One Lucky Cowboy [Mass Market Paperback]

Carolyn Brown (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

I eagerly anticipate the next installment in the Lucky Trilogy. ONE LUCKY COWBOY is a great read, and I look forward to more from Ms. Brown! (Kay James Romance Reader at Heart 20090924)

This is not your mother's western romance! Jam-packed with catfights, reluctant heroes, spirited old ladies and, of course, a chilling villain, Brown's plot-driven cowboy romance is set against the background of ranching life and will earn a spot on your keeper shelf. 4 Stars (Whitney Kate Sullivan The Romantic Times 20091008)

Carolyn Brown takes her audience by storm... I was mesmerized with each turn of the pages. (Linda L. The Romance Studio 20091026)

The characters are lovable... they add the extra umph to these books that keep me coming back for more. I love me some Luckadeau men. (Rowena The Book Binge 20091102)

A great story with hints of blinding passion and biting repartee between the heroine and hero. (The Long and Short of It Reviews 20091102)

There is just something about a cowboy that I just love... a very enjoyable read. (Randi Noonan Randi Romance Reads 20091103)

If you like cowboys and a ton of sass with your romance, you don't want to miss One Lucky Cowboy. (Audrey Salick Drey's Library 20091111)

Wonderful characters, seamless writing, and a firecracker romance has Carolyn Brown at the top of her game. (Wendy Hines Wendy's Minding Spot 20091111)

Brown delivers another great cowboy romance! With devil-may-care characters, exciting plot twists, and outrageously silly sayings. (Susan Sigler Love Romance Passion 20091111)

All-in-all, I found One Lucky Cowboy to be very entertaining. (Anita Morgan I Loves 2 Read 20091113)

All of the Luckadeau men are H-O-T! (Cheryl Koch Cheryl's Book Nook 20091113)

Funny and sweet with a hero and heroine that had me laughing at their banter and their mutual distrust of each other, One Lucky Cowboy proved to be a pleasant read. (Leslie Gladnick Leslie's Psyche 20091124)

Brown's One Lucky Cowboy captivated me from the instance I picked it up. (Jackie Morgan Literary Escapism )

Word of warning -- you will not be able to put this one down. (Fresh Fiction )

About the Author

Carolyn Brown is an award-winning author who has published 36 historical and western romance novels for the library market, many of them bestsellers in that market. Born in Texas and raised in southern Oklahoma, Carolyn and her husband now make their home in the town of Davis, Oklahoma.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca; 1 edition (November 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402224370
• ISBN-13: 978-1402224379
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Carolyn Brown is a NEW York Times and USA Today bestselling romance author of more than fifty books.
Brown's books have been translated into nine foreign languages and fourteen have been reprinted in large print format. Her books have been reviewed in Library Journal, Booklist, Romantic Times, Romance Reviews Today, Publisher's Weekly, Cataromance, USA Today and Romance Reader At Heart. Two of her romances have been published as Japanese Manga books.
Brown writes cowboy romance for Sourcebooks: The Lucky Trilogy, the Honky Tonk Series and now the Spikes & Spurs Series.
She has also written more than forty sweet romances for Avalon; several historical series as well as contemporary stand alone romance novels.
Sourcebooks will publish her debut women's fiction novel in August, 2012.
Check out her website at carolynlbrown.com

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A firecracker romance, April 1, 2011

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Wendy L. Hines "MindingSpot" (Warsaw, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Lucky Cowboy (Mass Market Paperback)

Ellacyn Jane Hayes is about to have the happiest day of her life. But on the eve before her wedding day, she sees her fiance' making out with his "sister". She also overhears their plans to murder Ellacyn on the honeymoon. Ellacyn knows she needs to hide for six weeks until her twenty-fifth birthday, the day she inherits the family ranch and oil business.

She leaves in the middle of the night and fortune shines down on her hours later at a bus station. Nellie Luckadeau has been wanting to hire some extra help and "Jane Days" will fill the job nicely. The only drawback to the situation is Nellie's grandson, Slade, who believes Jane is a con artist.

