Cowboy Karma
Cowboy Cocktail #4
By: Mia Hopkins
Released: October 18th, 2016
Little Stone Press
Tour Host: Barclay Publicity
Who Needs Luck When You Can Get Lucky?
Come back to the rodeo with Mia Hopkins
and the newest release in the Cowboy Cocktail series, COWBOY KARMA!
When Harmony Santos’s boyfriend dumps
her on her birthday, she doesn’t get mad. She gets lucky…with a mysterious
cowboy whose bedroom eyes and rough edges bring out her inner bad girl. But
when their one-night rodeo turns into more than a rebound, Harmony worries her
heart hasn’t healed enough to take on someone new—even if that someone is as
sweet as he is sexy.
Tie-down roper Lucky Garcia can’t
believe his good fortune. A shot at national finals and now this—his longtime
crush, in his arms at last. The more time he spends with Harmony, the harder he
falls for her. But financial demands and family responsibilities take him
further and further away from her—as does his secret fear she hasn’t quite
gotten over her dickhead ex.
Behind closed doors, Lucky and Harmony
are filthy perfection. But when reality comes knocking, the star-crossed lovers
must decide: walk away intact, or risk it all for a chance at happiness.
When Harmony Santos started dating a doctor, she changed
everything that made herself.well herself! She went from outgoing, loud, party
girl, to quite and restrained Nurse and girlfriend of a wealthy prestigious
doctor. But when Harmony's doctor boyfriend broke up with her at dinner on her
birthday! Harmony did the one thing that made her feel better! She went to the
local bar and met up with her sister! But then she did the one thing that she
never saw coming!...she had a one night stand with Lucky Garcia.
Lucky Garcia if finally on the fast track! As a tie-down
roper, he finally has a shot at the National Championships! Which will go A
LONG way to helping his family and help put his siblings through school! And
just to add to his all time high, his spent the night with the one women he has
had a crush on since high school! Harmony Santos!! But the morning after she is
full if retreat and that hurts Lucky more than he imagines.
But Lucky being the great guy that he is, offers to help
Harmony get her ex-boyfriend back, but Harmony is not sure she wants him, as
she is really attracted to Lucky…but is it the real thing or just a rebound
fling? And are they both willing to take that chance?
We are back with another installment in the Cowboys
Cocktails series, and this one is just that bit more delicious than the last!
It was SO quick for me to become addicted to Mia Hopkins books, they are so
well written and the plot is so delicious, that you are left craving for more!
I absolutely loved Lucky's character! He is just generally a
great person, whom worked hard for everything he had! I also loved the fact
that he was in the rodeo circuit, in order to help out his family!! Harmony
character was playful and maybe a hint of insecurities, which made you feel
like she was your friend and you just want to help her! I have to say my
favorite screen in the whole book, is when Harmony brings Lucky's Mom and
sister to his event!! That was a huge step for her in this book, and completely
melted my heart!
I give Cowboys Karma 5 stars.
The room was steamy with dancing and
pheromones. Harmony ordered a Bud Light and ran the icy bottle over her
forehead.
A new song started up. Shaking off her
melancholy, she strode right into the heart of the crowded dance floor. Steve
Earle’s “Copperhead Road”—an easy line dance. She counted her way in and soon
was stomping across the dance floor. The loud music pounded in her chest. Even
though it had been years since she’d line danced, her body knew the steps
without her thinking about them. The heartache receded a little.
More dancing. Maybe some shots. Maybe
making out with a stranger. That’ll keep me from feeling…this. Whatever this
ugly feeling is.
She danced solo for three more songs.
Then an old-timer led her in a waltz. The country gentleman was followed by a
baby-faced cowboy in a camo baseball cap. She danced three more songs with him
and bid him goodbye with a hug and a kiss on the cheek—too young.
The DJ took the mike. “Next up, the
cowboy cha-cha.”
A slower dance. Harmony fanned herself
with her hand and thought this might be a good time to grab a shot of Fireball
chased with another beer.
She turned to leave the dance floor
when a big warm hand rested on her shoulder.
“Wait. Don’t go yet.”
She turned. In the dark, the new
cowboy’s face was obscured in the shadow of his hat. The DJ cued up an old
Bellamy Brothers song Harmony remembered her father loved. It began, “If I said
you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?” She knew the words as
surely as she knew her own name.
