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Maddie is a Top 100 Bestselling Author. She writes Romance and Suspense novels.

The Cowboy's Secret Baby

Colorado Dreamin' Book 3

Author: Maddie James


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She's the maid of honor. He's the best man. Both are keeping secrets.

The long-requested sequel to Maddie James' first published novel, Roses & Rawhide is now available! Readers wanted to know... What happened to Jillie and Mack's relationship at the end of Roses & Rawhide?

Why did Jillie go back to Kentucky?
Will they get back together?
What's their story?

While Kim Martin and Thad Winchester find their happily-ever-after in Roses & Rawhide, their best friends, Jillie Abernathy and Mack Montgomery, end their sleeping bag sharing relationship during the rugged, two-week pack trip into the Colorado San Juan mountains.

But when Kim and Thad host their wedding at Thad's Colorado ranch a few months later, Mack and Jillie must come face-to-face with reality--and with each other. She's the Maid of Honor. He's the Best Man. Both are harboring secrets--secrets that could break a potential future relationship if they both keep avoiding telling the truth.

Can they reveal those secrets to each other? And if so, can they get past the withheld truths to plan a future together?

Excerpt from The Cowboy's Secret Baby

Mack exhaled. “The company is a multi-billion-dollar international business, Jillie. I’m the CEO for Montgomery Oil out of San Antonio, a Fortune 500 company.”

Jillie felt her face screw up. He was the CEO of an oil company? “Oil?” It was the only word she could squeak out.

“Yes.”

“In San Antonio.”

“Yes.”

“That’s Texas. You own a Texas oil company? Did you say multi-billion?”

“Yes.”

“Then you’re…” She unwound her legs and stood. The afghan dropped to the floor. Only one way to say it. “Rich.” She glanced about and tossed up her hands. “Of course, you are. Look at this house!” She picked up the afghan and wrapped it around her shoulders again, paced away from the sofa, turned, and glared. “You’re rich. You’re a billionaire. You are goddamn rich?”

“Yes.”

“Can you say anything else but yes?” The question came out a little louder and more forceful than she intended. “You’re a freaking billionaire?”

“I suppose you could say that.”

“Suppose?”

“Well, the company is worth billions. Me? It’s debatable but let’s just say I’m very comfortable. It’s not like having money is a bad thing, Jillie.”

She faced him. All this time she thought him a real-life cowboy. Did it matter that he wasn’t? That he was stinking rich and had failed to tell her that? But why would he? She imagined that might be a difficult thing to work into regular conversation. “I don’t know what to say.”

Mack stood and shoved his hands into his pockets. “It’s all true.”

She stood stone still and glared. “You were rich last summer.”

Exhaling, Mack took a few steps forward and reached for her arms. Jillie jerked back. “Jillie, yes. My family has been well-off all my life. However, I know hard work, so don’t think I’m just a guy in a suit. I grew up on a cattle ranch and I did rodeo like my brothers most of my growing up years. I am a cowboy, a rancher, through and through. Dad made sure we understood the value of hard work and I have mucked stalls and rode fences and moved cattle with the best of them. But I also went to college and got an MBA. I worked hard. And when the time came to go back home, when my dad needed me, I did. I left Colorado for a while, stopped working with Thad, and finally made use of that degree.”

“Why didn’t you just tell me? Why did you let me believe you were Thad’s ranch manager? I don’t understand what the big deal is.” She paused then and stared into his eyes. “Oh.”

“Oh?”

“Yes, oh. You didn’t tell me because you thought all I was after was a cowboy conquest. If I knew you were a billionaire, I might also be a gold-digger, huh? Only after your money?”

He stepped closer. “No, Jillie, actually, that wasn’t it at all.”

“I’m not sure I believe you—but to tell you the truth, I can understand it if you did think that.”

“Well, it wasn’t that.”

“Then what?”

