The Lawman’s Lover
Crawley Creek 7
A divorcee whose broken dreams are buried so deep she can’t remember where she put them.
A Deputy Sheriff with a mountain of responsibilities weighing him down.
A fling. No strings attached. No plans for the future.
Until someone’s heart gets broken.
Find out how Deputy Colby Bricker and waitress Elizabeth Newcomer take their shared past and build a new future, in this sister story to the Crawley Creek Ranch Series.
Excerpt
Colby’s head lifted and he smiled widely, showing perfectly straight white teeth and the deep dimple high on his left cheek. “Morning, Bethie.”
“It’s Elizabeth—” she corrected, setting the coffee in front of him with a sharp huff.
“You’ll always be Bethie to me. You don’t grow up with someone being called one thing and then change it overnight. Besides, you don’t look like an Elizabeth,” he observed, lifting one large arm onto the back of the booth seat so he was turned to face her.
Her eyebrows rose. “Oh? What exactly does an Elizabeth look like?”
“Polished, cold, and untouchable.” The way he spoke the last word sent a tingle down her back that centered right between her legs and she could feel her cheeks grow red. The glint of amusement in his coffee-brown eyes made her fidget in place and she tried not to notice the attractive way his neatly trimmed beard and mustache framed his perfectly kissable lips.
“And I’m none of those things?” she questioned, in a creaky voice.
Colby cocked his head, his eyes going from the top of her blonde hair, all the way down her curvy frame to her unappealing grandma shoes with non-slip rubber soles. “I wouldn’t say that. I see polish, in the sense that even an unpolished diamond is breathtaking, and if the cold inside you will ease the heat inside of me, I’d say you could be the most touched woman in the state.”
Elizabeth was anything but cold at that moment. In fact, she was sure the pitcher full of ice water in her hand was going to be boiling if she looked at it. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t come up with anything intelligent to say in response, so she just blushed harder and left him hanging.
Her legs were trembling as she refilled water glasses all over the restaurant before she could hide in the back and take a moment to catch her breath. She couldn’t believe Colby Bricker was making a play for her. He’d been one of the popular guys in high school. Always linked to one of the cheerleaders, or the class president, or some other girl with a solid future ahead of her, and usually a slightly less strict moral compass. He’d had no time for a reverend’s daughter back then, but they weren’t teenagers anymore. In fact, he was leaps and bounds from the jock he’d been in high school. Now he wore the dark gray deputy’s uniform as if it were a second layer of skin.
If the badge on his chest and the handcuffs on his belt weren’t enough, the gun at his hip was enough to make her weak-kneed and giggly. It was ridiculous, just like his calling her Bethie. She was a grown woman. She deserved the respect of being called Elizabeth by the adults around her.
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A tantalizing tease from Forget Me Knot by Lori King
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I’m tougher than I look. No cowboy is going to ruffle my feathers with a few compliments.” She smiled at the relief on his face. “You do owe me something, though.”
His thick black eyebrow rose, “Really? What’s that?”
“All of that flirting, and you never managed to tell me your name. I think you owe me that after getting me all worked up and walking away.”
Forget Me Knot
Snowed in on a ranch in North Dakota, Lacy can’t resist Drannon’s cowboy charm.
She is a good girl, a smart girl, a logical girl. Vacation romances were never on the agenda. But from the moment Lacy Denvers’ locked eyes with the sexy ranch owner, Drannon Russo all of her good intentions flew out the window.
Drannon has one focus, making Crawley Creek Ranch a success. People depend on him, lives are at stake. He’d buried his dreams of a family of his own, knowing he had to keep his head in the game. Then Lacy arrives at his ranch.
Lacy and Drannon are soon caught up in a whirlwind of passion that leave them both thunderstruck. Their flirtatious dalliance is only the beginning, as the magic between them is lifechanging. Will reality rear its ugly head when the snow melts, or will this city girl find her heart’s desire on North Dakota cattle ranch?
