Cover Reveal & Giveaway: Gambling On A Dream by Sara Walter Ellwood
Gambling
on a Dream
Colton Gamblers # 3
Colton Gamblers # 3
By:
Sara Walter Ellwood
Releasing
June 9, 2015
Lyrical
Press
Blurb
With
Everything At Stake….
It’s
been years since Sheriff Dawn Madison said goodbye to Texas Ranger
Wyatt McPherson. She’s closed the door on the heartache of her
past. But when the sleepy town of Colton, Texas, is rocked by a
series of shocking murders, Dawn has no choice but to trust the man
who broke her heart if she wants to protect the ones she loves…
All
Bets Are Off
Four
years have passed. But Wyatt hasn’t forgotten the bold, Native
American beauty who stole his heart . . . and broke it. Losing her
and the life they had hoped to share left him an empty shell of
himself. But if he wants to stop the deranged killer terrorizing the
innocent kids of Colton, he’ll have to let Dawn back into his life.
It’s a risk he’s willing to take, even if heartache is all he
takes home…
Excerpt
When
the door closed with a resounding click, Dawn pounded a fist onto the
table with enough force to rattle their coffee mugs. “Dammit, who
is he protecting?”
He
glanced back at the door. Talon had always had it rough, but no worse
than his sister or younger brother. Sure, being one of Jock
Blackwell’s ill-begotten sons wasn’t something he’d wish on a
rabid coyote. However, Tom Madison had treated Talon like a son all
his life, even giving him a third of his ranch when he retired.
Talon
had changed, and not for the better. His problems didn’t come from
how he was raised, or even the occasional bullying. He was a
troublemaker, and nothing would have changed him.
He
sat in the chair Talon had vacated. “Or the question could be what
is he hiding?”
She
ran her hands over her dark hair to the tight bun at the base of her
skull. With jerky movements, she pulled out the band holding the
twisted braid captive. As she ran her fingers through the long mass
of raven silk, heat coursed through him at the memories of all that
hair covering him like a blanket while they’d made love. When she
bent over the table and scratched her scalp in pure frustration, all
he could think about was her hair hanging down her back to brush and
tickle his thighs as she rode him--her favorite position--to orgasm.
The
erection was fast and furious and nearly had him groaning. Thank God,
he was sitting. He forced his numbed mind to focus on the case.
“We
have to find someone else who may have seen or knows something.”
She glanced across the table at him and straightened. If there was
ever the perfect picture of a beautiful Indian maiden, it was Dawn
with her hair down. Had she ever had the stuff cut? He swallowed hard
and shifted in his chair as his jeans strangled his cock. How long
had it been since he’d had sex? He couldn’t remember, but refused
to believe he hadn’t been with someone since Dawn.
With
swift, practiced motions, she broke the trance he was under by daftly
braiding her hair and wrapping it into a bagel-sized knot at the back
of her head. She snapped the hair band over the bun.
He
cleared his throat. “When are we talking to Chris’s friends?”
His voice came out sounding a bit husky, even to his ears.
She
stood, taking their coffee cups with her, and refilled them. After
she dumped that god-awful crap pretending to be creamer into hers,
she handed him a mug of black joe. Sipping her coffee from the
extra-large, bright green mug he’d given to her for her thirtieth
birthday, she returned to her chair.
“Hendricks
and Kennedy are getting a list, but according to Julie, he didn’t
have many friends in Colton.”
“How
about Justin Vaughn? He’s always been a known dealer. Maybe he
knows something.” He sipped his coffee.
She
smiled, and he almost choked as he swallowed the hot, bitter brew.
“Haven’t thought of him. We should talk to him. They’re about
the same age. Vaughn’s working over at his uncle’s farm and
garden market.”
He
set his mug on the table and glanced at his watch. “I can’t
today.”
“Hot
date?”
Grinning,
he stood. “No. I’m buying the Estrada Ranch.”
Her
dark eyes widened. “Really? I heard Luis and Stella were thinking
of moving to New Mexico, but I didn’t know it was a done deal. I
figured it would go to either Jose or Mary,” she said, referring to
the Estradas’ son and daughter. “How long has their place been up
for sale? I haven’t seen a sign in their yard.”
He
shrugged and reached for his hat where it sat on the edge of the
table. “Luis and Stella told Mom and Dad they planned to sell the
place a couple of weeks ago while playing Bingo at the firehouse.
When they told me, I called the Estradas and made an offer. It never
officially made it on the market. I’ve been looking for a small
ranch.”
“We’ll
be neighbors when you settle in there.” She cocked her head to the
side. “I never knew you wanted to be a rancher.”
“You
never cared about a lot of things I wanted.” His bitterness
surprised even him.
She
stood and picked up her mug, leaving his where it sat. As she headed
for the door, she nodded toward it. “We have a policy around here.
We clean up after ourselves. Something I seem to remember you have a
hard time with.”
Author
Info
Although
Sara Walter Ellwood has long ago left the farm for the glamour of the
big town, she draws on her experiences growing up on a small hobby
farm in West Central Pennsylvania to write her contemporary westerns.
She’s been married to her college sweetheart for over 20 years, and
they have two teenagers and one very spoiled rescue cat named Penny.
She longs to visit the places she writes about and jokes she’s a
cowgirl at heart stuck in Pennsylvania suburbia. Sara Walter Ellwood
is a multi-published and international Amazon bestselling author of
the anthology set Cowboy Up. She also publishes paranormal romantic
suspense under the pen name Cera duBois.
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