I am sooooo super excited to bring this post for the book blast tour to you guys! You should probably know by now that I have horses, see myself as a country girl, and love any type of historical fiction or Cowboy romance. Yes. It's true. I do love them. So much! Haha, and today I'm bringing you one of those! So take a look through our blog post, maybe add the book to your Goodreads, and let us know what you think!
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Everyone knew
Lil Wentfield would never marry. What man would want her? Granted she was a
real beauty.
A woman with too
much knowledge was at risk for insanity. Their fragile mind couldn’t handle it.
That’s what Lil had been told when she went against convention and became an
attorney. The 1800’s had fewer women lawyers than women doctors. Her pride knew
no bounds when she hung her shingle—L.M. Wentfield, Attorney At Law.
Drew was a
struggling cattle rancher, building a fledging Hereford empire. He was working
toward that goal when he was accused of rustling and faced possible hanging. He
needed a lawyer—a good one—a man. Chesterfield had one lawyer—a new one—L.M.
Wentfield. He wasn’t prepared for a beautiful blonde with a sharp tongue and
fiercely won independence.
Lil had no
homemaking abilities. Her love was the law. And if the thoughts of the
gray-eyed cowboy, who had the audacity to refuse her legal help stayed in her
mind, she’d push them aside. She had nothing to offer a rancher . Even her
wealth wouldn’t be considered an asset to a prideful man. And Drew Jackson was
proud. So proud, he knew he couldn’t ask
a woman of Lil’s stature to share his life—but he wanted to—from the moment he’d
stolen that first kiss.
A
loud knock broke into her thoughts. “Come in,” she called out.
Nothing
happened, then another knock. “Please, come in,” she called again.
Getting
no response, Lil came around her desk and, with some irritation at the
interruption, jerked open the door, nearly toppling the tall man who held the
doorknob on the other side. He muttered something under his breath, and tried
to regain his balance only to bump into Lil, throwing her off stride. She
stumbled backwards and would have fallen if not for the man’s quick reaction.
He grabbed Lil and, wrapping both arms around, pulled her to him. Then, in a
parody of the two-step, he danced her to safety.
Lil
felt herself falling, then rescued by two strong arms. Not only was she pulled
up short, but she was wrapped tightly against a rock hard chest, her nose
buried in the man’s damp shirt. A very pleasant smell greeted her nose. The
scent of summer rain and witch hazel. She found the masculine odor
intoxicating.
Neither
moved. Then Lil raised her head and looked into a pair of dancing gray eyes.
His arms never relaxed their grip; in fact, they seemed to tighten around her
as his mouth twitched, then broke into a smile.
“Didn’t
expect to end up with a beautiful woman in my arms. For a moment there, I
expected to land on the rug, Ma’am. With you alongside me,” he added with a
chuckle.
He
loosened his grip and gently pushed her away from the warmth and safety of his
chest. Lil stepped back, feeling as though she’d just had something precious
taken from her. She realized her hands still gripped his arms. Like a hot
potato, she dropped them and turned away from the man’s disturbing presence.
Like a fox heading for her den, Lil scurried behind her desk and gratefully
lowered her trembling body onto the waiting chair.
With
the desk between them, she was once again in charge. “May I help you?” she
asked coolly, hoping the tremble in her voice went unnoticed. “I called come in
not once but twice.”
“Sorry,
Ma’am. Guess I didn’t hear you. I was just fixing to open the door when you did
just that. Are you okay?”
“Yes.”
Lil answered with no desire to elaborate. “I—I appreciate you catching me.
Now,” she hurried away from that topic, “to repeat myself, how may I help you?”
He
smiled, as if knowing her thoughts. Walking over to the desk, he removed his
hat and stood with it in his hands. “I apologize for dripping on your floor,
but it’s raining like hel—, uh, like heck out there.”
Lil
tried not to look at how the ends of his eyes crinkled when he smiled. She
focused instead on his hair, black and shiny with rain drops glistening on the
wavy strands not covered by his hat. She didn’t realize she was staring at him
until he shifted from foot to foot.
“Ma’am?”
“Yes,”
Lil answered, pulling herself back to reality.
“What
I’m here for is to see L.M. Wentfield, Attorney At Law.” He pointed at the
window, in the direction of the sign.
Lil
nodded. “Yes,” she said again. At this rate, he’d think she only had a one word
vocabulary.
The
man tilted his head to one side. “Could you direct me to L. M. Wentfield,
Ma’am?”
“Of
course I can. How may I help you?”
Two
small furrows appeared between the man’s eyes. He peered closer at her. Perhaps
he needed to try another approach.
“Ma’am,
could I speak with your husband?”
“There
is no husband,” Lil said with a hint of asperity.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
I live in Colorado with my
husband and my two Yorkie kid dogs: Stormy, four pounds, and Eli, six pounds.
I’m a native of Colorado, but I’ve lived several years in Wyoming and
Montana. I draw from these beautiful states
for most of my books. My Western Historical Romances are: Montana Star,
Sapphire Blue, Unconquerable Callie,
Wyoming Heather and One Shingle To Hang.
Tears In The Wind is a contemporary romance. Then I changed genres from
my beloved romances and wrote, under the pen name of D. M. Woods, my first
suspense/thriller: Death Crosses The Finish Line. The second book in this
‘death’ series, Death Is A Habit, came out January 8, 2014. I am currently
working on the third book in the ‘death’ series, Death Walks C Dock. I am also working on another Western Historical Romance, Montana Man. It
features the characters readers came to know and love in Montana Star. Truly, I
mean it when I say my greatest pleasure next to writing is having my books read
and enjoyed. There are many more stories just waiting to be written.
LINKS:
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