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A tantalizing tease from Claiming His Cowgirl by Lori King
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“Are you seeing anyone?” Vin asked abruptly. She felt her mouth drop open, and she shook her head before she could reconsider.
“Why do you want to know?”
He shrugged. “Curiosity I guess.”
“Curiosity killed the cat.”
Grinning a bit like the Cheshire Cat himself, Vin retorted, “But satisfaction brought him back. Nine lives, baby.”
Claiming His Cowgirl
Her sanctuary…Lauren Kensington found refuge at Crawley Creek as a foster child. She was not looking for love but she found it just in time to get her heart broken. She’s spent nearly two decades creating a successful life for herself far from the wilds of North Dakota, but a family wedding draws her back. When she crosses paths with her long lost love, feelings that burned out are reignited.
His redemption…Vincent Rhone has walked a tough path, but he’s overcome his obstacles to become a better man. His only regret is pushing Lauren out of his life in an effort to protect her from his wild nature. How will she react when he tells her his deepest desire is to hold her again?
Their second chance…Forced to lean on each other when nature strikes, these two heartbroken lovers will confront their past. Will they cause each other more heartache, or will this cowboy finally be able to claim his cowgirl?
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A tantalizing tease from Dust on the Bottle by Lori King
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“You’re going to go get her and bring her back, right?” Hawke acted like it was a fact not a wish, and Kyler growled low in his throat.
“I think she made it pretty clear she doesn’t want me.”
Again, Hawke nodded calmly. “Yep. But the way I see it, nothing’s changed. You love her, and she loves you. She pushes you away, and you hold her tighter. That’s what love is.”
Dust on the Bottle
Freelance Photographer Monica McCray has one goal, never pass up an adventure. Coming to Crawley Creek Ranch, she finds one.
Kyler DeWitt’s inner demons are close to killing him. Booze and self-pity leave him a ticking time-bomb.
When these two forces collide, a passion like no other ignites. Now Monica realizes the adventure she wants includes North Dakota roots, but will she be enough to keep Kyler grounded or will she be just like the dust on one of his bottles?
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A PHOTOGRAPH OF LOVE by Tina Susedik
Trudy Selucas has watched too many people die. Burned out as a home hospice nurse, she realizes she needs a change. When she accepts an invitation to visit a friend in Texas, she uses her love of photography and roams the Texas countryside taking pictures to soothe her aching soul.
After his parents die, Lincoln Phister must leave college behind and his dreams of becoming a photojournalist. He spends the next ten years raising his three younger siblings and working the family ranch. Now he is frustrated with his job, cattle rustlers, and lack of a love life.
A chance encounter with a rattlesnake brings the two together. Lincoln’s anger nearly drives them apart. Can Trudy convince him to follow his dream while finding their own photograph of love?
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ONE NIGHT BEHIND BARS by Melissa Keir
Instead of marrying the man of her dreams, bride-to-be Jeannie Hall spends the night behind bars accused of domestic terrorism. Her groom loses no time marrying someone else. As if this isn’t enough, when she’s cleared of the charges and released, she becomes the target of a vengeful person, and the stakes keep getting higher.
Deputy Hank Walker knows the beautiful woman is innocent, but he was forced to do his duty. Determined to find out who set her up, he starts digging deeper and vows to protect the woman who had stolen his heart.
Master matchmaker Draikoh San arranges for Jeannie and Hank to have a night to remember, but when a killer comes after them, will the two lovebirds end up wearing body bags or wedding rings?
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“Do you know how much I’ve missed you?” he rasped against her throat, kissing his way across her pulse point and up over her chin to her lips. She’d never been a limp lover, and their connection flamed quickly.
Lips locked, and tongues tangled as they both melted into the embrace. Her glossy hair tumbled over her shoulders into his face. It smelled like apricots, and his cock twitched.
With both hands, he lifted her, fitting her thighs around his hips so that he could rock against her hot core. He needed to feel her again. She’d been the only thing in the world that ever brought him joy, and he felt like a parched man in the desert drinking from a crystal-clear oasis.
