I am excited to be here on your blog today talking about my
new Decadent Publishing release: For Ruby’s Love.
The story is contemporary, erotic, with Western and glbt
elements. The backdrop is a ranch in the Flint Hills of Kansas. This is the
sequel to “The CEO and The Cowboy.”
Cowboys are some of my favorite heroes to write about,
although I write about many other heroes as well. There is just something about
a cowboy that calls to me. I particularly enjoy dealing with a cowboy who has
certain fairly set-in-stone ideas and then has them confronted, knocking him
back a bit and having to reconsider things.
Calhoun faced such a situation in the first book when he met
Daniel. He hadn’t considered himself drawn to men until he came face to face
with the businessman. It through his world off kilter as he adjusted to having
a male lover, but they learned to accept each other and start a future
together.
Then, in “For Ruby’s Love,” a spirited cowgirl enters their
lives. She butts head with the stubborn cowboy and has the long-time gay Daniel
cautiously rethinking that matter. Can three such different people find a life
together?
Book Excerpt
He pulled open
the over-sized front door and gaped at the bit of a woman shivering on the
porch. She appeared a foot shorter than him and a good sixty or more pounds
lighter. What hit him most were her eyes—an odd dark green, like jade or
something. Her eyes narrowed as he looked her over.
Finally, she stretched
to her full minimal height and bristled at him. “When you’re done checking me
out, do you think you could let me inside? It’s colder than cold out here.”
Daniel stepped
beside him and intervened. “Let the lady in, Cal.” He looked around her and asked,
“Where’s your car? Assuming you drove here.”
She slid
between them into the tiled foyer before turning back. “No car. And I didn’t
drive here, at least not exactly.” Her teeth chattered.
Calhoun closed
the door against the sharp winter breeze and watched her pull off a battered
pink Stetson, unveiling chin-length strawberry-blonde hair. “What does ‘not
exactly’ mean?” He added, “Who are you, anyway?”
She worried her
trembling lower lip and glanced from him to Daniel and back. She pulled off a
glove and stuck out her hand. “Ruby McMurtry.”
Instead of
taking her hand, he puffed up in annoyance. “You’re late! Where’s your father?”
She started to
lower her hand, glowering at him. But he
noticed something besides anger in the depths of those enchanting eyes. He
couldn’t get a handle on the emotion.
While he tried
to calm down, wishing he hadn’t jumped on her, Daniel reached out and shook her
very red-looking hand.
“You feel like
ice,” he said in concern. He took a second to scowl at him.
As she blinked
at her hand sandwiched between Daniel’s, her already pink-chilled cheeks turned
pinker. “I should’ve worn my thicker gloves,” she muttered in clear discomfort.
When she managed to slip free, she glared at him.
A twinge of
guilt about his rude behavior passed through him, but his anger came out first
as he repeated himself. “Where’s your father? I have a serious bone to pick
with him.”
Those eyes that
still captivated him welled up with tears. His gut tightened.
Her lower lip wobbled and she sputtered, “He…he…he’s dead.”
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About the Author:
Starla Kaye wears many hats professionally and as a writer.
She is the community coordinator for a Midwestern accounting firm, a
gerontologist who volunteers with an active group of senior adults, a
mentor/teacher of writing, and a multi-published author. She dabbles in writing
romances of many sub-genres: contemporary, historical Western, medieval,
sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal, and Regency. To date she has published 20 novels,
38 novellas, 8 anthologies, and 18 short stories.
Starla writes for Decadent
Publishing, Black
Velvet Seductions, and Blushing
Books.
Thanks for having me here today.
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