A sprained ankle at her going-away party postponed Carly Winter's departure from Elk Creek indefinitely. Suddenly she was looking at a very full house when new town doctor Bax McDermot and his daughter moved into her home…as scheduled…then moved into her life…something totally unexpected. Bax looked more cowboy than caregiver, but his rock-solid build belied the gentleness of his touch. His tender, loving caresses helped to heal Carly's wounded foot—and her wounded heart. But Carly had given up on men, convinced she'd find true happiness when she explored the world outside Wyoming. Only everything she could ever want was living under her very own roof…
Hope Bennett is determined to save her brother's life. And if that means paying notorious gunslinger Drake Frazier to take his place in a fight, she'll barter her last gold nugget. But Hope soon discovers she'll have to give the handsome rattlesnake more than riches if she wants his help. His improper demands infuriate her; even as she luxuriates in the tantalizing heat of his embrace. But she refuses to yield to her desires. She'll accept his terms, then find a way to escape him... somehow... REVIEWS: "The kind of characters you want to keep reading about!" ~D. Watson, Reader from Temecula, CA OTHER TITLES by Rebecca Sinclair Montana Wildfire (A Historical Western Romance) Perfect Strangers (A Historical Romance)
This collection of essays examines modern country music in America, from its roots to today's music. Contributors look at aspects of the music as diverse as the creation of country culture in the honky tonk; the development of the Nashville music industry; and why country music singers are similar to the English romantic poets. Historians, sociologists, musicologists, folklorists, anthropologists, ethnographers, communication specialists, and journalists are all represented.
"Cowboy's caress: A sprained ankle postpones Carly Winters's departure from Elk Creek indefinitely. And suddenly she's facing a very full house when the new town doctor, Bax McDermot, and his daughter move into her home...as scheduled. Bax looks more cowboy than caregiver, yet his rock-solid build belies the gentleness of his touch as his tender caresses help heal Carly's wounded foot--and her wounded heart"--Page 4 of cover.
Erin at 2 Hearts Rescue helped her friend Avery "hook up" with Tanner to have him haul her new horse back from the mustang adoption event. She's not in the market for a relationship, especially not with a cowboy, but when he comes back to check on the horse, she starts to change her mind. Tanner didn't mind helping out a friend of a friend, but as soon as he meets Avery, he suddenly wants more than friendship. That she adopted a spitfire mustang colt she's going to need help with didn't hurt, and when he is in the right place at the right time to save them both, he truly does come to her rescue. But once the danger's past, will she still want a cowboy in her life?
Raquel was never sure why she surrendered to a total stranger. Naive impulse, primal instinct or feminine intuition? By morning she was no longer a truck stop waitress but a woman on the way to an isolated Wyoming ranch with Holt Tyler -- and he wanted to know all the secrets she'd guarded so carefully these past months. Was he kidnapping her for his own selfish reasons or trying to rescue her from a deplorable situation? Did he really want to protect her or just take advantage of her? Had she fled a wealthy, powerful father only to fall into the arms of a passionate, possessive stranger? Time would tell how much of her heart had been captured by a cowboy. This is a very sensual romance set on an isolated Wyoming ranch. Western, sexy romance, sensual, cowboy, contemporary romance
A romantic, funny contemporary cowboy romance full of rodeo champions, rambunctious kids, and southern-fried second chances. If you thought the only cowboys were in Texas, welcome to Joanne Kennedy's Wynott, Wyoming, and the Cowboys of Decker Ranch. Desperate to find an outlet for the passion he used to put into competing, bull rider Ridge Cooper takes on the challenge of teaching his roping skills to five troubled ten-year-olds in a last-chance home for foster kids, and finds it's their feisty supervisor who takes the most energy to wrangle. When social worker Sierra Dunn seeks an activity for the rebellious kids at Phoenix House, she soon learns she's not in Denver anymore. Sierra is eager to get back home to her inner-city work, and the plan doesn't include forming an attachment in Wyoming—especially not to a ruggedly handsome and surprisingly gentle local rodeo hero. But as she watches Ridge give his heart to kids who need forever homes, she realizes she's finally found her forever cowboy.
What are the connections between cattle branding and Christian salvation, between livestock castration and square dancing, between rustling and the making of spurs and horsehair bridles in prison, between children's coloring books and cowboy poetry as it is practiced today? The Cowboy usesliterary, historical, folkloric, and pop cultural sources to document ways in which cowboys address religion, gender, economics, and literature. Arguing that cowboys are defined by the work they do, Allmendinger sets out in each chapter to investigate one form of labor (such as branding, castration,or rustling) that cowboys perform in their "work culture." He then looks at early oral poems that cowboys recited around campfires, on trail drives, at roundups, and at home in their bunkhouses, and at later poems, histories and autobiographies written by cowboys--most of which have never beforebeen studied by scholars. He discovers that these texts not only deal with work but with larger concerns, including art, morality, spirituality, and male sexuality. In addition to spotlighting little-known texts, art, and archival sources, The Cowboy examines the works of Twain, Steinbeck, Cather,Norris, Dana, McMurtry, and others, and features more than 60 historic photographs, many of which have not been published until now.
