Nothing Sweeter (Sweet on a Cowboy) (25 page)

Dear Reader,

There’s just something about the soft side of a hard man that I’ve never been able to resist—how about you?

Max Jameson looks like a modern-day Marlboro Man. He’s a western cattleman, meaning he’s stubborn, hardworking, and an eternal optimist. But given his current problems, there’s not enough duct tape in all of Colorado to fix them.

To introduce you to the heroine of NOTHING
SWEETER, Aubrey Madison (aka Bree Tanner), I thought I’d share with you her list of life lessons:

I hope you’ll enjoy NOTHING SWEETER. Keep your eyes open for a cameo of JB and Charla from
The Sweet Spot
, and watch for them all to turn up in
Sweet on You
, the last book in the series!

Dear Reader,

I met my husband camping when we were about eight years old, and he taught me how to play Red Rover so he could hold my hand. He was a sweet, chubby, brown-eyed boy. We lost touch, and years later, I walked into a bar (yeah, a bar), and there he was. Except this time, he was
six-foot-five, muscled, with dark hair, a tattoo, a leather jacket, and held a motorcycle helmet under one hand. To put it simply, I was intrigued. He’s still the sweet guy but has a bit of an edge. Now we’re married and have two kids, two dogs, and a crazy cat.

People change… and often we don’t know them as well as we think we do. In fact, I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that we never truly know what’s in the minds or even the pasts of the people around us. What if your best friend worked for the CIA years ago? Or the mild-mannered janitor at your child’s elementary school is a retired Marine sniper who didn’t like retirement and has found a good way to fill his life with joy? What if your baby sister was a criminal informant in college?

What if the calm and always-in-control man you married is one of the deadliest men alive?

And what if you’re now being threatened by an outside source? What happens to that calm control now? That was the main premise for FORGOTTEN SINS. Josie Dean, a woman with a lonely past, married Shane Dean in a whirlwind of passion and energy. Then he disappeared two years ago. The story starts with him back in her life, with danger surrounding him, and with the edge he’d always partially hidden finally exposed.

Of course, Shane has amnesia, and in his discovery of finding himself, he reveals himself to the one woman he ever truly loved. He’d always held back, always treated her with kid gloves.

Now, not knowing his deadly training, there’s no holding back. The primal, arousing man she’d believed existed has to take the forefront as he protects them from the danger stalking him from his past. Yeah, he’d always been fun and sexy… with hints of dominance in
the bedroom. Now the hints disappear to unveil the true Shane Dean—the man Josie hoped she’d married.

I hope you truly enjoy Shane and Josie’s story.

Dear Reader,

FEEL THE HEAT is the first in my smokin’ Hot in the Kitchen series, about an Italian restaurant–owning family and the sexy, sizzling chefs who love them. And don’t we all want a hotter-than-Hades, caring, alpha chef like Jack Kilroy in our lives? A man who cooks, defends his lady, and knows how to treat her right both in the kitchen
and
in the bedroom is worth his weight in focaccia (and the British accent doesn’t hurt). But sometimes we’ve got to work with what the gods have given us. So if you have a husband/boyfriend/sex slave who believes guy cooking = grilling, but outside of the summer months, you won’t catch him dead in an apron, read on.

“But he just makes a mess” or “I’m a better cook,” I
The Dish hear you whine. Who cares? The benefits to encouraging your man to cook are multifold.

So get your guy in an apron and let the good times roll. Remember, chefs do it better…

Happy cooking, eating, and reading!

www.katemeader.com