Showing posts with label Cowboys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cowboys. Show all posts

Monday, July 11, 2016

Pinkerton Man Series Blog Tour


Book One - The Pinkerton Man:
Stiles Langberry leaves England under the dark cloud of blackmail.

He resettles in America with a new name, becoming a Pinkerton Agent.

His new employer sends him undercover to a brothel that serves homosexual men, where prostitutes are being murdered. In the course of his investigation, he becomes involved with Paul, one of the prostitutes. Complicating matters, one of the suspects draws Stiles like no man before him. Stiles knows he must stop the killer before he strikes again.

Book Two - Home on the Range:
Pinkerton Agent Stiles Long is sent to the Circle W Ranch to uncover who is killing the ranch’s cattle. In order to discover the truth about the goings on at the ranch, Stiles has to prove to the ranchers he’s more than a good-looking city slicker.

Savage Beare, the head ranch foreman, is far from happy that Stiles is there to check things out. He has secrets of his own.

Stiles finds Savage incredibly good-looking, but cold and aloof.

He’s also a suspect. One of many.

When Stiles’ best friend and partner, Lizzie Ferguson, is kidnapped things begin to shake apart.

Stiles doesn't trust anyone and he needs to find Lizzie before it's too late.

Buy Links:
WIP     |     ARe     |     Amazon US
Amazon UK     |     Amazon AU     |     Amazon DE




What inspires me?

Many things work to bring a character or a setting to life for me. As I sit here typing this blog post, I look out the window to see a sky so blue it nearly blinds me. The wind is blowing the leaves in the trees with a sort of rhythm that makes my heart sing. I've sat in the middle of the woods and listened to the creatures I couldn't see hiding in the underbrush and let my wander to what kinds of ghosts still walk among the trees there.

There are others things that inspire me as well. Music, paintings, storms, couples holding hands, sound of a babies laughter, an older couple still smiling at each with first love in their eyes. Inspiration can come in so many places.

One of my favorite places in the world is the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. Not long ago, I discovered something that I hadn't known about the park and it has become the beginning of my first paranormal (ghost) story. More about that another day. Also while driving the parkway, the beginnings of a trilogy about three best friends and the adventures they share. That will be a totally new adventure for me because they are women and this won't be a M/M book.

The other thing that inspires me . . . my friends. They have been there to cheer me on and encourage me to follow a dream that no could have imagined. Many of the characters in my stories that bring light and laughter  are images of those friends. 




About the Author:
CJ BATY lives in southwest Ohio with her very patient husband and two encouraging children. Her heart however, lives in the mountains of Tennessee where she hopes to retire some day. The mountains have always provided her with inspiration and a soothing balm to the stresses of everyday life.

The dream of writing her own stories started in high school but was left on the back burner of life until her son introduced her to Fan Fiction and encouraged her to give it a try. She found that her passion for telling a story was still there and writing them down to share with others was much more thrilling than she had ever expected.

One thing she has learned from life and she is often heard to say is, “You are never too old to follow your dream!”

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Birthday Celebration Day 4

Today is all about sharing. I love getting to share my thoughts and opinions with others, plus I love getting to share awesome stuff with my readers, like…FREE BOOKS! That’s right, today is all about the freebies! I have a wide range of genres here, from LGBT and paranormal, to cowboys and historicals, so there's something for everyone!

Here’s a list of the freebies I’ve got to share (like I didn’t already have far too many books on my TBR, but what can I say?):

Champagne and Bullets by Olivia Jaymes
Cowboy Command by Olivia Jaymes
Escaping in Oz by Aria Grace
Fashionably Dead by Robyn Peterman
Going Home by Kris Ripper
Pandora’s Box by Gracen Miller
Rose by Kirsten Osbourne
Waiting for Clark by Annabeth Albert


To go with all the free books and sharing, to enter to win a $5 Amazon GC, share this birthday celebration on your social media. That’s all you have to do. First, come up with a way to share on any of your social media platforms. Then email your links to me at tiger-chick-1 (at)hotmail(dot)com and leave a comment here saying you emailed your links to me. Easy peasy!


The more links you share on, the more entries you receive. You have until May 7th to share as many times as you want and depending on how many shares there are, I may add more prizes, so share away!

Friday, October 17, 2014

The Bar V5 Dude Ranch Series SBB

Blurbs:
Three couples. Three stories, where you can follow one pair from meeting to wedding day!

1. Mistletoe Magic – short story – $.99 for Kindle (though FREE at the moment) and Nook, Free at Smashwords
2. Kiss Me, Cowboy – eBook novella — $.99 on Kindle Oct. 17-22
3. Mistletoe Wedding — eBook novella — New Release! only $2.99


Mistletoe Magic
Spending a quiet Christmas housesitting and reading novels about hot cowboys sounds perfect to Caitlin Butler. Until a stray kitten brings her face-to-face with Noah, her crush from college. Watching the handsome vet in action melts Caitlin's heart and brings back long forgotten emotion. She would be safer back at the house lost in the pages of a book. But a toe-curling mistletoe kiss tempts her to stay. Maybe she won't be spending this Christmas... alone.

