Rough RiderBy Victoria Vane
Sourcebooks
Casablanca
Contemporary
Western Romance
February
3, 2015
ISBN:
9781492601159
Two wary hearts …
Janice Combes has two
loves, bucking bulls and Dirk Knowlton. But Dirk only has eyes for a dazzling
rodeo queen. How can Janice ever compete while mired ankle-deep in manure?
Exchanging playful banter with Dirk is all Janice can expect—until the stormy night
he knocks on her door dripping wet and needing a place to crash.
Different Dreams…
Dirk Knowlton is living
the cowboy dream. Life should be good—roping, branding, backing broncs, riding
bulls, but there's a void he can't seem to fill. After getting hung up by a
bull, he wonders if this is really the life he wants. Restless and rebellious,
he bolts…but there’s a certain cowgirl he can’t forget.
When
a battle-scarred Dirk returns to his Montana ranch he's determined to hang on
at any cost. Janice has come back home to lick her own wounds. When old dreams
turn to dust, can two wary hearts take another chance on love?
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Praise for Slow
Hand by Victoria Vane:
“A “red-hot
cowboy tale...their sexual chemistry crackles. Well-paced, scorching scenes and
witty banter move the story along while setting the stage for Wade’s war-hero
brother to find his own true love in the next installment.” – Publishers Weekly
“SLOW HAND by
Victoria Vane is delightful, funny, page turning steamy sexy… I'm beginning to
think Victoria could write a phone book and make it sexy.” – Unwrapping Romance
“PULL THE FIRE
ALARM & STOCK UP ON FIRE EXTINGUISHERS FOR THIS STEAMY ROMANCE!” – Avon Romance
Victoria Vane is
a multiple award-winning romance novelist and history junkie whose collective
works of fiction range from wildly comedic romps to emotionally compelling
erotic romance. Victoria also writes historical fiction as Emery Lee and is the
founder of Goodreads Romantic Historical Fiction Lovers and the Romantic
Historical Lovers book review blog.
Connect with Victoria Vane: Website | Facebook |@AuthorVictoriaV | Pinterest | Goodreads
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Excerpt from ROUGH RIDER by Victoria Vane:
He
looked abashed. “We didn’t just have to leave the party, we got kicked out of
the hotel too.”
“Evicted
from your room?”
“Yup.
And there aren’t any others available in all of Casper.”
“I
know,” she said. “It’s why I’m camped out here.” She paused to digest what he’d
left unsaid. “So you and Rachel?”
He
shook his head with a scowl “We’re done now. Quits.”
“You’re
kidding.”
“Nope.
History. Case closed.”
“It’ll
blow over.”
“Don’t
think so. It was her idea to boot us. Said she didn’t give a shit if I had a
room tonight or not. Then I couldn’t even try finding anything outside of town
because my asshole brother took my keys so I wouldn’t drive. My next move was
to pilfer a blanket and pillow and camp out under the stars in my truck bed,
but then it started pouring on me.”
“So you
came here. How’d you do that with no wheels?”
“Walked.”
“Three
miles in the pouring rain? No wonder you look like something the cat dragged
in.”
“Can I
crash for a coupla hours? Maybe just camp out in the back seat of your dually?
All I need is to get warm and dry again.”
Janice’s
mouth went dry as sawdust. Dirk Knowlton. Cold. Wet. Here. Now. Wanting a bed?
She’d give her right arm to warm him up. Heck yeah.
Misreading
her silence he mumbled a curse. “Sorry, Janice. It’s my damned head. I’m not
thinkin’ right. It’s still throbbing like hell. Haven’t been myself all night.
M’pologies for being such a dumb-ass and imposing on you—” He turned to the
door.
“No! Wait.
It’s not that.” She grabbed his sleeve. “I was just thinking of your injuries.
You don’t need to make matters worse by sleeping all cramped up in the truck.”
She gnawed her lower lip and then blurted. “Y-you wanna just stay here
instead?”
“Here?
That’s mighty generous but there isn’t a whole lot of room for both of us.” He
glanced up at the gooseneck with a frown. “If you’ll just gimme a blanket, I’ll
take the floor.”
“You
don’t need to do that,” she said. “The bench here flips down over the table and
converts into a single. It’s really narrow and not very comfortable, but still
better than the truck. Warmer anyway. Besides you need to get dry.”
“You
sure about this?” he asked.
“Yeah.”
She smiled. “What are friends for? I’m sure I’ve got a shirt for you too.”
“Thanks,
Red. That would be great.”
Red? The single syllable rippled warm and
tingly, all the way to her toes. He followed up with a lopsided grin that
stopped her in her tracks. She turned to the small cabinet that served a dual
function as dresser and closet and shut her eyes on a sigh—but the same air
stuck in her throat the minute she turned back around.
He’d
shed the denim jacket. And the black tee. His bare torso with well-developed
pecs and a mouthwatering six pack greeted her. He was drying his face with his
discarded shirt. Janice tore her gaze away and cleared her throat. “Here.” She
thrust an extra-large Dixie Chicks T-shirt into his hands, a souvenir from
their Top of the World Tour. “I—I can get you a towel too.”
He eyed
the shirt skeptically. “No thanks.”
“What?
You don’t like female musicians?”
“Don’t
like their politics. Natalie should just shut up and sing.”
“Ah.”
She nodded slowly. The shirt was from the tour that caused the “incident.” A
lot of her friends had since thrown out their Dixie Chicks CDs, but Janice
still loved their music. “I Can Love You Better” was her favorite. The lyrics, she’s got you wrapped up in her
satin and lace. Tied around her little finger…but I can love you better,
perfectly summed up all the heartbreak and frustrations of unrequited love; all
her secret feelings for Dirk. She only wished she could show him now that he
was here. In the flesh. A big strong, blue-lipped and teeth-chattering fantasy
come true._________________________________________________________________________
This is book two and takes place during the events of Slow Hand and follows Wade Knowlton's brother, Dirk Knowlton and his lady love Janice Combes.
However, unlike the first book, this book starts in the past and answers so many questions as to who Rachel was and how she destroyed the relationship between the two brothers. This book will have you flipping the pages like crazy, I had originally thought this book should have been first, but as I started reading I thought, actually this order works better.
Way back when, Janice Combes had a major crush on Dirk Knowlton, however he was basically only focused on his beauty queen girlfriend Rachel who we all know eventually marries his little brother (drama). Eventually these two have a one-night thing but Dirk is a guys, so we know he will mess things up. Janice moves on with her life, even if things don't go as good as she hoped and Dirk joins the military and eventually comes home an injured and scarred man.
Now a widowed, single mother; Janice and her son Cody move back to her hometown to try and pick up the pieces of her broken life.
Dirk and Janice eventually come together again, however, this time they have a lot of issues to get through. They need to put their demons to bed and try and move on to a future together, but certain revelations (really wish I could tell you the secret) might threaten their budding relationship.
The story really delivers, it has everything any drama aficionado wants in their books and the drama, I feel like a little kids jumping up down with a huge secret to share.
Rating 4 out of 5
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