Wrapped and Strapped

Zusatztext Praise for Lorelei James “No one writes contemporary erotic romance better than Lorelei James.”— New York Times Bestselling Author Maya Banks   “Lorelei James knows how to write one hot, sexy cowboy.”— New York Times Bestselling Author Jaci Burton   “The down-and-dirty, rough-and-tumble Blacktop Cowboys kept me up long past my bedtime. Scorchingly hot, wickedly naughty.”—Lacey Alexander, author of Give In to Me Informationen zum Autor Lorelei James is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary erotic romances set in the modern-day Wild West, including her Blacktop Cowboys® Novels. She is also the author of the Mastered series. Her books have won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, as well as the CAPA Award. Lorelei lives in western South Dakota with her family...and a whole closetful of cowgirl boots. Klappentext In the new Blacktop Cowboys® Novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Hillbilly Rockstar strange bedfellows find common ground after the lights go down... Flower child! vegetarian and humanitarian Harlow Pratt and gruff and strapping cattle ranch foreman Hugh Pritchett have been taunting each other for years. Hugh thinks she's nothing but a spoiled rich girl! and he's had enough of that life with his ex-wife. Harlow thinks Hugh is an ill-mannered trouble-maker who wouldn't know fun if it bit him on his tight denim-clad butt. When they're forced together at the Split Rock Ranch and Resort! everything changes. They might be polar opposites! but working out their differences skin to skin! in the dark! seems to help their incompatibility a lot. But when trouble from both their pasts comes calling! Harlow and Hugh have no one else to lean on. Can they trust one another enough to make it through the hard times together... or will their tentative truce fall apart? Leseprobe Prologue She resisted the urge to leave at the crack of dawn the morning after. Not because she wanted to give him a chance to explain the harsh words he’d spit at her as he’d hastily thrown on his clothes after leaving her bed. No, she’d stuck around, refusing to allow him the satisfaction of believing he’d chased her off. Even when he had. She always traveled light. So it hadn’t taken long to pack her belongings. She hugged her sister and said good-bye to the friends she’d made these past four months. Gravel crunched beneath her tires as she headed for the main road to leave the Split Rock Ranch and Resort. She hit the brakes when she saw him sitting alone on the top of the corral outside the barn. She exited the car and rested her forearms on the roof, watching him. Only a few hundred feet separated them, but it may as well have been a few hundred miles. She waited for some kind of acknowledgment. A tip of his cowboy hat perhaps. Or a two-fingered salute from the brim of his hat. A dip of his chin. But she got nothing. At all. He remained so still he could’ve been a bronze statue. Hard. Weathered. Immovable. In the beginning she’d attributed all those characteristics and nothing more to him. But then she’d unearthed the real man beneath the stoic demeanor. She’d experienced his heat and passion. Especially last night. And then she’d experienced his coldness and disdain. The beginning she’d envisioned for them turned out to be the end. So she drove away, ready to put him—and Wyoming—in her rearview mirror. Chapter One Three years later . . . Harlow Pratt panicked when she saw her sister Tierney’s name on her caller ID. She answered with, “ Please tell me you didn’t go into labor a month early.” “No, that’s not why I’m calling.” Tierney paused. “You know Dad is here visiting. He had a heart attack.” “What? When?” “This morning. We got hi...

Product details

• Authors: Lorelei James
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781101990292
• ISBN: 978-1-101-99029-2
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 171 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Blacktop Cowboys Novel; Blacktop Cowboys Novel
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature