Feisty
reporter vs. gruff cowboy—buckle up for a hard ride…
Come
back to the rodeo with Mia Hopkins and the newest release in the
Cowboy Cocktail series, COWBOY RISING!
About
COWBOY RISING
Journalist
Georgia Meyers is writing an article about MacKinnon Ranch in a
last-ditch effort to save her job at a failing newspaper. At first,
the hot-as-hell rancher wants nothing to do with her. But butting
heads leads to knocking boots, and soon she’s getting the real
story—in bed and off the record.
Cattleman’s
son and petroleum engineer Daniel MacKinnon turned down a lucrative
oil career to take over the family farm. Frustrated about giving up
his dreams and worried about money, Daniel buries himself in ranch
work—that is, until gorgeous Georgia shows up and rocks him to the
core. A blazing one-night stand leads to something deeper. Despite
their feelings for each other, he’s tied to the land and she’s a
rolling stone. When the time comes to part ways, will the lovers
choose duty over desire? Or will they face their fears and rise to
the challenge of love?
Warning:
Get ready for sassy banter, sizzling sex, orgasms galore, and a nerdy
dirty-talkin’ cowboy who can go all night long.
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Excerpt:
His
cheeks red from working outside, the new brother removed his gloves
and tucked them under his arm. He took off his hat and shook her
hand. His rough fingers were warm.
“Daniel
MacKinnon.” He didn’t smile.
Georgia
couldn’t explain it. With a heavy jaw and dirty blond hair styled
high and tight, he was as clean cut as a cadet—she usually
preferred tattooed, bearded types. He looked to be in his
mid-twenties—she usually liked seasoned men who were older than
her, not younger. But this guy’s hotness seared her eyeballs,
nailing her feet where she stood.
“Georgia
Meyers, L.A.
Chronicle,” she
said automatically, all other words escaping her. She was too old,
too experienced, and far too smart to react this way—and yet, here
she was. Staring slack-jawed at a pretty-faced cowboy like some
blue-stockinged virgin at a rodeo dance.
“I
know you’re here to see my father,” he said, the low rumble in
his voice stroking a sweet spot inside her chest, “but he isn’t
available today. You need to reschedule, Miss Meyers.”
His
bright green eyes were so distracting, she almost didn’t register
his words. “Reschedule?”
“Yeah.
You need to come back. Do the interview another day.”
“What?”
Snap out of it,
Gigi. The story. She
yanked her professional persona back in place. “Mr. MacKinnon, I’ve
just driven an hour and a half from Fresno to be here. Two days ago,
your father said he’d give me a tour of the ranch and walk me
through the organic certification process. Isn’t there anyone else
I can talk to?”
Daniel’s
stoic expression was both infuriating and unspeakably hot. “No.”
Hot
or not, who does this guy think he is?
She stood up straight. “Okay, let me lay it all out for you. If
there’s no one here who will speak with me today, just to make sure
my time isn’t wasted, I’ll be more than happy to find another
rancher. There are plenty of spreads in your neck of the woods,
aren’t there? I’m sure my readers wouldn’t mind learning about
conventional ranching operations. Maybe someone at the Hughes Ranch
will make time for me.
What do you
think?”
He
narrowed his eyes at her and took a deep but silent breath. His broad
chest rose and fell as he looked her over. At last he said, “Can
you ride?”
“A
little.” Which was completely true, depending on one’s definition
of “a little.”
Fresh
impatience lit up Daniel MacKinnon’s eyes. “All right. Let’s
go.”
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Cocktail
series:
"Mia Hopkins knows how to put
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"Mia Hopkins is an imaginative author who doesn’t take the easy road to a formulaic book."- USA TODAY
"Mia Hopkins is an imaginative author who doesn’t take the easy road to a formulaic book."- USA TODAY
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"The writing is excellent, the emotions leap off the page, and the sex is downright earthy."- JILL SORENSON, AUTHOR
"The writing is excellent, the emotions leap off the page, and the sex is downright earthy."- JILL SORENSON, AUTHOR
"Beautifully
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DELILAH DEVLIN, AUTHOR
“Off the charts hot.” - THE ROMANCE STUDIO
“A tantalizing slow seduction of the senses.” - STRANGE CANDY REVIEWS
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“Filled with sizzling chemistry, hot sex, and just enough sweetness to leave me wanting more…And those sex scenes…Holy hotness!” - CRYSTAL BLOGS BOOKS
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out the other books in The Cowboy Cocktail series!
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:
Amazon
| Barnes
& Noble
| iBooks
| Google
Books
|
Kobo
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BAM
Ball-busting
business woman meets no-holds-barred cowboy. He’s gonna need a
longer rope…
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.
For
eight years, Melody Santos played the game of love and lost—big
time. Now she’s back in her tiny hometown looking after her younger
sister, making ends meet with an assortment of odd jobs. When her
childhood best friend hires her to help him sell his family’s
grass-fed beef, the last thing she anticipates is falling in lust
with the legendary, brown-eyed player.
To
put his family’s cattle ranch back in the black, Clark MacKinnon
has his sights set on big contracts—gourmet chefs and
restaurateurs. If that means long hours traveling from farmer’s
market to farmer’s market, Clark doesn’t mind. Particularly since
his new assistant is his childhood crush, all grown up and sexy as
hell.
One
night in bed leaves them breathless and hungry for more. But when his
love-’em-and-leave-’em reputation collides with her trust issues,
Clark and Melody must face the truth about what they’ve become: not
friends, not lovers, but players in a game that’s impossible to
win.
Warning:
Contains filthy banter, raunchy sex, excessive Johnny Cash
references, and hundreds of pounds of raw beef.
Book 3 Available at: Amazon | Kobo | iTunes | B&N | Samhain | AllRomance | Google Play | Books-A-Million | Goodreads
When Harmony
Santos’s boyfriend dumps her on her birthday, she doesn’t get
mad. She gets lucky…with a mysterious cowboy whose bedroom eyes and
rough edges bring out her inner bad girl. But when their one-night
rodeo turns into more than a rebound, Harmony worries her heart
hasn’t healed enough to take on someone new—even if that someone
is as sweet as he is sexy.
Tie-down
roper Lucky Garcia can’t believe his good fortune. A shot at
national finals and now this—his longtime crush, in his arms at
last. The more time he spends with Harmony, the harder he falls for
her. But financial demands and family responsibilities take him
further and further away from her—as does his secret fear she
hasn’t quite gotten over her dickhead ex.
Behind closed
doors, Lucky and Harmony are filthy perfection. But when reality
comes knocking, the star-crossed lovers must decide: walk away
intact, or risk it all for a chance at happiness.
Warning:
Get ready for rope tricks, spanking, self-pleasure, and a smoking-hot
cowboy who puts the big D in Dominant.
Book 4 Available at: Amazon | Goodreads
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."
She lives in the heart of Los
Angeles with her roguish husband and two waggish dogs.
You can also visit her online at
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