Cowgirl Be Mine

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Summary: IMPRESSIVE DEBUT!
Review: Elaine Nichols is an author to watch, judging from her first release. What a powerful story! She writes about an amputee without resorting to clichés or predictable dialogue. The reunion romance is believable and keeps you rooting for the couple. I'm impressed with the blend of romance and women's fiction in what used to be cookie-cutter category stories. I'll be reading more Silhouette Special Editions if they deliver stories like this one.

Rating:
Summary: IMPRESSIVE DEBUT!
Review: Elaine Nichols is an author to watch, judging from her first release. What a powerful story! She writes about an amputee without resorting to clichés or predictable dialogue. The reunion romance is believable and keeps you rooting for the couple. I'm impressed with the blend of romance and women's fiction in what used to be cookie-cutter category stories. I'll be reading more Silhouette Special Editions if they deliver stories like this one.

Rating:
Summary: IMPRESSIVE DEBUT!
Review: Elaine Nichols is an author to watch, judging from her first release. What a powerful story! She writes about an amputee without resorting to clichés or predictable dialogue. The reunion romance is believable and keeps you rooting for the couple. I'm impressed with the blend of romance and women's fiction in what used to be cookie-cutter category stories. I'll be reading more Silhouette Special Editions if they deliver stories like this one.

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Summary: Cowgirl Be Mine
Review: I don't often read category romance. Why? It's gotten the reputation for a cookie-cutter sameness. But not Elaine Nichols' Cowgirl Be Mine. In this book, the heroine Mandy Thomson breaks all the rules. She's a rodeo star who do to an accident loses a leg and ends-up in a wheelchair.

What's great about Mandy is that once she's injuried most people can identify with her. I fear few of us would initially look inward and accept what's happened. We'd rant and rail, feel anger and a sense of loss, and most importantly a desire not to leave the wheelchair until we could walk on our new leg perfectly; all the emotions Mandy must deal with.

The hero Jake is not only a man we'd all want at our sides if we found our lives turned upside down, but he's also a man who must fight has his own demons.

Together, Mandy and Jake make a wonderful couple. Mandy's lightness of spirit is a perfect foil for Jake's seriousness. Yet it's this serious hero who shows Mandy you don't have to be perfect to walk or love.

Thank you, Elaine for giving us a book about real people, ones who will stay will us for a long time.

Rating:
Summary: Evocative -- Highly recommended
Review: Mandy Thomson lives in the moment, thriving on fast horses, dangerous bulls and wild parties. Just before the gate rises, she looks up to seek Jake. She hasn't seen him in ten years, since she walked out on him when she was seventeen. Seeing him there momentarily breaks her concentration, bringing back a flood of memories before Mandy single-mindedly focuses on the most important ride of her career. She experiences almost six second of total exhilaration. Then, in less than a second, the Brahma bull she's riding dies, a ton falling on her legs. In those moments before loosing consciousness, she relies on Jake as a guardian angel. He is her lifeline until medical help arrived. Then she doesn't see him again. The following three days Mandy lays comatose, and her mother signs the consent form for a leg to be amputated below the knee.

They were young and in love. Then a tragic car accident deprived Jake Miller's father of both legs. Jake accepts full responsibility for his family and his family's box company, growing up quickly despite his youth. He trades his college football scholarship to care for his family. He'd wanted forever with Mandy, but she wanted excitement, rodeos, parties and fun. She feared being bogged down with the kind of responsibility Jake faced. Ten years later, Jake has an apartment already equipped for a handicapped person's needs, and Mandy's brother brings her there to live. He loves her bravado, determination and brash words that always cover her fear or insecurity. Neither of them is prepared for the feelings that return as if the ten years had never been. And as Mandy learns to accept her outward wounds, so must Jake learn to heal his internal scars.

First time author Elaine Nichols pens a strong, deeply evocative romance in COWGIRL BE MINE. Mandy's an unexpected heroine whose superficial life must be stripped away to expose the feelings and desires long hidden. In a genre where heroines are never handicapped and frequently adhere to stereotypes, Mandy's fun loving partying lifestyle provides refreshing verve, especially when she is juxtaposed with a much too serious hero. This remarkable author bears watching, as COWGIRL BE MINE promises a marvelous future for this author. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Myshelf.Com Book Reviewer
Review: Six seconds . . . that is all the time it had taken for Mandy Thomson's life to be turned upside down. The last face she remembered seeing was the man she had left her heart with ten years ago, Jake Miller. Suddenly she is involved in a freak rodeo accident that results in her right leg being amputated. Faced with the painful recovery of trying to adjust to the countless changes her disability presents she is unprepared for her building feelings for Jake. Will she have what it takes to win back her dream of going back to the rodeo? Or will her path lead to something she never anticipated?

Jake Miller had loved Mandy Thomson ever since he was nineteen years old. It had been ten years since Mandy walked out of his life by choosing the rodeo over the love he offered her. Learning Mandy will be present at a local rodeo he decides to go and say a last final farewell. He is unprepared to see Mandy involved in a horrific accident. Being by her side as the paramedics rescue her still form from underneath a lifeless bull makes him realize his love still holds strong. Intent on aiding Mandy in her recovery he offers her a safe haven until she is able to cope with her dilemma. Having Mandy under the same roof heightens his awareness for all that he lost. Will he have a second chance at love or will he lose his heart completely to a woman married to the rodeo?

Elaine Nichols COWGIRL BE MINE captures readers attention from page one. With descriptive language readers will be able to experience the pain and suffering of the heroine. With elements such as heartwarming, highly emotional and powerfully uplifting you cannot afford to miss out on this one.

Rating:
Summary: WHAT CAN I SAY?
Review: This is a powerful story! The characters are well defined, the story flows well and the sexual tension was certainly all there just like it should be in a romance. I loved every minute of this book. I think Elaine did a great job with Mandy's emotional state .... It certainly takes a very strong person to come back after an accident like that and Elaine got it ALL right!

Rating:
Summary: WHAT CAN I SAY?
Review: This is a powerful story! The characters are well defined, the story flows well and the sexual tension was certainly all there just like it should be in a romance. I loved every minute of this book. I think Elaine did a great job with Mandy's emotional state after her leg is amputated. It certainly takes a very strong person to come back after an accident like that and Elaine got it ALL right!