THE COWBOY LASSOS A BRIDE
by Cora
Seton
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Jake Matheson loves everything
about ranching the Double-Bar-K, except for his father’s controlling nature.
It’s bad enough the old man won’t step down and let him run things his own way.
Now Holt has demanded that Jake find a wife—in the next thirty days. Jake knows
just the woman he wants–Hannah Ashton–but they haven’t even gone on a date, let
alone been together long enough for him to propose. He’ll have to work fast to
secure her hand in marriage before his time is up.
Hannah Ashton loves the fifteen hundred pound bison she
rescued from being the object of a trophy hunt. She’s grateful for Gladys’s
temporary home on the Double-Bar-K—and for the chance it gives her to see Jake
on a daily basis. But now his father, Holt, is threatening to kick Gladys off
the ranch—or eat her!—unless Hannah follows some very strange instructions.
Jake is thrilled when Hannah agrees to move into his
cabin, but his family seems dead set on breaking them apart. Meanwhile, Hannah
is all set to head off to veterinary school, but Jake seems to want a
traditional wife.
Will a pregnancy scare unite Jake and Hannah in a common
goal? Or will it drive them apart for good?
Excerpt:
“Sleep
with my son for two weeks.”
Hannah’s
jaw dropped open. Her cheeks flushed to what she was sure was a brilliant red.
Had Holt lost his mind? Had she? He couldn’t have said that out loud.
Could
he?
“You
heard me right, but you can get your mind out of the gutter.” Holt’s laconic
tone was shaded with a hint of laughter at her expense. “I said sleep with him,
not screw him. What you two get up to is on your conscience. All I ask is that
you share a bed.”
“I…
what…?” She glanced around wildly, wondering if anyone else had overheard him.
Surely this had to be a joke. Would Holt’s youngest son, Rob, come rushing out
with a video camera? He was always playing practical jokes.
“Sleep
with my son for fourteen consecutive nights. All night. That’s it. Your bison
gets a pasture, food, and shelter for the rest of her life. What do you say?”
She
sputtered, searching for something to say that encompassed the depth of her
anger that he’d even speak to her this way. She settled on sarcasm. “Two weeks?
I’ll have to check my calendar. Some other guy’s father might have extorted me
to sleep with him one of those nights.”
Holt
chuckled. “Just how many bison do you have stashed around the ranches in these
parts?”
“I
don’t need to listen to this.”
“By
the way, the son in question is Jake.” He eyed her sharply and Hannah felt the
heat creep up her cheeks all over again.
Jake?
An
image of them together in bed—naked, disheveled—flashed into her mind and her
body tingled with the idea of it. She and Jake could have a lot of fun between
the sheets.
She
forced the thought out of her head. “Not interested.”
“Then
I guess I’ll get my pasture back sooner than I thought. And I’ll have to find
some other woman to get my son’s mind on marriage.”
“Damn
it, Holt—that’s not fair.”
“Which
part isn’t? The part where I eat your bison or the part where another woman
sleeps with my son?”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Cora
Seton loves cowboys, country life, gardening, bike-riding, and lazing around
with a good book. Mother of four, wife to a computer programmer/eco-farmer, she
ditched her California lifestyle nine years ago and moved to a remote logging
town in northwestern British Columbia.
Like
the characters in her novels, Cora enjoys old-fashioned pursuits and modern
technology, spending mornings transforming a neglected one-acre lot into a
paradise of orchards, berry bushes and market gardens, and afternoons writing
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