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One Lucky Cowboy

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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!

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.

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!

A bride-to-be discovers the groom-to-be has been hired to kill her. She runs. The runaway bride meets up with Granny and is hired to work at her ranch. Male lead is protective of his Granny and takes instant dislike to what he believes is a gold-digging woman. Sparks fly, danger mounts, and emotional tensions escalate. Characters and events have the makings of a good story. It just didn't quite get there for me.

Judicious editing out of some portions may have kept the story moving along at a better pace. I felt it dragged, had unnecessary foul language and repetitive phrases. Excessive references to published books and recordings were basically footnoted within the text (rather like seeing the bibliography contained within the story).

i know some couples get off cutting each other up and putting each other down. never did it for me. could have been a fun book. conversation was meanish, not witty.

This is the first book of this genre that I've read. I wanted a light read to escape from stress. While it was a light read, it was too simple for me. I did not find the dialogue very good, or realistic. Whoever edited this book didn't do a great job of checking the dialogue for Slade Luckadeau. I don't think most tough cowboys would say some of the things he said. The book wasn't horrible, but it was sort of infantile in the way it was written and very predictable. I didn't absolutely hate it, but I certainly would not buy another book by this author.
For those of you who really want some light, predictable, and simple, this book would probably do.

It's hard to find words to describe how truly awful this trashy book is. I haven't read one of these type of books for a while (supposedly a romance) so as this one has a Texas cowboy in it I thought, how bad could it be? This book, it turned out, is so trashy it makes the Jerry Springer show look classy by comparison. Another review also compared it to the Jerry Springer show .
The older ladies were a little amusing at times and saved this book from beng totally unreadable.
What passed for 'banter' between Van and cowboy Slade was crude, vulgar, full of foul language, threats, and verbal abuse. Do real people really talk to each other that way?
If this is what passes for a modern romance now I think I'll skip them in future, even if they have a cowboy on the cover !

Jane Day meets Nellie Luckideau at the bus station and offers her a job in exchange for room and board. Her grandson Slade Luckideau can't believe his grandmother would hire a stranger and doesn't trust her. She's running away from her ex-fiance. Jane eventually tells Slade that he was hired to kill her so he helps her escape. Eventually the ex-fiance tracks her down and the showdown begins. Slade falls in love with her and all is well!!!

This is a new author for me and i thoroughly enjoyed this book. it's second in a series about cousins who fall in love.

I highly recommend you real all three!!!Start with Lucky in Love, One Lucky Cowboy followed by Getting Lucky.

For whatever reason, I've been on a western contemporary kick. Maybe it's the happily ever after, or the small town feel. I don't know, but thanks to this kick I've discovered Carolyn Brown! I have to say I love her books. The characters are fun and light hearted, very easy to connect to as well. Not to mention the guys are nothing short of dreamy!

ONE LUCKY COWBOY is the second in her Lucky series. The nice thing about these books is you don't have to read them in order. Jane's world is turned upside down in one night and she has no clue what to do. When she lands in Wichita Falls, Texas and meets Nellie Luckadeau she finds a new life that she wants to live. Even if she and Slade don't get a long at all!

The relationship between Slade and Jane was one of my favorite things about this book. They argue from the start, and many of the arguments made me laugh out loud. Even when she's being chased down by assassins they still spend more time arguing than getting along. As their relationship transforms from enemies to something much more it's a rocky, but well worth it road.

Nellie and her sister along with three other ladies are absolutely fantastic in this book. If you've ever had a granny or aunt that's up there in years but is feisty as ever then you know exactly the type of person Nellie is. No one bosses her around regardless of whether you are right or wrong. She is the judge, jury, and executioner.

This book is a great read if you want just a single book or if you want to read the series. Some of her other books are just as good as well!

The story dragged in more than a spot or two. There were 4-5 places where I had to go back and check to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding something. Each time I realized that the confusion was due to mistakes that would normally be removed in editing. Can't believe this would be just the Kindle edition so it made me think twice about purchasing this author's books.
There are characters introduced without explanation, which is confusing to say the least. And yes, a good bit of the dialog is immature and becomes boring - okay, it's a romance and there's always verbal sparring - these two use machetes.
But overall, the characters and story are good. The older ladies (relatives) are priceless - I loved them.