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HELL ON HEELS

Hotel Rodeo #1

Victoria Vane

Released January 19th, 2016

Lyrical Shine

Some Odds are Meant to be
Played...

PLACE YOUR BET

The
Hotel Rodeo in Las Vegas has seen better days, but managing partner Ty Morgan
has come up with a way to return it to its former glory. His plan looks
promising until the unthinkable happens. Suddenly Ty is working for the boss’s
daughter. And Miss Monica Brandt, hot as she may be, doesn’t share his vision…

ROLL THE DICE

She
left a fabulous career and a frustrated fiancé in New York to move to Vegas and
save her father’s investment. But now Monica is locking horns with a sexy
cowboy-turned-businessman. What does Ty think he can do that she can’t? All
Monica knows is that she doesn’t dare trust him—or is it herself she doesn’t
trust...

AND WIN

EXCERPT:

Her gaze was even with his chin, requiring her to crane her neck. She hated the advantage his height gave him. It was the reason she always wore heels—to level the playing field. She was five foot seven. Her stilettos made her close to six feet, which allowed her to stand nose to nose with most men, and even gave her a slight advantage over Evan who was only four inches taller than she was, but Ty had her by half a head.

“The twenty grand you refused?”

“No, the ten I accepted along with the—”

“Okay,” she blurted. “You already called my bluff. I’ll give you the twenty. Half now and the rest in three months. I’m being square with you here, Ty. Let’s make this happen.” She almost groaned as Evan’s favorite words spilled from her mouth. She’d been his protégé for five years. It would probably take as many for the stink to wear off.

Ty cocked his head in thought.

She waited, fighting the urge to tap her heel.

“All right,” he said at last. “I can accept that deal… on the provision that I still have the last word on operations.”

“Absolutely not! I’ll make all the final decisions.”

“That ain’t gonna fly with me, Sugar. Tom let me have free rein. If you want me to stay, you’ve got to let me handle things my way.”

“Equal say,” she countered. “Partners. Just like you and Tom.”

He shook his head. “Tom and I are like-minded but you and me? We’re never going to see eye to eye on anything.”

“Probably not,” she agreed.

“Look, Ms. Brandt, one of us has to wear the pants in this relationship.”

“Wear the pants? What chauvinistic bullshit! I can’t even believe you said that!”

“Told you I’m old fashioned. ‘Sides,” his gazed roved slowly and suggestively down her body, “you look mighty fine in a skirt.”

She fought a ridiculous surge of satisfaction that he’d taken notice. “Don’t you know I could call you out for sexual harassment?”

“Could you now?” He stepped into her space. “Maybe you need a bit of sexual harassment, Ms. Brandt,” his voice was suddenly low and smooth as silk. “As a matter of fact, I think you need a whole lot of it.”

She retreated a step.

He advanced two.

“You see,” he continued, backing her up to the desk, “I was raised in the belief that anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”

 His hands came down on the desk, braced on either side of her. His musky masculine sent washed over her, sucking the air out of her lungs. Evan wore outrageously expensive Clive Christian 1872. Ty Morgan wore “pure cowboy” vintage 1982, earthy, tangy, and tantalizing.

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TWO TO WRANGLE

Hotel Rodeo #2

Victoria Vane

Released February 16th, 2016

Lyrical Shine

A
COUNTRY BOY



Maybe
having a hot and heavy affair with the boss’s daughter wasn’t the smartest
move. But country boy Ty Morgan didn’t regret a moment with city girl Monica
Brandt…until she left Las Vegas to return to her life in New York.  When
devastating news sends her running back, Ty can’t help but open his arms.
His heart, however, is another matter.

AND
A CITY GIRL



Now
that Ty has what he’s always wanted—controlling interest in Hotel Rodeo—Monica
is certain their time together is at an end.  Then Ty asks her to come on
board as a partner.  Maybe it’s just her money he needs, but the chance to
stick close to the sexy wrangler sure could make work a whole lot more
interesting.

GET
READY TO TANGO



Their
partnership doesn’t come without a heap of problems. The two can’t agree on
anything—except their iron-hot attraction.  As the hotel’s Grand Opening
approaches, the truth is all too clear: Ty and Monica must find a way to mix
business with pleasure if they have any shot at dancing off into the sunset
together…

EXCERPT:

“I’m not going to be a silent partner, Ty.”

“Didn’t expect you to be.”

“If you want me you’re going to have to give me equal say.”

“How can I do that when I’m talking bulls and you’re going off about Flamenco dancers?”

 “You just illustrated my entire point!” she said. “If we’re going to work together you have to let me be a part of this. Partnerships require common goals and like minds. How can this work when we have none of that?”

Ty perched on the desk with a frown. “One little stumble and you’re already getting cold feet? We can work through this if we try, Monica. And I’m willing to compromise—to a point. You just gotta understand that this whole thing was my vision. My idea. My dream. I can’t let you or anyone else take that away.”

 “I’m not trying to take it away from you. I just want it to succeed. We’re talking about a huge investment. Look, Ty, I came in here with an open mind, but I can’t take the back seat and neither can you. Do you see now how incompatible we are? And why I’ve said we could never work.”

“I thought you had more grit than that.”

“That’s not it! I wanted this to work. I really did, but we just don’t have enough common ground. I admit the chemistry between us is incredible, but we burn too hot.”

