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What a Texas Girl Wants (Texas Wishes Book 1) by [Kristina Knight]

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What a Texas Girl Wants (Texas Wishes Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Kristina Knight (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 1 of 3: Texas Wishes

“Kristina Knight doesn’t hold back on the sass, emotion, and passion, keeping her readers riveted right up until they reach The End.” — Aimee Carson, author of Secret History of a Good Girl and How to Win the Dating War

“Kristina Knight delivers a fun romp from Mexico, through Texas, and straight into true love” —Kelsey Browning, author and cofounder of Romance University

The last thing Jackson Taylor wants in his life is a down-to-earth girl. He has four weeks of freedom in which to find his birth mother. He’s done well avoiding commitment until now, so when he wakes up on a Mexican beach with Kathleen his first reaction is curiosity. When he spies the matching wedding rings on their left hands curiosity turns to concern.

Neither Jackson nor Kathleen want to stay married, but when her family shows up, they have no choice. Once back in Texas, however, can they keep this all-business marriage from turning into an all-consuming love?

Sensuality Level: Sensual

Once upon a time, Kristina Knight spent her days running from car crash to fire to meetings with local police—no, she wasn't a troublemaker, she was a journalist. When the opportunity to focus a bit of energy on the stories in her head, she jumped at it. And she’s never looked back. Now she writes magazine articles by day and romance novels with spice by night. She lives on Lake Erie with her husband, three-year-old daughter, and twenty-year-old fur-kid. Happily ever after.

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Crimson Romance
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June 4, 2012
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“Kristina Knight delivers a fun romp from Mexico, through Texas, and straight into true love” —Kelsey Browning, author and cofounder of Romance University

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Hi, readers! Vacation romances are always a favorite of mine, but with this book I wanted to explore what might happen if what happened on vacation didn't stay 'on vacation'. Kathleen and Jackson wake up in the worst position either can imagine - married to (basically) a stranger. What happens from there leads them down a road to self-fulfillment, love and romance. I hope you enjoy What a Texas Girl Wants ~ I certainly enjoyed writing it!

Best wishes!

Kristina Knight

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What Happens in Mexico, doesn't always stay in Mexico sometimes it follows you back to Texas and turns your life over.

Kathleen Witte decides to take a long over due vacation to Mexico to unwind and relax, next thing she is waking up buck naked on a beach after a night of debauchery married to her college crush Jackson Taylor. 'What's a Texas Girl to do'? Well.. hold on to him and take him home to meet the family...

Jackson has always been a loner, he doesn't do family or relationships, for Kathleen it's all about family, she has been the glue holding her family together; their journey to HEA is anything but easy.

I liked how Jackson and Kathleen characters developed within the book, their struggles and insecurities felt real and the Witte family drama was woven in nicely through the book

`What a Texas Girl Wants' was a fun read. Kristina Knight did a fabulous job with this story, it had the right amount of Sexy & emotional to keep me engaged to the end. ~ Harlequin Junkie

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Kathleen Witte is a down-to-earth girl. She has to be, with the family ranch on the verge of success. After seven months of keeping it all together by swearing off men, however, Kathleen needs a bit of fun in the sun. Waking up with a husband she can't remember isn't how she planned to blow off steam. The last thing Jackson Taylor wants in his life is a down-to-earth girl. He has four weeks of freedom in which to find his birth mother. He's done well avoiding commitment until now, so when he wakes up on a Mexican beach with Kathleen his first reaction is curiosity. When he spies the matching wedding rings on their left hands curiosity turns to concern. Neither Jackson nor Kathleen want to stay married, but when her family shows up, they have no choice. Once back in Texas, however, can they keep this all-business marriage from turning into an all-consuming love? Sensuality Level: Sensual

About the Author

Once upon a time, Kristina Knight spent her days running from car crash to fire to meetings with local police-no, she wasn't a troublemaker, she was a journalist. When the opportunity to focus a bit of energy on the stories in her head, she jumped at it. And she's never looked back. Now she writes magazine articles by day and romance novels with spice by night. She lives on Lake Erie with her husband, three-year-old daughter, and twenty-year-old fur-kid. Happily ever after.

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"An enjoyable, quick read. I can say that I will most likely pick up another of Kristina’s books in the future." --Night Owl Reviews

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ASIN : B008195BIS
Publisher : Crimson Romance (June 4, 2012)
Publication date : June 4, 2012
Language : English
File size : 1960 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 172 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 1440544646
Lending : Not Enabled

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Loving Life

You had me at "hello" came to mind

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2012

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The phrase "You had me at hello" entered my head as I started this story because it just steps out with such fun and entrances from then on. What a catchy and entertaining love story! Hot too! Waking up naked on a beach with a sexy stranger (who's not really a stranger)that, wow, you married somewhere in a drunken frolic? Incredible. Who doesn't love an interesting start like that! Certainly appeals to everyone's "wish I had been a wild girl" side (smile).