Veterinarian Noah Sullivan isn't a Scrooge, but the Christmas Eve tradition of hanging mistletoe in the clinic's waiting room annoys him. Kissing doesn't belong at the Copper Mountain Animal Hospital. Noah rethinks his position when Caitlin arrives with a stray kitten she found freezing in the snow. All he wants now is to maneuver the pretty preschool teacher under the mistletoe. If he's not careful, he'll wind up on Santa's naughty list.


Kiss Me, Cowboy
She didn’t mean to kiss him…

When dude ranch wrangler Charlotte – aka Charlie – Randall kisses Zack Harris in an act of empathy, she falls hat over spurs for the handsome military veteran turned cowboy. Zack has too many demons, however, and refuses to get involved. A year later, he's still stonewalling, and Charlie needs to move on with her life so she can find a fulfilling relationship, not frustrating unrequited love. Putting distance between them seems the best way to get Zack out of her head and heart...but that means quitting the job she loves and accepting a position in Colorado.

He didn’t mean to kiss her back…

Growing up, Zack longed for a real family, and had one with his squad while deployed in Afghanistan. Now, he's back in the States and doesn't want anything messing up his new ranch family, no matter how much he's attracted to the sexy, hard-working Charlie. She could break his heart and ruin the comfortable working relationship they and the other wranglers enjoy. Besides, her friends claim she's looking for the perfect guy, and perfect he's not.

A kiss is just a kiss…or is it?

When Zack learns Charlie's thinking about leaving the ranch, he decides to find her a boyfriend — someone so good, so perfect, she has a reason to stay in Montana. Until he realizes too late that the only cowboy he wants her kissing is him. Can he commit to love and convince Charlie not to leave? Or has she made up her mind to put the past, and the kiss that started it all, behind her and move on without him?


Mistletoe Wedding
Longer: Event planner at the Bar V5 Dude Ranch, Meg Redstone is dreaming of a white Christmas with twinkling lights, sparkly decorations and strategically placed mistletoe. She loves making dreams come true for others, whether planning a holiday wedding or giving her young daughter the best Christmas ever.

Ranch foreman Tyler Murphy loves the holidays, but his newest employee has taken over his barn with her over-the-top decorations. He admires Meg’s desire to give her daughter the perfect Christmas while planning a winter wonderland wedding, but he wants to show her that a Montana Christmas is more than glitter and lights.

After raising his younger sister, an instant family is not on Ty's Christmas wish list. But he finds himself falling hard for the single mom and her little girl. Meg, however, is not interested in a romance with a cowboy like Ty, or any man. Getting her under the mistletoe is going to take a Christmas miracle . . . or a little help from Santa.


Excerpt from KISS ME, COWBOY:
A few minutes later, Charlie stepped out of the barn. Two copper braids hung down from her hat. The only time he'd seen her wear make-up had been at Nate and Rachel's wedding. Charlie had worn a dress showing off long, toned legs no one expected, east of all him. He'd had to keep his distance that night and keep the other wranglers away from her, too.

She might act like a cowboy, rough and tumble, ready to jump into a fight if called upon, but she was girl-next-door pretty, with blue eyes that sparkled and a generous mouth that
readily curved into a smile. He didn't let himself think of her as a woman often. Treating her like a guy kept him from focusing on her soft lips, sweet scent, and sexy curves.

She rubbed the back of her neck. "Thought you'd be at the bunkhouse by now."

He shrugged. "Was waiting for you."

She inhaled sharply.

Ty was right about them not getting along. She seemed more pissed off today. He jumped off the fence and closed the distance between them. "Got a few minutes?"

"For?"

The blues of her eyes reminded him of two tempting, deep pools of water. Perfect to jump into when he was hot and sweating. Truth was, drowning in her didn't sound like a bad way to go. The reason that would be a mistake poked at him like hungry mosquitos.

"I want to talk," he said.


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Author Bio and Links:
With a degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, Melissa McClone worked for a major airline where she traveled the globe and met her husband. But analyzing jet engine performance couldn’t compete with her love of writing happily ever afters. Her first full-time writing endeavor was her first sale when she was pregnant with her first child! Since then, she has published over thirty romance novels with Harlequin and Tule Publishing Group. She’s also been nominated for Romance Writers of America’s RITA® award. When she isn’t writing, you can usually find her driving her minivan to/from her children’s swim practices and other activities. She also sends care packages to deployed service members and fosters cats through a local no-kill animal shelter. Melissa lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, three school-aged children, two spoiled Norwegian Elkhounds and cats who think they rule the house. They do!

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Buy links:
1.       Mistletoe Magic is FREE on Smashwords and Amazon
2.      Kiss Me, Cowboy
3.      Mistletoe Wedding