Saturday, April 28, 2012

Western blurb fest weekend!

Western writers, round up your blurbs for the Western Blurb Fest! If you've never participated before, it's very easy. Just post:

- Book title
- by (author name)
- book blurb
- buy link

See? Easy peasy. Post one blurb per author, please, throughout the weekend.

Western readers, get ready to lasso some new reads for your TBR list.

Post away!

Cate

9 comments:

  1. A Midwest Summer Night’s Dream by Cate Masters (Western historical)

    Open sky, Shakespeare, solitude. All Jebediah Greene needs. Alone since his teens, he’s never known loneliness, until he leaves Winona Young in California. Worse, he fears she’ll trap herself in a loveless marriage of convenience. After acting as her guide to San Francisco, how far will Jeb go to win her heart?

    Reading provides escape for Winona Young. Usually. Fleeing Philadelphia, she learns her distant suitor isn’t who he seemed. Neither is her mountain man guide, in a good way. Intelligent, but mule-headed, Jeb’s impossible to speak to, in any language. Winona falls in love with the stunning beauty of the wilderness, with the simple ways of the Osage people, and with Jeb. But books can’t teach her how to tame a mountain man.

    http://www.bookstrand.com/a-midwest-summer-nights-dream

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  2. DOUBLE CROSSING by Meg Mims (Western Historical Suspense)

    August, 1869: Lily Granville is stunned by her father’s murder. Only one other person knows about a valuable California gold mine deed — both are now missing. Lily heads west on the newly opened transcontinental railroad, determined to track the killer. She soon realizes she is no longer the hunter but the prey.

    As things progress from bad to worse, Lily is uncertain who to trust—the China-bound missionary who wants to marry her, or the wandering Texan who offers to protect her … for a price. Will Lily survive the journey and unexpected betrayal?

    Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Double-Crossing-ebook/dp/B005GWEMCO/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&qid=1335617999&sr=8-1
    Print: http://www.amazon.com/Double-Crossing-Meg-Mims/dp/1466223200/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335617999&sr=8-1
    Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/double-crossing-meg-mims/1104769443?ean=2940013174597

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  3. TRAIL TO DESTINY by Cheri Kay Clifton (Historical Western Romance)

    A turbulent cross-country journey of heated passion, bitter vengeance, and a haunted past lead Grey Wolf and Laura on their ... Trail To Destiny.

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  4. YELLOWSTONE HEART SONG (Book 1 in the Yellowstone Romance Series)

    Nurse and avid backpacker Aimee Donovan is offered the opportunity of a lifetime. She encounters a patient who tells her he can send her two hundred years into the past to spend three months in the rugged Yellowstone wilderness at the dawn of the mountain man era. The only requirement: she cannot tell anyone that she’s from the future.

    How did a white woman suddenly appear in the remote Rocky Mountain wilderness? Trapper Daniel Osborne’s first instinct is to protect this mysterious and unconventional woman from the harsh realities of his mountains. While he fights his growing attraction to her, he is left frustrated by her lies and secrecy.

    Daniel shows Aimee a side of Yellowstone she’s never experienced. She is torn between her feelings for him, and exposing a secret that will destroy everything he holds as truth. As her three months come to an end, she is faced with a dilemma: return to her own time, or stay with the man who opened her eyes to a whole new world. When the decision is made for her, both their lives will be changed forever.

    Other titles in the Yellowstone Romance Series:

    Yellowstone Heart Song (Book 1)
    Yellowstone Redemption (Book 2)
    Yellowstone Awakening (Book 3)
    Yellowstone Dawn (Book 4)

    http://www.amazon.com/Yellowstone-Heart-Romance-Series-ebook/dp/B006SS09A4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335624252&sr=8-1

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  5. BRAZOS BRIDE
    by Caroline Clemmons

    Hope Montoya knows someone is poisoning her, but who? She suspects her mother was also poisoned and knows her father was murdered. Who wants her family eliminated? She vows to fight! She realizes she won’t last the eight months until she turns twenty-five and her uncle no longer controls her or her estate. Never will she be dominated by a man as she was by her father, as she has seen her mother and grandmothers dominated. If she marries, she gains control now, but only if she weds a man she can trust. Only one man meets her requirements. Can she trust him to protect her and capture the killer...but then to leave?

    Micah Stone has been in love with Hope since the first time he saw her. But he was accused of her father’s murder and surely would have hung if not for his two brothers’ aid. Most in the community still believe him guilty. But the drought has him too worried about water for his dying cattle to care about his neighbors’ opinions. When Hope proposes a paper marriage in exchange for land on the Brazos River and much needed cash, her offer rubs his pride raw. His name may be Stone, but he’s not made of it. He can’t refuse her for long, and so their adventure begins. He and Hope have to stay alive and discover the killer before they become victims in the deadly assaults.


