Thank you for inviting me back to your blog site for a visit. One Hot Cowboy Wedding hit the book stores last week and I’m so excited. It’s the fourth book in the Spikes & Spurs series and there are three more on the docket behind it. So keep your cowboy hats and your boots on—there are more sexy cowboys and sassy women on the way.
One Hot Cowboy Wedding is Ace and Jasmine’s story. They’ve been best friends for well over a year so it’s understandable when he comes into her café, Chicken Fried, with a hang-dog look on his handsome face that she’s worried. Turns out that there’s a clause in his grandfather’s will that has just surfaced which says that he must be married within a year of taking over the Double Deuce ranch and stayed married for a year or else the whole ranch…cows, bulls, equipment, land, barns and house goes to his worthless cousin. He’s got a week to find a wife and it’s looking like a damn near impossible mission because he doesn’t even have a girlfriend.
Jasmine, being the good friend that she is and running from any kind of commitment anyway, says that she’ll marry him. Of course it will be a secret that no one will ever know and in a year, they’ll go to the divorce lawyer and end it quietly. No problem!
Now what does a fake bride need for a fake wedding? They have to convince the lawyers and Ace’s scumbag cousin that it’s a real marriage so Jasmine chooses a cute little white dress that she’s never worn before. She attaches a veil to a white western hat and packs her white western boots for the trip. Everything is in order since Ace is picking up a set of cheap wedding rings at the Wal-Mart store on the way. The wedding chapel will provide all the rest so the bride is ready!
What happens in Vegas, and all that, right? You got it! It stands true that it won’t leave Vegas and will be their secret right up until the time that the wedding kiss has happened and they are legally married. Then they find out that they’ve won a weekend honeymoon because they were the 5000th couple to get married in Cupid’s Wedding Chapel. And it is broadcast on national television on the ten o’clock news that night! Oops! Secret is out and phones are ringing.
Both mothers are suddenly up to their eyeballs making preparations for a “real” wedding because everyone knows that a Vegas wedding in a chapel can’t be one hundred percent guaran-damn-teed legal. So now Jasmine finds out that what she needed to get married in Vegas and what she needs for a Texas sized wedding is two very different things.
She must have a designer dress and her mother intends to bring a back up dress of her choosing if Jasmine picks out something to plain and cheap looking. She has to have at least eight bridesmaids because Ace will have to use all six of his brothers and his two best friends, Rye and Wil, as groomsmen. And there has to be a meeting of minds about their dresses, shoes, jewelry and their bouquets.
There has to be a rehearsal dinner and motel rooms and an enormous reception after the wedding and it all has to be planned in one month’s time.
The difference in a Vegas wedding to Texas wedding is about to drive her and Ace both crazy but what is she to do? Upset her mother who has had her heart set on a big fancy wedding for her daughter since the day she was born? Or put a stop to the whole thing?
The answer is in One Hot Cowboy Wedding. What I think a bride needs for a cowboy wedding is just what Jasmine had when she went to Vegas. She needs a dress that makes her feel pretty; whether it’s long or short, from the second hand shop or a fancy designer, makes no difference. She needs a pair of boots because there will be some two-steppin’ at the reception or in the bedroom after the wedding. And a cowboy hat to hold a puff of illusion.
But the most important thing a girl needs for a cowboy wedding, big or small, Vegas or Texas, is a cowboy who loves her, promises to be faithful forever and thinks he’s the one getting the prize. Anything more than that is what you want; not what you need.
If you were planning a cowboy wedding what would you need? I’ll be looking forward to your answers. I’ll be away from the computer about two hours this evening because at 7:00 CST, my granddaughter, Kela Rhae, will be getting married at the Arbuckle Wedding Chapel and I’m going to go see just exactly what she’s doing for her cowboy wedding.
ONE HOT COWBOY WEDDING BY CAROLYN BROWN – IN STORES APRIL 2012
A marriage made in Vegas…
Hunky cowboy Ace Riley wasn’t planning on settling down, but his family had other plans for him…The only way to save his hide, and his playboy lifestyle, is to discreetly marry his best friend, Jasmine King.
Can’t possibly last…
Fiesty city–girl Jasmine as just helping out her friend—that is, until their first kiss stirs up a whole mess of trouble, and suddenly discretion is thrown to the wind.
One hot cowboy, one riled up woman…
And they’ll be married for a year, like it or not!
Miss Carolyn is giving away 2 copies of One Hot Cowboy Wedding to 2 lucky winners. All you have to do is leave a comment to enter.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carolyn Brown is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with more than forty books published, and credits her eclectic family for her humor and writing ideas. She writes bestselling single title cowboy and country music mass market romances. Born in Texas and raised in southern Oklahoma, Carolyn and her husband now make their home in the town of Davis, Oklahoma, where she continues to write more cowboy romances! For more information, please visit www.CarolynLBrown.com.
