Cowboy Trouble [Mass Market Paperback]

Joanne Kennedy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2010

A cowboy like that could break your heart...
Fleeing her latest love-life disaster, big city journalist Libby Brown's transition to rural living isn't going exactly as planned. Her childhood dream has always been to own a farm-but without the constant help of her charming, sexy cowboy neighbor, she'd never make it through her first Wyoming season.

But he could sure keep you warm at night, too...
Handsome rancher Luke Rawlins is impressed by this sassy, independent city girl. But he yearns to do more than help Libby out with her ranch. He's ready for love, and he wants to go the distance...
Then the two get embroiled in their tiny town's one and only crime story, and Libby discovers that their sizzling hot attraction is going to complicate her life in every way possible...

(20100113)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Kennedy's debut novel is a winner. A Night Owl Romance Top Pick! (Night Owl Romance 20100226)

Contemporary western fans will enjoy this one! (Whitney Kate Sullivan The Romantic Times 20100226)

You need to read Cowboy Trouble. This is a book you won't want to miss. (The Long and Short of It 20100226)

Plenty of wacky humor and audacious wit in this mystery-laced escapade that provides a fresh take on the traditional contemporary Western. (Library Journal 20100226)

If you enjoy mystery, romance, or a bit of both - you'll want to add this to your To Be Read stack (and maybe bump it to the top). (Gayle Surrette A Curious Statistical Anomaly 20100226)

A read that will tickle your funny-bone and warm your heart. (Lynda Coker Between the Pages 20100301)

A funny romance with a very sweet hero. (Alana A Hoyden's Look at Literature 20100301)

Plenty of suspense and intrigue throughout and steamy love scenes all in a nice little book (Amy Jacobs My Overstuffed Bookshelf 20100304)

This book is filled to the rim with everything -- intrigue, murder, humor, love, quirky characters, and a litter full of little puppies. It has renewed my love for the modern day cowboy love story! (Buffie The Romance Dish 20100305)

I hope to see more cowboy stories from Joanne Kennedy. (Cherl Koch Cheryl's Book Nook 20100308)

Joanne Kennedy has created such real characters... a sure-fire winner. (Brande Book Junkie 20100309)

This is one of those books that I kept checking to see how many pages were left because I didn't want it to end! (Kristina Cajun Book Lady 20100310)

If you love cowboys, you won't want to miss this one! Romance, Mystery, and Spurs! YUM!! (Wendy Hines Wendy's Minding Spot 20100310)

Joanne Kennedy's debut novel will put the honky tonk back into your life. (Keira Gillet Love Romance Passion 20100312)

The combination of mystery and romance was a hit with me. (Kristi Herbrand Books and Needlepoint 20100315)

A really great read from a first time writer and I highly recommend reading! (Razlover's Blog 20100317)

Everything about Kennedy's charming debut novel hits the right marks. (Martina Bexteq BookLoons.com 20100426)

A colorful cast of characters... I really liked the romance that blossomed. (Carrie Zimmerman The Book Girl 20100819)

Romance, suspense, mystery and a wild chicken. (Patty Woodland The Broken Teepee )

Cowboy Trouble will bring smiles, laughs and mystery as you read through the book. (Allison Allison's Attic of Books )

An amusing cowboy contemporary romance with a nice hint of mystery. (The Romance Studio )

About the Author

Joane Kenedy has worked in bookstores all her life in positions from bookseller to buyer. A member of Romance Writers of America and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, she won first place in the Colorado Gold Writing Contest and second in the Heart of the Rockies contest in 2007. Joanne lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca (March 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402236689
• ISBN-13: 978-1402236686
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #150,642 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

RITA© nominated romance writer Joanne Kennedy celebrates Wyoming's unique blend of past and present in contemporary Western novels with traditional ranch settings. A lifelong devotee of cowboy culture and all things horse-related, she is the author of "Cowboy Trouble," "One Fine Cowboy," and "Cowboy Fever." Her most recent release, "Tall, Dark and Cowboy," is available at bookstores, online, and in mass market outlets nationwide. Two more Western romances, "Cowboy Crazy" and "Cowboy Tough," are scheduled for release in 2012.

Joanne's books are filled with heart and humor, along with suspense and a little bit of spice. "Library Journal" called her first book "a new take on the contemporary Western romance" and Romantic Times says, " Kennedy has the genre down pat with romance, intrigue, danger and some truly laugh-out-loud moments."

At various times, Joanne has dabbled in horse training, chicken farming, and bridezilla wrangling at a department store wedding registry. Themes that have remained constant throughout her life are Jack Russell terriers, a tendency to confuse fiction with real life, and a fascination with literature that led to careers in bookselling and writing. She lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming with two dogs and a retired fighter pilot. The dogs are relatively well-behaved.

Joanne loves to hear from readers and can be reached through her website, www.joannekennedybooks.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cowboy Trouble, February 26, 2010

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Lynda Coker (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cowboy Trouble (Mass Market Paperback)

All romances have a set formula and guaranteed happy ending. I should know, I've read a million of them. So for a contemporary romance to keep my interest, it has to have that little bit of something extra that sets it apart. I found that in Joanne Kennedy's book, Cowboy Trouble.

The first thing that made me laugh and endeared me to the book's heroine, Libby Brown, was her big fat lie about owning a ferocious guard dog. Believe me, she had handsome rancher Luke Rawlins stepping lightly on her front steps. Then her insisting that he refer to her chicken farm as a 'chicken ranch', and to her flock of chickens as a 'herd of chickens', hooked me on this feisty lady. Luke Rawlins, a tough but sensitive man, wants to make a ranchers wife out of this hard-to-coral city-girl. Add to this mix a little mystery, intrigue and danger, and you've got a read that will tickle your funny-bone and warm your heart.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great debut, February 21, 2010

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Elaine Croteau "book maven" (Manchester NH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cowboy Trouble (Mass Market Paperback)

i am into cowboy romance and when i saw this cover i had to give it a try. i am glad i did because this was an awesome book.

Libby Brown decides to leave her atlanta condo and move to Wyoming to raise chickens!! She meets her next door rancher neighbor Luke Rawlins and things heat up from there. She is an investigative reporter and comes across an unsolved murder. that's when the trouble starts.

there is some sex scenes but also more suspense as well. i was able to figure out who was doing the threatening!!!

i don't want to give too much away other than to tell you to buy this book. i can't wait for her next book which will be out in September!!

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Story, Poor Editing, December 28, 2010

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Andrea (Concord, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cowboy Trouble (Kindle Edition)

I have not finished the story, and I am not sure that I will. The story itself is pretty good, if a bit slow moving.

My big problem with this story is the editing. Some of the paragraphs are centered on the page while others are left justified, and some have both right and left margines even (full justification), and there are a lot of words that are split unnecessarily ("basi cally", "re peated", "sup posed", "sur prisingly", "detec tive"), not hypenated or split to go onto the next line, just split as indicated, and that is just in the first 3% of the book (up to location 173).

If this book were not free, I would definitely be returning it due to the lack of editing.