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BLURB:
Ever since a disastrous marriage and divorce at a young age,
Pickett Lockhart has kept his emotions under control. He’s preoccupied anyway
with learning to be the general manager of the vast Double-Barrel Ranch outside
of Drinkwell, Texas. Still, his older brother’s marriage and looming fatherhood
has aroused an envy within him to have a wife, kids and home of his own. But he
can’t get married, even to a woman he loves who also loves him. His divorce cost
him and his family a bundle, leaving him with an overwhelming fear of stepping
into another financial trap.
Amanda Breckenridge, swim team coach and English teacher in
Drinkwell High School, has been in love with Pic for as long as she can
remember. They were high school sweethearts. After he eloped with someone he met in college,
Amanda left Drinkwell. Her father’s illness brought her back to town and a
revived relationship with Pic. But Pic’s mother has never thought Amanda was
good enough for him. She intends to destroy their relationship by sending a
friend’s beautiful daughter to the ranch to tempt Pic. Can Amanda and Pic’s
bond survive his mother and her schemes? Or the unexpected career opportunity
that falls into Amanda’s lap?
EXCERPT:
Chapter 1
Standing at a dark-tinted window wall, sipping at a
Crown and water, Pickett Charles Lockhart looked out from the Petroleum Club’s
cocktail lounge in downtown Fort Worth. Suffocated. That was the word that
described how he felt.
Forty stories below, vehicles that looked like toy
cars moved through the city streets. Low-hanging clouds in a leaden sky teased
with the possibility of longed-for rain. Relief from the relentless drought
ought to make any man in an agriculture business— as he was—happy. But Pic only
hoped to hell those clouds didn’t gin up a storm and a big blow while he was
still on the fortieth floor of this building. He didn’t mind high places if his
feet were firmly planted on God’s earth, but a high-rise building made him
dizzy. No way could he ever adapt to life in a skyscraper in the city where his
older brother Drake had lived the last few years. Trying to overcome a powerful
urge to bolt, he took a step backward.
His younger half-brother, Troy Rattigan, who
enjoyed nothing more than yanking his chain, looked at him across his shoulder
and chuckled. “What’s the matter, Bro? All that space out there make you
queasy?”
Pic ignored the dig, running his finger around the
inside of his collar. His tie threatened to choke him. He couldn’t remember the
last time he had worn one. “April first,” he groused. “Helluva day to get
married, if you ask me.”
AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Anna
Jeffrey is an award-winning author of romance novels as well as romantic
comedy/mystery. She has written 9 romance novels and co-authored 7 as USA Today
Bestselling author, Dixie Cash. Her most recent book is “The Tycoon.”
Anna
Jeffrey's books have won the Write Touch Readers' Award, the Aspen Gold, and
the More Than Magic awards. Her books have been finalists in the Colorado
Romance Writers award, the Golden Quill and Southern Magic as well as the Write
Touch Readers' Award, the Aspen Gold and the More than Magic awards. She is a
member of Romance Writers of America, Dallas Area Romance Authors and PASIC.
Anna
is a fifth generation Texan. She was born and grew up in West Texas, where most
of her family members were farmers and ranchers or worked in the oil fields.
She left Texas for many years and lived in four of the western states, a rich
experience she’ll never forget.
She
loves most things western, from the customs and culture to the philosophy of
life. She enjoys many hobbies, i.e., reading, painting and drawing, crafting,
needlework and beading.
These
days, she’s back home in Texas. She and her husband currently live in Granbury,
Texas, a small town not far from the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
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Hi, everyone. Thanks to Books and Other Spells for featuring THE CATTLEMAN today. Glad you enjoyed the excerpt, Mary. It's from the book opening that picks up where Book #1, THE TYCOON, leaves off.
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