Spotlight & Giveaway: Her Renegade Cowboy by Lora Leigh

Posted September 29th, 2021 by in Blog, Spotlight / 33 comments

Today, HJ is pleased to share with you Lora Leigh’s new release: Her Renegade Cowboy

 

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From #1 New York Times bestseller Lora Leigh comes the final book in the Moving Violations trilogy, Her Renegade Cowboy!

 
He will risk his life…

The oh-so-proper school teacher, Lily Donovan has learned, the hard way, that men are not to be trusted. Period. Until Levi Roberts, the new cowboy working at her cousin’s ranch, tempts her carefully-built resolve and awakens an all-consuming passion she thought lay dormant. But when she discovers his deadly secret, and her own secrets come to light, Lily unwittingly joins the lethal cat and mouse race between Levi and the man he’s been hunting for weeks.

To save her heart…

Former Ranger Levi Roberts has seen his fair share of deadly trouble during his years as a tough-as-nails operative. The ultimate expert in undercover investigations, he’s been tasked to find a man with a dangerous agenda in town. Routine work has been boring…until he runs into Lily, the prickly school teacher who tempts him like no other. Getting under her skin has been deliciously satisfying for his red-hot desire, but when Lily lands in the hands of the very man he’s been investigating, Levi will have to fight with every ounce of his heart and soul to save her—and to heal the heart he broke.

 

Enjoy an exclusive excerpt from Her Renegade Cowboy 

 

Chapter Three
Nothing rounded off a long day of educating Deer Haven’s finest, better than a hot pizza and cold beer. Lily had always wanted to be a teacher, but now that she had a classroom of her own to manage, she’d come to realize why all of her teachers growing up had always looked so damned exhausted. Kids were great, but they could sure drain some energy.
The long week of state standardized testing was over, and she couldn’t be happier to get back to her normal classroom routine. But she needed the weekend to recoup, spend some time with her girlfriends, and try to have a little fun.
Jacob had promised to stop by the next morning to check out the brakes on her car—they’d been acting a little iffy lately—then he and Sallie, Tara, and Shay were supposed to meet her at her favorite bar.
But that was tomorrow, and this evening wasn’t, which left her with too much time on her hands alone and way too much time to think.
A week had passed since her unsettling phone call from the U.S. Marshals’ office. So far, there hadn’t been anything on the news about the prison break, which piqued her curiosity. The marshals must have had some impressive pull to keep it a secret for this long. She couldn’t even begin to wonder why that was. Wouldn’t it be better to have the public looking out for a few escaped convicts? Then again, maybe the marshals didn’t want to cause a panic by letting people know there was a murderer and serial rapist on the loose.
Despite the stress and worry from her past that had compounded on her professional one, Lily was determined to try to live a normal life. She might have been a teacher and, lately, an obsessive worrier, but she wasn’t an old schoolmarm or a shut-in. Yet. She wanted to at least try to enjoy what was left of her twenties. That is, as much as she could in a small town where everyone knew your business and your family kept an even closer eye on you than the local gossips.
Lily was good at keeping secrets, though. Very few people knew everything about her.
Even if she hadn’t been exhausted from a week of cranky kids tired of taking tests, Lily would have spent tonight at home. Sallie and Jacob were having a date night and Shay wasn’t feeling well. They’d both promised her a night out tomorrow, but without a wing-woman to have her back, Lily wasn’t going out alone. Not even in her own hometown.
Pizza, beer, and a Below Deck marathon on Bravo. It might not be an exciting Friday night, but sometimes boring could be good.
“You gonna eat that large pizza all by yourself?”
Lily nearly dropped the pizza on the hood of her car as her heart jumped into her throat. She recognized the cocky drawl and knew before she spun around to face him that there’d be an arrogant smirk on his achingly handsome face.
She swore if given the chance, Levi could coax the panties off a nun.
Sure enough, when she whipped around he met her with a closed-lipped smirk that spread into a wicked, panty-melting grin. Curls of tawny hair peeked out from the wide brim of his hat—did he ever take that damn thing off?—to frame his face, and his bright gold eyes twinkled beneath the shadow of it.
Lily clutched the pizza box in front of her, as though it would provide some sort of barrier. “I sure as hell am,” she quipped. “And I’m not going to regret a single bite.”
In the past week, Lily had seen Levi at the grocery store, the gas station, and of course the ranch. She didn’t know much about him aside from the fact that he was insufferably full of himself and not in the least bit shy. In the past week, he hadn’t wasted a single opportunity to give her a hard time and Lily had no doubt he enjoyed getting her wound up. She gave as good as she got, though. She refused to let his charm or his otherworldly good looks get under her skin.
For one insane second, she entertained the thought that she could invite him to share the pizza with her. She could text Sallie to check in on her, though she didn’t believe anyone who knew her cousin would dare to try to hurt her. Even as she rejected the thought, her cheeks warmed. Levi was hotter than a Southern California summer, and every woman in the county seemed interested in him. She’d be a fool to invite him. As tempting as he might’ve looked, Lily had built tall walls to keep men out. Especially gorgeous slick talkers like Levi.
But the walls of the house seemed to be closing in on her this week and this man had occupied far too much time in her thoughts.
He tipped his hat to her and shot her another of his devil-may-care smiles.
“Enjoy every bite of it then,” he drawled, and the way he said it made her wonder if he’d enjoy tasting her.
She barely kept a flush from rushing up her cheeks again.
Turning, she opened her car door and tossed the pizza box to the passenger seat before sliding in. Closing the door, she gave him a half-hearted wave, started the engine, and pulled away from him.
Damn him, he made her feel like a teenager. A very awkward teenager at that.

From Her Renegade Cowboy by Lora Leigh. Copyright © 2021 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.
 
 

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Meet the Author:

#1 New York Times bestseller Lora Leigh is the author of the Navy SEALS, the Breeds, the Elite Ops, the Callahans, the Bound Hearts, and the Nauti series. You can visit her website at www.loraleigh.com.

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33 Responses to “Spotlight & Giveaway: Her Renegade Cowboy by Lora Leigh”

  8. Diana Hardt

    Nice cover. I liked the blurb and excerpt. It sounds like a really interesting book.

  26. Patricia B.

    Good excerpt. It establishes who Lily is, but lets us know there is at least on secret she is holding tight. It hits at trouble due to the prison break, and introduces us to Levi. He is obviously handsome and personable and easily gets on her nerves. It doesn’t however tell us much about who he is. There is obviously more there that we need to find out. It pulls us into the story and makes us want more. A good hook.