Trouble In Dixie (40 page)

To protect his best friend and his new wife,
Cole invites Sabrina and her brother to stay at his house, and
welcomes more than trouble into his life. He finds out the gorgeous
policewoman has depths he can't wait to uncover...and she can cook
better than his mama! The heat she stirs inside of him is
definitely more than the heat in the kitchen though, and soon Cole
wants to sample everything on her menu.

But first, Cole has to rescue her from the
bad guys chasing her brother...and then from herself. He's
determined to convince Sabrina that even though he's a cop, he's
not the risk-taker her late husband was, and that he's worth taking
a risk on.

DOUBLE THE TROUBLE

by Becky McGraw, Texas Trouble Series #3

Copyright @ July 18, 2012

Professional rodeo team roper, Karlie Upton,
is done with arrogant testosterone-soaked cowboys, and she's done
with the rodeo. Worn out from traveling and battling with the
abusive bull rider she'd just broken up with, Karlie heads for
Bowie, Texas to see if her old friend Cassie Bellamy needs help
with her new horse operation. Her identical twin sister, and roping
partner isn't happy about Karlie leaving her high and dry, but
Karlie can't stay, and she can't tell her sister why she's
leaving.

Karlie knows her ex will probably come
looking for her, because not only did she leave, she took his meal
ticket with her, a fifty-pound slack-jawed bulldog named Sarge, who
he got five-thousand dollars a month to care for from his crazy
grandpa's estate. After she saw her ex kick the lovable mutt, there
was no way Karlie was leaving Sarge behind with the neglectful man.
She could only hope her sister kept her mouth shut, and maybe he
won't find her in Bowie.

When she reaches the city limits of Bowie,
Karlie receives a welcome she didn't expect. Not paying attention
to her speed, Karlie had let 'Freddie', the hot rod Lincoln she'd
had since she was sixteen, have his head and he didn't like to go
slow. He liked to blow the stripes off of the road, because she'd
souped him up in automotive class in high school.

So, the first person she met in Bowie,
wasn't the one she went there to see, but he was easy on the eyes
nonetheless.

The handsome deputy gave her a lecture then
a ticket that would empty her pocketbook. Then after she tried to
bargain her way out of the ticket, he arrested her and threatened
to send Sarge to the pound! Karlie knew she would have enjoyed the
frisking, but when the hot lawman took her dog into custody, he
crossed the line, and Karlie showed him she wasn't known as the
'Wild Child' in the pro rodeo circuit for nothing!

Her impulsive nature yet again lands her in
a heap of trouble, but it also gives her a reason to see the good
looking lawman again, when she cuts a community service deal to fix
his police car. Karlie's not looking for a relationship with any
man, her ex may have soured her for life on those, but she sure
could go for a little romp in the hayloft with the tall, dark and
handsome deputy sheriff.

But then she finds out he has issues, deep
dark issues, which meant he was a 'fixer-upper'. Karlie knew she
was in trouble then, because if there was one thing she had a
problem avoiding, it was projects. From cars to men, the more they
needed fixing, the more they interested her.

Bowie's Chief Deputy, Gabe Kelley, had never
encountered a woman like the red hot redhead he stopped for
speeding, while filling in for his patrolman Elmer on traffic duty.
Sitting at the city limit sign, minding his own business, almost
dozing off, because he was so bored, Gabe was jolted out of his
lethargy when a black Lincoln went past him doing at least one
ten.

When he finally caught up to the sassy
redhead, she gave him lip, then he gave her a hefty ticket, and a
stern warning about driving through his town recklessly. He never
expected the beautiful cowgirl to proposition him to get out of the
ticket! He was so shocked, he arrested her, then called the dog
pound to come get her ugly dog.

The next thing Gabe knew, he was laying on
his stomach on the hot Texas roadway, hogtied, and mad as hell,
watching the hotheaded woman drive off leaving him there. He was
going to get untied, and when he did, there would be hell to pay,
and the one paying it would be Miss Karlie Upton. It might take him
a while to find her, but he would, if it was the last thing he ever
did. One way or another, Gabe was going to teach the bratty woman
he wasn't a man to be messed with...if it took spanking her shapely
ass to drive that point home.