“Because I didn’t want to be a CEO those two weeks, Jillie. I went on that pack trip because Thad was short-handed, yes, but mostly because I needed a break from Corporate America. I took a two-week vacation and gladly handed over my cell phone. My younger brother took the reins while I was gone, and with dad’s help on the sidelines, he was fine. All I wanted to do was play cowboy again for a while and disappear into the mountains. I didn’t want to talk about my other life. No cares, just me and my horse and the trail.” He peered deep into her eyes, then shifted his gaze over her shoulder, thinking. His voice lowered. “I just hadn’t counted on you.”

Author: Maddie James

Author Genre: Romance, Suspense

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Author Description: Maddie James writes to silence the people in her head--if only they wouldn't all talk at once!

Whether writing traditional contemporary romance or building paranormal worlds, bestselling romance author, Maddie James, pens stories that frequently cross a variety of romantic sub-genres. Sweet or spicy, suspense or comedy, western or time-travel, her heroes and heroines are always chasing one thing--the happily-ever-after.

Maddie is a Food Network junkie, a struggling gardener, an amateur photographer, a sometimes artist, a by-the-seat-of-her-pants writer, and a closet hermit. She writes every day in her sunroom looking out over a rolling corn field and wouldn't have it any other way. She frequently rescues stray fur-babies and wayward plants and an occasional antique wicker table but has ceased rescuing two-legged strays (her mother is happy about that). All these quirky topics, and more, make their way into her books.

Her first book, THE WILD WEST, a Kensington Precious Gems romance, received a Calico Trails Cameo Award. RED: A SEDUCTION TALE, claimed first place as the Romance Book Scene's favorite novella of the year. A four-time nominee for a CAPA/Psyche Award from The Romance Studio, she has received numerous Top Pick, 5 Star, and Best Read reviews from various reviewers. Her books have landed on Amazon Top 100 Paid Bestseller lists, including BROKEN, a #1 bestseller in western romance. Maddie has been listed as a Top 100 Most Popular Contemporary Romance Author at Amazon.

Affaire de Coeur says, "James shows a special talent for traditional romance," and RT Book Reviews claims, "James deftly combines romance and suspense, so hop on for an exhilarating ride."




Author's Book List


Jake's Temptation: Remington Ranch, TX - Parker Ranches, Inc. Book 3
She's from the wrong side of the tracks. He's a rich bad boy with a past. Neither think they are good enough for the other.

Mira Featherstone knows her place in life and it's not with Jake Remington. Rich guys play on the wrong side of the tracks, but they don't bring girls like her home to mama. Since Mira has no expectations beyond the moment, she doesn't mind playing--and she loves toying with the bad boy lawyer, until it gets her into trouble with her boss, Chandler West.

Jake Remington is a wealthy Texas cowboy whose family land borders West Hills Ranch, owned by Chandler West. Although he now practices law and lives in Kentucky, he is back in Texas to settle a land dispute between his parents and the Wests and plans to take care of business and get the hell out of Dodge before he gets himself into trouble. Again.

Because trouble for Jake always comes in the form of a Texas beauty, and one he can't keep his hands off. His last temptation landed him with a lawsuit.

But when he bumps into the flirty Mira coming out of his hotel room at the West Star Lodge, keeping his hands off the hotel maid becomes an impossible task.


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Protecting Sarah: Branded Filly Ranch - The Parker Ranches, Inc. Book 2
Can a love-at-first-sight weekend turn into the happily-ever-after they weren't looking for?

When Cole Stevens travels from Montana to Texas to close a business deal with his old friend, Chandler West, he never expects to close in on a relationship, too. But with one brief flicker of eye contact in the airport with a pretty young woman carrying a guitar, his heart starts to unravel.

Sarah MacKay, fresh off the South Dakota ranch she grew up on, is touted as the up-and-coming country music singer of the year. Invited to sing at Chandler West's annual ranch barbecue, Sarah finds herself in opposition with her manager, and Cole steps up to protect her from the smarmy, poor excuse of a human being.

Emotions are high and sparks fly, and for the first time in his adult life, Cole feels something for a woman that both mystifies and terrifies him. But it's just a weekend, right? He will be back home on the Branded Filly Ranch in Montana come Monday, and Sarah has a career to get off the ground. Can a love-at-first-sight weekend turn into the happily-ever-after neither of them are looking for?

