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RAISING THE STAKES and WISH ME TOMORROW
HIS KIND OF COWGIRL
Karen Rock
Releasing March 1st, 2016
Harlequin: Heartwarming
Tanner Hayes smashed Claire's life
to pieces when he chose the rodeo over her ten years ago. And now he'd wrecked
her truck! Fantastic. She'd lost her husband, the family ranch was mired in
debt, her father was recuperating from a stroke and her son was being bullied.
Why not throw a reckless bull rider into the mix?
All she'd wanted was a safe, stable
life. But with Tanner back in town—and staying on her ranch—nothing was safe,
or under control. Not the feelings she'd fought so hard to forget. Not the son
she was determined to protect. And certainly not her long-held secret…
Everything happened at
once and in slow motion.
A crushing jolt
shuddered through the truck. Her wheels skidded sideways. She smacked against
the window when her pickup rolled down an embankment, as if punched by
something large and lethal. Glass rained deadly sharp. The earth tumbled around
her, her truck in spin cycle. When a massive tree loomed, the Chevy slammed
into it then stilled.
Winded and stunned, she
hung upside-down in her lap belt, blood, metallic and warm, on her tongue, a
rushing sound whistling in her ears. Her heartbeat changed and grew slow and
rolling in darkness. Something hurt, a long way away. Then nothing.
“Ma’am. Ma’am. Are you
all right?” A man’s voice shouted, rousing her. She tried turning her head but
pain held it in place. When she opened her mouth, silent panic flew out.
“Hold on. I’m getting
you out of there.”
Acrid smoke pierced her
consciousness. She closed her eyes against the billowing grit.
This wasn’t happening.
It was a dream. No. A nightmare.
A tugging motion jerked
her right and left, followed by a ripping sound. Large hands halted her sudden
fall.
“Got you.”
Her rescuer cradled her
against his chest, his breaths heaving beneath her ear. After carrying her some
distance, he lowered her slowly to the ground. Grass scraped against her
stinging cheeks and she opened her eyes.
“What?” she croaked,
then swiped at the trickle leaking from her mouth. A man wearing a cowboy hat
hunched over her, his features blurred.
“You’ve been in an
accident. We have. Our trucks collided in the intersection.”
“My truck!” She bolted
upright and clutched the swirling ground.
An arm snaked around her
back and eased her down. “I called the dispatcher. The fire department’s on the
way.”
A wail sounded in the
distance and Claire wanted to shriek with it.
Her special day. Her
anniversary. Ruined. No. Demolished by this…this…
She squinted upward and focused. A
dark swirl of hair brushed across the tall man’s forehead; a light scar
zigzagged down his square jaw. Recognition zapped through her.
It couldn’t be…
“Tanner?”
“Hello, Claire.” His
mouth went up, just a fraction—the same ready-for-anything smile that had once
undone her.
She closed her eyes,
heart thudding. Ten years since she’d vowed never to see him again…and now here
he stood, two for two in wrecking her life.
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Karen Rock is an award-winning YA and adult contemporary romance author. She holds a master's degree in English and was an ELA instructor before becoming a full-time writer. Currently she writes for Harlequin Blaze and Harlequin Heartwarming. Her novel, A LEAGUE OF HER OWN, won the 2015 National Excellence in Romance Fiction award in contemporary romance series and the 2015 Bookseller's Best award for contemporary romance, long.
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