Glitter
and Grit
by
Jessie Evans
Genre:
Western Romance
Release
Date: December 2014
Hosted
by: Book Enthusiast Promotions (http://bookenthusiastpromotions.com)
GLITTER AND GRIT
Lonesome Point, Texas, Book Four
This ride is going to last a lot longer
than eight seconds…
Female professional bull rider, Reece
Hearst, graduated from the school of hard knocks. With honors. Because life is
like bull riding—when it sends you to the dirt, you do whatever it takes to get
on your feet, even if you have to crawl. Like when officials stripped her of
her rodeo queen title on the basis of vicious gossip years ago and not even her
father would believe her side of the story. Reece could have stayed in the
dust, wallowing. Instead, she fixed Lonesome Point in her rearview, joined the
pro circuit, and never looked back. But now a serious injury threatens to end
her career and she’s back in Lonesome Point, living next door to the family
that once made her life a living hell.
After multiple tours of duty in
Afghanistan and his father’s death, all Grayson Parker wants is to get his
family’s cattle business back in the black and live a quiet life. But the
return of Reece Hearst opens old wounds, throwing his ordered world into chaos.
Grayson was serving overseas when Reece was a teenager and can’t believe the
girl he once knew has grown into a heartbreaker as hardened as she is
beautiful.
Grayson finds a kindred spirit in wounded
Reece and soon longs to be the man to show her that there is life after pain
and loss. But can two people as damaged as Reece and Grayson find their way to
happily ever after? Or will the scars on their hearts forever keep them apart?
New York Times and USA Today bestselling
author, Jessie Evans, gave up a career as an international woman of mystery to
write the sexy, contemporary romances she loves to read.
She's married to the man of her dreams, and
together they're raising a few adorable, mischievous children in a cottage in
the jungle. She grew up in rural Arkansas, spending summers running wild, being
chewed by chiggers, and now appreciates her home in a chigger-free part of the
world even more.
When she's not writing, Jessie enjoys
playing her dulcimer (badly), sewing the worlds ugliest quilts to give to her
friends, going for bike rides with her house full of boys, and drifting in and
out on the waves, feeling thankful for sun, surf, and lovely people to share
them with.
EXCERPT
FROM GLITTER AND GRIT:
Reece was anticipating being told to
buy her own damned beer, but after a long, silent beat, Broody turned to the
bartender and lifted a hand.
“Whatever the lady wants,” he
rumbled in a gravelly voice that made Reece’s skin prickle. “Add it to my tab.”
“I’ll have a Blue Moon, extra orange
slice.” Reece smiled at the bartender as she slid onto the stool next to her
tortured cowboy. “Thanks for the drink. You been here long?”
“About an hour,” the man replied,
moving his hat to his other side and resuming his moody glaring into the amber
liquid inside his pint glass. “I’m heading out soon.”
“I meant in Lonesome Point, not the
bar,” Reece said. “You look like you’ve been around long enough to get sick of
the small town bullshit.”
He stretched his neck from one side
to the other but kept his attention fixed on the bar. “Small town, big
city…bullshit’s all the same.”
Reece nodded, mulling that over
while she thanked the bartender and squeezed her two orange slices into her
beer. “I guess so, but there are more places to get away from it in the city.
More places where nobody knows your name.”
“I don’t know your name.” Broody’s
attention shifted her way as she took a long drink of the ice-cold beer.
She moaned softly in appreciation as
the cold bubbles dulled the edges of her headache. She knew it was probably
just the pain pill kicking in, but there was still something magical about an
ice-cold beer.
“No, you don’t.” She grinned up at
him as she wiped the foam from her upper lip with a sensuous sweep of her
thumb, not missing the way the man’s eyes lingered on her mouth. “And why don’t
we keep it that way? I won’t tell you my name and you won’t tell me yours. We
can be each other’s place where nobody knows our name.”
Mr. Tortured nodded and the hint of
a smile curved his full lips. “Sounds like a plan, Shortstack.”
Reece arched one brow. “Because I’m
short and stacked?”
Adorably, the man blushed in
response. “It was the first short person nickname that came to mind. Haven’t
taken a good look at the other.”
“Well, go ahead,” Reece said,
holding his gaze, relishing the tension beginning to thicken the air between
them. “I don’t mind.”
After a moment, the man leaned
closer, but his eyes didn’t waver from hers. “I don’t treat women that way.”
“Then how do you treat women?” Reece
asked, shifting until her leg brushed his. “I’m curious.”
“Curiosity can be dangerous,” he
said in a husky voice that made Reece’s nipples tighten and her next sip of
beer go straight to her head. “What if I’m not a nice guy?”
“What if I’m not a nice girl?” Reece
countered, setting her beer down and bringing her hand to rest on his thigh,
relishing the rock hard muscles beneath the denim.
Oh yeah, this man definitely had
what she was looking for, and then some.
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