It wouldn’t be Christmas without a heart-warming story from author
Carolyn Brown. I’m happy today to help you get into that holiday spirit with
Carolyn’s LONG, TALL COWBOY CHRISTMAS.
As part of Carolyn’s blog tour, I have an excerpt from her book to share
with you and you can enter to win one of 10 paperback
copies of LONG, TALL COWBOY CHRISTMAS.
Please see the end of the post for more details on that.
◊ LONG,
TALL COWBOY CHRISTMAS
◊ by
Carolyn Brown
◊ Happy,
Texas #2
◊ On
Sale: September 26, 2017
◊ Publisher:
Forever
◊ Mass
Market: $7.99 USD
◊ eBook:
$6.99 USD
"Genuinely
sweet." – Publishers Weekly
A heartwarming holiday read from USA Today bestselling author Carolyn
Brown
Nash Lamont is a man about
as solitary as they come. That's exactly why ranch life in middle-of-nowhere
Happy, Texas suits him. So what the heck is he doing letting a beautiful widow
and her three rambunctious children temporarily move in? Before he knows it,
they're stringing Christmas lights and decorating the tree... and he's having
the time of his life. But after everything he's been through, Nash knows this
kind of happiness doesn't last.
Kasey
Dawson thought she'd never get over the death of her husband. Nash, with his
strong hands and infinite patience, is stirring something she hasn't felt in a
long time. Kasey knows the sexy cowboy isn't telling her everything about this
past, though. And she refuses to risk heartbreak all over again. But her kids
have a plan of their own: Nothing will keep them from having a real family
again-even if it takes a little help from Santa himself.
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TOUGHEST
COWBOY IN TEXAS, #1
LONG, TALL
COWBOY CHRISTMAS, #2
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Now here’s an excerpt from the book for your reading pleasure.
Padding
out of the room in her flannel pajama pants and an oversized faded shirt, Kasey
found Nash washing dishes and no kids in sight.
“Shhh…”
He put a finger over his lips. “They just now dropped off for naps. If they
hear your voice, they’ll wake up.”
She
frowned and pointed toward the dining room. “What is that?”
“Camping
out,” he explained.
A
white sheet had been draped over the dining room table, creating a tent.
Underneath were pillows, books and two sleeping children.
“They’re
camping and I’m watching out for bears and skunks,” he explained. “Hungry?”
“Starving.
I’m always nauseated at the onset of one of the headaches and afterwards so
hungry I could eat one of those bears if you catch it.” She caught a whiff of
Italian food. “You cooked?”
“Of
course,” he said. “Sit down right here and let me work on your neck. Lots of
headaches are stress related and come out of the neck.”
She
eased down into a chair and Nash went to work on her temples first, placing his
hands on her cheeks so that his thumbs worked on the spots between her eyebrows
and hair line. Making lazy circles and increasing the pressure every few
seconds, he kept up the massage for a good five minutes before moving around to
the back of the chair. He took her neck in his hands, heating her hormones to
the boiling point. Rolling it around in his hands, she could feel the tension
leaving her body by degrees. Then he began to massage her shoulders, digging
his fingers into the knots and dissolving them. The pain in her head dissolved to
half strength and her stomach grumbled.
“Now
for food. Sit right there and I will bring it to the table.”
Kasey
couldn’t remember the last time a man had waited on her. “God, this is amazing,” she said after taking
a bite of the spaghetti he put in front of her. “Did you make the sauce from
scratch?”
He
nodded. “Just like my cousin Amanda taught me. She married an Italian, and
she’s an amazing cook. After eating her marinara, that stuff you buy in a jar
at the grocery store is pretty bland.”
“You cook and watch kids, run a ranch—what can
you not do?” Kasey asked.
“I’m
not real good at talkin’ to most people,” he said.
“That’s
not what I see.” She almost groaned when she bit into a slab of garlic bread.
“Oh
yeah? And what do you see?”
“I
see a man who’s got some demons, but you talk to me just fine,” she told him
between bites.
“Well,
you’re special,” he replied softly.
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Thanks for stopping by today. Do you think Christmas and cowboys makes a
good combination?