Then Sarah turns up missing and it's suspected she's been abducted by her manager. Suddenly Cole has more to worry about than a love-at-first-sight weekend. Will he lose Sarah before he has her?


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Taking a Chance
She rescued a cat and gave the feline a furever home.Did she find her forever man in the process?

The peaceful town of Brownsfield, Texas, is the perfect place to start a new veterinary practice--newcomer Dr. Caleb Wyatt decides--until the morning he opens the doors of his animal clinic. His office is disorganized and he needs to hire part-time help but the animals of Brownsfield are not cooperating. Mrs. Pierson's poodle is for love in all the wrong places. A colicky calf keeps him awake. A yellow-tinged iguana, a cursing Lorikeet, and a bird-eating cat seem hell-bent wreaking havoc with his business.

In short, chaos! Until the lovely and quite organized, Samantha Jamieson, steps into his clinic.

Sammi wasn't out to find a job. She only wants help for a flea-infested and newly rescued cat she'd given a furever home. But the disorganized veterinarian needs some help so she decides to put her secretary skills to good use. She agrees to work for Caleb but as the days roll on, the job becomes more than a summer distraction. In fact, she fears she is falling for Caleb, something this plain Jane girl thought she would never experience. It's time to retreat. And fast.

Caleb finds that convincing Sammi to work for him was the easy part--convincing her that he's her forever man is quite another.


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Crazy for You
A vacation romance run amok. Does what happens in Jamaica always stay in Jamaica? A Sensual/Steamy Contemporary Romantic Comedy

Tasha Smith enjoys her laid-back life running her shop called, Naturally, where she sells organic fruits and vegetables--even though lately she's been in a funk over a broken engagement, or rather, leaving her fiancé standing at the altar. It was the right thing to do but she'd handled it badly. Determined to shake her blues, she heads down to a resort in sunny Jamaica, and along the way, hooks up with a most unlikely companion--a workaholic stuffed shirt named Andrew.

Andrew Jacob Powel III reluctantly heads to Jamaica after winning the trip for high salesperson of the month. He figures while there, he'll hand out business cards and network--but when he connects with Tasha, his professional poise begins a slow unraveling. Tasha is at turns enchanting and exasperating, if not adorably determined to tease him out of his conservative shell--and his suit!

But what happens in Jamaica stays in Jamaica, and even as a sultry passion takes them both by surprise, both Andrew and Tasha know they'll have to return to their very different lives--even if their hearts tell them otherwise. Can they bury their differences long enough to make it work?


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The Christmas Nanny - A Harbor Falls Romance Book 4
When yet another acting rejection stuns Wynter Holly, she decides to give up acting altogether--until her friends' set her up for potential success with an unconventional, and perhaps unsuitable, intervention.

All Wynter Holly, aka stage name Wyn Hall, wants for Christmas is to be cast in a significant role in the upcoming Harbor Falls Actor's Playhouse production. What she gets is a gig playing nanny to four children who happen to be attached to the casting director of the play--the casting director who doesn't think she's suitable for any role in the play.

All Rob Black wants for Christmas is happy children and to be home. After all, he promised his brother and sister-in-law he would take good care of their kids while they enjoyed a second honeymoon, and that he'd provide them with a special Christmas. His niece and three nephews deserve a great Christmas but unfortunately, Rob has to fly off to California to satisfy his business partner, and can't deliver on his promise.

Can the nanny come to his rescue? And can Wyn play-act her way through this nanny business?


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Dance into My Heart - A Harbor Falls Romance Book 3
Gracie Hart is healing from the tragedy that robbed her of the two things she loved the most and will never get back--the love of her life and ballet. The former ballerina now spends her time running a successful boutique gift shop called Romantically Yours located in the heart of downtown Harbor Falls, North Carolina.

Rick Price, seeking a new life for himself and his young daughter--is definitely not in the market for a girlfriend or a mother for Izzie. Weary of juggling a demanding, although profitable law career, and being a responsible father, he makes a bold move to leave his law position and rent a storefront property in the small town of Harbor Falls. His dream of owning a business and being in control of his own fate is appealing.

