***GIVEAWAY: Kathleen is giving away one eBook of Hearts and Spurs to one lucky reader. (In the reader’s choice of formats.) Read on to find out how you may win a copy! Winner to be announced on Valentine’s Day!
FIRST KISS: THE SECOND-BEST RANGER IN TEXAS
by Kathleen Rice Adams
by Kathleen Rice Adams
In “The Second-Best Ranger in Texas,” a washed-up Texas Ranger and a failed nun are the only line of defense for the survivors of a brutal bandit raid. Holed up inside a mission on the Texas-Mexico border, they face a gang of cutthroats.
The Winchester’s thunder and an army’s reply sent Dulce’s hand diving for the rosary beads in her pocket. Quinn’s strangled curse numbed her fingers. A dark splotch blossomed on his sleeve.She scrambled to his side.
“Get back.”
Ignoring the fierce hiss, she snatched the knife from his belt and slashed her petticoat.
Her shoulders met adobe with a jarring thud.
Green eyes blazed inches from hers. “I can’t fight you and them at the same time.”
“You are bleeding.”
“It’s a scratch. I’ll be fine.”
He possessed an unusual definition for scratch. Blood soaked his sleeve from shoulder to elbow. He did not seem to notice or care.
“Does nothing frighten you?” The shaky words surely betrayed her fear.
A slow blink cleared the anger from his eyes. In the sudden silence, his hoarse whisper filled the room. “You frighten me, Dulce.” A calloused palm cupped the side of her face as his gaze draped her with a caress. “Losing you to a bullet scares the hell out of me.”
Trembling lips brushed hers. So soft. So tender. So much strength in such a gentle touch.
Too soon, he drew away. His thumb rubbed a circle behind her ear. “If we live through this, I’m not going to want to turn you loose.”
Tears burned the backs of her eyes. “Then don’t.”
***GIVEAWAY: Kathleen is giving away one eBook of Hearts and Spurs to one lucky reader. (In the reader’s choice of formats.) Leave a comment or ask a question. Don't know what to say or ask? Then answer this question: What are your plans for Valentine's Day?
Winner to be announced on Valentine’s Day!
ABOUT THE BOOK: THE SECOND BEST RANGER IN TEXAS in the Valentine's Day Anthology, Hearts and Spurs from the Prairie Rose Publication
Sister María Tomás thought she wanted to become a nun, but five years as a postulant have convinced her childhood dreams aren’t always meant to be. At last ready to relinquish the temporary vows she never should have made, she begs the only man she trusts to collect her from a mission in the middle of nowhere.
When the ex-Ranger’s quest collides with the ex-nun’s plea in a burned-out border town, unexpected love blooms among shared memories of the dead man who was a brother to them both.
Too bad he was also the only man who could have warned them about the carnage to come.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Descended from a long line of Texas ranchers, preachers, and teachers on one side and Kentucky horse thieves and moonshiners on the other, Kathleen Rice Adams had no choice but to become an outlaw. Fortunately, the wanted posters haven't caught up with her yet.
For the past thirty years, she's stayed two steps ahead of a lynch mob as an award-winning news writer, editor, and columnist, covering everything from airline disasters, political scandals, and courtroom drama to emerging technologies, dog shows, and hauntings. She also has ghost-written or edited several non-fiction books, in addition to co-writing a series of noir-ish parodies starring a canine detective.
A Texan to the bone, when she’s not playing with the people in her head, Kathleen bows to the whims of the men in her life: her significant other of 20-plus years and three tiny canine tyrants.
Find Kathleen on the web at:
For the past thirty years, she's stayed two steps ahead of a lynch mob as an award-winning news writer, editor, and columnist, covering everything from airline disasters, political scandals, and courtroom drama to emerging technologies, dog shows, and hauntings. She also has ghost-written or edited several non-fiction books, in addition to co-writing a series of noir-ish parodies starring a canine detective.
A Texan to the bone, when she’s not playing with the people in her head, Kathleen bows to the whims of the men in her life: her significant other of 20-plus years and three tiny canine tyrants.
Find Kathleen on the web at:
Kathleen blogs about the Old West at:
PrairieRosePublications.blogspot.com (1st and 3rdFriday of each month)
SweetheartsOfTheWest.blogspot.com (12th of each month)
WesternFictioneers.blogspot.comWesternFictioneers.blogspot.com (2nd and 3rdMonday of each month)
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