Cover Reveal - TumbleStar

Another book from the talented and prolific Sandra Cox is about to come out.  Sandra writes fiction, non-fiction and across a wide genre range.  Her latest, TumbleStar will be available from the 14th of this month - and can be pre-ordered now.

Warning. Besides hand-tooled boots, content contains: a big-hearted, hasty-tempered cowboy, a homeless young woman, an orphaned little girl and a wild white stallion.

Blurb. Coop Malloy receives a telegram that his sister and brother-in-law have died and Kallie, his ten-year-old niece, is on her way to Texas to live with him.

Still reeling from the loss of his sister, he receives another shock when his childhood friend Randa Lockhart steps off the stage with Kallie. He’s stunned to see that the little pigtailed nuisance that tagged after him and his best friend years ago has turned into a beautiful young woman.

Randa and Kallie have barely settled in when Coop finds buffalo hunter Marvin Doolin beating the local blacksmith within an inch of his life for laming his horse. Coop steps in and when the buffalo hunter tries to kill him, he shoots him. Now Doolin’s four brothers are out to even the score.

When they go after Randa, they cross the line. They’re about to find out that’s there’s nothing Coop won’t do, and no one he won’t track down to protect the two females that have burrowed hard and fast into his heart.

Excerpt

A cacophony of bird song interspersed with the lowing of cattle and a nicker from a horse, woke Randa.

She blinked, disoriented, waiting to hear the jingle of harnesses, the rambunctious voices of vendors and neighbors calling from cobblestoned streets and the full-throated honks of paddleboats in the distance. She stretched, opened her eyes then shot up as she stared at strange surroundings. Instead of lavender scented sheets she smelled soap. A simple blue coverlet replaced her worn, multi-colored quilt. Her gaze swerved to her dresser which should have been covered with a fancy doily, mementos and knickknacks.  In their place sat a plain white basin and a pitcher with a chip in it.

Her body went slack as relief surged through her. They were at Coop’s ranch. She rolled over and looked into a big jug of Indian blankets, with coarsely toothed leaves, sitting on the nightstand. Moisture pricked behind her eyes at the thoughtful gesture. He must have picked them at the crack of dawn. 

What would she have done if he hadn’t come back for her? The close call made her belly flop. She sat up, straightening her spine and her resolve. There was no point thinking about that now. Hopping up, she trotted to the window. Dawn approached, in all her glory, the sky tinged with pinks and grays.

Curious, she glanced around the room.  It was bare but clean. The walls white. The dresser, her bed and nightstand were the only things that broke the even symmetry of the room.  That was all right. It was hers.

Throwing open the window, she leaned out to absorb the sounds, scents and sights around her. Fresh earth and sunshine filled her senses. Red, orange and yellow pinwheels of color blazed against lush stalks of grass spreading as far as the eye could see. Cattle grazed in the distance along with a dozen or so horses. Something inside her swelled, warmed then settled.

Sandra is a vegetarian, animal lover and avid gardener.  She lives with her husband, their dog and several cats in sunny North Carolina.

Besides western and western romance, Sandra also write time-travel, paranormal and regency romance, young adult fantasy and non-fiction.  She is a category bestselling Amazon author, Eppie finalist and Golden Ankh Award winner.

You can order (or pre-order) Sandra's latest work here.