Sandy M’s review of Steal Me, Cowboy by Kim Boykin
Contemporary Romance published by Tule Publishing Group 28 Dec 13
I’m a huge sucker for a sexy cowboy, so you can imagine my delight at all the new fun coming out of Tule Publishing Group with their western-themed series taking place in Montana. This is just the beginning for this new publishing company, and I can’t wait to see what they have in store for the future. But in the meantime, I’m in cowboy heaven.
Rainey Brown is a hairsylist in South Carolina. Her boyfriend of four years is a minor league baseball player. He comes home every so often, they go at each other like crazy, and then he hurries off to the next round of games hither and yon across the country. While Rainey sits at home and pines for a life with him. Now, most of the time when presented with heroine similar to Rainey, one who keeps putting up with a guy’s crap, I’m like most of you and I’d be labeling her stupid as a post. But Rainey is a scrapper and she knows when to say when and make her jerk sit up and make a decision about life. And he doesn’t know it yet. That’s the best part.
So Raney heads out for Missoula, Montana, where Jerk is currently working. Before she can get there, though, her car breaks down and she’s rescued by a dream of a cowboy, Beck Harnett. Now Beck, he’s a double whammy for me. On top of all that cowboy business, he’s a chef. Owns a restaurant and all. That’s an unrealized dream of mine, to be a chef, so instead I love food and I indulge often, especially the fancy and the delicious, all of which Beck serves up for Rainey once they meet. Ms. Boykin does a terrific job of giving the reader emotion through senses other than the sexual.
It’s going to take only five days for Rainey’s car to be repaired – and that’s pushing it when Beck asks the mechanic for the favor of stretching it out – so he has to up his game to make her see she belongs with him. And he does one hell of a terrific job, seducing her at every turn through every one of her senses. He comes this close to his goal, and then everything goes to hell and he’s watching Rainey drive away toward a man who doesn’t deserve her.
What also makes this book are the secondary characters, from Rainey’s roommate in South Carolina to the aforementioned mechanic to her new boss at the local salon where Rainey takes on part-time work to pay for her car. They’re all a hoot and a lot of fun. And the Jerk? Well, you need to read the story to see his well-deserved comeuppance!
Grade: B+
Summary:
Unbeknownst to her boyfriend, Sassy South Carolina hairstylist, Rainey Brown, is headed to Missoula, dead set on giving her minor league baseball .player boyfriend of four years an ultimatum. Either put a ring on it or let her go, preferably not the latter.
When Rainey’s piece of crap car dies in the middle of Nowhere, Montana, she’s sure she’s a goner, until gorgeous restaurateur Beck Hartnett stops to help. Beck falls hard for Rainey, and knows she would admit she’s fallen for him too, if she wasn’t too stubborn to admit it. Beck has five days before the car is repaired to steal Rainey away from a boyfriend who doesn’t deserve her. Five days before she’s gone for good.
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