It's release day for Mia Hopkins Cowboy Valentine.
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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.
She
stubbed out her cigarette on the rim of a trash can and turned around. The
driver’s side door squeaked open and
shut.
“We’re
closed,” she said to the figure who walked up to her, a tall man in jeans, a
plaid shirt and a cowboy hat.
He looked
up in the faint light coming from the store window. “That so?” he drawled. His
voice was deep.
“Afraid
so.” Cora squinted at him. “Do I know
you?”
The man
stepped farther into the light. “Maybe.”
He was
about six feet or so, with high cheekbones and a clean-shaven chin. His skin
was tanned and freckled, as though he spent long hours in the sun. He tipped
his hat back, and at once Cora saw his eyes—green but with pupils rimmed in
gold. He was handsome as hell.
“You’re a
MacKinnon kid,” she said, although she knew full well which one he was, and
that he was no kid.
“Caleb.”
“I
remember you from school. You graduated like three, four years
ago.”
He looked
down at her. His scrutiny scorched her cheeks. “I want to say I remember who
you are, but I can’t,” he said at last. “What’s your
name?”
“Cora. Corazón Gomez.”
Caleb put
a boot on the parking block and hooked his thumbs onto his belt. “Wait. I think
I remember you too. You were that really smart one. The freshman in my
chemistry class who knew all the answers. I think I had you in Spanish too. The
teacher always made a big deal about your name meaning… What was
it?”
“Heart.
Corazón means
heart.”
His eyes
locked on hers and he nodded slowly, in no hurry to respond. To keep from
fidgeting, she put her hands in the pockets of her uniform, wondering if he was
going to say anything more. In the quiet, the wind rustled through the ocean of
sagebrush that grew across the road.
“Well, I
have to finish closing up.” She tried to sound casual. “Nice seeing you again,
I guess.”
He still
hadn’t stopped staring at her, but when she broke eye contact with him and
turned toward the door, he cleared his throat. “Um, any chance I could get a
sundae? I’ve had a hell of a night. I’d appreciate
it.”
“I don’t
think I’m supposed to let you in after closing time.”
“I won’t
tell anyone. I promise.”
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.
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