If you've read The CEO & The Cowboy by Starla Kaye, you HAVE to pick up this book!!!
There is just something about a hard man in worn jeans.
Yum!
For Ruby’s Love
Published
by: Decadent Publishing
Genre:
Contemporary, erotic romance, LGBT/gay, western, ménage
Heat
Level: 5
Word
Count: 33,000
Blurb
Calhoun’s
a simple cowboy with more problems in his life than he can handle at the
moment. After nearly two years, he struggles to hang onto a relationship with
Daniel, his first male lover. Daniel is worried about him because of the fire,
his concern for his prized breeding mare, and because he is determined to buy
the neighboring ranch to expand. But Daniel isn’t a businessman without goals
of his own for expansion, a fact that frustrates Calhoun as well. He doesn’t
want to lose Daniel, but will their differences finally be too much?
Daniel
considers himself a lucky man to have met the rancher, someone almost his
opposite and someone who he doesn’t want to live without. Standing beside the
moody Calhoun has been difficult since the fire that burned down a horse barn,
took the lives of two valuable horses, and traumatized a favored mare. Along
with all of that, his harried friend is determined to expand his ranch
holdings. Daniel is against the purchase and would prefer to find a way to slow
the man down. Lately, he’s also begun worrying if maybe he isn’t enough to
satisfy his lover’s needs.
Complicating
everything even more, Ruby shows up later than expected at Calhoun’s ranch to
honor a job as a horse therapist that her father had agreed to before his
sudden death. She knows what happened to the mare and is certain she can help
her, if given the chance. But the stubborn rancher can’t get past the idea of
her being a woman, someone not strong enough to work with such a damaged horse.
They butt heads over the matter until she finds an ally in Daniel. He is
concerned and yet believes in her abilities. Another problem arises, though.
She and Calhoun have been skirting around an unwanted attraction, and then she
discovers another surprising interest between her and Daniel.
Excerpt – Unsettling
the cowboy
He brushed her hand
away and turned around. Her vivid green eyes no longer looked sad; they flashed
with anger. The plump breasts he’d been trying not to notice strained the
fabric of her pink plaid Western shirt. Otherwise, she stood stiff, her temper
appearing to sizzle. Damn if he didn’t find her cute as hell.
And that notion frightened the bejesus out
of him. He needed to get as far away from her as possible. “We’ll talk
tomorrow. You need to get your truck and get some rest.” He shifted back. “I
have business to tend to.”
The tenacious woman
stepped right up to him. “This business
being to call another horse whisperer.” She tilted her chin up and met him
eye-to-eye. “Well, cowboy, I’m the
second best one in the country.” Sadness slipped back into her eyes, but
determination remained as well. “The best now with my father dead.”
God, those expressive
eyes were killing him. He fought the urge to tug her into his arms and hold her
until she’d shed every tear, until the grief left. Doing that would be a huge
mistake for so many reasons. He mentally shielded himself against her.
“Forget it. I’m not letting a puny little thing like you
anywhere near Starbright.” If she’d worked alongside her father, Calhoun would
no doubt have been okay. Maybe. But the idea of her being alone anywhere near
the powerful, troubled, and crazed mare scared the devil out of him. His heart
raced.
The woman had no back
down in her. She thrust her chin higher. “I’m not puny! I’m not big and muscled like you, but I can take care of
myself with any animal.”
He snorted at the
foolish declaration and shook his head. “Not with my horse. Starbright can’t be trusted with most work-hardened men,
including me at times. There is no way I could trust her not to do you serious
harm.”
Once more he turned
to walk away.
This time Daniel
stopped him. “Give her a chance to at least tell you about her credentials. Let
her explain her abilities to work with a traumatized animal.”
He spun to glower at
his friend, who looked every bit as resolute as he felt. “No.”
The man gave him a
censuring look and ground his jaw. They would have words later. But he wasn’t
going to change his mind.
When he glanced at
Ruby, her shoulders were tense, her body rigid. But instead of arguing with
him, she stormed back to the recliner and grabbed her coat, jerking it on.
Grumbling to herself, she snagged her oversized bag and marched past them both
and toward the foyer.
Daniel’s expression
grew stonier, pissed at him.
“What are you doing?”
he asked gruffly.
“Leaving,” she
snapped over her shoulder. “I don’t need this job. I came here out of respect
for my father’s agreement with you. And out of concern for Starbright.” She
picked up her pace, not bothering to glance at him.
“You can’t just
leave. I have to get one of the hands first,” he blustered, unable to believe
her boldness.
“I don’t need
help—yours or anyone else’s.” She stiffened. “I’m going back to my rig,
grabbing a gas can, and walking to the nearest town. Not any of your concern.”
“The hell you are!”
He strode after her. Lord a’mighty, what an obstinate female.
She stopped long
enough to look in his direction and hiss, “The hell I’m not!”
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Author Bio
Starla
Kaye is addicted to writing romance, and in many sub-genres. She enjoys writing
about strong-willed, independent women who butt heads with equally determined,
self-confident, and slightly domineering men. She has published 20 novels, 38
novellas, 18 short stories, and 8 collections to date with various publishers.
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