When a single dad and his son’s teacher clash, sparks fly and it’s not only because his son is neglecting his chores to read.
A Family With the Cowboy
The Westons of Montana Book 1
by Elsa Winckler
Genre: Contemporary Small-Town Romance
Widowed rancher Hayden Weston knows what it means to be responsible for his siblings, his eight-year-old son, and the running of the huge family cattle ranch. Some even call him a stern and grumpy taskmaster and they’re not exactly wrong. So when Hayden discovers his son reading a storybook instead of doing chores, he calls on Luke’s teacher to talk about priorities.
School teacher Laura Anderson is new to Marietta, Montana, and has never—until now—been reprimanded for encouraging a child to read. It doesn’t help that sweet Luke’s father is the handsome cowboy with the amber eyes that she met in Grey’s Saloon, or that she’s wildly attracted to him.
Sparks keep flying as their paths keep crossing, but Hayden is determined not to give in to his incomprehensible need to have, hold, and protect Laura from any type of harm. He’s the one who’ll hurt her if he lets her stray too close. He’s not ready to admit his feelings or commit to sharing his life with her.
Even if love comes tumbling in.
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Getting tingles down her back because a cowboy was looking at her was so not something she had time for right now. Squaring her shoulders, she opened the bathroom door. As she stepped out, she bumped into a solid body. Earthy tones of man and musk swirled around her. Immediately, all her senses jumped to attention.
“Sorry,” she muttered, and tried to escape, but the person in front of her wasn’t moving.
“Excuse me,” she tried again and, irritated, she pushed against him. Big mistake. Her hands landed on a warm, muscled torso. They both froze. She looked up. It was the same cowboy she’d caught staring at her minutes earlier.
Those whiskey-colored eyes didn’t blink. “You passing through town?” a deep voice rumbled.
She shook her head.
One side of his mouth lifted ever so slightly. “Pity.” His head dropped. “Something tells me you may not be so averse to sweaty cowboys as you think.”
Before she could catch her breath, he’d turned away and was walking through the swinging doors into the night.
Blinking, she steadied herself against the wall. Oh, my. If the first cowboy she met in town had this effect on her, it was a good thing she was living and working in town and would hopefully not run into any on a daily basis.
I have been reading love stories for as long as I can remember and when I ‘met’ the classic authors like Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James The Brontë sisters, etc. during my Honours studies, I was hooked for life. I married my college boyfriend and soul mate and after 47 years, 3 interesting and wonderful children and 4 beautiful grandchildren, he still makes me weak in the knees. We are fortunate to live in the picturesque little seaside village of Betty’s Bay, South Africa with the ocean a block away and a beautiful mountain right behind us. And although life so far has not always been an easy ride, it has always been an exciting and interesting one! I like the heroines in my stories to be beautiful, feisty, independent and headstrong. And the heroes must be strong but possess a generous amount of sensitivity. They are of course, also gorgeous! My stories typically incorporate the family background of the characters to better understand where they come from and who they are when we meet them in the story.
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I have always been fascinated by the unexplained and by ordinary people who see and experience the world differently – those with a sixth sense, those who feel things deeply, the empaths, the animal whisperers, the healers.
When planning the series on The Westons of Montana, some of these ideas slipped into the story and before I knew it, I was researching all things animal whisperers. What a fascinating and okay, yes, “weird” field. Once you open your mind and heart though, you realize it’s extraordinary and surprising rather than “strange”.
We meet Hayden Weston, the oldest brother in the first of four stories, A family with the Cowboy. As the oldest brother, he feels responsibility for the ranch, his two brothers, his sister and his mother. Ranching is in his blood, he loves what he does and is determined to manage the farm in a responsible, sustainable way while trying to be a dad and a mom to his eight-year-old son, Luke after his wife passed away.
His son’s new teacher in Marietta is an unexpected challenge, though. Not only because he blames her when he finds his son reading a book instead of doing his chores, but also because of the immediate attraction he feels towards her.
With a sister who knows things and can read his mind, a brother who clearly has some kind of problem but who doesn’t discuss it with him and another one who talks to animals, he has enough trouble. He doesn’t need more complications.
His path keeps crossing with that of the blue-eyed teacher though, and staying away from her becomes more and more difficult with every meeting.
Will he be brave enough to give love another chance?
I hope you enjoy Hayden’s and Laura’s story as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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