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Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781599987859 ISBN: 1599987856 Label: Samhain Publishing Manufacturer: Samhain Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: May 01, 2008 Publisher: Samhain Publishing Studio: Samhain Publishing Editorial Review: Product Description: Will Clay's lack of loving words bring back painful memories of Bobbie's childhood or can she put her fears aside and finally find love with her California Cowboy? Clay Bodine has lived on the Lazy B Ranch since birth. He works the land with loving hands while ruling it with an iron fist. When his younger brother mentions hiring a new kid, Clay doesn't think much about it. until they meet. Sparks fly when sassy and independent Bobbie Carlington meets her new boss for the first time. Used to answering only to herself, Bobbie quickly learns that things don't quite work out that way on the Lazy B. When Clay takes Bobbie's virginity his old-fashioned ways demand he marry her. Will his lack of loving words bring back painful memories of her childhood or can Bobbie put her fears aside and finally find love with her California Cowboy? Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, graphic language, spanking & anal play. This book is a re-release. Related Items:      see moreAverage Rating:
 Rating:  - California CowboyBobbie Carlington was the newly hired cook for Clay and Chase Bodine at the Lazy B. She had a really horrible first day when she dropped the lasagna on the floor, and to further her humiliation, she caught Clay in all his glory masturbating in his bedroom. No one could have had a worse first day of employment! She wasn't an experienced housekeeper. Every task she tackled, she failed miserably at. It didn't help that Clay and his dominant personality scared her on many levels. She was starting to settle in, but her calling was not in the kitchen, it was in the stables tending to the horses. Clay liked watching her take such care with the horses, but couldn't figure out why such a menace got to him so much. He wanted her like he had never wanted to possess another woman, but they fought, and argued like wild animals. When their explosive passion took over, both were left stunned. Clay was thinking marriage and forever while Bobbie refused to ever think of marriage. She had grown up with a man that refused or couldn't give love to her or her mother. Her father had dominated every phase of their lives. Bobbie would not ever love a man, and give him that kind of power over her. Clay was so busy trying to figure out his wants and feelings, that he didn't see how he was steamrolling over Bobbie. When he came home from a business trip, and found her gone, he realized he hadn't been really listening to what she was telling him about her past. He just hoped he could find a way to get her back. I really enjoyed this book, and liked Bobbie and Clay. Clay is a dominant man used to having everything his way. When he got involved with Bobbie, it threw him because he had never had to compromise before. Bobbie was determined to never get emotionally involved with a man because she had suffered at the hands of her father, and that was enough punishment for anyone in a lifetime. She didn't believe it could be any other way. Clay was going to prove to her how different it could be. Rating:  - 5 blue ribbons from Romance JunkiesClay Bodine has lived his entire life at the Lazy B Ranch and he takes the running of the ranch as well as his employees welfare very seriously. He's a controlling man who doesn't like surprises - especially when the unexpected surprise is a certain petite redhead whom his brother hired and brought home. Bobbie Carlington has learned to fend for herself and she certainly doesn't have to answer to anyone... or at least she didn't until she went to work at the Lazy B. Now she has a bossy employer to contend with who turns her on more than she'd like to admit. Chance had mentioned hiring a new kid named Bobbie, but Clay thought Bobbie would be a boy. There's absolutely nothing boyish about Bobbie and Clay is furious that Chance would bring such a temptation into his domain. To complicate matters, she won't bow and scrape to his demands... nope, the little lady thinks nothing of confronting him and calling him on each and every one of his asinine demands all while infuriating him at every turn. It's soon obvious that their attraction is mutual but Clay doesn't intend to get seriously involved with any woman and he has no doubt that Bobbie is the kind of woman a man keeps once he's made love to her. Bobbie has no qualms with the thought of having sex with Clay and she has no intention of ever getting married and dang well isn't about to allow any man to control her. Things between Clay and Bobbie become a little strained when they finally cave in to their mutual desire and he discovers that she's a virgin. As far as he's concerned, that means he needs to marry her, only Bobbie isn't going along with his marital plans and refuses to marry him simply because she's no longer a virgin. Not once has Clay expressed more than simply desiring her and Bobbie needs more than that if she's even going to consider marriage. Fortunately she's got options - options that aren't going to make Clay happy! Will Bobbie find her happily-ever-after with her stubborn, dominate and sexy California cowboy? Maggie Casper has been a longtime `must read' author for me and CALIFORNIA COWBOY is a prime example of why fans eagerly anticipate each new story she writes. I loved the ongoing power struggle between Clay and Bobbie. They're both so stubborn that it's a blast just trying to figure out who's going to win in their battle of wills. Bobbie's drive to better her life really makes her a character that readers are going to adore. Her innocence and independent nature in the face of Clay's dominating personality is hysterically funny and makes their love scenes hot enough to have readers blushing and wishing for a dominate man for themselves. If you're a fan of Clay's younger brother Chance, then be sure to check out his story in CHANCE OF A LIFETIME. It was available as an ebook on October 16, 2007. Chrissy Dionne (courtesy of Romance Junkies) |
Critics and audiences didn't seem too happy with Back to the Future, Part II, the inventive, perhaps too clever sequel. Director Zemeckis and cast bent over backwards to add layers of time-travel complication, and while it surely exercises the brain it isn't necessarily funny in the same way that its predecessor was. It's well worth a visit, though, just to appreciate the imagination that went into it, particularly in a finale that has Marty watching his own actions from the first film. --Tom Keogh
Shot back-to-back with the second chapter in the trilogy, Back to the Future, Part III is less hectic than that film and has the same sweet spirit of the first, albeit in a whole new setting. This time, Marty ends up in the Old West of 1885, trying to prevent the death of mad scientist Christopher Lloyd at the hands of gunman Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson, who had a recurring role as the bully Biff). Director Zemeckis successfully blends exciting special effects with the traditions of a Western and comes up with something original and fun. --Tom Keogh
