A hearty welcome goes to Andrea Downing. She's a very excited lady since her debut novel, LOVELAND, releases tomorrow-Friday 10th August-from The Wild Rose Press. Congratulations, Andrea!
I'm delighted that Andrea has brought along a taster of 'Loveland' to share with us in advance. Here's the blurb:
When Lady
Alexandra Calthorpe returns to the Loveland,
Colorado, ranch owned by her
father, the Duke, she has little idea of how the experience will alter her
future. Headstrong and willful, Alex tries to overcome a disastrous marriage in
England
and be free of the strictures of Victorian society --and become independent of
men. That is, until Jesse Makepeace saunters back into her life...
Hot-tempered and
hot-blooded cowpuncher Jesse Makepeace can’t seem to accept that the child he
once knew is now the ravishing yet determined woman before him. Fighting
rustlers proves a whole lot easier than fighting Alex when he’s got to keep
more than his temper under control.
Arguments abound
as Alex pursues her career as an artist and Jesse faces the prejudice of the English
social order. The question is, will Loveland
live up to its name?
Andrea Downing has
spent most of her life in the UK
where she developed a penchant for tea-drinking, a tolerance for rainy days,
and a deep knowledge of the London Underground system (or ‘Tube’). In 2008 she returned to live in the city of
her birth, NYC, but frequently exchanges the canyons of city streets for the
wide open spaces of the West. Her love
of horses, ranches, rodeo and just about anything else western—especially
cowboys (not one in particular, sadly, but still looking…) is reflected in her
writing. Loveland,
a western historical romance published by The Wild Rose Press, is her first
book. She is a member of Romance Writers
of America and Women Writing the West. Her WIP is contemporary women’s fiction
with a Texas Hill Country meets the New York Hamptons setting.
Andrea can be found at:
Now here's a fabulous excerpt to whet the appetite:
The two
men looked over at Jesse who was leading his own horse into the stable, anger
etched in every muscle of his face. Joe nodded toward the chuck house and they
followed the others in to leave Alex alone when Jesse came out.
She was
starting back to the main house when Jesse grabbed her arm and turned her
around. “You ever do that again,” he said in a voice she had never heard,
intense in its anger, rage just below its surface, “I swear to God, Alex,
I’ll...I’ll take you over my knee and give you a lickin’ once and for all.”
“How
dare you!” She shook him off. “How dare you talk to me like that! How dare you!
Who the hell do you think you are?”
Jesse
jabbed his finger at her to emphasize he meant what he was saying. “Who do I
think I am?”he snarled back. “Who do I think I am? You ever, ever take a gun
off me again and point it at someone, you’ll find out who the hell I think I
am. You know that coulda gone off? You know you coulda killed someone? I told
you—out there yonder—I told you, you never point that thing at anyone less’n
you mean bus’ness.”
“I did
bloody well mean business! They were destroying that horse. Furthermore, I
knew, and you knew, and they both knew, there wasn’t a shot under the hammer.
You taught me that, didn’t you? So there was no chance of an accident!”
“That
don’t matter none. You coulda pulled the hammer back twice. Way you was, you
were nothin’ better’n a loose cannon, Alex. You ever do a thing like that
again—”
“You’ll
what?” She shook with her rage as tears pooled against her will. “I apologized
to them both and they accepted my apologies. It’s none of your concern—”
“None of
my concern! You pulled my gun! You ever do that again— Don’t you walk away when
I’m talkin’ to you!”
She
turned back to him after a few steps. “You’ll what? You’ll what, Jesse? What
will you do? I want to hear it! Say it again. What will you do?” And she stood
there in the evening darkness, facing him down, wearing him out like she’d
faced down the stallion.
Nancy says: Oh my! Whatever comes next? Does she walk away...or is it the first kiss?....
Loveland can be purchased from:Nancy says: Oh my! Whatever comes next? Does she walk away...or is it the first kiss?....
amazon details will follow soon.
Thank you so much for bringing 'Loveland' today, Andrea. Best wishes for tomorrow and for great sales!
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