Aundy (Pendleton Petticoats - Book 1) (31 page)
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Authors: Shanna Hatfield
Coming October 2013!
The Christmas Cowboy -
Flying from city to city in her job as a busy corporate trainer for a successful direct sales company, Kenzie Beckett doesn’t have time for a man. And most certainly not for the handsome cowboy she keeps running into at the airport. Burned twice, she doesn’t trust anyone wearing boots and Wranglers, especially someone as charming and handsome as Tate Morgan.
Among the top saddle bronc riders in the rodeo circuit, easy-going Tate Morgan can handle the toughest horse out there, but trying to handle the beautiful Kenzie Beckett is a completely different story. As the holiday season approaches, this Christmas Cowboy is going to need more than a little mistletoe to win her heart.
Meet the Thompson family of the Triple T Ranch in Grass Valley, Oregon.
Three handsome brothers, their rowdy friends, and the women who fall for them are at the heart of this contemporary western romance series.
Book 1 –
The Cowboy’s Christmas Plan
Book 2 –
The Cowboy’s Spring Romance
Book 3 –
The Cowboy’s Summer Love
Book 4 –
The Cowboy’s Autumn Fall
Book 5 –
The Cowboy’s New Heart
The QR Code Killer
- Murder. Mayhem. Suspense. Romance.
Zeus is a crazed killer who uses QR Codes to taunt the cop hot on his trail.
Mad Dog Weber, a tough-as-nails member of the Seattle police force, is willing to do whatever it takes to bring Zeus down. Despite her best intentions, Maddie (Mad Dog) falls in love with her dad's hired hand, putting them both in danger.
Erik Moore is running from his past and trying to avoid the future when he finds himself falling in love with his boss' daughter. Unknowingly, he puts himself right in the path of the QR Code Killer as he struggles to keep Maddie safe.
From the waterfront of Seattle to the rolling hills of wheat and vineyards of the Walla Walla Valley, suspense and romance fly around every twist and turn.
The Coffee Girl
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Almost thirty, Brenna Smith isn’t sure how much more off-track her life could be. She certainly never pictured herself living at home with her parents, working in a job she dislikes for a loathsome boss. The only bright spot in her mundane existence is the cute guy she runs into every morning as she stops for coffee.
Brock McCrae has worked hard to be able to manage his own construction company. Handsome, successful and full of life, he finds his world turned upside down as he falls for a woman he knows only as The Coffee Girl.
Learnin The Ropes
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Out of work mechanic Ty Lewis is out of options. Homeless and desperate to find work he accepts a job in the tiny community of Riley, Oregon. Leaving behind everything he’s ever known in Portland, he resolves himself to this new adventure with an elusive boss, Lex Ryan, someone he has yet to speak with or meet.
Lexi Ryan, known to her ranch hands and neighbors as Lex Jr., leaves a successful corporate career to keep the Rockin’ R Ranch running smoothly after the untimely death of her father. It doesn’t take long to discover her father did a lot of crazy things during the last few months before he died, like hiding half a million dollars that Lexi can’t find.
Ty and Lexi are both in for a few surprises as he arrives at the ranch and begins learnin’ the ropes.
Welcome to Tenacity!
Tenacious, sassy women tangle with the wild, rugged men who love them in this contemporary romance series.
The short story introduction,
A Prelude
, is followed by three full-length novels set in the fictional town of Tenacity, Oregon.
Prelude –
The Women of Tenacity
Book 1 –
Heart of Clay
Book 2 –
Country Boy vs. City Girl
Book 3 –
Not His Type
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Author’s Note
Writing historical fiction is such fun for me because I get to learn so much about places, people, and experiences of the past.
I chose Pendleton, Oregon, for the setting of this series because my parents lived there in their early years of marriage and my dad always had such great stories to tell about their time spent in Umatilla County.
After visiting the town myself, I knew it had a rich and intriguing past that would be exciting to capture in a historic romance.
Many people know Pendleton as the home of the world-famous
Pendleton Round-Up
and the beginning of the
Pendleton Woolen Mills
. There is so much more to the city’s story.
In fact, Pendleton was a happening place to be in the early 1900s. In the year 1900, it was the fourth largest city in Oregon. By 1902, the population had grown to 6,000 and there were 32 saloons and 18 bordellos in the downtown area.
If you’re wondering why the town needed quite so much “entertainment,” it was in part because of the sheer number of cowboys, wheat harvesters, sheep herders, railroad workers, and other crews of men who descended on the town to work. In 1900 alone, an estimated 440,000 sheep produced more than two million pounds of wool.
The Pendleton Underground really did exist and you can visit it today through
Pendleton Underground Tours.
The tour provides a glimpse at everything from the card rooms and life of the Chinese below the city to the “working girls” who occupied many of the second story floors of business throughout that section of town.
For more details about Pendleton’s past, I recommend Keith F. May’s book
Pendleton:
A Short History of a Real Western Town
.