The dancers around them paired off in a
hurry and got into the sweetheart position. Everyone counted off together and
started around the massive dance floor in a counter-clockwise direction, all in
time.
Before Harmony could say anything, the
stranger took her hands and spun her. His movements were sure and strong. He
was an experienced dancer, not someone who had to be babysat around the floor.
“Been a long time, hasn’t it?” he said.
She stole sideways glances at him. Tall
and muscular, he wore a black hat and a plaid shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
His forearms were thick and smooth. She could see that he had a strong jaw, a
dark, short beard, and dark skin. He spoke crystal-clear English with a lilting
Mexican accent.
“You don’t remember me, do you,
Harmony?”
She stared.
A half-smile. “Guess I’m just another
cowboy to you.”
For strangers, they moved in perfect
rhythm. Harmony felt grateful that he was a strong lead since her brain was
otherwise occupied with trying to figure out who he was. When he brought their
bodies together, chest to chest, she looked up at him. His body gave off
controlled strength and a smooth, unnerving calm. At last, she peeked under the
shadow of his cowboy hat.
Dark brows. Bedroom eyes the color of
whiskey.
No way. “Lucky?”
Forget chocolate and
flowers. This homegrown honey is all the sweetness he craves.
Small-town life is
nothing but a waiting room for eighteen-year-old honor student Corazón Gomez.
Work and school leave little time for love, but with a full-ride Ivy League
scholarship and a one-way ticket out of the boondocks, who needs it?
The answer appears on
Valentine’s Day when her old cowboy crush ambles into the ice cream parlor
where she works, inviting her to go on a late-night ride in his truck. For the
first time she wavers between staying on the straight and narrow, and going
off-road with the handsome heartbreaker.
After four years working
on ranches all over the country, Caleb MacKinnon is back on the family farm
helping out his mom and brothers while his father fights cancer. The one bright
spot: smart, funny, and wickedly sexy Cora.
From the start, they both
know this blazing-hot love affair can’t last. But when autumn comes and Cora
has to leave for the East Coast, Caleb must find a solution to keep himself—and
his heart—from falling apart.
Ball-busting business
woman meets no-holds-barred cowboy. He’s gonna need a longer rope…
Marketing hotshot Monica Kaur has put
her big-city life on hold to help bail out her brother’s failing business. Now
she’s got three months to plan and promote a rodeo, the first her tiny hometown
has ever seen.
To ensure the rodeo’s success, Monica
enlists a local hero, a rancher’s son who’s made a name for himself on the
bull-riding circuit. Problem? She can’t stop daydreaming about the cocky
bastard—and all the things she longs to do to him out behind the chutes.
Professional bullfighter Dean MacKinnon
is home helping his family while his father fights cancer. Haunted by bad
memories, jaded by love, Dean finds escape in a no-strings-attached go-round
with brainy, sexy Monica, whose close-knit Sikh-American family would sooner
run him out of town than see her with a notorious rodeo Romeo.
In private, Monica and Dean play as
hard as they work. But as the rodeo draws near, that clean break they promised
each other is getting more and more hung up in the rigging.
For eight years, Melody Santos played
the game of love and lost—big time. Now she’s back in her tiny hometown looking
after her younger sister, making ends meet with an assortment of odd jobs. When
her childhood best friend hires her to help him sell his family’s grass-fed
beef, the last thing she anticipates is falling in lust with the legendary,
brown-eyed player.
To put his family’s cattle ranch back
in the black, Clark MacKinnon has his sights set on big contracts—gourmet chefs
and restaurateurs. If that means long hours traveling from farmer’s market to
farmer’s market, Clark doesn’t mind. Particularly since his new assistant is
his childhood crush, all grown up and sexy as hell.
One night in bed leaves them breathless
and hungry for more. But when his love-’em-and-leave-’em reputation collides
with her trust issues, Clark and Melody must face the truth about what they’ve
become: not friends, not lovers, but players in a game that’s impossible to
win.
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Mia Hopkins writes lush romances
starring fun, sexy characters who love to get down and dirty. She's a sucker
for working class heroes, brainy heroines and wisecracking best friends.
When she's not lost in a story, Mia
spends her time cooking, gardening, traveling, volunteering and looking for her
keys. In a past life, she was a classroom teacher and still has a pretty good
"teacher voice" and "teacher stare."
She lives in the heart of Los Angeles
with her roguish husband and two waggish dogs.
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