I’ve really enjoyed your other books and I’m looking forward to reading this one.
I think I’d only need one male cowboy who loves me to pieces, one who I trust with my whole heart. Cowboys hats would add an authentic touch!
Cathy, I’m so glad that you have enjoyed my cowboys and their sassy ladies. Hope you like Jasmine and Ace’s story just as well.
Laurie G: You got it darlin’! Jasmine had a bit of trouble trusting Ace with her whole heart. As a friend, she was more than willing to trust him but to trust him with her heart forever was a different story!
cute cover!
I have read a couple of your cowboy books and I really enjoyed them. I can’t wait to read this one. Thanks for sharing your new book with us.
Carolyn,
Can’t wait to read this, it sounds like a fun romp. I’d say all you need for a cowboy wedding is a strong-jawed, good-hearted, cowboy. Everything else is just buttercream frosting on a three-tiered cake.
I love your Spikes and Spurs series. I bought One Hot Cowboy Wedding when it came out last Tuesday. Will your Angels and Outlaws every be printed in paperback or be on Kindle?
Carolyn, it’s wonderful to have you back. And with another great book it seems. ONE HOT COWBOY WEDDING sounds fantastic. I’m all for the boots, jeans, and two-steppin’ at weddings. Cowboys and cowgirls know exactly what it takes to pull off a cowboy wedding. They also know what it takes to make a great story.
Wishing you lots and lots of success!
Welcome Carolyn an what a great post,throughly enjoyed reading the tidbit,,
I loved the other three books in this series and I’m sure this one is amazing also. Great cover. Thanks fir the post.
I just recently discovered your books but have now read them all. I loved them. I can’t watit to read this one.
Love your cowboys! 😀 Sounds like another wonderful book to add to my TBR pile!
Anon: Thank you! I loved this cover, too!
Quilt Lady: Can’t wait to see if you like it as well as the others!
Kirsten, bring on the buttercream icing! LOL
Goldie: My editor is looking into getting us into the ebooks for my hard back books…we’ll hope that it works out before long!
Linda, Ace and Jasmine agree with you. Thank you for the compliments!
Vickie…thank you! I’m so glad that you stopped by to visit and liked the tidbit!
Jaonne, thank you for supporting my vice! I love, love writing cowboy books!
Cathy, if you’ll keep reading I’ll keep writing!
Colleen, thank you! They are sure fun characters to write about.
To all you great authors at Petticoats and Pistols: I love my visits here at Petticoats and Pistols…feels like my soul comes home to rest when I stop here!
I read and enjoyed this book as much as the others in the series.
Sigh. More books to add on my TBB list!
Estella, I’m so glad that you liked Jasmine and Ace’s story as much as the others…next up is Creed Riley, then Gemma O’Donnell and the last in the series is Dewar O’Donnell in the spring of 2013.
Minna, thank you put putting it on your TBB list!
Love this post. A strong, compassionate cowboy with principles is what matters. Your book sounds wonderful.
Your books transport me to another place where I love to be. Cowboys represent strength and values. best wishes.
Ellie, Ace is just that…strong and compassionate. It just takes him a while to realize he can trust Jasmine with his heart.
Annie, that is the sweetest compliment. That is exactly what I want to do with my books…transport your to another place where you love to be!
One of my sons had a cowboy wedding. Everyone wore levis and cowboy shirts, there was a country western band, and door prizes for a pair of really nice Tony Lama boots. Kelly roped his bride for the photos. Great fun He said if he had owned a hose, rhey would have rode off into the sunset. Of course living in Prescott, Az one can be a cowboy even without the manure on their boots!
I’ve been to several “cowboy” weddings. The common factors were loving couples, fun receptions some in the parent’s yard others at the local community hall, and lots of cowboy hats and boots. (One of the couples met when they were both pen-riders at the 40,000 head feedlot nearby.)
Hi Carolyn. Your book sounds great. Love the cover. I think a great cowboy wedding would have lots of western attire, country music and fun cowboy decorations.
Joye, that sounds like so much fun. Husband and I did wedding photography for more than 30 years and we did a couple of western weddings but never did we get in on one where they gave away boots. Hmmm…what an interesting idea!
Hilltop Farmwife: Yes, ma’am, and lots of good fun, too, I betcha!
Crystal GB: Thank you! I was very very happy with the cover, too! It’s my favorite so far…next week the next one may be my favorite! LOL. And you are right, you got to have country music and lots of it.
Congratulations to Laurie and Joye! I hope you really, really like Jasmine and Ace. Happy Reading!