But then Gracie dances into his heart and everything spins out of control. Could she be the woman to put back the missing piece of his heart?

Can Gracie let go of her past, in order to grab on to her future?


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All of My Heart: Sweet Hart Inn - A Harbor Falls Romance Book 1
Life is perfect.

When Suzie Hart inherits the lakeside Victorian cottage that eventually becomes Sweet Hart Inn, she imagines her life all planned out ahead of her. She will run the inn, write her recipes, conduct her cooking classes, and pick up an occasional catering job with her cousin Sydney Hart, who owns the local bakery. Her life in Harbor Falls is predictable--a welcome change from the chaos of recent months--and that's the way she likes it. Predictability makes her happy.

And then chaos rides his bad ass Harley up to her bed and breakfast doorstep--and her perfect, predictable, and well-planned world starts crumbling like yesterday's blueberry muffins.

Brad Matthews has other ideas.

In fact, he has a plan. When Suzie worked as his sous chef in Asheville several months earlier, he had no intention of falling in love with the sassy chef--no room in his life for romance. But when Suzie disappeared and took Brad's heart with her, his good intentions shattered. And even though Brad's plan involves making a lot of people in Harbor Falls angry (Suzie included), it is part of a bigger plan to get his own life and career on track, and to win Suzie Hart back into his arms--permanently.

But can Suzie let go of their muddled past, and her well-planned future, in order to finally find happiness with hunky Chef Brad? And can Brad alter his own plan, in order to get Suzie back?


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Trust Me: The Story of Blue
The year is 2095. The Americas Revolution has ended. And Cyan Sebastian--the last blue-eyed woman known to exist in the Western hemisphere--is on the run. Her safe and sequestered life ripped apart, she is running with a man who has sworn to protect her. A man who once hunted her for the bounty she would fetch. The man who days before, killed her father.

Devin McCrae is that man. Having tracked Cyan and her family for years, Devin never dreams her father will one day drop her in his lap with a proposition he cannot refuse. He never imagines that instead of hunting Cyan for the bounty on her head, he will become her protector and safeguard her from the others.

Most of all, he never expects he will fall for her. If there ever was a woman who was hands off--Cyan Sebastian is that woman. Keeping her hands off him, though, is the bigger problem. And it's a deadly one, at that.


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Safe Haven
Rebekah McCauley is back home after ten long years of living and working in New York City. She left the Big Apple under circumstances she’d rather not share with her family—not yet, anyway—and wants is time to heal and recover from the mess she’d made of her life. Luckily, her grandparents’ Kentucky bluegrass farm, Wind Ridge, provides the safe haven she craves and the solitude she needs to heal.

Collin Kramer, the foxhunter next door, seems determined to infiltrate her peace and invade her safe haven—not only with his noisy hounds running amok over her land, but with his Alpha male, take-charge attitude running roughshod over her wounded heart.

But as Bekah softens to Collin’s conquest, Collin realizes his own toughened heart needs mending. And just when he thinks he has that conquered, as well, all hell breaks loose. Poisoned horses, a gutted hound, and a barn fire are only the beginning. When Bekah’s farmhouse burns to the ground too, they know someone is serious about destroying their lives. But who?


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Protect Me Not
The Chief Financial Officer of the non-profit Cerise Thacker runs has been cooking her books. The DA fears the CFO’s deep family roots will come after her, particularly after the CFO states he will “fucking see to her death.” So she’s whisked away in a Yellow Cab into a short term police protection program to keep her safe.

The cabbie? Isaac Walker, undercover cop. For the duration, Isaac will be her protector, even though she doesn’t want protection.

But Cerise and Isaac are not strangers. They’d shared a role play encounter a year earlier–neither of them revealing who they really were. Now they are thrust together in a situation of extreme danger, passion, and trust, where Isaac must remain in control of the situation at all costs, even though he so very much wants to give it up to Cerise. And Cerise must do everything that Isaac says to the letter, even if she doesn’t want to.

