COWBOY WATCH
Petie McCarty
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GENRE: Romantic Suspense
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BLURB:
he
Watchers Series—Fallen angels cast out of heaven by the archangel Michael for
coercing with Satan to gain control. Some of these conspirators—duped late in
the game by Satan’s lies—doubled back to seek redemption for their unwitting
betrayal. Offered parole in exchange for penance, these Watchers are given the
toughest bodyguard missions with little leeway for success.
One
last chance.
These
are their stories . . .
Cowboy
Watch:
Someone—or
something—wants Kellen out of town . . .
Kellen
Brand’s inheritance comes as a monumental shock—a rundown farm she doesn’t want
and one paroled Watcher all her own. Kellen’s eccentric mother believed
Watchers to be fallen angels seeking penance by guarding individuals who had
lost their way. Seriously? A Watcher? Only her mother . . .
Since
Kellen vows no sane woman would choose to live in Riverside, she’s on a mission
to dump the old farm fast and to the first buyer who comes along. Unfortunately
for her, the only buyer is a resort developer, spurned by a townful of
objectors and one handsome cowboy—her neighbor, Luke Thornton. Luke must block
Kellen’s farm sale or risk exposure of his own family’s secrets. He can ill
afford his immediate and compelling attraction to his new neighbor.
Someone
is watching Kellen, but not who she thinks. Someone deadly and intent on
scaring her out of town. Or worse. Luke has a hellish choice to make—step in
and rescue Kellen from her threats, or to protect his family, stand by and
watch . . .
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Excerpt
Three:
A familiar aroma wafted up from the river, a combination of
humus, plant material, microscopic plankton, and a touch of fish. Unable to
stop the smile slowly stretching across her face, she untied her sneakers,
rolled up her jeans, and slipped into the icy water. She immediately gasped and
felt her smile deepen to a grin. Remaining in the soothing current for a long
time, she absorbed her surroundings as trout darted in and around the submerged
rocks to grab their plankton lunch.
A horse suddenly whickered behind her, followed by the
telltale creak of a saddle. Too close for comfort. The back of her neck
prickled. Ankle deep in the water, she couldn’t make a decent sprint for the
car, and Kellen regretted her impulse to visit this deserted stretch of
riverbank.
Easing around, she spied the towering silhouette of a
powerfully built man astride a huge black stallion no more than ten yards away.
The rider’s face lay shadowed beneath a wide-brimmed Stetson. The cowboy made
an impressive and, at this moment, intimidating sight—a throwback from the
frontier days of the Wild West.
The horse whickered again and sidestepped away from the edge
of the embankment, forcing the cowboy to twist around to keep her in sight. She
could feel his dark eyes scanning every inch of her. The intensity in his gaze
raised goose bumps on her arms, and a tiny shiver edged up her spine. Trapped
here along the edge of the river, she felt vulnerable yet strangely unafraid.
Would he come any closer?
A horn blared up on the highway, and she jumped with a yelp.
The big horse reared at the sound of her cry, and Kellen caught a brief glimpse
of the cowboy’s dark eyes, eyes that could stare right through to a girl’s
soul. She scrunched her own eyes shut and forced herself to breathe. When she
opened them, the rider was gone. Had she imagined him? Another mild shiver
rifled up her spine. No, the fearsome rider was definitely real.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Petie spent a large part of her career working at Walt Disney
World—"The Most Magical Place on
Earth"—where she enjoyed working in the land of fairy tales by day and
creating her own romantic fairy tales by night, including her new series, The
Cinderella Romances. She eventually said good-bye to her "day" job to
write her stories full-time.
These days Petie spends her time writing new Cinderella series
tales, her new The Watchers series, sequels to her regency time-travel series,
Lords in Time, and more contemporary romance standalones to go along with her
two previous releases—Any Fin For Love and Ambush in the Everglades.
Petie shares her home on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with
her horticulturist husband and an opinionated Nanday conure named Sassy who
will make a cameo appearance in the upcoming Book 2 of The Watchers, Christmas
Watch.
Visit Petie's web site online at http://www.petiemccarty.com or her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/petie.mccarty
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http://www.amazon.com/author/petiemccarty
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