I hope y'all are having a good day. I am. It's my pleasure to bring you another guest post today. A friend of mine has a new book release so I invited her to tell us a bit about it. Please take a look at and enjoy historical romance author Cynthia Woolf's latest release, COLORADO BRIDE.
BLURB for COLORADO BRIDE
Emily
Loring survived the last few years as a governess to a rich family's children.
But when the lord of the house can't keep his hands to himself, she's left with
no option but to risk everything as a mail-order bride. Raised in a New York
orphanage, she's always dreamed of a husband and children of her own, but even
that small dream always felt out of reach. The city is all she's ever known,
but the promise of a family, a place to call home, drives her to risk
everything and head for the wilds of the Colorado Territory, and the arms of a
stranger.
Ben
Logan fell in love once, to a city girl who left him at the altar to run off
with another man. A mail-order bride appears to be the answer to his need for a
wife to warm his bed, as long as she loves the country life as he does. He
doesn't need much, but he won't risk his heart again. When Emily arrives, her
curves tempt him nearly as much as her smile. But his ex-fiancée is back, and
determined to have Ben for herself, even if it means murder...
EXCERPT:
While Ben unloaded the grain from
the wagon, Emily walked over to one of the stalls. Inside were a beautiful
golden horse and a pure white baby one.
“They’re so beautiful. The mama
with her yellow coat and white hair on her neck is striking. Will the baby stay
white or change color?”
“The mare is a palomino and, yes,
more than likely, the colt will gain the same coloring as he gets older. But he
could possibly stay white, which is what I’m hoping for.”
She turned to face him where he
stood at the end of the wagon.
“Will you teach me how to ride? I
don’t know anything about horses, but I believe that I should learn in case I
need to go somewhere.”
He shrugged. “Sure I’ll teach
you. I’m surprised you don’t know anything about ranching. I was pretty
specific about it as one of my requirements.”
“You said you wanted someone with
farming or ranching experience, I know how to milk cows and gather eggs which
qualifies, and I’m willing to learn whatever else I need to. I’m a fast
learner.”
The mare came up to the stall
gate where Emily stood. She turned and reached over to pet the horse. Her nose
and mouth felt like velvet.
“Oh, she’s so soft. I never
imagined…”
Ben came up behind her.
“Her name is Champagne, because
of her coloring. She doesn’t belong to anyone yet. Would you like her?”
“Oh, yes. Can she really be my
horse?”
He
must at least like me or he wouldn’t gift me with my own horse, and such a
beautiful one to boot.
“Yes.”
She turned and Ben was standing
right there. Emily reached up, snaked her hand behind his neck and brought his
head down to hers. Remembering the kiss he’d given her at their wedding, she
mimicked that kiss. She meshed her lips with his and opened just enough to put
her tongue out and touch his lips. She felt him smile and open for her exploration.
He let her take what she needed,
let her control the kiss and she was pleased. When she finally pulled back she
was breathless and her body hummed with awareness of him.
He held her with his arms wrapped
loosely around her waist.
“Well, that was some kiss, wife.”
“Just following your
lead…husband.”
She liked the sound of that.
Husband. She’d begun to believe that she’d never marry and certainly never to
anyone like Ben. His arms were strong with muscle, she felt them through his
shirt. His stomach was flat and hard. She felt that, too. And she could tell
his manhood was primed for her as well and knew she blushed.
“Now, look at what you’ve done to
me. I can’t go to the house like this. You better stop kissing me.”
She smiled and shook her head.
“Nope. You can ask a lot of things of me, but that isn’t one of them. I’ll
always kiss you. Even when we fight, I’ll kiss you because no fight is worth my
marriage. And kissing reminds us that we are married.”
“All right, I agree. Besides, I
like kissing you.”
She raised an eyebrow and cocked
her head. “You should. I only know what you taught me.”
He tightened his hold on her.
“And that pleases me.”
“Why? You’ve kissed other girls
and that doesn’t bother me. Why should it bother you if I’d kissed another
man?”
“Because I want to know that I’m
the only man in your life, at least until we have sons.”
The thought of having babies and
how babies are begot made her blush. At this rate she’d be colored pink all the
time.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cynthia Woolf is the award winning and best-selling author of thirty
historical western romance books and two short stories with more books on the
way.
Cynthia loves writing and reading romance. Her first western
romance Tame A Wild Heart, was inspired by the story her mother told her of
meeting Cynthia’s father on a ranch in Creede, Colorado. Although Tame A Wild
Heart takes place in Creede that is the only similarity between the stories.
Her father was a cowboy not a bounty hunter and her mother was a nursemaid
(called a nanny now) not the ranch owner. The ranch they met on is still there
as part of the open space in Mineral County in southwestern Colorado.
Writing as CA Woolf she has six scifi, space opera romance
titles. She calls them westerns in space.
Cynthia credits her wonderfully supportive husband Jim and her
great critique partners for saving her sanity and allowing her to explore her
creativity.
WEBSITE
– http://cynthiawoolf.com/
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