Wyoming Winter
Wyoming Men #7
By Diana Palmer
Release Date: October 31, 2017
There's something about those Wyoming men... New
York Timesbestselling author Diana Palmer returns to the Cowboy State with
a brand-new tale of desire and deception
Cultivating his vast
Wyoming ranch is all security expert J. C. Calhoun wants. His land is the only
thing the betrayed rancher can trust in after discovering his fiancee was
pregnant by another man. But all J.C. holds dear becomes compromised when a
lost little girl leads him to Colie Jackson, the woman who destroyed his life.
Colie stops at
nothing to protect the people she loves. Years ago she left J.C. for his own
good. Now, for the sake of her daughter, she must depend on a hard-hearted man
who won't forgive her. As a band of ruthless criminals tracks their every move
through the frozen Wyoming winter, Colie and J.C. will be forced to confront
the lies that separated them--and the startling truth that will bind them
forever...
*ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest and unbiased review*
Wyoming Winter is book 7 in the Wyoming series, by the amazing Diana Palmer.
Now I love Diana Palmer books, for so many reasons; first of all, her books do contain sex, but it is a tiny part, she mainly focuses on the relationship between the main characters, and that makes her a refreshing change. 2, he stories normally have a key theme, which is redemption, and that is a story I can get behind. And lastly, Diana Palmer introduced me to the world of western romance, and I am forever grateful for it.
And keeping all that in mind, Wyoming Winter is the tale of J.D. and Collie; an innocent young women, who falls in love with her brothers best friend, but J.D. has had an awful childhood, and a difficult life, and even though he fell for Collie, when someone lies about Collie, J.D. believes it, and unfortunately set them all on a path of pain and heartbreak.
I love this series, and Wyoming Winter fits with it perfectly, the story is wonderful, the character's enjoyable, and it reduced me to tears!
I give Wyoming Winter 5 stars
J.C. looked
incredibly handsome in a shepherd’s coat, jeans and boots, with snow dusting
his thick, black, uncovered hair.
“You never wear
a hat,” Colie mused, trying not to let her hands tremble as she took the coat
to hang up for him. He was so tall that she had to stand on her tiptoes to pull
it back off his shoulders.
“I hate hats,”
he remarked. He glanced at her as she put the coat on the rack in the hall, his
pale gray eyes narrow and appraising on her slender, sexy body. She dressed
like a lady, but he knew all about women who put on their best behavior around
company. She was just out of school; college, he was certain, because she had
to be at least twenty-two or twenty-three. Catelow had several thousand people,
and J.C. didn’t mix with them. He only knew what Rodney told him about his
sister. And that wasn’t much.
“I noticed,” Colie
said as she turned, smiling.
His eyes
flickered down to her pert breasts and he fought down a raging hunger that he
hadn’t felt in a long time. He had women, but this one stirred him in a different
way. He couldn’t explain how, exactly. It irritated him and he scowled.
“It wasn’t a
complaint,” Colie added quickly, not understanding the scowl.
He shrugged. “No
problem. What are we eating?”
“Leftover turkey
with cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, salad and apple pie.” She hesitated,
insecure. “Is that okay?”
He smiled, his
perfect white teeth visible under chiseled, sensuous lips. “It’s great. I love
turkey.” He chuckled. “I like chicken, too, although I usually get mine in a
bucket.”
Her eyes
widened. “You put it in a pail, like you milk cows with?” she asked, shocked.
He glowered at
her. “There’s this chicken place. They sell you chicken and biscuits and
sides…”
She went red as
fire. “Oh, gosh, sorry, wasn’t thinking,” she stammered. “Let’s go in! Daddy’s
already at the table.”
Rodney went
ahead, but J.C. slid a long finger inside the back of Colie’s sweater and
gently stopped her. He moved forward, so that she could feel the heat and power
of him at her back in a way that made her heart run wild, her knees shiver. “I
was teasing,” he whispered right next to her ear. His lips brushed it.
Her intake of
breath was visible. Her whole body felt shaky.
His big hands
caught her shoulders and held her there while his lips traveled down the side
of her throat in a lazy, whispery caress that caused her to melt inside.
“Do you like
movies?” he whispered.
“Well, yes…”
“There’s a new
comedy at the theater Saturday. Go with me. We’ll have supper at the fish place
on the way.”
She turned,
shocked. “You…you want to go out with me?” she asked, her green eyes wide and
full of delight.
He smiled
slowly. “Yes. I want to go out with you.”
“Saturday?”
He nodded.
“What time?”
“We’ll leave
about five.”
“That would be
lovely,” she said, drowning in his eyes, on fire with the joy he’d just kindled
in her with the unexpected invitation.
“Lovely,” he
murmured, but he was looking at her mouth.
Copyright © 2017 Wyoming Winter by Diana
Palmer
Diana Palmer, AKA
Susan Spaeth Kyle, was born in 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, the eldest daughter
of William and Eloise Spaeth. She and her younger sister, Dannis, were raised
in Chamblee, where Susan graduated from Chamblee High School in 1964. The
family moved to Cornelia, Georgia, in 1965. Susan married James Kyle in 1972.
They have a son, Blayne, who is married to the former Christina Clayton. They
are both graduates of Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia. They live in
Tennessee and have a daughter, Selena Marie Kyle, born in February, 2009.
In 1991, Susan
returned to college and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Piedmont College in
Demorest, Georgia, in 1995. She continues to work on her master’s degree in
history as time permits. Her first novel as Diana Palmer was published in 1979.
She has over 115 novels in print. She has written historical novels as well as
contemporary romance, and has produced science fiction, with her novel THE
MORCAI BATTALION appearing in hardcover in 2007. Two sequels to this book have
been released as eBooks. THE MORCAI BATTALION: The Recruit and THE MORCAI
BATTALION: Invictus are both available from all eBook retailers now. Her latest
hardcover novel is INVINCIBLE by HQN, released in August 2014 and mass market
paperback novel is WYOMING STRONG by HQN, released November 2014.
Susan’s hobbies are
gardening, knitting, crocheting, astronomy, archaeology, and animals. She has
dogs, cats, birds and lizards. She enjoys getting mail from her readers, but is
slow to answer it.
