What happens when a cowboy and a bluestocking… get stranded in a cave with a 40,000-year-old phallus on the wall?A sizzling-hot and hilarious romance, that’s what! ~ Nathan ~Right now Clarissa, our tour guide, is talking about prehistoric cave paintings.In a moment, she’ll point at the mammoth… Wait for it….“Look at the mammoth on your right,” she says.Told ya! I’ve done her tour six times … she says.
Told ya! I’ve done her tour six times in two months.
Everyone gawks at the mammoth.
My eyes stay trained on Clarissa’s lovely face.
After the tour, I’ll ask her out, fully expecting her to say no.
I mean, why would a hotshot Parisian archeologist go on a date with a dairy farmer from the sticks?
But I need to hear Clarissa’s no.
Maybe then I’ll be able to forget her.
~ Clarissa ~
Nathan, aka Cowboy, is here again. Staring at me again.
I ignore him.
Just as I’ve ignored the hot, disturbing dreams I’ve been having lately.
Dreams in which a handsome cowboy undresses me.
Kisses me.
Pleasures me into oblivion.
Crazy dreams!
In real life, I’m going back to Paris to start a new job in a big museum.
The one thing I don’t need during my last week in Burgundy is a roll in the hay with Nathan.
Even if that roll turns out to be better than my craziest dreams…
Fans of sexy romantic comedies by Lauren Blakely, Cora Seton and Penny Reid will love this standalone companion to the Darcy Brothers series.
➜ Get your copy now, and prepare to laugh, fan yourself, and keep turning pages until the happy end!
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A 4.5 star happy and short read with humor and heat, this is NOT a Western! The “Cowboy,” Nathan, is a French dairy farmer (hence the nickname chosen for him by urbane and sophisticated Clarissa, who can’t seem to resist his charm and bold physique once they connect). The story, though improbable, is the sweetest romance, but does have its steamy moments. It also revives some characters from the excellent Darcy Brothers series by the same author, though they play a very minor part. Good, plain prose, romance between seeming opposites, and a great conclusion.:-)
I received a complimentary advance copy of this book; this is my voluntary and honest review.
Interesting
She was an archeologist, he own a family dairy farm. They come from two different backgrounds. Can they make it work.
Be who you are, and the rest works itself out
Alix Nichols steps aside from the world of Paris and the Darcy brothers just long enough to tell the short sweet tale of Clarissa the archeologist, and the cowboy, Nathan. She’s all academic pomp and starch, raised by third generation academics/archeologists to be the fourth generation ditto. While on a research gig in the Bourgogne, she meets local farmer/cattleman Nathan. He’s from trade school, practicality, raised from infancy to take over the family farm, breed cows and kids, and keep papa’s dream alive. As different as they seem to be, Clarissa and Nathan still manage to fall for each other. When the end of her research project comes, and they part ways, they both have to face facts: They’re in over their heads and miserable. Time to look hard at what they REALLY want, and then decide exactly whose dreams they truly want to live out – their parents, their own, or maybe create something new? Quintessential Alix Nichols charm and sensibility pervade this light-hearted Gallic “meet me in the middle” romance.
Nathan sees Clarissa and he knows he is way out of her league but does that stop him? No, he knows he has to try and get her. He has his chance when they are both locked away together.
The author does a great job with the details of the scenes and yes they are hot and sizzling. You don’t want to put the book down.
Clarissa’s character was for me obnoxious and wondered why Nathan was wasting his time but by the end things come together.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
This is a novella length story which is advertised as a ‘sexy romantic comedy’ but it really is quite hot.
The story is good. Its an opposites attract theme and I was quite relieved when the two of them, Clarissa and Nathan, finally got together as a couple but what goes on until then makes for good reading.
If it weren’t for his father’s influence which guided his direction in life, Nathan’s life would have been very different. He just needed a bit of clarity on the truth of matters from his mother to eventually set him right.
Clarissa doesn’t have time for a relationship, so why then does her body keep telling her otherwise and driving her nuts?
Both main characters are really decent people and I loved their ideals.
I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this book and this is my unbiased review.