The Wayback bachelor is a dying breed, but that doesn't stop CaseyRidge from wanting
to settle down. For this cowboy anyone but Josie Brusky would be an easy
wrangle. Unfortunately for him, the Blue Bug singer and owner of Josie's
Treasures doesn't believe in commitment much less marriage.
Years ago, Josie lost her heart to Casey's charm and dimpled smile.
Since then she has done everything she knows to forget him. After all,
she’s known as the local harlot and the daughter of the town’s biggest
bigot. Casey could have any girl he wanted. Why would he saddle himself
with her? In the wake of a shattering past, she refuses to give up her
independence.
Casey digs down deep to win her over, but does he have what it takes to
win Wayback's bluest heart?
EXCERPT
"You remember that night
behind the stable?" She let out a small,
throaty laugh. "Seems like forever ago, but yeah. Your hair was a lot
longer then." "Yours, too." He could remember it curtaining their
faces, the tips of silky, red curls tickling his cheeks. Tracing the
line of pearly buttons from the hem of her midnight blue blouse to the
open neck-line, he touched the teardrop-shaped pearl on the thin gold
chain around her neck which reminded him of the moon that night. "You
were my first." She lifted her gaze to his. Tenderness warred with
uncertainty in the whiskey-colored depths. "Me, too." His heart pattered at the memory. "I always liked
that about us." She nodded, frowning. "I was crazy about you."
The tip of his thumb traced the bottom edge of her
lip. "So why didn’t it last?" She looked beyond him, remembering. "Because
however much I wanted to be with you, I knew I would be leaving the
first chance I got. I wasn’t go-ing to let anything or anyone stand in
my way." "You figured I would?" "Casey, we
were so young," she told him. "Who knows what you or I would’ve done?" He paused, running a hand over her hair. "Just for
the record," he murmured, lips brushing her cheek, "I would’ve let you
go." She sighed, reaching up to clutch his upper arm.
The muscle under her hand and his sleeve warmed. "Why hasn’t anyone
snatched you up yet?" "Because you’re the only one I ever wanted, Josie,"
he told her, cupping her chin in his hand to look her in the eyes as he
said it. "The only one."
Reviews
4 1/2 Books from The Long & Short of It
“Bluest
Heart
is a romance that inspires feel-good tingles in all the right places.
Author Amber Leigh Williams has created a story with characters readers
are bound to adore and remember. What a fantastic story! Ms. Williams
managed to snare my heart and wretch every bit of emotion possible from
it. tightly written and hits the emotions like a freight train. Cowboy
fans will love Bluest Heart, and if they are anything like me, will make
a direct trip to The Wild Rose Press to purchase the preceding story,
Blackest Heart.
Don’t miss out on this one, folks. You get romance, heartache, and a
whole lot of making up for lost time."
