Bar
V5 Dude Ranch Series
by
Melissa McClone
Blurbs;
Mistletoe
Magic
Spending
a quiet Christmas housesitting and reading novels about hot cowboys
sounds perfect to Caitlin Butler. Until a stray kitten brings her
face-to-face with Noah, her crush from college. Watching the handsome
vet in action melts Caitlin's heart and brings back long forgotten
emotion. She would be safer back at the house lost in the pages of a
book. But a toe-curling mistletoe kiss tempts her to stay. Maybe she
won't be spending this Christmas... alone.
Veterinarian
Noah Sullivan isn't a Scrooge, but the Christmas Eve tradition of
hanging mistletoe in the clinic's waiting room annoys him. Kissing
doesn't belong at the Copper Mountain Animal Hospital. Noah rethinks
his position when Caitlin arrives with a stray kitten she found
freezing in the snow. All he wants now is to maneuver the pretty
preschool teacher under the mistletoe. If he's not careful, he'll
wind up on Santa's naughty list.
Kiss
Me, Cowboy
She
didn’t mean to kiss him…
When
dude ranch wrangler Charlotte – aka Charlie – Randall kisses Zack
Harris in an act of empathy, she falls hat over spurs for the
handsome military veteran turned cowboy. Zack has too many demons,
however, and refuses to get involved. A year later, he's still
stonewalling, and Charlie needs to move on with her life so she can
find a fulfilling relationship, not frustrating unrequited love.
Putting distance between them seems the best way to get Zack out of
her head and heart...but that means quitting the job she loves and
accepting a position in Colorado.
He
didn’t mean to kiss her back…
Growing
up, Zack longed for a real family, and had one with his squad while
deployed in Afghanistan. Now, he's back in the States and doesn't
want anything messing up his new ranch family, no matter how much
he's attracted to the sexy, hard-working Charlie. She could break his
heart and ruin the comfortable working relationship they and the
other wranglers enjoy. Besides, her friends claim she's looking for
the perfect guy, and perfect he's not.
A
kiss is just a kiss…or is it?
When
Zack learns Charlie's thinking about leaving the ranch, he decides to
find her a boyfriend — someone so good, so perfect, she has a
reason to stay in Montana. Until he realizes too late that the only
cowboy he wants her kissing is him. Can he commit to love and
convince Charlie not to leave? Or has she made up her mind to put the
past, and the kiss that started it all, behind her and move on
without him?
Mistletoe
Wedding
Longer:
Event planner at the Bar V5 Dude Ranch, Meg Redstone is dreaming of a
white Christmas with twinkling lights, sparkly decorations and
strategically placed mistletoe. She loves making dreams come true for
others, whether planning a holiday wedding or giving her young
daughter the best Christmas ever.
Ranch
foreman Tyler Murphy loves the holidays, but his newest employee has
taken over his barn with her over-the-top decorations. He admires
Meg’s desire to give her daughter the perfect Christmas while
planning a winter wonderland wedding, but he wants to show her that a
Montana Christmas is more than glitter and lights.
After
raising his younger sister, an instant family is not on Ty's
Christmas wish list. But he finds himself falling hard for the single
mom and her little girl. Meg, however, is not interested in a romance
with a cowboy like Ty, or any man. Getting her under the mistletoe is
going to take a Christmas miracle . . . or a little help from Santa.
Excerpt;
MISTLETOE
WEDDING
Her gaze
kept straying back to the man walking next to her.
And she
knew with pulse-pounding certainty.
All the
rationalizations of why romantic feelings didn’t matter and why she
was better off alone than in a relationship disappeared like a
snowflake being caught on a tongue. They mattered, and she wanted
those things badly.
With Ty.
She
hadn’t meant to fall for him, but she had. Hard.
A shiver
raced down her spine. The realization was unexpected, scary.
He shot
her a sideways glance, which she knew because she couldn’t drag her
attention off him. “You, okay?”
“Just
thinking.” Of course, he would sense something was up. That was
part of his appeal. He got her. The way he understood her daughter,
too. If there was one man out there who was what she needed and
Brooklyn needed, that was Ty Murphy.
Feelings
and desires long buried rose to the surface. She was ready to stop
saying she didn’t want more, want him.
“Know
what you want?” he asked.
Meg
swallowed around the lump in her throat. “Excuse me.”
“What
chocolates you’re going to get?”
She
sighed with relief. She thought he’d read her mind. “Salted
caramels for the guys. I’ll have to see what Sage has in the
display case before I decide what I want.”
Besides
him.
“You
can have more than one,” Ty said.
“I
might want only one.”
“It’s
Christmas. Don’t be so cautious. Live it up.”
If only
she knew where he stood . . . Dare she ask?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
With a
degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, Melissa
McClone worked for a major airline where she traveled the globe and
met her husband. But analyzing jet engine performance couldn’t
compete with her love of writing happily ever afters. Her first
full-time writing endeavor was her first sale when she was pregnant
with her first child! Since then, she has published over thirty
romance novels with Harlequin and Tule Publishing Group. She’s also
been nominated for Romance Writers of America’s RITA® award. When
she isn’t writing, you can usually find her driving her minivan
to/from her children’s swim practices and other activities. She
also sends care packages to deployed service members and fosters cats
through a local no-kill animal shelter. Melissa lives in the Pacific
Northwest with her husband, three school-aged children, two spoiled
Norwegian Elkhounds and cats who think they rule the house. They do!
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Website:
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ReplyDeleteI like the bios on each story.
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