My hero Judd Romeo in Kentucky
Cowboy is a bull rider, a member of the PBR,
the Professional Bull Riders. Meet him as my heroine does for the first time
since high school.
Fisting her hand, Mandy pounded on the door.
Then she stuck both hands into her pants pockets, knocking her car keys out of
the right pocket. She bent down to pick them up.
The door opened and a pair of hand-tooled, black leather
cowboy boots stepped into her line of vision.
For an instant, Mandy forgot to breathe, and then her
breath came too quickly. Her heart raced. She glanced up. Up past the pointed
toes of expensive leather boots, past tight Wranglers, past a big gold belt
buckle pressed against a flat belly and a white Western shirt that delineated a
broad chest and brawny arms, and into the piercing blue eyes of Judd Romeo.
She tipped her head back, unprepared for what she saw.
Time seemed to stand still. Judd shifted his stance and flashed his familiar,
bad boy smile. There was a Colin Farrell edginess about him, a sexy untamable
quality that welled up from every fiber of his cowboy persona.
“Hello, Mandy,” he said.
Mandy has never appreciated Judd’s love of bull riding. It’s
too risky and foolhardy. She doesn’t understand what motivates him.
She glanced at the makeshift bucking bull hanging between
the trees. “Why do you ride bulls?”
It was a long moment before he answered. “It’s a
sensation that’s hard to explain—the greatest sensation imaginable. That shot
of adrenaline when you leave the chute is addictive.”
Her eyebrows drew together at his words. “But it’s so
dangerous. Men have been killed trying to ride bulls.” She shook her head. “I
don’t understand the appeal. It can’t be the money, because your mom told me
you barely made ends meet during most of your career. Why have you stuck with
it for ten years?”
Judd flashed a sudden confident smile. “It’s quite
simple, really,” he said, giving her a once over with a look that curled her
toes. “I like to make the crowd cheer. I like to win.”
A reviewer on Amazon recently validated my characterization
of Judd when she said, “We are bull riding fans at our house so this book was particularly
interesting to me. Ms. Scarbrough must either be a diehard fan of bull riding
or did a lot of research of the sport of bull riding and interviews with bull
riders because she really relates to the passion these young men have.”
Meet Judd Romeo when Kentucky
Cowboy is available for free December 25-December 27 at iBooks, All Romance
eBooks and Kobo.Kentucky Cowboy Blurb
A contender for the world title, professional bull rider Judd
Romeo defies death for a living. Now he must deal with the death of his mother
by settling her estate. Returning home to Kentucky, he runs smack dab into the
arms of his high school sweetheart, a woman he has never forgotten.
Veterinarian Mandy Sullivan learned early on that
risk-takers are trouble. Having custody of her sister’s child, she is working
hard to be both mother and father to the abandoned girl, and doesn’t count on
trouble showing up next door.
Mandy discovers she can’t avoid the famous cowboy she’s
never quite put out of her mind. When Mandy’s sister comes back threatening to
take away the little girl Mandy loves as her own, will she realize Judd is not
the same man he was in school?
Review
"Warmhearted and wonderful... Kentucky Cowboy is a
keeper." — Bestselling Author Joanne Rock