It’s finally here! My first official “Western” romance
arrives on bookstore shelves today. A
Rancher of Convenience is the third story in the Lone Star Cowboy League:
The Founding Years series, following Renee Ryan’s Stand-In Rancher Daddy and Louise M. Gouge’s A Family for the Rancher. However, you don’t have to read those
books to understand this one.
Sweet mail-order bride Nancy Bennett can’t believe it when
her husband is exposed as a cattle rustler—and killed. And when the banker
holding the ranch’s mortgage questions whether she can run the ranch on her
own, the pregnant widow has nowhere to turn. Until steady foreman Hank Snowden
proposes marriage.
Racked with grief about his role in Lucas Bennett’s death,
Hank resolves to do right by the man’s wife and child. So it’s natural for him
to step in as Nancy’s newly minted husband. But the marriage of convenience may
become more than a mere obligation…if only Hank and his bride can brave the
first steps toward elusive true love.
Reviewer John Charles at Booklist
had this to say about the book: “A smartly crafted, emotionally engaging
love story that also admirably celebrates the inner grit and outer gumption
needed by the women who settled the West.”
I had some trouble naming Hank in this story. You see, he
arrived with the name Clyde Parker, which I didn’t cotton to. Changes to the
story necessitated that Clyde be a crotchety older rancher, so my cowboy
told me he’d rather be named Hank anyway.
Wonder what the name of the cowboy in your life might be? Play my handy dandy little game below. If you share the results in the comments
before 9pm Eastern Time on Thursday, September 8, I’ll enter you in a drawing to
win an autographed copy of the book.
You can find A Rancher
of Convenience at fine stores near you and online.
4 comments:
Chuck Yerbe is my guy! I thimk I'll just call him C-dog 😘!
Ha! Love it, Sharyonda!
Billy Lamar it is!! love this game...
Nice, Rgarg! I'm at Billy Sanders. He comes from a nice Southern family. ;-)
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