Monday, April 28, 2025

Blog Tour: COWBOY WATCH by Petie McCarty

 

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

 

BIO Social Media:

http://www.petiemccarty.com

https://www.facebook.com/petie.mccarty

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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6094579.Petie_McCarty

https://www.bookbub.com/authors/petie-mccarty

http://www.amazon.com/author/petiemccarty

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GIVEAWAY 

Petie McCarty will be awarding a $15 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner.


27 comments:

  1. What authors or books shaped your voice the most?

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    1. Books and movies I think, shaped my overall voice, being an addict of both, though more books now than movies. My list of favorite authors is too long to list them all here, though it leads off with Linda Howard, Jayne Ann Krentz, Jennifer Crusie, Rachel Gibson and for historical, Grace Burrowes, Cathy Maxwell and Sarah MacLean. Should I admit I have well over 800 books inmy Kindle and those are the ones I kept and didn't delete. Oh, and I'm a total action thriller and John Wayne movie fan!

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    1. Thanks, Trident Graphics does my covers. Always an incredible job and this is number six so far!

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    1. Thanks, Rita, and thanks for following my tour!

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  4. I enjoy romantic suspense. Sounds like a good one.

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    1. Thanks for sticking with me, Marcy! Means a lot!

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  5. The book sounds very intriguing. Thanks!

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  6. Thanks! I hope you'll give it a try!

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  7. This looks like an interesting read!

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  8. Great excerpt and giveaway. :)

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    1. Love Cowboy movies and Cowboy stories, so it was great fun writing this one!

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  9. This looks like a very good book.

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    1. Thanks so much! That was what I was going for. That, spooky and of course, suspense.

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  11. Sounds good. Thank you for the excerpt! :)

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    1. You're very welcome! I hope you enter the giveaway!

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  12. What was the "spark" moment that made you want to write this story?

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    2. Actually, I was sitting in church one Sunday morning and the New Testament lesson was Hebrews 13:2--"Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it." I thought, "Holy cow! Angels are down here walking around among us, and we don't know it. And the series was born. My partner at Disney was from West Virginia, so that was the where. And like I mentioned before, I'm a sucker for Cowboy movies and books< :)

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