Gabe would have to be careful though,
because although he liked his women with a little edge, he knew
this beautiful redhead had enough of it to cut his throat, if he
wasn't careful. Her ex was after her, and the only thing standing
between the rough bull rider and her is Gabe, and this guy is
playing for keeps, but so is Gabe.

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE

by Becky McGraw, Texas Trouble Series #4

Copyright @ August, 2012

Country singer, Jess Sparks, is finally
watching her star rise, after shedding the weight of a thieving
manager and boyfriend three years ago. Jess has worked her butt off
since to recover from it, and it's finally paying off, because
she's on the verge of signing a big recording contract.
Someone from Bowie, Texas calls and asks her to sing at a wedding
reception, and she agrees to do it as a final hoorah. While she's
performing, Jess notices a good looking cowboy in the crowd staring
her down and can't take her eyes off of him either. Her best
friend, and band mate, thinks Jess needs to loosen up and have some
fun, so she issues a dare that Jess can't refuse...make him her
'Angel' for the night.

Back in Dallas, Jess discovers that her fun pays off a little too
well, when the stick with the pink plus sign tells her she's a
member of the elite 'less than two percent club' they warn about on
the back of condom boxes. She's pregnant, and doesn't have a clue
what the cowboy's name is, because honey, baby or sugar worked just
fine for them that night.
After the baby is born, she gets another call from the client in
Bowie for an encore performance at the couple's one-year
anniversary party. Although Jess is hesitant to accept, because
she's scared she'll run into the cowboy again, who would do nothing
but complicate her life, she accepts, because she needs the
money.

Once she gets to Bowie, Jess realizes her
luck is still running, in the wrong direction. Not only is the
cowboy there, he's the manager of the ranch, and she's going to be
seeing a lot of him, because she and the band get stuck there.
Although she didn't intend on telling him about her little angel,
he finds out, and wants to be a daddy. After Jess gets to know him
better, she discovers she wants the sexy cowboy to be a lot more
than that.
Professional rodeo rider, Wade Roberts never expected his career to
end with an fall from a wild horse he pulled in his last rodeo, but
that's exactly what happened. Luck was on his side though, when he
found out the manager of the Double B Ranch in Bowie, Texas was
retiring, and they hired him as a replacement.

When the beautiful country singer he'd had one night of wild
passion with a year ago after a wedding, shows up at the ranch to
play a command performance for the anniversary party, Wade is
surprised. She was supposed to be in the big leagues now, so he
wonders what she's doing back in Bowie.
When Jess Sparks gives him the cold shoulder, Wade is confused,
because to his knowledge, they'd both been blown away by their time
together, and had been on the same page the next morning, when they
parted without exchanging phone numbers.

The reason for her attitude becomes clear to Wade though, when he
sees a car seat and toys in the back of the van she arrived in. He
has a daughter, and Jess doesn't want him to be a part of her life.
That's not okay with Wade, and he is determined to convince the
beautiful songbird, that he will be a part of his daughter's life
and take care of them both.

Fate appears to give him time to convince her, when Jess gets hurt
and the band's van burns up, but then her ex-boyfriend shows up in
town, representing a record company that wants to sign her. Now, if
she wants a contract, she's going to have to deal with the man who
robbed her blind, while he managed her career. Her ex incites Wade
into a fight at the bar, which lands him in jail. Using the charges
against Wade as leverage, the guy coerces Jess into signing with
him to get Wade out of his legal trouble.
Determined to make up for the mess he'd made, and get Jess out of
the contract, Wade enters a charity rodeo competition, with a big
purse, because he knows he can win it, even though it might change
his life forever, if he gets injured again.
Wade isn't looking for trouble, but if he wants to keep the two
angels in his life permanently, he knows he's going to have to face
a hell of a lot of it to make that happen.