Hard in the Saddle (Only With a Cowboy anthology) by PJ Mellor
Hard in the Saddle (Only With a Cowboy anthology)
by PJ Mellor
May 2008
Kensington Aphrodisia
ISBN: 978-0758220271
www.pjmellor.com
Poor Madison St. Claire awakens in small town Texas to find her fiance has absconded with her credit cards, emptied her bank account, and left her to settle up with the hotel clerk and the entire town he’d fleeced. Her cell phone on the fritz, left with only a gas credit card, Madison sneaks out of town with hopes of returning to Michigan to pay off ex fiance, Alan-the-rat’s bills. Gorgeous cowboy Sam Austin comes to her rescue when she skids into a tree while attempting to escape, but her city-slicker attitude has him determined to bring her down a notch. Madison not only learns a thing or two about attack chickens and frisky stallions, but that the most exciting and fulfilling intimacy can be found Only with a Cowboy in P.J. Mellor’s Hard in the Saddle contribution to Kensington’s Aphrodesia anthology. P.J.’s light comedic touch is evident in the situations cooked up for poor Maddie (or actually not cooked up because she can’t get the old stove to work and is almost asphixiated). While poking fun at those of us who can’t tell a carrot from a weed or haven’t had to prime a pump, the reader finds a heartfelt, feel-good steaming hot story that proves opposites attract and can find happiness ever after. Like Madison, I can’t say that cowboys were at the top of my alpha male hero list, but P.J.’s sexy Sam may just have me paying a little more attention to who’s busting broncos come rodeo time.
Reviewed by Robin Haseltine