Whatever beautiful twist of fate had brought her back into his life didn’t matter; all that mattered to him now was keeping her there.
Dust on the Bottle
Freelance Photographer Monica McCray has one goal, never pass up an adventure. Coming to Crawley Creek Ranch, she finds one.
Kyler DeWitt’s inner demons are close to killing him. Booze and self-pity leave him a ticking time-bomb.
When these two forces collide, a passion like no other ignites. Now Monica realizes the adventure she wants includes North Dakota roots, but will she be enough to keep Kyler grounded or will she be just like the dust on one of his bottles?
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COWBOY BRED, COWBOY BORN by D’Ann Lindun
Photographer Alannah Murphy refuses to be tied down. She watched her parents struggle to hold onto their dairy farm until it killed them. The mere thought of the same fate makes her shudder. When she meets rancher Sterling Gentry she has to face her fears, or lose him.
Sterling Gentry longs for someone to hand down his ranch to. Like his father before him, he has sacrificed everything to hold onto the land his ancestors settled. But finding Ms. Right proves harder than he imagined. Then he meets Alannah Murphy with her big city ways. How he can ever take a chance with a woman exactly like his mother who abandoned him when he was a child?
Despite their determination to stay the course they’ve each chosen, attraction pulls them together as steadily as a nail to a magnet. Can these two find a way to mesh Alannah’s need for freedom and Gentry’s desire to hold onto his land?
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GOOD ENOUGH by Maddie James
Mira Featherston knows her place in life and it’s not with Jake Remington. Rich guys play on the wrong side of the tracks but they don’t bring girls like her home to mama. Since Mira has no expectations beyond the moment, she doesn’t mind playing though. And she loves toying with the bad boy lawyer—until it gets her into trouble with her boss, Heath McCoy.
Jake Remington is a wealthy Texas cowboy whose family land borders the McCoy Highlands ranch, although he now practices law and lives in Kentucky. He’s back to settle a land dispute between his parents and neighboring ranchers, and the McCoys. He plans to take care of business and get the hell out of Dodge before he gets himself into trouble. Again.
Because trouble for Jake always comes in the form of a Texas beauty he can’t keep his hands off. The last temptation ended up with a lawsuit. But when he bumps into Mira coming out of his hotel room at Heath McCoy’s resort, keeping his hands off the hotel maid is impossible.
He’s fascinated by Mira. But with his past reputation, is he good enough for her?
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OUT FOR BLOOD by Jordan Dane
Mercer Broderick is haunted by the death of his wife and son. While on a covert mission as a CIA operative four years earlier, he’d been on foreign soil instead of protecting Keara and Braeden in America. His family’s killers were never found. With his entire world destroyed, he quit the CIA and struggled for a reason to live, wallowing in grief and an all-consuming guilt.
Mercer emerged from the fog of devastation, obsessed with swift justice and driven to honor the memory of his beloved wife and child. He forged a network of wealthy benefactors across the world—the Alliance—influential, high powered people who secretly yearn for a new world order of vigilante justice. With the support of a mysterious Danish woman, Eva Henriksen, Mercer built Zion in the mountains of Wyoming, a fortified sanctuary for his handpicked team.
After Mercer gets a lead on who ordered the hit on his family, he’s drawn to El Paso to take on the Galvez cartel and the faceless man known only as the Jaguar. Accompanied by his exotic bodyguard specialist, Keiko Kayakova—a blue-eyed Japanese beauty trained by her lethal Russian father—Mercer calls upon the Equalizers to join his Alliance team—Detective Santiago Gonzales, computer genius Saxon Abbott, Micah Wolfe and Jet Ivan Foster. With the clock ticking, Mercer must take down the Jaguar before he closes up shop and disappears forever, taking his fortune and leaving a bloody carnage of dead witnesses.
But when his plan derails, Mercer is forced to risk his life to stop a mad man from getting away with murder.