    The buy link for BRAZOS BRIDE at Amazon Kindle is:
    http://www.amazon.com/Brazos-Bride-Stone-Mountain-ebook/dp/B007HS10SY/ref=sr_1_18?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331156267&sr=1-18

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  6. DIVINE GAMBLE, by Charlene Raddon
    Available soon

    She's a saloon woman

    For fourteen years Maisy Jessup has dealt faro in saloons, saving what she can from her small earnings so she can buy a house where she and her son can be safe from the man searching for her. Once again she’s escaped his wrath. Then Delilah, a saloon girl, is murdered and a high price is placed on the head of a hired gunman known as Wolverine who is suspected of killing her. Maisy resolves to avenge her friend. But when she finally finds the villain, she discovers two shocking facts—he’s innocent, and she’s in love with him.

    He's a minister

    The Reverend Brose Riker isn’t what he seems. As a hired gun called Wolverine, he barely escaped being hung for a murder he didn’t commit. Now, he’s posing as a circuit preacher and trying to protect Maisy Jessup from a man named Gold Kingsley who wants her dead and tried to hire Riker to find her. Years ago Riker saw her in a hotel hallway and never forgot her. He’s not about to risk losing her again.

    Are second chances truly possible?

    Even if Brose and Maisy survive Gold Kingsley’s vile plans, the future appears hopeless for them thanks to his reputation as a fast gun. Will life grant them a second chance and allow them to find happiness?

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  7. The Outlaw by Lily Graison


    Sarah Hartford always dreamed of a grand adventure. She just never expected to find it in the arms of an outlaw.

    When her father’s bank is robbed, Sarah doesn’t make the gunslingers’ escape easy. Putting her own safety behind those she hopes to protect backfires when she’s kidnapped by one of the escaping men. Now her only hope for survival lies with the same arrogant man who laughed at her while staring down the barrel of her gun.

    Colton Avery spent months planning the perfect heist, every detail fine tuned and executed with precise timing. Nothing could go wrong. That is until he comes face to face with a determined woman holding a shotgun. She aimed at his head and never flinched when she took a shot at him. He wanted her the moment the smoke cleared and he saw her face.

    Robbing the bank, and handing over the gang of notorious outlaws to US Marshals, would be routine and boring. Sarah Hartford made it anything but. Taming the woman who stole his heart the instant he saw her was a challenge he was more than willing to take on. All he has to do now is escape the gang of outlaws he just double-crossed, hideout from an Indian raiding party and elude the town marshal who just happens to be his little hellion’s new fiancĂ©.


    Books in The Willow Creek Romance Series

    #1 - The Lawman
    #2 - The Outlaw
    #3 - The Gambler - May 2012
    #4 - The Rancher - June 2012

    Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-Willow-Creek-Series-ebook/dp/B007HS1C4Q/ref=pd_sim_kstore_2?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2

    Other retailers: http://lilygraison.com

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  8. Title: A Run For Love
    Author: Callie Hutton
    Buy: http://amzn.to/K93Z2n
    Blurb: Feisty school teacher Tori Henderson values her independence and has no use for a husband. When she finds herself the legal guardian of her two nieces, two nephews, and facing eviction from her Kansas home, she enters the 1889 Oklahoma land run and confronts a new set of challenges. The biggest obstacle being her new neighbor, cocky lawyer Jesse Cochran, the son of a whore--a man determined to put his past behind him and start a new life and family of his own.

    Despite the undeniable attraction between them, Tori is determined to keep him at arm’s length, but a family emergency brings them together and they declare a truce. Can Jesse win Tori’s heart after a series of unplanned events, or will a tragedy tear them apart forever?

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  9. Title: A Wife By Christmas
    Author: Callie Hutton
    Buy: http://amzn.to/HIhXeq
    This is not just a Christmas story - I promise you'll laugh.

    Blurb: High School Principal Max Colbert needs to get rid of that pesky History teacher, Ellie Henderson. Getting her married off is the perfect solution, except everyone he introduces her to doesn’t seem right.
    In 1906 Guthrie, Oklahoma, History teacher, Ellie Henderson, has been a thorn in High School Principal Max Colbert’s side ever since he took over three months ago. When she’s not flying by his office, late for her class, with books and papers jumbled in her arms, she’s attending Suffragettes meetings against his orders.
    Because of her family connections, he can’t fire her, but he can certainly find someone to marry her, and keep her busy in the kitchen. And far away from his school. Max soon finds that what seemed like a good idea can turn into disaster when Miss Ellie Henderson is involved. The woman is a master at getting into trouble.
    With the Christmas season in full swing, he has many opportunities to introduce her to prospective husbands. However, the uncomfortable feeling is growing that no one is worthy of the minx…

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