To Tame a Wild Cowboy

Cupid, Texas, #7

by Lori Wilde

Publication Date: May 21st 2019

Publisher: Avon Books

Genre: Contemporary Romance

New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde’s series set in Cupid, TX continues as one free-wheeling cowboy discovers he has a child—and a chance at real love with the last woman he expected.

What would it take to tame a wild cowboy?

The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . TO TAME A WILD COWBOY (Cupid, TX) . . . Let us get this show started. Rhett Lockhart one hot, sexy, steamy, cowboy right down to the Stetson and the boots. He's a cowboy down to the bone and his way of loving them and leaving them may have just come to an end with the arrival of a baby and it's foster mother. Things soon turn to what's best for baby.

We find ourselves back in Cupid, TX and the wonderful characters that have been presented to us over the years. Rhett's no stranger to the life of ranching, rodeo shows, screaming women, and one-night stands, but what he wasn't prepared for was a daughter. One that he very much wanted. Just how far would he go to have his daughter in his life. Rhett finds that life is not as simple as he may have thought it to be. Being a father takes work and compromise. Tara becomes part of that work and compromise. Watching their journey was entertaining. The growth of the characters, mainly Rhett, gives you something to continue to turn the pages for.

Tara comes with her own set of issues. She wants a family so much that she has fallen hopelessly in love with a baby that's not her's. But that may be power for the course. She was a nurse and nurturing was part of her nature.

Come in and enjoy this journey of self-discovery, understanding choices, making compromises, and romance.

BLURB

One minute, Rhett Lockhart is a love ‘em and leave ‘em bull rider with a slow, sexy smile, a swagger, and not a care in the world. The next, he learns his free-wheeling days are over: a baby has been abandoned in the hospital, and there’s no question: he’s the father. But from the first moment he gazes into his daughter’s eyes, he knows the moment has come to say ‘no’ to no-strings. It’s time to grow up.

Standing in his way is the baby’s foster mother, Tara Alzate, who doesn’t quite believe Rhett is ready to change his ways. Still, she’s not immune to his considerable charms. So when he proposes a marriage of convenience and shared custody, against her better judgement, she says “I do.” Can Tara tame this wild cowboy and make her own, long-buried dreams come true?

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EXCERPT

“Rhett, you may now kiss your bride.” Here it was. The moment Tara had been dreading since she’d cooked up this farcical idea. She’d made him promise to dole out nothing by a mere hint of a kiss, the barest brushing, the smallest increment of lip touching that they could get away with. He’d promised. She trusted him. He leaned in. She braced herself, locking her knees. Hang on. It’ll be over in an instant. His head dipped. She tipped her chin up. Rhett’s mouth came down on hers and for a second, he was playing by the rules and she sighed with relief, and thought, wow, this is nice . . .But the thought was premature. Her lips parted involuntarily, and she closed her eyes and sank against him. Well and completely lost.

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Author Info

A fifth generation Texan, LORI WILDE is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 82 works of fiction. She’s a three-time nominee of the Romance Writers of America prestigious RITA award and has won numerous other awards. She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Texas Christian University, and a certificate in forensics.

She is also a certified Hatha yoga instructor, and runs a yoga/creativity retreat for artists at Epiphany Orchards in Weatherford, Texas, the Cutting Horse Capital of the World.

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Million Dollar Cowboy
Cupid, Texas #5

by Lori Wilde

Releasing March 28^th 2017
Avon

New York Times Bestselling Author Lori Wilde returns to Cupid, Texas with a heartwarming story of a cowboy who comes home to the family ranch for a wedding filled with surprises…

The Book Junkie Reads . . .Review of: Million Dollar Cowboy (Cupid, Texas, #5) . . . Here we are back in Cupid, TX. That was not exactly where Ridge Lockhart was wanting to be. But home was not where he wanted to be. The son no one wanted. The young man that was spurned by love. The child without a mother. The lone wolf that would make it all on his own. The desire of one lovely creature. Ridge had to figure life out for himself. No one said that he had to do it all alone. In come the one temptation that he may not be able to completely resist. But will he be able to commit.

Kaia was everything he remember and so much more. Now, she was a woman and just as captivating as she was then, but still she was his best friend sister. He knew there was a line he should not cross. This was the one person in the world that could get him to stay in the one place he did not want to be. Ridge had a lot to contend with and it just was going to take time for him to get it all in to place.

I have loved the Cupid, TX series since I first picked up one of the books. I found the characters to be quaint, sweet, innocent, lively, fierce, heroic, independent, determined, strong, and so much more. With each new installment, there’s more to fall in love with in and about Cupid, TX. The written is delightful. The characters enchanting and sexy cowboy heroes are not hard to picture with each new one presented.

Cupid, Texas series:

One True Cupid – Cupid, Texas, #.5

Love at First Sight – Cupid, Texas, #1

All Out of Love – Cupid, Texas, #2

Somebody to Lover – Cupid, Texas, #3

Love with a Perfect Cowboy – Cupid, Texas, #4

Million Dollar Cowboy – Cupid, Texas, #5

BlurbThe illegitimate son of a Texas ranching dynasty, Ridge Lockhart left home ten years ago with one goal: to become more successful than the father who never accepted him.

