Happy holidays to you! On this #TeaserTuesday, we’re returning to Court Me, Cowboy. The story includes a Christmas Eve scene, which makes it perfect for this week.

(Original cover)

A little background: Gabe and Marissa’s marriage got off to a rocky start. The newlyweds are keeping up appearances for the entire town while they try to work things out—but the agreement he’d made with Marissa is really putting Gabe to the test!

(Re-release cover)

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He frowned, a heartbeat away from backing out on this crazy idea. Pride pushed him forward. He took a long deep breath and let it out slowly. “Look…what I’m asking for is a truce. Why don’t we just start over again, like you said the other night.”

Her eyes widened. “You’re serious?”

“Darn right, I’m serious.”

Judging by the way her fingers twisted themselves together, she didn’t entirely believe him.

“Come on,” he urged, waving toward the corner of the room. “We’ve got a tree over there needs decorating, so why don’t we just start with that, see how it goes?”

“Well. . .I guess we could try it.”

A mite begrudging, but he’d take what he could get.

“Good.” He headed to the tree before she could change her mind. “I’ll get going on the lights.”

She moved to sit cross-legged on the floor and began threading silver hangers onto ornaments.

She focused on her work, not looking at him, but her mouth had curved upward at the corners in the sexy smile guaranteed to get him hot. His fist tightened, driving a star-shaped light into his palm. He barely noticed.

She was so damn beautiful….

And he’d promised not to touch her.

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Hope you enjoyed the clip! Court Me, Cowboy is one of my earlier books and is now available in e-book format, too.