Follow that by a sexy man that for all his pretenses at bad boy, he really isn't one - and the way that he finally shows it! Oh, sooo cool.

Nicely done, Kristina! Can't wait to see what you write next.

I expect I will wish I had an autographed copy at some point!

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Nagging, repetitive and implausible

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2015

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This book started out really well and caught my attention right away but frankly that is about it. SPOILERS! Kathleen is supposed to be trying to inherit her family Ranch from her Grandfather but has to prove that as a 'woman' she is capable of running it. She is 27 and has never been able to hold a job has no experience in running a ranch and jumps right into training horses for competition blah blah blah. Problem is that the author didn't set any of that up. Where did she learn how to do all of that? Where was her drive all of those years previous to the 7 months that she miraculously woke up with all of this knowledge to run a Ranch? Jackson is a brooding, poor me, my mother abandoned me when I was 7 and no one else wanted me character. Ok, so he decides to try to find his mother and why did she leave him. He knows she was a stripper and couldn't hold a job longer than a few pay checks so........ what's to find out? There is no mystery there so why try to make it one. Are you expecting us to believe he reached the age of 30 and hadn't figured out that sometimes people suck? Back to Kathleen, they are married and trying to keep how they got that way a secret and know that as soon as she turns 28 in one month they will go their separate ways. So why in the heck is she nagging the heck out of Jackson on what he is doing all day? It was like reading the same chapter over and over and over. I wish the author had spent more time in story development than rehashing everything and she took the 'we need to talk about it' wayyyyyyyy to far. I have absolutely no desire to read the story of the spoiled little half sister who winds up screaming at her grandfather 'I WANT MY MONEY'. I would have kicked her as4 off of the ranch and told her never to come back. What a terrible person. I found this book, repetitive, implausible, and frankly boring and am glad I don't know someone who nags like a champion (other than my ex which might be why I take such exception to that type of treatment'.

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Storm

4.5 Lightning Bolts from Storm Goddess Book Reviews

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2012

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Surprise! You're married! Oh, wait....you don't remember? Hmm...that could pose a problem...

What A Texas Girl wants features Kathleen and Jackson, and an interesting predicament they've gotten themselves into. They knew each other from college, and now they are face to face after not seeing each other for years.

Kathleen has dreams of taking over her ranch. She went on a vacation to Mexico, and woke up married! Okay, so there's a lot of stories with this kind of theme, but I can never get tired of them, especially if they are well written and funny, just as What A Texas Girl Wants is. I can relate to Kathleen because of her dysfunctional family. Kathleen tries to make do what she's dealt with in terms of the cards of life, but there are so many things she'd never imagined. Jackson being a part of her life, even if it's temporary to decide how they will proceed changes her view.

Jackson, ahh, A mystery to us all. He's got a past he's not very willing to share, and he's built himself a business from the ground up. He's moving on and doesn't care to look back. His encounter with Kathleen sure makes him open his eyes to possibilities he didn't think he wanted or needed.

I enjoyed this book! The characters are fresh, Ms Knight's voice is exciting and engaging. I also love that the couple went to UTEP (University of Texas El Paso, my hometown!)

I love how both Kathleen and Jackson had to grow to be better. They learned so much about themselves in the duration of this story and things wrapped up very nicely. Bravo, Kristina Knight, on a job well done with a sparkling debut. I want more, more more!

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Sandy Milan

There are issues with this book - 2.5 stars

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2014

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I'm going to give a detailed review since there was nothing that helped me when I considered buying this book. In the end it was less than a dollar so I bought it but I probably wouldn't have if I'd know a few things. Basically the h and H find themselves naked on a beach in Mexico at the start of the story. We discover, after a few chapters, that these two after a drunken spree lasting a few days, these two have gotten married. Their first thoughts are to annul the marriage but it soon appears that the h will lose her share of her grandfather's ranch due to her reckless behaviour. As the story develops we learn that the main characters had know each other in college but hadn't seen each other for 10 years. The H returns with the h to the ranch to help her win her grandfather over and then he'll leave after 4 weeks.

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This is the third book I've read this week where the h is constantly on the backfoot. She was besotted with the H in college and he knew it. He was a bit of a womaniser but rejected the h. We know his thoughts constantly through the book and we know he doesn't want a relationship with the h. He decides to sleep with her for the duration of his stay but then it's over. He does actually leave her too towards the end of the book but comes back. The h on the other hand is quickly besotted again and I just spent so much time feeling sorry for her. I'm sorry but this kind of unequal relationship doesn't inspire me when I'm reading a romance.

The other issue that I couldn't cope with is their complete lack of memory regarding the wedding. I keep thinking they'd been drugged as it would've been the only logical explanation for such total memory loss. Later bits and pieces came back to them conveniently.

In spite of my annoyance I have decided to download the next book because the teaser chapters in this book intrigued me.

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