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    Reckless in Texas: A Cocky and Charming Bullfighter Has His Work Cut Out for Him In and Outside the Ring if He's Going to Woo a Fierce Single Mom
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    Reckless in Texas: A Cocky and Charming Bullfighter Has His Work Cut Out for Him In and Outside the Ring if He's Going to Woo a Fierce Single Mom
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    Reckless in Texas: A Cocky and Charming Bullfighter Has His Work Cut Out for Him In and Outside the Ring if He's Going to Woo a Fierce Single Mom
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    Reckless in Texas: A Cocky and Charming Bullfighter Has His Work Cut Out for Him In and Outside the Ring if He's Going to Woo a Fierce Single Mom

    By Kari Lynn Dell

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    Rough and tumble, cocky and charming, bullfighter Joe Cassidy is one of the best in the business… And he's way out of Violet's league. But it's going to take more than impossible odds to keep this fierce single mother from her forever cowboy.

    Violet Jacobs is fearless. At least, that's what the men she snatches from under the hooves of bucking horses think. Outside the ring, she's got plenty of worries rattling her bones: her young son, her mess of a love life, and lately, her family's struggling business. When she takes matters into her own hands and hires on a hotshot new bullfighter, she expects to start a ruckus.

    She never expected stubborn, showboating, secret heart-of-gold Joe Cassidy.

    Joe came to Texas to escape a life spiraling out of control. He never planned on sticking around, and he certainly never expected to call this dry and dusty backwater home. But Violet is everything he never knew he was missing, and the deeper he's pulled into her beautiful mess of a family, the more he realizes this fierce, fiery woman may be offering him the one thing he never could find on his own.

    People are falling in love with Kari Lynn Dell's rodeo cowboy romance:

    "Look out, world! There's a new cowboy in town."—CAROLYN BROWN, New York Times Bestselling Author

    "A fun, wild ride!"—B.J. DANIELS, New York Times Bestselling Author

    "Real Ranches. Real Rodeo. Real Romance."—LAURA DRAKE, author of Sweet on a Cowboy series

    "An extraordinarily gifted writer."—KAREN TEMPLETON, author of Wed in the West series

    Need more convincing? Just watch these sparks fly:

    Joe lifted a finger to brush back a strand of her hair, savoring the cool slide of it over his skin. She frowned, but didn't slap at his hand, didn't shrink away when he leaned in. Would she let him kiss her? Maybe, but he was enjoying the slow rev of his engine, the lazy swell of heat, all from just sitting next to her, barely touching. He traced a line down the side of her neck, watching the skin pebble in response. "Go out with me, Violet."

    Her forehead puckered. "But…I don't even like you."

    "Yes, you do." She sucked in an outraged breath, but Joe only smiled wider.

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    Release dateAug 2, 2016
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    Reckless in Texas: A Cocky and Charming Bullfighter Has His Work Cut Out for Him In and Outside the Ring if He's Going to Woo a Fierce Single Mom
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    Kari Lynn Dell

    Kari Lynn Dell is a native of north central Montana, a third generation ranch-raised cowgirl, horse trainer and rodeo competitor, most recently the 2017 Canadian Senior Pro Rodeo Association Breakaway Roping season champion. She attended her first rodeo at two weeks old and has existed in a state of horse-induced poverty ever since. She currently resides on the family ranch on the Blackfeet Reservation, loitering in her parents' bunkhouse along with her husband, son and Max the Cowdog, with a tipi on the front step, a view of Glacier National Park from her writing desk and Canada within spitting distance. The third book of her Texas Rodeo series, Tougher in Texas, is a 2018 finalist for the Romance Writers of America's RITA® awards.

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    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this Western Romance that centered around Rodeo's. I received this book for free and I voluntarily chose to review it. I gave it a 4.5* rating. Between the frequent encounters with danger and attempts at normal lives, this book pulled me in. Lots of animals to color this story around these hard working, living on the edge type work of running rodeo's as a family business. I had a couple of late nights or should I say early mornings reading this. Not really for the under 18 readers.
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      4.5 stars.

      The first installment in Kari Lynn Dell's Texas Rodeo series, Reckless in Texas is a sparkling romance between a rodeo contractor and a bullfighter.

      Single mom, business manager and pick up man (er, lady), Violet Jacobs yearns to take her family's rodeo business beyond the borders of her home state of Texas. Hoping her decision to hire a replacement bullfighter from out of state will be the first step in expanding their horizons, Violet is stunned when the bullfighter who arrives is not the bullfighter she actually hired.

      Joe Cassidy is a superstar bullfighter whose latest clash with his long time boss Dick Browning puts a premature end to his rodeo season. His partner and best friend Wyatt Darrington has been trying to convince Joe to end ties with Browning and he hopes working with another contractor will give Joe some much needed perspective. Joe reluctantly goes along with Wyatt's scheme but will his time with Violet make any difference in his plans to return to Browning's ranch after his contract with the Jacobs' family has ended?

      Violet is a cowgirl through and through and although she loves working with her family, she dreams of making a bigger splash in the rodeo world. With a long track record of making ill-fated relationship decisions, the last thing she needs is an unwanted attraction to her temporary bullfighter. Immediately rubbed the wrong way by his cocky attitude and disparaging comments, Violet is dismayed by her sizzling attraction to Joe and she tries to keep her distance from him as much as possible. Once he loses the attitude and she sees the genuinely good-hearted man he keeps hidden, Violet finds him darn near impossible to resist. But fearing yet another public scandal, she is already reconsidering her decision to enter into a relationship with Joe when misunderstandings and miscommunications threaten to derail their budding romance.

      Joe is a gifted bullfighter but he has big dreams of eventually becoming a partner in Browning's ranch. His relationship with the stock contractor is rocky and although they have gone through many ups and downs over the years, this latest altercation is, by far, the worst they have endured. Working with the Jacobs family is much more fulfilling on both a personal and professional level, but he finds it impossible to give up the goal he has worked toward for over half his life. Trying to live in the here and now, Joe would like nothing more than to explore his simmering desire for Violet, but he has no idea how to woo the single mom. Even worse, he fears losing the respect of her family if things go wrong between them and completely out of his depth, he makes a few missteps and mistakes that play into Violet's fears. When Browning gives him the opportunity to return to his Oregon ranch, Joe never hesitates to go back to the place he calls home, but will he find what he is looking for with the irascible rancher?

      There is plenty of sexual tension between Joe and Violet and they come extremely close to giving in to their desire on several occasions. Underlying all of their interactions is a simmering attraction that deepens over time but it takes a good part of the novel for Joe and Violet to actually consummate their relationship. With both of them carrying around so much unresolved baggage, once their romance hits a major roadblock, neither of them knows how or is willing to break their impasse. Completely miserable apart, will either Joe or Violet work up the courage to resolve their differences?

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