Part Time Cowboy
A onetime bad girl comes home to small-town Oregon in the first in a sexy, heartfelt new series from USA TODAY bestselling author Maisey YatesSadie Miller isn't expecting any welcome-home parades on her return to Copper Ridge. Least of all from part-time rancher, full-time lawman Eli Garrett. The straitlaced, impossibly hot deputy sheriff glares at her as if she's the same teenage hoodlum who fled town ten years ago. But running from her demons has brought Sadie full circle, ready to make a commitment at last. Not to a man, but to a bed-and-breakfast. On Garrett land. Okay, so her plan has a tiny flaw…Eli works too hard to let a blonde ball of trouble mess up his town. But keeping an eye on Sadie makes it tough to keep his hands off her. And if she's so wrong for him, why does being with her feel so right?
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A onetime bad girl comes home to small-town Oregon in the first in a sexy, heartfelt new series from USA TODAY bestselling author Maisey Yates
Sadie Miller isnât expecting any welcome-home parades on her return to Copper Ridge. Least of all from part-time rancher, full-time lawman Eli Garrett. The straitlaced, impossibly hot deputy sheriff glares at her as if sheâs the same teenage hoodlum who fled town ten years ago. But running from her demons has brought Sadie full circle, ready to make a commitment at last. Not to a man, but to a bed-and-breakfast. On Garrett land. Okay, so her plan has a tiny flawâ¦
Eli works too hard to let a blonde ball of trouble mess up his town. But keeping an eye on Sadie makes it tough to keep his hands off her. And if sheâs so wrong for him, why does being with her feel so right?
I chose to set the little town of Copper Ridge up in the northwestern corner of Oregon because, to me, itâs got some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Mountains, evergreens, ranch land and the ocean. A little bit of everything lovely.
Of course, after choosing the setting for a series, populating the town is next. With shops and homes, with people to live in them and work in them.
I love stories that center around family, particularly groups of siblings, and the first family that came to my mind were the Garrettsâa group of siblings who have supported each other through great times and bad times, who still get together every week for dinner, conversation and the chance to insult and encourage each other.
The first Garrett youâll meet is Eli, the upstanding brother who takes care of everyone, not just in his family, but in the whole community. And I hope you love him as much as I do.
You can get a taste for the town in Shoulda Been a Cowboy, an ebook novella thatâs out now. And later this summer youâll see more of Connor Garrett in Brokedown Cowboy and more of Kate Garrett in Bad News Cowboy.
I hope you enjoy their story, the Garrett family and the town of Copper Ridge.
Happy reading!
Maisey
To Haven. Iâve dedicated a lot of books to you, but in truth, you deserve them all. Youâre the reason I get anything done, and the reason I believe in love and happily-ever-afters. Iâm so grateful that Iâve got you.
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WHOEVER SAID YOU couldnât go home again had clearly never been to Copper Ridge. The place hadnât changed. Not in the ten years before Sadie Miller had left town, and not in the ten years since. It probably wouldnât have changed much in another ten years.
Well, it would change a little bit now. The population sign would increase by one, adding back the resident sheâd taken away when sheâd left town at eighteen. And it would also contain at least one more bed-and-breakfast.
So, in an unchanging landscape, she would be responsible for two changes in a very short amount of time.
She deserved a medal of some kind. Though she doubted anyone in this town would ever give her a medal. She was just the wild child from the wrong side of the tracks. Not many would be welcoming her with open arms.
But that was fine with her. She wasnât here for them. She was here for her.
She looked across the highway, at the ocean, barely visible through the trees on her left. She could remember walking there as a kid. A long hike in the sand, through gorse and other pricklies, around the lake and across the road.
A walk she and her friends had always made without their parents. Because the main perk of getting out for an afternoon was getting away from their parents, after all. At least it had been for her.
It was strange to see something familiar. Sheâd spent so many years moving on to the next new place. She never went back anywhere. Ever. She went somewhere new.
This was the first time sheâd ever been somewhere old. And she wasnât sure how she felt about it.
She looked at the gas gauge on her car and sighed. The little yellow light was reminding her that she hadnât made a pit stop since sheâd gone through Medford, nearly three hundred miles ago. She was going to have to stop somewhere in town before she went out to the ranch. She wasnât exactly sure where the Garrett ranch was, just that it was on the outskirts of Copper Ridge.
Sheâd never been invited onto the property before.
The fact that she was leasing a business on it now would have been funny if she didnât just feel horrible, stomach-cramping nervousness.
But then, she figured facing past demons was supposed to be scary. She wouldnât know for sure since sheâd spent years avoiding them. Six months ago, that had changed.
Working with people dealing with grief and loss was always impactingâthere was no way around it. But one very grumpy older woman whoâd lost the house sheâd been in since the 1940s had forced her to think about things sheâd always avoided.
