Cowboy in My Pocket [3 1/2 Diskette, HTML] [Diskette]

Kate Douglas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 20, 2001

If you like your cowboys sexy, your heroines forgetful and your marriages convenient, this gentle parody of cowboy romances will leave you with a smile on your face and a sigh on your lips. Discover romantic comedy at its best in this captivating tale of a woman who finds her one true love and the cowboy hero afraid to give his heart.

Romance author Michelle Garrison is on a mission to learn more about the American West. Her books are no longer selling and her editor has given her an ultimatum--learn what cowboys are really like, then write the next bestseller.

Tag Martin is desperate for a bride. If he doesn't marry before his 40th birthday, his grandmother will sign away the deed to the ranch he's worked and managed for his entire adult life.

Coop Jones has been Tag's sidekick since Tag was barely kicking. Almost 80, he's been pining for the love of Tag's grandmother since she was only 17. An avid romance fan, he's concocted a fantastic plan to stage an MOC--a marriage of convenience for the uninitiated--in order to save the ranch for Tag.

Lenore Martin at 78 is a widow with a mission. Get that grandson married and his hard-headed cowboy sidekick to realize she's not too old to romance. There's sizzle left in the old gal yet.

Add a little amnesia, a few white lies, a flop-eared dog, the requisite white stallion and a love too hot to handle, and you've got a rowdy romp on the wild side with COWBOY IN MY POCKET.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Kate Douglas is a sucker for happy endings, but this romance author never makes it easy for her characters to find their own personal paradise. Kate's found hers in the wine country of northern California where she and her husband of almost thirty years live in an old farmhouse in the midst of a hillside vineyard.

When she's not writing, Kate does sports photography for many northern California cycling teams.

Product Details

• Diskette: 1 pages
• Publisher: Hard Shell Word Factory (April 20, 2001)
• ISBN-10: 1582006342
• ISBN-13: 978-1582006345
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,528,265 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A romance writer and a dude--just the right stuff., July 15, 2001

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Michelle Garrison is a romance writer facing her greatest challenge, an editor who thinks her work is stale. Grudgingly, Michelle leaves New York for a western dude ranch sojourn straight out of the worst western romance. Tag Martin is a rancher being forced by his grandmother to marry in order to keep his ranch. At the last minute, the friend he planned to marry in a fake ceremony elopes and arranges for him to marry a complete stranger. When his friend and ranch hand finds a woman wandering along the road, he assumes the woman is the bride-to-be. The woman, however, has no clue as to her identity but agrees to marry Tag to help him. As the newlyweds work the ranch together, feelings begin to grow and flourish despite the lies and misconceptions threatening to tear them apart. The developing relationship between Tag and Michelle is the saving grace of this book. They are likeable despite the trials and tribulations they must suffer.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Funny and Sensual Read!, June 3, 2001

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Dee Lloyd -Winner Eppie Award 2000 Best Conte... (TORONTO, ONTARIO Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cowboy in My Pocket [3 1/2 Diskette, HTML] (Diskette)

Cowboy in My Pocket by Kate Douglas may be a spoof, a take-off on all the clichés of contemporary romance novels but it is a darned good read. In fact, it may be the most enjoyable romance I've read in months. I bought the book intending to have a good snicker at the unrealistic themes that are currently mandatory in contemporary romance. I did have a number of laughs at the extremes to which Kate pushed her hero and heroine. However, even knowing that it was a satire, I got involved with Lee (Michelle) and Tag. They are thoroughly believable and appealing characters. Tag is (without being larger than life) the ultimately appealing loner Cowboy hero and Lee is his emotional match. Kate Douglas is immensely talented. Not only is she funny but she can write a sex scene that'll knock your socks off. (If that's what you want it to do.) Cowboy in Your Pocket is a novel which will delight and surprise you. As a bonus, its characters will live in your memory long after the laughs are gone.