by Petie McCarty
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GENRE: Contemporary Romance
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BLURB:
A cozy romantic mystery with suspense, Book 1 from The Mystery Angel Romances series. An angel hidden in every book . . . it's up to the reader to figure out who.
In No Cowboys No Angels, Kellen Brand's inheritance turns out to be a whopper—one dilapidated farm in West Virginia and one guardian angel!
Since Kellen is convinced no sane woman would choose to live in Riverside, she vows to sell her farm and quick. Her handsome neighbor Luke Kenyon must block the farm sale or risk exposure of his family's secrets. While Kellen has located one potential buyer, she faces a town full of objectors. Someone is trying to frighten her off, and Luke is forced to step in and rescue her more than once.
Unfortunately, Kellen can't seem to stay out of trouble. She stumbles onto a clandestine hazardous-waste-dumping operation next to her farm, and she prays Luke has one more rescue up his sleeve. It's her only hope of staying alive.
Unless her mother really did leave her a guardian angel . . .
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Excerpt :
“So, why are you here? On my front porch. Peeking in my windows.”
Kellen gave Luke a glare fit for the devil. “I was not peeking. I was trying to see if anyone was home.”
He waited.
Her eyes narrowed. “I didn’t want anything.” She hesitated. “I wasn’t doing anything.”
“Well, if you didn’t want anything and you weren’t doing anything . . .” He eased the powerful horse right up next to her though she stood her ground on the bottom step. “. . . then you must need a ride home.”
He snatched her off the step before she could answer and counted on the little spitfire having the presence of mind to swing her leg over the horse when Windsor took off. She didn’t disappoint him. The stallion streaked for the break in the tree line, and she clung to him like a tick on a coon dog. The feel of her arms around his waist had his heart rate matching Windsor’s rhythmic gait once again. Through the tree break and across her unplowed fields, they galloped.
He should slow the horse on the uneven ground. He really should. But if he did, Kellen would loosen her death grip on him.
The sure-footed stallion galloped across the fields as though he knew right where Luke was headed. He waited to the last possible second to rein in the black horse at Kellen’s front steps, then reached around at the same time to slide her off Windsor’s back. Once her feet touched the ground with her balance assured, he tapped his heels to the stallion and cantered back across the fields. He didn’t dare risk a backward glance and spoil his memory of the ride with another hard glare from the beauty.
Review: Petie McCarty delivers a wonderful small town romance with a touch of mystery, oh and did I mention guardian angels?
This book has so much going for it for me. I loved the setting of a small town in WV. This isn't a typical state for books to be set in, at least from what I've read. Since I live in neighboring PA, I was excited to see how the author portrayed small town, WV.
Kellen is back to sell a dilapidated family farm that was left to her. She thought selling would be easy, but it is anything but.
I loved that both lead characters were strong willed. Kellen especially is a tough cookie. There are a lot of sparks flying between the two of them. You're never too sure if these to are going to get together or start a knock down drag out fight.
The suspense builds nicely as the story goes on.
If you are a fan of romantic suspense, this is definitely a book you won't want to pass up.
Rating: 4 flowers
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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 sequels to her regency time-travel series, Lords in Time, and her cozy-mystery-with-romantic-suspense series, the Mystery Angel Romances.
Petie shares her home on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with her horticulturist husband and a noisy Nanday conure named Sassy who made a cameo appearance in No Angels at Christmas coming April 2019.
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4 comments:
Thank you for hosting today!
This is my favorite genre, and I can't wait to read this!!
Thank you for your kind words and for taking valuable time to read and review my story!
Have a magical Spring!
Petie
Thanks Mya! I hope you enjoy the story. Book 2 releases in a couple weeks!
Have a magical week,
Petie
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