Slade does everything he can think of to get Jane to leave, but she is bullheaded. But when a flyer is being posted around town about the missing heiress, Jane knows she must come clean and reveal her past.

Slade and Jane go on the run for a few weeks, hiding out until her birthday, and trying to stay a step ahead of her ex-fiance' and his partner who are still looking for her to finish the job. They fight like cats and dogs, but soon find themselves heating up the sheets.

Wonderful characters, seamless writing, and a firecracker romance has Carolyn Brown at the top of her game. ONE LUCKY COWBOY will have you craving a cowboy of your own. Loved it!

38 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Who are these people? And what Jerry Springer Show did they escape from?, June 13, 2010

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Meerkat - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Lucky Cowboy (Mass Market Paperback)

Where to begin....while there are scenes of this book that are amusing and somewhat entertaining, there is a great deal more of it that is just plain awful. The dialogue is stilted and unnatural. What I am assuming is supposed to be banter between the main characters doesn't sound like the way two adults with two brain cells to rub together would talk. There are some genuinely amusing moments between Jane and Slade, but then the very next moment, there are inane catfights (in parking lots and Walmarts, no less) that make you wonder "Who are these people and what Jerry Springer show did they escape from?" Was the author going for a hardworking "salt of the Earth" kind of thing with these characters? They're wealthy, and they've got good old fashioned values? Not likely! Both of the main characters of this book (Slade and Jane) prove that having money obviously does not give you tact, or knowledge, or class for that matter. They argue like middle schoolers. Seriously, I was waiting for Jane to tell Slade, "I know you are, but what am I?" The heroine has a few tirades where she says "Nobody calls me white trash" and I found myself thinking "Well stop acting like it". And did we really have to read about the lyrics to every song they heard and/or danced to? Or the plot lines of the films they watched? Or the scenes where Jane and Slade dance and the rest of the people present all gather around them to watch and cheer. It's the type of thing a pre-pubescent girl pictures because she thinks it sounds dreamy, romantic and sweet. Then she (hopefully) grows up and realizes how tacky it all is. Honestly, the characters of this book (secondary as well as primary) prove to be tactless, ignorant, low class, people who are chugging down too much heart stoppin food and massive amounts of liquor, all so they can end up at the wedding ceremony (barefoot and pregnant no less) and head on over to their double wide trailer....whoooo-weeeee. Instead of charming, they're more along the line of slack-jawed yokels that tip toe dangerously close to the line of Deliverance (hmmm, there are several references to a pig...I'm just saying). Yikes! There's the "happily ever after" every girl dreams of.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wowzers...this book was great!, December 30, 2010

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M. Wheeler (Chico, Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Lucky Cowboy (Kindle Edition)

I bought this book because I have red almost everything else. I figured I would like it and enjoy myself but never expected it to be so much fun. This book has a super cute story that would make for a good book but what makes it GREAT is that I laughed my bootie off thru the whole book. The yaya sister hood thing going on with these amazing older women will just crack you up as well as the cute story that has a little of everything you could want in a romance. It isnt very graphic...heck it isnt anything like most romances...it will lead up to and pick up after the bed scenes, which was still fine. If you are fimiliar with Kathryn Sparks, and Lynsday sands and how you get the romance and the comical stuff into one will this book goes to all new levels in the comical stuff...way to much fun.

You get hunky Slade who doesnt trust Jane Day at all...he believes she is con artist or something and wants nothing more then for her to leave.

Jane shows up after being found at a bus station where she just came from trying to runa and hide from the assassin that she was engaged to and had plotted all along to have killed her on the honeymoon. In nned of room and board she takes the offer Nellie makes for $100 a week and room and board to frive her around and help on the ranch with cooking and stuff.

More her then meets the eye and will keep you guessing. As far as Slade finds his meddling grannie trying to hook him up with Jane and fights it all the way to the alter. The road they travel is a blast and i just have to say I love this sassy girl who gives as good as she gets but is still all girl!