Friday and Saturday on my Facebook Page, I asked readers which of my upcoming releases you’d like me to post an excerpt from. The winner is…

How to Rope a Real Man (Catcher Creek #3)

This is Jenna’s story and it’s a May 2014 release. It’s so new that it doesn’t even have a pre-order button yet!

Here’s the set up for this scene: Jenna and Matt are among a crowd of their friends and family at a saloon with a dance floor. Jenna loves to dance and a waltz just came on over the speakers…

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Jenna swished her skirt with her hands as she debated the merits of a trip to the ladies’ room to save her from standing there awkwardly for much longer. This was one of her least favorite parts of being single—never knowing if she’d have a partner for the next dance. Nothing brought her aloneness into starker focus than when she was prevented from doing the thing she loved most because she didn’t have a man in her life.

Salvation came fast on the heels of those dark thoughts in the form of a cute, young cowboy flaunting a starched red western shirt and shiny belt buckle. He was too good-ole-boy for her taste, complete with a wad of chew puffing his cheek, but she smiled invitingly anyway. Dancing a waltz didn’t bind her to the guy for life.

“Care to dance, miss?”

Her answer was on the tip of her tongue when Matt appeared at her side, a proprietary hand sliding around her waist. Well, well, well…. Perhaps all he’d needed was a rival to remind him she wasn’t going to wait forever while he made up his mind.

“Sorry, man. She’s spoken for on this dance.”

Jenna bit back a swoon. Lord have mercy. She never thought she had much use for testosterone-fueled machismo, but the aggressive edge in his tone called to the feminine part of her psyche in a way she hadn’t expected.

Doing her best to turn her smile apologetic, she mouthed a sorry to the young cowboy, but he was already wandering off, scanning the crowd for another potential partner, leaving her free to concentrate on the big, solid man at her side. She ran her gaze along her shoulder, then up Matt’s body until it landed on his face. “I don’t remember you asking me to dance.”

He turned her in his arms and took her right hand in his, his eyes flashing down the length of her. “Some things don’t need to be said.”

It was the first time their hands had touched outside of a handshake. His hand was strong, with calluses she hadn’t expected to feel on a lawyer. With a motion so slow it seemed to stretch time, he dragged his thumb over the back of her fingers as though cradling her hand in his wasn’t nearly enough friction to satisfy him.

She responded with a slow crawl of her other hand up the muscles of his arm to settle into closed hold position. His body was unyielding beneath her touch—deliciously hard and male. A fantasy flashed in her mind of the two of them in her bedroom, standing together like this but without a stitch of clothing. Without any of the barriers that presently stood between them.

A corner of his mouth kicked up into a wolfish grin. “I guess we’d better get to waltzing before the song ends.”

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Look for How to Rope a Real Man in May 2014

Meanwhile…be sure to pick up a copy of the first book in the series, The Trouble with Cowboys, which is available now. The second book, Cowboy Justice, is an October 2013 release and presently available for pre-order.

Bonus: I’m giving away 3 advanced copies of Cowboy Justice on Goodreads, which means 3 people will be reading this October release in July! Enter Here.