Rosie Stanton climbed on a west-bound
train to answer his ad for a wife and mother, everything she wants to be.
But Tom Harris lied. He doesn’t want a wife, merely a mother for his two
abandoned children and a cook and cleaner for his ranch.
Betrayed once, he’s vowed never to let
another woman into his heart. Sexy Rosie upsets all his plans and
threatens to invade his scarred heart. How will he maintain his vow to
keep his hands off her as she charms his children, his cow hands, his life?
ABOUT THE BOOK :
Release
Date: July 31, 2012
Pages: 267
Genre: Romance, Western
Formats:
Kindle/Nook/PaperbackPurchase: Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Bride-western-romance-Series-ebook/dp/B008QNVC14/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344622476&sr=8-1&keywords=tame+a+wild+bride
Author's Website Link: http://www.cynthiawoolf.com
Blog Link: http://www.cynthiawoolf.com/blog
GETTING TO KNOW CYNTHIA BETTER :
Cynthia
Woolf was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in the mountains west of
Golden. She spent her early years running wild around the mountain side with
her friends.
She
worked her way through college and went to work full time straight after
graduation and there was little time to write. Then in 1990 she and two
friends started a round robin writing a story about pirates. She found
that she missed the writing and kept on with other stories. In 1992 she
joined Colorado Romance Writers and Romance Writers of America.
Unfortunately,
the loss of her job demanded the she not renew her memberships and her writing
stagnated for many years. In 2001, she saw an ad in the paper for a writers
conference being put on by CRW and decided she'd attend. One of her
favorite authors, Catherine Coulter, was the keynote speaker. Cynthia was
lucky enough to have a seat at Ms. Coulter's table at the luncheon and after
talking with her, decided she needed to get back to her writing. She
rejoined both CRW and RWA that day and hasn't looked back.
A BOOKISH LIBRARIA IS HAPPY TO BRING YOU THIS GUEST POST!
A BOOKISH LIBRARIA IS HAPPY TO BRING YOU THIS GUEST POST!
What Inspired Me to
Write My Book
by
Cynthia Woolf
I started this series because of the way my parents
met. Dad was a cowboy on a working ranch
that also catered to people to stay there.
It wasn’t like a dude ranch because there weren’t activities as such. No participating in cattle drives or anything
like that. It was just a place for
people to come and stay.
My mother was a nurse made to a young boy with
asthma. Today they would call her a
nanny. Anyway, she and the boy came up
for the summer to the ranch in Creede from Texas. The boy could breath better in the drier air,
cleaner air that was to be found at the altitude of Creede.
There was a dancehall across the road from the
ranch. Mother attended one night and met
Dad. They saw each other for the summer
then Mother had to return to Texas with her young charge. She and Dad wrote back and forth for several
months. Dad finally asked Mom to marry
him. She came up to Creede and stayed
with Dad’s brother and sister-in-law for the night. They drove to Taos the next day and got
married. That was in March of 1942.
The ranch in Creede is where I set my first Tame book,
Tame A Wild Heart. My new book isn’t at
the ranch itself but is in the same valley as the first one.
Creede is a beautiful part of the country. High in the mountains, it was a silver mining
town until the boom went bust. Somehow
it managed to survive and is now a thriving little community will lots of shops
in the storefronts from the 1890’s.
I took my mother back with me when I was doing the
research for the book. The ranch still
looked the same to her. She pointed out
the buildings and what they used to be, like the ice house. The brother of the owners of the ranch when
Mom was there was still living on a home next to the ranch. It still has people who come up for the
summer, many with standing reservations each year.
The year following our visit, the widow of the brother
donated the ranch to Mineral County for open space, meaning that it will never
be developed into houses and will always be there for the enjoyment of the
people of Mineral County and visitors like me.
THE BOOKISH DAME REVIEWS :
here:
Tame a Wild Bride by Cynthia Woolf (Full Tour)
Sept 24 - Reviews by Molly/review
Sept 26 - The Bookish Dame/review and guest post
Sept 27 - Nothing Better than a Book/review
Sept 28 - Cait Lavender, Cowgirl Writer/review
Sept 29 - Black Lion Tour Blog/wrap-up
Sept 29 - Black Lion Tour Blog/wrap-up
9 comments:
Cynthia, Tame a Wild Bride sounds like a delight! And I love the story of how your folks met. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for hosting me and for the fantastic review. I appreciate is.
Lyn, thanks so much for stopping by.
Thank you so much for hosting Cynthia! Lovely review and posting too!
Congrats on the release. This book sounds fantastic. Can't wait to read it. Thanks for the great post and review.
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Thanks for stopping by Joanne. I hope you like the book.
The book sounds interesting...I remember flying a small aircraft up to Gunnison...poor thing didn't have the power to make the climb the whole way! Had to turn around and land and hitch a car ride to get up to that altitude! Took my (now) wife to visit an old girlfriend, my wife always says it was to get her approval so I could marry. It wasn't but I'll never convence her of that. My late aunt had a tiny cabin up near one of the old mining camps that we stayed in for awhile...God it was freezing!
Hi Vamp Writer. Thanks for stopping by and for your story. The area around Gunnison is beautiful as is Creede where my book is set. And you're right, it's freezing even when it's not winter in some of those old cabins.
Hi, Cynthia and readers! So awesome to hear from all of you. I wish I could take a trip out to Creede to see the countryside, myself!
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