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Who wouldn't want to be a billionaire? Turns out winning the lottery causes as many problems as it solves.
Praise for The Billionaire Cowboy’s Christmas:
I highly recommend this book. I look forward to the next book. Kris has a winning series here.”
“I can hardly wait for the next in this series.”
Charming the Billionaire Cowboy
For the first time, his cowboy charm seems to backfire…
With his Texas ranching family’s lottery
win, TC Tomlinson is finally able to build a ranch with alternative
livestock. TC has a lot to prove, starting with his new ostrich herd, so when
he catches a beauty scooping up an escaped baby bird, TC chases her down,
assuming she wants to meet him for his money.
When Hallie Armstrong sees the
injured baby ostrich, she jumps into professional mode. A former vet tech,
she’s moved to Last Stand to work at her aunt's wildlife rescue and heal from
an attack. She’s skittish of the handsome cowboy, but when he starts to flirt,
she decides two can play at this game—the rescue needs fundraising, and TC is
an eligible bachelor.
As they brainstorm ideas for a bachelor auction
and work to solve the mystery of local sheep attacks, TC finds himself falling
for the feisty cowgirl. But when he learns she’s still in danger, his
protective instincts threaten to drive the independent Hallie away. Can TC
convince Hallie she can have her independence and him too?
“What a wonderful book! I loved every word of this book and
highly recommend it.”
“I really enjoyed this book and can’t wait to see where
these characters go next.”
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Excerpt:
Hallie drove down the country road between green fields. Nothing looked familiar. Was that because she was lost or because her memory was faulty? She pulled to the side of the road, got out of the car, and looked around. A sudden rustling came from the ditch beside the road. Then an odd trilling noise filled the air. A bird or frog? But the rustling sounded like a large animal.
Hallie headed
for the ditch, prepared to race back and dive inside the car if she needed to
escape danger.
She stared
down at a fluffy ball that rustled the grasses as it moved. It looked like a
giant feather duster had come to life. A tiny head bobbed on a long neck. A
beak opened and chirped. What was that thing? Some kind of bird, judging
by the beak. A large bird, with a body the size of a basketball.
She looked around. No one in sight. So this wasn’t a bizarre prank. She was pretty sure she wasn’t dreaming, since she had the presence of mind to wonder if she was dreaming. Her memory might be shaky, but it had yet to give her hallucinations.
She crouched
for a closer look. The animal chirped and tried to get up, but it quickly
pitched forward, flapping short wings. It must be caught or injured somehow.
She could do something about that. Many animals calmed down if you covered
their eyes. That made it easier to handle them. She didn’t have a towel in the
car, and on this warm spring day, she hadn’t brought a jacket. Oh well. Hallie
peeled off her long-sleeved T-shirt, leaving her in a sturdy sports bra in
cheerful purple and turquoise.
Hallie
duckwalked into the ditch and tossed her shirt over the creature. She knelt
beside the bird and wrapped her shirt around its head, loosely tucking the long
sleeves around the neck a few times to hold the shirt in place.
The animal
gave a few last pathetic peeps and settled down. She put her arm around its
body. The gray-brown feathers were downy, silky against her bare skin, so it
must be young. She gently straightened at the waist, still on her knees,
revealing the bird’s long legs with knobby knees and two large toes on each
foot. It might be young, but it would stand about three feet high. An ostrich?
She recalled hearing about an
ostrich farm around here.
Well, they
apparently weren’t very attentive ostrich farmers, because this little critter
had escaped and was far from the herd or flock or whatever ostriches had. It
also had a gash on its leg, shallow but long, still oozing blood.
“Okay, let’s
get you help.” She rose to her feet with a grunt. The bird must weigh fifty
pounds.
She got the squirming bird in the car, dodging its bobbing head. As she shifted toward the driver’s side door, she glanced down the road. An oversized red pickup truck was coming up fast. Hallie hadn’t noticed the truck approaching, and now it was within fifty feet. She slid into the car, yanked the door shut, and turned the ignition.
That truck
was almost on top of her. She’d wait for it to pass.
She glared as
the shiny red truck pulled past. It was enormous, so apparently somebody felt
the need to compensate for something.
The truck
swung across the road and stopped in front of her. A door slammed. A tall,
lanky cowboy strode around the front of the truck, scowling.
Hallie gave a
squeak worthy of the baby ostrich and hit the automatic door lock.
The man
stormed up to her door. He had to lean way over to peer in at her. “What do you
think you’re doing?” he demanded.
Hallie gaped
at him. How was she supposed to answer that? She thought she was minding
her own business.
He rapped on
the window. No way was she going to roll it down.
Hallie put
the car in reverse. He was blocking the road ahead, so she’d go back the way
she came.
He tried her
door handle. Thank goodness she’d locked it.
He knocked on
the window again, his fierce face a foot away. “Open up!”
Hallie shook her head vigorously. She eased off the brakes so the car started rolling backward.
He skipped back from the car. Hallie let out a shaky breath and touched the gas. She couldn’t go too fast in reverse, though, or she might back into the ditch. Then she’d really be in trouble.
The angry
cowboy ran after her, shouting something.
It took a
moment for his words to penetrate.
“Give me back
my ostrich!”
Whoops.
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Kris also writes a series with her brother, scriptwriter Douglas J Eboch, who wrote the original screenplay for the movie Sweet Home Alabama. The Felony Melanie series follows the crazy antics of Melanie, Jake, and their friends a decade before the events of the movie. Sign up for our romantic comedy newsletter and get Felony Melanie Destroys the Moonshiner’s Cabin. Or find the books on Amazon US or All E-book retailers.
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