Mission accomplished, but now he’s back at the Silver Feather Ranch for a wedding—three days of best man duty until he can hightail it out. Then he spies Kaia Alzate, and suddenly leaving isn’t quite so appealing.

Kaia Alzate grew up the daughter of the ranch foreman, servants to the mighty Lockharts in the mansion. Back then, she followed Ridge around like a puppy. Now, she’s fighting the attraction she feels for this sexy CEO. She’s determined not to make a big mistake—but when Ridge takes her in his arms she’s stunned…could he be the man she’s waited for all along?

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For the first time in a decade Ridge Lockhart was coming home.

He circled his Evektor Harmony over Silver Feather Ranch—the hundred-thousand-acre spread sprawling across Jeff Davis and Presidio counties—that had been in his family for six generations.

A cheery sun peeped over the horizon, greeting him jovially. Hey buddy! Good morning. Welcome back to the fifth circle of hell.

His jaw clenched and his stomach churned and the old dark anger he thought he’d stamped out years ago by working hard and making his mark on the world came roaring back, leonine as March winds.

He was in town for one reason and one reason only. Do the best man thing for his childhood buddy, Archer Alzate, and then get the mothertrucker out of Cupid, Texas.

ASAP.

Ridge took his time coming in, buzzing the plane lower than he should have. Taking stock. Sizing things up. No matter how you sliced it, this was where he’d been hatched and reared. He could not escape his past.

Miles of desert stretched below his plane, land so dry a man got parched just looking at it. Land filled with cactus and chaparral flats. Land teeming with rattlesnakes, horned toads, and stinging insects. Land that claimed lives and crops, hopes and dreams in equal measure.

This land was a far cry from the cool, green country where he lived in Calgary. But damn his hide if he hadn’t missed it. The Chihuahuan Desert. The TransPecos. Cupid. Silver Feather Ranch.

Home.

And that was his personal curse. To hate the very place that called to his soul, the place where he did not belong, but secretly yearned for.

Throat tight, tongue powdery, he reached for the gonzo-sized energy drink resting in the cup holder and guzzled it.

Ah. Much better. Thirst quenched. Caffeine buzzed. Cobwebs chased.

Ready or not, here I come.

His chest knotted up like extra string on a windwhipped kite. He dipped the plane lower, coming in, coming down.

Their paternal grandfather, Cyril, had left all four Lockhart grandsons two-acre parcels of land on each four quadrants of the ranch, with the stipulation that none of them could sell their places without approval from the entire family. Which was the only reason Ridge had held on to his house.

To the north, he spied Ranger’s place. His brother had built an ecofriendly, solar home out of reclaimed wood and recycled everything.

Out of the four Lockhart brothers, he and Ranger were closest in age. Ranger was thirty-one to Ridge’s thirty-two, but they were as different in temperament as wind and earth. Maybe it was because they had different mothers. Maybe it was because Ranger was a brainy astrobiologist and Ridge was an act-first-ask-questions-later entrepreneur. Or maybe it was because Ranger was a legitimate Lockhart, whereas Ridge was the bastard.

His two other younger brothers, Remington and Rhett, had the same mother. Lucy Hurd had been his father’s second wife and the closest thing to a real mother Ridge had ever had. He’d been devastated by kindhearted Lucy’s death from ovarian cancer when he was in junior high.

Army Captain Remington was twenty-eight and currently deployed in the Middle East. He had stuck a travel trailer on his parcel of land on the west side of the ranch for a place to stay when he was home on leave, but hadn’t bothered to commit to construction. And the youngest, Rhett, was a PBR bull-riding rodeo star. He had built a rustic log cabin on the south end of the ranch in Presidio County.

Ridge flew over their places, taking it all in, but resisted the urge to buzz the east side of the ranch where his house stood. The house he’d built, but had never lived in. The house he hadn’t seen in ten years. Up ahead, in the dead center of the ranch, lay the landing strip put in for crop dusting planes. Around the landing strip were stables, bunkhouses, three barns, numerous sheds, the foreman’s farmhouse where Archer lived, and at the top of a small hill, the extravagant mansion where Ridge had once stood on the front porch and rung that orange bell.

The mansion where his father lived with his third wife, Vivi.

Yep. Gossip of the decade. Vivi Courtland. Ridge’s onetime girlfriend was now his old man’s spouse.

His stomach churned and deep-rooted resentment covered him, thick as the hard pack soil. Back. All the useless feelings he thought he’d conquered were back, as layered and nuanced as ever.

Anger. Shame. Fear. Guilt. Disgust.

“Damn it,” he muttered, settled a straw Stetson on his head, and climbed from the cockpit, an unwanted lump in his throat and the morning sun in his eyes.

He forced himself to breathe. In. Out. Smooth and steady. Nothing disturbed him. He was the boss. In control. In charge. Tough.

Ridge pocketed the plane’s key remote control, turned to the cargo hold to get his gear, and . . .

. . . that’s when he spied her.

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Lori Wilde is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 70 works of romantic fiction. She is a two-time RITA award nominee, a four time Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice nominee and has won numerous other awards. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Texas Christian University and holds a certificate in nursing forensics. An animal lover, Lori is owned by several pets, and lives in Texas with her husband, Bill.

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