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Romancing the Californian Cowboys #2
Striking Gold
She’s a tattooed florist with a thorny attitude; he’s a clean-cut cowboy with traditional values; but under the surface they share something neither would have ever thought to look for in the other.
When Australian florist Casey Mason heads to California to visit her sister for the holidays, the idea of having a fling with a rugged American cowboy intrigues her; but when the first cowboy she meets is the excessively clean-cut cousin of her sister’s fiancé, she regrets having ever entertained that particular fantasy.
Nick Gold hasn’t met his future wife yet, but he’s certain about the kind of woman she’ll be; nurturing, feminine, and definitely blonde. Yet when Casey, an auburn-haired Amazon Woman with attitude, arrives for the holidays he finds himself drawn to her despite her tattoos and prickly temperament. Confused, he tells himself it’s only because he wants to shake some sense into her.
When a secret kept for over a hundred years emerges, Casey and Nick are thrown together with a common goal—to unravel the mystery. While working on the mystery they begin to discover the true versions of each other, but with the holidays rapidly coming to an end, will these two opposites get past their differences before Casey returns to Australia?
When Australian florist Casey Mason heads to California to visit her sister for the holidays, the idea of having a fling with a rugged American cowboy intrigues her; but when the first cowboy she meets is the excessively clean-cut cousin of her sister’s fiancé, she regrets having ever entertained that particular fantasy.
Nick Gold hasn’t met his future wife yet, but he’s certain about the kind of woman she’ll be; nurturing, feminine, and definitely blonde. Yet when Casey, an auburn-haired Amazon Woman with attitude, arrives for the holidays he finds himself drawn to her despite her tattoos and prickly temperament. Confused, he tells himself it’s only because he wants to shake some sense into her.
When a secret kept for over a hundred years emerges, Casey and Nick are thrown together with a common goal—to unravel the mystery. While working on the mystery they begin to discover the true versions of each other, but with the holidays rapidly coming to an end, will these two opposites get past their differences before Casey returns to Australia?
196 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 20, 2021
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About the author
S.M. Spencer
15 books430 followersAt the age of five S M Spencer's life changed when she was plonked onto a black & white pony for a photograph. From that day on all she wanted was a horse. She spent the next eleven years writing stories about the horses she pretended to ride through the rolling hills of coastal California until she got a job and bought her first horse at the age of sixteen.
In the 1980's her life changed again when her employer offered her a role Australia. This was the beginning of an adventure of which she has never tired.
Still living in Australia she now writes from the semi-rural home she shares with her husband, horses, cats and dogs--not to mention the mob of kangaroos that share the paddocks with the horses from time to time.
Her current series, Romancing the Californian Cowboys, is contemporary romance with just a touch of spice, lots of horses, and both Australian and American characters.
Her second series is the Copperhead Creek Australian Romance series. This is light contemporary/rural romance as well as a murder mystery in book six, set within the Golden Triangle outside Melbourne. All books can be read as stand-alone titles.
The first series she wrote is a YA paranormal romance trilogy, Absent Shadows, which is set mostly in Australia.
Follow S M Spencer on FaceBook (S M Spencer - Author) or twitter (@SMSpencerAuthor)
In the 1980's her life changed again when her employer offered her a role Australia. This was the beginning of an adventure of which she has never tired.
Still living in Australia she now writes from the semi-rural home she shares with her husband, horses, cats and dogs--not to mention the mob of kangaroos that share the paddocks with the horses from time to time.
Her current series, Romancing the Californian Cowboys, is contemporary romance with just a touch of spice, lots of horses, and both Australian and American characters.
Her second series is the Copperhead Creek Australian Romance series. This is light contemporary/rural romance as well as a murder mystery in book six, set within the Golden Triangle outside Melbourne. All books can be read as stand-alone titles.
The first series she wrote is a YA paranormal romance trilogy, Absent Shadows, which is set mostly in Australia.
Follow S M Spencer on FaceBook (S M Spencer - Author) or twitter (@SMSpencerAuthor)
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January 3, 2022
Another Good One
This is the 2nd book I have read by this author and I'm getting ready to read book number 3. I really enjoy MS Spencer's style of writing. She's now added to my list of favorite authors.😀
This is the 2nd book I have read by this author and I'm getting ready to read book number 3. I really enjoy MS Spencer's style of writing. She's now added to my list of favorite authors.😀
April 20, 2021
Good
This book was good. Just not as good as the first one.
For some reason I just could not connect to the heroine.
But I do like this author so I’ll read the next book book in the series.
This book was good. Just not as good as the first one.
For some reason I just could not connect to the heroine.
But I do like this author so I’ll read the next book book in the series.
January 3, 2024
Series
I like it but you have do have to read the previous and next novel I'd bet to make sense of it
I like it but you have do have to read the previous and next novel I'd bet to make sense of it
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews