Rating: 4.5 Stars
He’s gonna need a longer rope…
Ball-busting business woman meets no-holds-barred cowboy…Visit the rodeo in COWBOY RESURRECTION, the second book in the Cowboy Cocktail series by Mia Hopkins...
About COWBOY RESURRECTION
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.
Warning: Contains rope play, motel nooners, a blue-eyed charmer with a taste for kink, and a brown-eyed princess with a taste for cowboys.
On Sale in Digital: March 15, 2016:
Add COWBOY RESURRECTION to your TBR pile on Goodreads!
My Thoughts:
Monica Kaur has her work cut out for her but she’s a very persistent woman. Dean MacKinnon is a very stubborn man. The heat and attraction is almost instantaneous. It’s that heat and their connection that will hold your attention until you read the very last word. They may be total opposites in so many ways but you just can’t stop it when animal attraction hits.
One thing I loved was how the author includes cultural differences and how it affects us. But something else I loved is that it shows that times have changed and we shouldn’t let those differences stop us from falling in love. And temptation may just be too hard to resist. Dean is like Eve – holding out his apple to tempt Monica.
I will say that with the descriptions of the area where this story takes place, this author has me ready to pack my bags and say “see ya later”. Bathing suits are optional. I’ve also never seen the fascination of watching a rodeo but I just may have to add that to my bucket list.
Trying to take my time in reading this author’s latest book was a hard thing to do. I just got so caught up in the story that I didn’t realize how quickly the scenes were going by. It wasn’t until I got to the very end that realization hit but the ending didn’t disappoint. There is no cliffhanger and it stands on its own. This means that you can go back and read Cowboy Valentine any time you want.
Excerpt:
One thing I loved was how the author includes cultural differences and how it affects us. But something else I loved is that it shows that times have changed and we shouldn’t let those differences stop us from falling in love. And temptation may just be too hard to resist. Dean is like Eve – holding out his apple to tempt Monica.
I will say that with the descriptions of the area where this story takes place, this author has me ready to pack my bags and say “see ya later”. Bathing suits are optional. I’ve also never seen the fascination of watching a rodeo but I just may have to add that to my bucket list.
Trying to take my time in reading this author’s latest book was a hard thing to do. I just got so caught up in the story that I didn’t realize how quickly the scenes were going by. It wasn’t until I got to the very end that realization hit but the ending didn’t disappoint. There is no cliffhanger and it stands on its own. This means that you can go back and read Cowboy Valentine any time you want.
Excerpt:
“So,” he whispered against her lips. “What do you want?”
“I don’t know.” Her voice was barely audible, a ghost of air carried away by the wind.
“I think you know.” He kissed her again, and before she knew what was happening, he’d pulled her down to the ground with him. The dry grass and soft blanket of flowers crinkled like hot paper beneath them. He sat down and she straddled him, her knees crushing petals that looked like orange fire in the desert.
Dean took off his hat, placed it on the ground, and traced a trail of hot kisses down the side of her neck. Pleasure ran a circuit through her body, firing her nerve endings as her lust rose to high tide.
She dug her hands through his dark hair. It was silky, long enough to curl. When he began to lay hot, open-mouthed kisses on her throat, she grabbed his hair in her fingers and tugged at it gently. A low moan rumbled in his chest.
His lips found hers again. They quickly established a rhythm of breath and tongues that pulled all consciousness from her brain. She was flying, far too high on Dean to realize she was riding him, rubbing herself against the hardening bulge in his jeans.
He broke their kiss and rested his forehead against hers. He let go of her waist and dragged his fingers through her hair, clasping it and gently pulling it back until her lips parted with a gasp.
“Tell me what you want.” His deep voice sent shivers up her spine.
She was silent, paralyzed with pleasure.
“Tell me what you want, Monica,” he said again. His firm tone made her insides clench. Already she could feel how wet she was, how ready.
“You need it. Same as I do.” He touched her face and skimmed his fingertips down her throat. “Don’t you?”
“I do.” She was still. “But no one can know about this.”
“I understand.”
“Dean, I’m serious. Not a soul. Promise me.”
He nodded. “I promise.”
See what people are saying about COWBOY RESURRECTION:
“Wow, wow, and wow…The love that blossoms between [the hero and heroine] is unrushed, genuine, true. *sigh* I loved this book from start to finish and highly recommend it, and not just for fans of western romance.”
—Goodreads review, 5/5 stars
“The writing is excellent, the emotions leap off the page, and the sex is downright earthy…This is a feel-good romance with a strong, career-minded heroine, a swoon-worthy working class hero, a great setting and lots of lovingly detailed sex.”
—Jill Sorenson, RITA-nominated author of romantic suspense
CELEBRATE THE RELEASE WITH A GIVEAWAY!
Grand Prize: $30 Gift Card to Amazon
5 Runner-Ups: A digital copy of COWBOY VALENTINE by Mia Hopkins
Check out the first book in The Cowboy Cocktail series, COWBOY VALENTINE!
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.
Warning: Contains hard, cherry-poppin’ sex in a pickup truck and a cowboy charmer who talks dirty in two languages.
Book 1 Available at:
Author Bio:
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."
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.
You can also visit her online at the following places:
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please leave your comments below.