings from
only a moment before.
No
wonder she’d had such a strong, immediate response to the sight of
Alex. The man was dragging a bunch of her baggage in with him.
Another thing she liked about Asher. He was separate from her life.
From her pain.
Alex
was all wound up in it.
“Hi,
Alex,” she said, clutching her coffee cup tight, the warmth
bleeding through to her palms. Which she was grateful for at the
moment since her stomach had gone ice-cold at the sight of him.
“I’ve
been meaning to stop by,” he said.
“That’s
really okay,” she said, and she meant it. More than okay. Jason’s
death meant that she was alone. Both of her parents were already
gone. They’d had children later in life, and when her mother had
gotten sick, her father had done everything he could to make his wife
comfortable as her health declined. She’d died when Clara was
twelve. And there had been no amount of preparation that could soften
the blow. No amount of expectedness that could have made it feel less
like a giant, ugly hand had reached into their life and wrenched the
beauty out of it, leaving nothing but a dark abyss.
Copyright
© 2017 Wild Ride Cowboy by Maisey Yates
About
Maisey Yates:
New
York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Maisey Yates lives in
rural Oregon with her three children and her husband, whose chiseled
jaw and arresting features continue to make her swoon. She feels the
epic trek she takes several times a day from her office to her coffee
maker is a true example of her pioneer spirit. In 2009, at the age of
twenty-three Maisey sold her first book.
Since
then it’s been a whirlwind of sexy alpha males and happily ever
afters, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. Maisey divides her
writing time between dark, passionate category romances set just
about everywhere on earth and light sexy contemporary romances set
practically in her back yard.
She
believes that she clearly has the best job in the world.
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