HIS KIND OF COWGIRL
Karen Rock
Releasing March 1st, 2016
Harlequin: Heartwarming
Would he still love her…if he
knew?
Tanner Hayes smashed Claire's life
to pieces when he chose the rodeo over her ten years ago. And now he'd wrecked
her truck! Fantastic. She'd lost her husband, the family ranch was mired in
debt, her father was recuperating from a stroke and her son was being bullied.
Why not throw a reckless bull rider into the mix?
All she'd wanted was a safe, stable
life. But with Tanner back in town—and staying on her ranch—nothing was safe,
or under control. Not the feelings she'd fought so hard to forget. Not the son
she was determined to protect. And certainly not her long-held secret…
Everything
happened at once and in slow motion.
A crushing
jolt shuddered through the truck. Her wheels skidded sideways. She smacked
against the window when her pickup rolled down an embankment, as if punched by
something large and lethal. Glass rained deadly sharp. The earth tumbled around
her, her truck in spin cycle. When a massive tree loomed, the Chevy slammed
into it then stilled.
Winded and
stunned, she hung upside-down in her lap belt, blood, metallic and warm, on her
tongue, a rushing sound whistling in her ears. Her heartbeat changed and grew
slow and rolling in darkness. Something hurt, a long way away. Then nothing.
“Ma’am.
Ma’am. Are you all right?” A man’s voice shouted, rousing her. She tried
turning her head but pain held it in place. When she opened her mouth, silent
panic flew out.
“Hold on.
I’m getting you out of there.”
Acrid smoke
pierced her consciousness. She closed her eyes against the billowing grit.
This wasn’t
happening. It was a dream. No. A nightmare.
A tugging
motion jerked her right and left, followed by a ripping sound. Large hands
halted her sudden fall.
“Got you.”
Her rescuer
cradled her against his chest, his breaths heaving beneath her ear. After
carrying her some distance, he lowered her slowly to the ground. Grass scraped
against her stinging cheeks and she opened her eyes.
“What?” she
croaked, then swiped at the trickle leaking from her mouth. A man wearing a
cowboy hat hunched over her, his features blurred.
“You’ve
been in an accident. We have. Our trucks collided in the intersection.”
“My truck!”
She bolted upright and clutched the swirling ground.
An arm
snaked around her back and eased her down. “I called the dispatcher. The fire
department’s on the way.”
A wail
sounded in the distance and Claire wanted to shriek with it.
Her special
day. Her anniversary. Ruined. No. Demolished by this…this…
She squinted upward and
focused. A dark swirl of hair brushed across the tall man’s forehead; a light
scar zigzagged down his square jaw. Recognition zapped through her.
It couldn’t be…
“Tanner?”
“Hello,
Claire.” His mouth went up, just a fraction—the same ready-for-anything smile
that had once undone her.
She closed
her eyes, heart thudding. Ten years since she’d vowed never to see him
again…and now here he stood, two for two in wrecking her life.
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Karen Rock is an award-winning YA and adult contemporary romance
author. She holds a master's degree in English and was an ELA instructor before
becoming a full-time writer. Currently she writes for Harlequin Blaze and
Harlequin Heartwarming. Her novel, A LEAGUE OF HER OWN, won the 2015 National
Excellence in Romance Fiction award in contemporary romance series and the 2015
Bookseller's Best award for contemporary romance, long.
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