Going Once, Cowboy
(2026)(The tenth book in the Kingsleys of Cottonwood Ridge series)
A novel by JC Savoy
He's been looked at his whole life. She's the first one who ever really saw him.
Jude Kingsley is a firefighter, a Kingsley, and the easiest man in Cottonwood Ridge to like, which is how he's kept everyone at arm's length for thirty-five years. Nobody has ever asked what's behind the grin. Nobody's ever needed to.
Roberta "Bobbie" Mansfield runs the Bottle Barn, a rescue full of bottle kids, foundered mares, and one dairy goat with strong opinions. She's short a winter's worth of hay and too stubborn to say so. So when Jude shows up in her yard with a check that would make the problem go away, she hands it straight back. In her experience, every gift comes with an invoice you can't read until it's due.
Which leaves his sister Delaney to do what Delaney does best: a bachelor auction. Half the firehouse, a few ranch hands, and one calendar cowboy who'd rather run into a burning building than stand on that stage.
Bobbie has no intention of bidding.
She bids anyway. With money she doesn't have. On the man whose money she just refused.
Now she has a date she doesn't want, a debt she can't explain, and a cowboy who keeps turning up at two in the morning for the lamb feedings. And behind that easy smile, Jude Kingsley is hiding the one thing he's never shown anyone.
A sweet small-town romance about orphan lambs, stubborn hearts, and the difference between being admired and being seen.
Genre: Romance
Jude Kingsley is a firefighter, a Kingsley, and the easiest man in Cottonwood Ridge to like, which is how he's kept everyone at arm's length for thirty-five years. Nobody has ever asked what's behind the grin. Nobody's ever needed to.
Roberta "Bobbie" Mansfield runs the Bottle Barn, a rescue full of bottle kids, foundered mares, and one dairy goat with strong opinions. She's short a winter's worth of hay and too stubborn to say so. So when Jude shows up in her yard with a check that would make the problem go away, she hands it straight back. In her experience, every gift comes with an invoice you can't read until it's due.
Which leaves his sister Delaney to do what Delaney does best: a bachelor auction. Half the firehouse, a few ranch hands, and one calendar cowboy who'd rather run into a burning building than stand on that stage.
Bobbie has no intention of bidding.
She bids anyway. With money she doesn't have. On the man whose money she just refused.
Now she has a date she doesn't want, a debt she can't explain, and a cowboy who keeps turning up at two in the morning for the lamb feedings. And behind that easy smile, Jude Kingsley is hiding the one thing he's never shown anyone.
A sweet small-town romance about orphan lambs, stubborn hearts, and the difference between being admired and being seen.
Genre: Romance