That is, if they want to get out of this thing alive.


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Tempt Me
Jordan resists until the only thing left to fight for is their love--and their lives.

Detective Jordan Cross has one thing on her mind--get the bastard killing kids in her small southern city; the person she thinks is also responsible for her niece's disappearance.

Journalist Tate Walker has a similar goal--keep the people of his city informed about the serial killer, and perhaps write a Pulitzer-worthy story in the process.

When Jordan and Tate's lives careen together around the case, they pick up the battles of their pasts and carry them forward--battles of trust and mistrust, lust and love, truths and misunderstandings. Determined to keep her focus on the case, Jordan finds it difficult to resist Tate's sexual temptations. Tate uses every advantage to tempt her back into his bed. Then, thrust into a dangerous situation, those battles suddenly fall away--and the only battle left to fight is for their lives--and their love.


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Parker - The Montana McKennas
Love often comes when you least expect it.

When Parker McKenna’s father dies, he expects life on the ranch to change. He is unsure how much his stepmother, Liz, has influenced his father’s final wishes. Although Liz has been a part of his life for years, he knows her goals for the ranch are different from his—he wants to keep it a working cattle ranch; she wants to convert it to a dude ranch. All Parker wants is to continue his way of life—running the Montana ranch until the day he dies, just like his father.

The last thing he expects the day of the funeral is for Reba Morris to walk into his life.

Having recently relocated to Montana, and now living in a small cabin near the McKenna Ranch, Reba decides to do the neighborly thing and help at the McKenna home when everyone gathers after James McKenna’s funeral. With her late husband’s passing several months earlier on her mind, she knows how difficult it can be handling the small things, so she hopes the McKennas will be appreciative.

What Reba doesn’t expect is a glimpse into a cool and aloof Montana rancher's personal life. Or, how she can't stop thinking about how sexy Parker McKenna looks in his Wranglers.


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Corporate Cowboy: Branded Filly Ranch - The Parker Ranches, Inc. Book 1
When Emma Lavender is called to corporate headquarters at the end of her first week of employment at WestInn Hotels, she is shocked at the proposition offered by the company CEO.

So shocked, in fact, she takes him up on his offer.

Emma Lavender is your average college graduate—eager to make a go of her first job and pay off those student loans. Fresh out of a relationship going nowhere, she leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, behind and heads for the wild west—Billings, Montana. But in Montana, no one takes her seriously or appreciates her southern belle upbringing, except for one man—CEO of WestInn Enterprises, Gage Parker—and he seriously appreciates what Emma has to offer.

Corporate executive by day, rancher by night, Dom all the time—Gage Parker is an Alpha male with an insatiable sexual appetite and a fundamental need to control women sexually. When Emma crosses his line of vision during her work orientation at his hotel, he engineers a meeting and presents Emma with a proposition that literally rocks her southern belle upbringing to the core—and one that Emma learns she is powerless to refuse.

With plenty of hot sex, balanced with a layer of suspense, Corporate Cowboy takes wild west love from the bedroom to the boardroom to the tack room and back again.


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The Long Road Home--Liz & James - The Montana McKennas
Welcome to McKenna Ranch! Meet Brody, Callie, Mercer, and Parker--the four siblings of James McKenna, a Montana rancher. Growing up on the ranch was a great life, until Callie and Parker's mother passed away, leaving James a widower. It wasn't long, however, before he remarried, bringing stepmother Liz into their lives, along with her son, Brody. Soon, James and Liz added a new McKenna to the family, when daughter Mercer was born.

Brothers and sisters are prone to disagreements and this Brady Bunch family of step, half, and full siblings are no exception. As they grew up on the ranch, they learned values that stuck with them throughout their lives--even though they may live apart as adults. But there is one thing that will bring them all back together. Their father's last wish.

This short prequel novella tells the story of James McKenna and Liz Caldera, and how they came to blend their families on the McKenna Ranch near Yellowstone National Park. These sweet to sexy stories give you a glimpse into Montana rodeo and ranch life, and of course, provide lots of contemporary cowboy love and romance.


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