The essays in Sound Judgment span the full career of Richard Leppert, from his earliest to work that appears here for the first time, on subjects drawn from early modernity to the present concerning music both popular and classical, European and North American. Noted for his path-breaking interdisciplinary scholarship on music and visual culture, the collection includes key essays on music's visualization in art practices in virtually all visual media, including film. The fourteen essays comprising this volume demonstrate Leppert's many contributions to critical musicology, particularly in the areas of aesthetics as well as social and intellectual history, all of it grounded in a heterodox body of critical and cultural theory, with the work of Theodor W. Adorno particularly noteworthy. The collection is preceded by an introduction in which Leppert traces his intellectual development, defined in large part by the social, cultural, and political upheavals of the 1960s and their aftermath both in the academy and in society at large.
In this complete three-book series, follow Reese, Jade, and Cassie as they are stripped from their busy lives and forced into hiding on Emerson Ranch. Each finds a hunky cowboy ready to protect her, and a list of challenges she never saw coming. But could love be brewing along the way?A "passionately clean romance series with a dash of danger!" Sweet Montana Bride Series, featuringwitness protection ~ rancher style includes Reese's Cowboy Kiss, Jade's Cowboy Crush, and Cassie's Cowboy Crave."This series is one of the best I've ever read. ...Passion and romance without explicit sensuality." Rocky Palmer RVP the Man Editing"The novels in this series remind me of RaeAnne Thayne's books with a splash of danger and suspense." Jamie Brook Thompson"Kimberly's books remind me a lot the books written by one of my favorite authors Marcia Lynn McClure. There is a lot of passionate kissing and a few mild swear words but otherwise they are clean." Kathy Habel, TOP 100 REVIEWER on AmazonReese's Cowboy Kiss:Texan pageant winner, Reese Taylor, has a former classmatewho wants her dead. Now she must leave her friends and familyto enter a protection program on Emerson Ranch. A group ofgood-looking cowboys awaits her, but Reese has her eye onBlake Emerson, the one man too busy with the ranch togive her a chance.Blake Emerson has no time to go lookin' for love. He's gota ranch to run, positions to fill, and an ache in his heartfrom love gone wrong. So when he agrees to harbor a witnessto help on the ranch, Blake assumes his first two problems aresolved. But he never dreamed his new guest would be awoman. One he was destined to lose his heart to.With sparks burning hot and danger around the bend, onequestion lingers in his mind: Has he only added to his listof troubles, or has Blake just found the woman of his dreams?Jade's Cowboy Crush:Single mother, Jade Miller, has just witnessed a murder. Now, set to testify against the cold-blooded killer, Jade must be placed under protection. While she is grateful to the kind folks who've offered to take in her and her son, Jade is surprised to find the man escorting them from L.A. to Montana is Gavin Emerson. A womanizing, far-too-attractive-for-his-own-good, rebel cowboy. Jade assures Gavin that she has sworn off men until her son is grown, but all too soon she finds herself fighting back feelings for the man who's agreed to care for them.Gavin wants nothing to do with ranch life. Not since the ugly fallout he had with his father over eight years ago. But when he agrees to come back, harboring Jade and her son for a time, Gavin falls in love with life on the land once again. Above that, he finds his heart has been captured by his lovely house guest, Jade Miller.After reservations on both parts, the two are finally ready to open up and give their new-found love a try. Only they aren't in the clear just yet, and as a dark and deadly threat falls upon them, Gavin finds that his bad-boy past may have led the danger right to their door.Cassie's Cowboy Crave:Twenty-four-year-old Cassie Lovell has a great job, good friends, and an apartment with a killer view. That is, until life is turned upside down. Without the chance to say goodbye, Cassie is forced into a witness protection program on Emerson Ranch. Just when she fears life is doomed, Cassie meets Shane Emerson, the stunningly handsome cowboy who'll be posing as her newlywed groom.Shane Emerson is determined not to fall for the woman he's agreed to harbor. Especially since the whole thing was his family's way of trying to get him hitched. So why is it when he takes Cassie into his home, Shane wants nothing more than to turn their make-believe marriage into more than just a sham?In a moment of weakness, Shane steals a kiss.In return, Cassie steals his heart.Yet before they confess their undying love,a hidden danger threatens to tear them apart.
