To Tame a Wild Cowboy (Cupid, Texas Series #7)

by Lori Wilde

Overview

What would it take to tame a wild cowboy?

One minute, Rhett Lockhart is a love ‘em and leave ‘em bull rider with a slow, sexy smile, a swagger, and not a care in the world. The next, he learns his free-wheeling days are over: a baby has been abandoned in the hospital, and there’s no question: he’s the father. But from the first moment he gazes into his daughter’s eyes, he knows the moment has come to say ‘no’ to no-strings. It’s time to grow up.

Standing in his way is the baby’s foster mother, Tara Alzate, who doesn’t quite believe Rhett is ready to change his ways. Still, she’s not not immune to his considerable charms. So when he proposes a marriage of convenience and shared custody, against her better judgement, she says “I do.” Can Tara tame this wild cowboy and make her own, long-buried dreams come true?

A Cupid, Texas novel

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062468291
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/21/2019
Series:	Cupid, Texas Series , #7
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	448,818
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.60(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Lori Wilde is the New York Times, USA Today and Publishers’ Weekly bestselling author of 87 works of romantic fiction. She’s a three-time Romance Writers’ of America RITA finalist and has four times been nominated for Romantic Times Readers’ Choice Award. She has won numerous other awards as well. Her books have been translated into 26 languages, with more than four million copies of her books sold worldwide. Her breakout novel, The First Love Cookie Club, has been optioned for a TV movie.

Lori is a registered nurse with a BSN from Texas Christian University. She holds a certificate in forensics and is also a certified yoga instructor.

A fifth-generation Texan, Lori lives with her husband, Bill, in the Cutting Horse Capital of the World; where they run Epiphany Orchards, a writing/creativity retreat for the care and enrichment of the artistic soul.

Editorial Reviews

★ 03/04/2019

In Wilde’s heart-wrenching, page-turning seventh Cupid, Texas novel (after How the Cowboy Was Won), a surprise baby brings together a bull-riding champion and a NICU nurse. Rhett Lockhart is six months away from the finals of a championship when he learns that he has fathered a daughter, Julie. Her mother, Rhona White, one of Rhett’s many one-night stands, abandoned the baby after she was born prematurely, and Julie is now being fostered by her neonatal nurse, who wants to adopt her. After meeting her and learning that her foster mother is Tara Alzate, whose family lives near Rhett’s family and whose two sisters are married to his two brothers, Rhett abandons his carefree lifestyle and Tara helps him care for Julie at his home. As the physical attraction between them builds, Tara suggests that they have a marriage of convenience to satisfy a judge’s order that Rhett establish a safe environment for Julie. But their hearts get involved, and the fragile nature of their new love might not survive if the next hearing doesn’t go in Rhett’s favor. This magnetic novel unites two very different characters who find solace with each other by letting go of their fears. Rhett’s transformation is believable, and Tara has just as many layers. Readers will delight in riding their emotional roller coaster. Agent: Jenny Bent, Bent Agency. (May)

Publishers Weekly

...Wilde explores the subject of PTSD with great empathy and insight...together with the author’s usual superbly nuanced characters, layers of emotion, and exquisite sexual tension, and you have a heart-wrenching and heartwarming tale that beautifully encapsulates all the love, hope, faith, and forgiveness of the holiday season.

Booklist (starred review)

A wonderful story… The ending will leave readers with the desire to make return visits to Jubilee, Texas.

RT Book Reviews

2019-03-18
In the seventh installment of the Cupid, Texas series, a custody battle between a rodeo star and a neonatal intensive care unit nurse leads to a marriage of convenience.

After years of living on the road, Rhett Lockhart is on track to win the Professional Bull Riders World Finals Championship when Child Protective Services drops a tiny bombshell on his carefree life—he has a daughter, Julie, the product of a weekend fling. Ever since her biological mother abandoned her, baby Julie's been in the care of Tara Alzate, the selfless nurse who saved her when she was born premature. Tara loves children but can't have any of her own. Rhett's reputation as a womanizer precedes him—he once dated Tara's sister Aria—and Tara is determined to keep the baby away from him. But she can't stop Rhett from claiming his parental rights. Torn between his career and his unexpected love for his daughter, Rhett tries to stall his court hearing long enough to make it to the championship before he takes Julie home. But Tara has a better idea. She asks Rhett to marry her—it'll please the judge and allow Tara to keep Julie in her life. She moves to Cupid, Texas, where a few of Rhett's brothers have already married and settled down with Tara's sisters, to watch Julie while Rhett is on the road. There's a legend in Tara's family that when an Alzate meets her soul mate, she'll hear a humming sound. Tara hears it when she kisses Rhett on their wedding day, and their marriage of convenience turns out to be anything but. Rhett's job is still dangerous, and Tara's too practical to trust her heart. The narrative is punchy and fun—"Rhett Lockhart should be classified as a Schedule 1 drug. Dangerous and highly addictive." And the relationship builds slowly enough that Rhett's transformation from a selfish cowboy to a hopeful husband and father feels earned.

A heartwarming drama that'll rope you in.

Kirkus Reviews

This magnetic novel unites two very different characters who find solace with each other by letting go of their fears. Rhett’s transformation is believable, and Tara has just as many layers. Readers will delight in riding their emotional roller coaster.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“...Wilde explores the subject of PTSD with great empathy and insight...together with the author’s usual superbly nuanced characters, layers of emotion, and exquisite sexual tension, and you have a heart-wrenching and heartwarming tale that beautifully encapsulates all the love, hope, faith, and forgiveness of the holiday season.” — Booklist (starred review)

“A wonderful story… The ending will leave readers with the desire to make return visits to Jubilee, Texas.” — RT Book Reviews, 4 stars

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