BRODIE: DAWSONS OF MONTANA (SERIES) by Author Jan Scarbrough

Happy Friday everyone! Another week, another six wonderful authors! For the last day of the week, Notes From a Romantic’s Heart is pleased to welcome friend and author, Jan Scarbrough, to the blog. Today, we’re featuring a look at BRODY from Jan’s Dawsons of Montana series. Let’s get started with a few questions.

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Is the setting for your book real? If so, have you been there? If it’s fictitious, is there somewhere real that you’ve used as a model?

The setting I used as a model for the The Dawsons of Montana Series is real. I found the guest ranch online BUT changed the name. Long after the books were written, my husband and I traveled to Montana to visit Paradise Valley near Yellowstone. I saw the entrance to the ranch but didn’t venture into the property. The internet is a marvelous way to find information for books.

If you could trade places with one of the characters from one of your books, who would it be and why?

I would like to be Melody O’Shea, American Saddlebred horse trainer at Royalty Farm in Kentucky. She’s the heroine of Kentucky Flame, a second chance and secret baby romance. She’s an excellent rider and trainer. Spoiler: She even wins the Five-Gaited World’s Grand Championship.

What has been the most unusual experience you’ve had that you have written into a book?

In Kentucky Cowboy, I added a scene that had happened to me and my daughter, who is now a dedicated veterinarian. She saw a mother mallard hit by a car crossing the highway. Her eight ducklings scattered into the underbrush on the side of the road. We trampled through the brush and captured all eight ducks. She then took them to a wildlife refuge.

 

About the Book

When champion bull rider Brody Caldera learns his stepfather has suffered a serious accident, he heads home to the ranch he’d left behind years before. Maybe the clean Montana air of the Six Buckles Ranch, near Yellowstone Park, will help him forget his cheating ex-girlfriend. But returning will also force him to confront another woman, the one he deserted when she needed him most.

Ten years ago, Brody had chosen bucking bulls over booties and bottles, leaving ranch worker Stef Chambers to raise their daughter alone. She’s done her best to cowboy up for the sake of her daughter and build a good life for them. She can’t let Brody’s return change that. Damn the man for breaking her heart once. It won’t happen again. But Stef’s hero-worshipping ten-year-old is enamored by the famous cowboy, and Stef’s best intentions are side-tracked from day one.

Is Brody ready to be the man Stef needs, or is he just taking her for a ride? Brody has troubles of his own, dealing with his injured stepfather and a stepbrother enraged that the family cattle ranch is now a dude ranch. Is he ready to settle down and trade bull riding for a bride?

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Read an Excerpt

Two o’clock a.m. ~ May 2017

Chicago, Illinois

He was home.

Brody Caldera’s heart quickened as he turned the key to the door of his high-rise apartment on North Sheridan Road. When his girlfriend Lori Ann helped him pick it out soon after they met two years ago, she’d loved the apartment’s million-dollar view of Lake Michigan. The location was trendy and close to downtown and her job at an up-and-coming ad agency. The apartment was to-die-for, and she said she’d be very happy living there alone between Brody’s business trips.

Yeah, Lori Ann was spoiled, all right. He gave her anything and everything she wanted. But why not? He could afford it. What else did he have to spend his money on but the woman he loved? Since the day he met her at a promotional event for his professional bull riders’ organization, he’d been head-over-heels in love with her. And she with him. They were a perfect match for each other. He was athletic, craved excitement, and took chances. She was sweet and calm, a great grounding rock for him. There was just something right about them together. And one day they’d get married and make beautiful blond babies together. Maybe sooner than she thought.

Even after all this time, he adored her. Still bought her clothes and jewelry. Still had hot sex with her. That’s why he’d caught an early plane home. He wanted to surprise her this morning and kiss her awake. And give her the ring he carried in his pocket.

His adrenalin surged just like it did when he was about to climb down on the back of a seventeen-hundred-pound bull. Brody slowly turned the doorknob, so he wouldn’t make noise and wake Lori Ann. She wasn’t expecting him.

What the hell?

Meet the Author

Whether it is the Bluegrass of Kentucky, the mountains of Montana, or Medieval England, Jan Scarbrough brings you home with romances from the heart.

The author of two popular Bluegrass series, Jan writes heartwarming contemporary romances about home and family, single moms and children, and if the plot allows, about another passion—horses. Living in the horse country of Kentucky makes it easy for Jan to add small town, Southern charm to her books and the excitement of a Bluegrass horse race or a competitive horse show.

A member of Novelist, Inc., Jan self-publishes her books with her husband’s help.

Jan lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with two rescued dogs, one rescued cat, and a husband she rescued twenty years ago. She needs a weekly horse fix and takes horseback riding lessons at Premier Stables and likes to volunteer at Alley Cat Advocates.

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It's a wrap for this week's guests. Of course, that doesn't mean that I won't try to sneak something in this weekend! Feel free to stop by to see. Otherwise, we'll see you next week with more authors, great books, and fun!

Nancy