The Cowboy’s E-Mail Order Bride
by Cora
Seton
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BLURB:
Ethan
Cruz should be mending fences on his Montana ranch, but instead he’s driving to
the Chance Creek, Montana, airport – to pick up the bride he didn’t know he
had. This latest salvo in his ongoing practical joke battle with his best
friend, Rob Matheson, has gone too far, and Ethan plans to send his “bride”
right back home, then get busy plotting his revenge. One look at Autumn Leeds
changes his mind, however. Perhaps he needs a bride, after all. A
breathtakingly beautiful city bride.
Autumn
Leeds needs a story – fast – or she’s going to lose her lucrative contract with
CityPretty Magazine, so when she sees the crazy video plea for a modern
mail-order bride for a cowboy, it sounds like the story of the century. Making
a video of her own, she casts herself as the perfect mail-order bride for a
rancher, but when she finally reaches Montana, she’s surprised to find Ethan’s
the perfect cowboy husband-to-be. Against her better judgment, her plan to keep
her handsome groom at arm’s length disintegrates into a night of passion spent
in his arms.
Ethan
knows he can’t keep playing this game – he has to come clean with Autumn and
tell her the truth; about the practical joke and about the state of his ranch.
He’s about to lose it all because of the debts his mother racked up before his
parents’ deaths. Now his sister, Claire, wants to sell the ranch and collect
what little money they can. He’ll be out of a home and a job, and in no shape
to support the bride he desperately wants to marry, after all.
Autumn’s
in bigger trouble than ever. Not only has she fallen in love with the subject
of her expose – she might be carrying his child. If she doesn’t write this
article and secure her job for another year, she’ll lose everything – her
career, her apartment, and more importantly, her family’s approval. The only
alternative is to stay and marry Ethan. But how can she trust a man she’s just
met when she knows too well that men always let you down?
Can
a love based on lies last?
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EXCERPT:
She glanced up at Ethan to find him glancing down, and the
warm feeling curved around her insides again. Surely New York men couldn’t be
shorter than this crew, or any less manly, but she couldn’t remember the last
time she’d been around so much blatant testosterone. She must be ovulating. Why
else would she react like this to a perfect stranger?
Ethan touched her arm. “This way.” She followed him down the
hall, the others falling into place behind them like a cowboy entourage. She
stifled a sudden laugh at the absurdity of it all, slipped her hand into her
purse and grabbed her digital camera, capturing the scene with a few clicks.
Had this man – this…cowboy – sat down and planned out the video he’d made? She
tried to picture Ethan bending over a desk and carefully writing out “Sweet.
Good cook. Ready for children.”
She blew out a breath and wondered if she was the only one
stifling in this sudden heat. Ready for children? Hardly. Still…if she was
going to make babies with anyone…
Shaking her head to dispel that dangerous image, she found
herself at the airport’s single baggage carousel. It was just shuddering to
life and within moments she pointed out first one, then another sleek, black
suitcase. Ethan took them both, began to move toward the door and then faltered
to a stop. He avoided her gaze, focusing on something far beyond her shoulder.
“It’s just…I wasn’t….”
Oh God, Autumn thought, a sudden chill racing down her
spine. Her stomach lurched and she raised a hand as if to ward off his words.
She hadn’t even considered this.
He’d taken one look and decided to send her back.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Cora Seton
loves cowboys, country life, gardening, bike-riding, and lazing around with a
good book. Mother of four, wife to a computer programmer/eco-farmer, she
ditched her California lifestyle eight years ago and moved to a remote logging
town in northwestern British Columbia.
Like the
characters in her novels, Cora enjoys old-fashioned pursuits and modern
technology, spending mornings transforming a neglected one-acre lot into a
paradise of orchards, berry bushes, and market gardens, and afternoons writing
the latest Chance Creek romance novel on her iPad mini. Visit www.coraseton.com
to read about new releases, locate your favorite characters on the Chance Creek
map, and learn about contests and other cool events!
Website:
www.coraseton.com
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@coraseton
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thank you for hosting
ReplyDeleteI love that cover!
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing sexier than a cowboy! I don't blame the girl for falling for him! I love a good mixup story!
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Thanks for hosting my blog tour today, Julie! I'll stop by again later if anyone has any questions about the book or the series.:)
ReplyDeleteWhat a terrific title with the email in it.
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I love the modern update to a "e-mail" bride. Perfect
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This series sounds right up my alley, Cora. I am now retired from the usual legal secretarial work I did for quite a lot of years...and am now, like you, enjoying old-fashioned pursuits (cooking, crocheting, gardening, walking, playing with my Yorkie)and modern technology (my desktop, e-mail, tablet, computer gaming with my friends). What a fun life! jdh2690 at gmail dot com
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