Wild About the Wrangler

September 28, 2015
Thompson’s second lighthearted Sexy Texans contemporary (after Crazy for the Cowboy) continues the revitalization of a dying panhandle town, thanks to the tourist draw of Wild Horse Canyon Adventures. Artist Anastasia Bickford draws portraits each day in Sadie’s saloon. She also sells drawings of a wild horse called Ghost, based on pictures taken by her good friend Mac Foster, a cowboy who works for the trail ride company. Anastasia wants to overcome her childhood fear of horses and learn to ride so she can attend her sister’s wedding in the canyon and see Ghost in the flesh. Mac agrees to teach her, and their proximity overcomes the objections each has to a relationship. Great kisses and hot sex will titillate readers, but the obstacles to the romance are too flimsy to hang a plot on. The minutiae of horse-ridding lessons will tickle horse lovers, but they slow the pace. Agent: Jenny Bent, Bent Agency.

November 15, 2015
The second book in Thompson's Sexy Texans series is set six months after Crazy for the Cowboy (2015) and Bickford, Texas, is starting to show signs of recovery, thanks to Vince, Mac, and Travis' efforts with Wild Horse Canyon Adventures. Artist Anastasia Bickford's career is also starting to take off, due in large part to her sketches of the Ghost, the leader of the wild horses. What no one knows is that because of Anastasia's fear of horses, she's never seen the stallion in person, relying, instead, on Mac's photographs. Anastasia and Mac have become close friends since he returned to town. Now that a documentary is set to be filmed in Bickford, Anastasia asks Mac for riding lessons, which soon turn into a whole lot more. Thompson's fans may be disappointed to find that Thompson's oddball characters and snappy humor are missing, but hot cowboys and wild horses have their own charms. Recommend to fans of Cat Johnson and C. H. Admirand who are looking for more chances to save a horse and ride a cowboy.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)