Once Upon
a Cowboy
Whisper Creek # 1
Whisper Creek # 1
By: Maggie McGinnis
Releasing June 30,
2015
Loveswept
Inside The Covers:
In this
sexy Whisper Creek romance for readers of Kristan Higgins, Susan Mallery, and
Molly O’Keefe, a red-hot cowboy uses some Montana
Yoga
instructor Jessalyn Alcott radiates peace, calm, and serenity—on the outside.
Inside, she still feels like the broken, desperate girl from the trailer park.
She’s got dark secrets she can’t share, which is why she never lets her
relationships go beyond the third date. But when she travels to the Whisper
Creek dude ranch for a friend’s wedding, Jess is enchanted by a cowboy whose
deep blue eyes, dimpled smile, and rock-hard body make it tough to remember why
she keeps running scared.
Cole
Driscoll has struggled to find his place on a family ranch where he’s always
played second fiddle. His future might be uncertain, but he’s sure of one
thing: He wants Jess by his side. Easier said than done. When it comes to getting
close, she’s full of excuses, and he longs to fix the hurt he sees in her eyes.
Now that she’s at Whisper Creek, there’s nothing he wants more than to break
down the walls around her heart and heal her pain with the power of love.
My Review:
Maggie McGinnis writes wonderful small town romances with lots of heart. Her books are full of love, friendship and family, warts and all.
Jess Alcott has come to Whisper Creek for her friends wedding. She's built a good life despite a terrible childhood and a big secret, one she has never even shared with friends. While smart and confident on the outside, she still has the deep insecurities which keeps herself from letting herself find the person to share her life with.
Cole Driscoll has his problems with family and feels like he is a shadow to his brother. Jess is the sexy woman he relates to and could find himself falling for if only she would let him. As they become closer, her past comes back to haunt her. Trust does not come easy and she must decide if she can share them with friends and especially Cole.
I really felt for Jess. She makes a great heroine and didn't deserve the childhood she received with only one person that cared enough to save her by letting her go. Cole is her perfect match. He needed to let his feelings be known to his family about his place on the ranch, and then he could freely share the love that was growing for Jess.
This is another good story in the Whisper Creek series and I hope there are plenty more in the future.
Maggie McGinnis writes wonderful small town romances with lots of heart. Her books are full of love, friendship and family, warts and all.
Jess Alcott has come to Whisper Creek for her friends wedding. She's built a good life despite a terrible childhood and a big secret, one she has never even shared with friends. While smart and confident on the outside, she still has the deep insecurities which keeps herself from letting herself find the person to share her life with.
Cole Driscoll has his problems with family and feels like he is a shadow to his brother. Jess is the sexy woman he relates to and could find himself falling for if only she would let him. As they become closer, her past comes back to haunt her. Trust does not come easy and she must decide if she can share them with friends and especially Cole.
I really felt for Jess. She makes a great heroine and didn't deserve the childhood she received with only one person that cared enough to save her by letting her go. Cole is her perfect match. He needed to let his feelings be known to his family about his place on the ranch, and then he could freely share the love that was growing for Jess.
This is another good story in the Whisper Creek series and I hope there are plenty more in the future.
About The Author
Maggie McGinnis, USA Today
Bestselling Author of Accidental Cowgirl and Driving Without a License, which
was a finalist for Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award is a former
high school English teacher, an accomplished musician, and a certified black
belt, who lives in New England with her family.
Excerpt # 1
JULY 25, THIRTEEN YEARS AGO
She’d always imagined a gun would make a
louder sound, especially on a sticky summer night with only the crickets as
competition. But it was more of a pop—like a kids’ toy rather than a lethal
weapon—as Billy aimed it at the cashier and pulled the trigger.
Wait in the car, he’d said. I’m gonna get Old Man Mack to
sell me some beer.
So she’d sat in the passenger seat, eyes
glued on the store’s plate glass front window, figuring the worst he was going
to do was pull his charming I-forgot-my-ID act.
Her hand went to her mouth as Mack grabbed
his own chest, spun, and then fell behind the counter. She felt blindly for the
car door handle as she watched Billy scoop bills from the cash drawer, but she
couldn’t get out fast enough. She heard a strangled sound that must have come
from her as he came flying out of the store carrying a case of Bud and the money.
He wrenched open the driver’s door and
tossed the case toward her, then gunned the engine before he had his door fully
closed. Gravel spit out behind them as he swung onto the pavement and shot the
car toward downtown, and she couldn’t seem to take a whole breath as she
watched the rearview mirror.
“That was Mack.” Her voice came out in a
whisper. “You just shot . . . Mack.”
“You know him?” Billy looked over at her,
then grabbed her knee. Hard. “Mack shoulda let me have the beer,
princess.”
He squeezed harder, making her wince. “You
didn’t see nothing, you got that?”
“God, Billy. We need to call the police. He
needs an ambulance.” She didn’t dare crane her neck to look out the back
window, but couldn’t get the sight of Mack crumpling behind the counter out of
her head.
Billy let out a short, maniacal laugh that
made her cringe. “People need to learn who’s in charge around here, princess.
Sometimes you gotta teach hard lessons, you know?”
Oh, she knew, all right. Mack wasn’t the
only one Billy was trying to teach lately. She felt for the door handle again,
but the speedometer was holding steady at forty. Leave it to Billy to shoot a
guy cold, then obey the speed limit all the way back to his apartment. She dug
her fingernails into her palm, desperate to be out of this car—desperate to be
as far away from Billy as possible.
She’d had her breakup speech memorized for
three weeks now, but still hadn’t had the courage to deliver it. And now? She
shivered, scared to her very core. If Billy’d shoot Mack over a case of beer,
what would he do to her if she tried to cut him loose?
“We can’t just leave him there, Billy. What
if he—dies?” Her voice cracked as she pictured Mack handing her a piece of
bubble gum every Saturday when Grampy used to bring her in for a root beer and
a scratch ticket.
“Who we gonna call, princess? The po-lice?”
He drew out the word like it amused him. Billy looked over at her again, and
she shrank toward the door. “We need to have a little talk about this?”
“No.” Their last little talk had left
her with a bag of frozen peas on her ribs and a headache that didn’t go away
for a week. She took a catchy breath. “No little talk.”
“Good.” He nodded, pointing toward the case
on her lap. “Crack me one of those brews, wouldja? I think I earned it.”
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