 “You’re right about that part,” he broke into a dark chuckle. “We’ve been playing with gun powder from the get go. But there’s something you need to understand about gunpowder, Monica. Although it’s highly combustible, it’s also what makes fireworks. So only two things can happen here—we’re either gonna blow like a stick of dynamite or we’re gonna make some major fucking pyrotechnics…Don’t know ‘bout you, but I’m banking on the fireworks.”

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BEAUTY AND THE BULLRIDER

Hotel Rodeo #3

Victoria Vane

Released March 15th, 2016

Lyrical Shine

When
Beauty Wants A Baby

Championship
bull breeder and former Texas beauty queen Delaney McCall was having a heck of
a time finding a daddy for the baby she craved. A failed marriage left her with
no desire for another husband, but finding the right stud to satisfy her needs
presents a bigger problem that she could have imagined.

And
The Bullrider Wants Beauty

After
hanging up his spurs, bull rider Zac McDaniel wants nothing more than to
fulfill Delaney's dream of having a family. After all, his best friend's ex has
been his fantasy for years. Zac, however, has no desire to be seen as just a
means to an end. And when Zac insists on doing things the "old
fashioned" way, their passion explodes like a bull out of the chute…

Some
Bucking Is Bound To Happen

While
insisting it's all just a passing fancy, the more Delaney sees the softer side
of the rough and tumble cowboy, the harder it is to keep her emotions
corralled. Zac, meanwhile, is more determined than ever to prove he's what she
really needs, and will do whatever it takes to tear down the mile high fence
around her heart…

Excerpt:

Zac felt a fierce stab of envy. In fifteen years on the circuit, he’d never wanted for female company, but in all those years there had only been one woman he’d every truly wanted—Ty’s ex, Delaney. He and Ty had both met her at the Houston Livestock Show. He’d had his shot at her then but he’d blown it. Ty got the girl and Zac had to live with the worm of envy that ate a hole in his heart every time he saw them together. What made it all worse, Ty hadn’t made her happy.

Grabbing his glass, Zac straddled the stool beside his buddy, following Ty’s gaze with a fateful shake of his head. “Never thought I’d see you with another one like that.”

“What do you mean?” Ty asked.

“Big city. Big money. Didn’t exactly pan out for you the first time around.”

“That’s where the similarity starts and ends,” Ty said. “Monica’s nothing like Delaney.”

“If you say so,” Zac replied with a smirk and raised his glass to his lips.

“I mean it, Zac. There’s no comparison between ’em. Monica’s a successful investment banker who needs nothing from me. Delaney was a beauty queen who stole half my ranch.”

Zac raised his hand with a glare. “Look, ol’ boy. That ain’t how it was, and you know it.”

Ty hadn’t been any more ready to settle down back then than a bull in a breeding pasture, but he and Delaney had eloped anyway. Initially, Zac had thought maybe it was Delaney’s money Ty was after, but he’d proven that wasn’t the case. Instead of gaining from the marriage, Ty had lost half of everything. Zac still didn’t understand how it had all gone down, but the nasty divorce had left Ty embittered and disillusioned. But now, it was looking like Ty was considering giving it another go with Monica Brandt.

Delaney, however, seemed gun-shy as ever even eight years later. Their paths had crossed a few times over the past few years, but no matter how hard he tried, she always turned a cold shoulder, as if her marriage break-up was somehow Zac’s fault. He understood in part, but wished she’d give him a chance. So far that hadn’t happened.

 “All right. I admit I brought that shit on myself,” Ty said. “But that doesn’t give her the right to rub my nose in it for the rest of my life. You know that’s what she’s trying to do with the bucking bulls, don’t you? She’s sending two to the futurity this year and says she has a half a dozen more prospects for next year. She has shit-tons of money to put into a breeding program. I didn’t. She thinks I never wanted the ranch. That’s not true, but ranching takes money. That’s part of the reason I stayed on the road as long as I did. I’d hoped to win enough to keep the place going.”

“But now it’s done,” Zac said. “You’re here and she’s there. What’s the problem?”

“The problem is that she still wants something from me.”

Zac’s gaze narrowed. “Oh yeah? Like what?”

“A baby.”

Zac choked on his drink. “What the fuck did you say?”

“You heard me right.”

His chest tightened. “Are you saying she wants to get back together?”

“Hell no!” Ty laughed. “She wants a kid but doesn’t want another husband. It’s that whole bio-clock thing that seems to have pushed her over the edge. She even tried to bribe me with an interest-free loan in lieu of a stud fee.”

Was she still carrying a torch for Ty? There was that worm again. Zac’s gut twisted at the thought of Ty and Delaney together. “Why the hell would she do that?”

“’Cause she’s out of her ever-lovin’ mind. Gotta be one of those hormonal things.” 

“Why you?” Zac asked.

Ty shrugged. “Beats the hell outta me.”

“You gonna oblige her?” Zac asked, keeping his voice slow and his gaze on his empty glass.

“Shit no! If I ever father a kid, I’m gonna be there to raise him up right.”

“There’s gotta be plenty of other men who’d be happy to help her out. Hell, they’d probably line up for miles.” And I’d be the first to buy a ticket.

Zac signaled Gabby for another drink.

Ty gave a dry laugh. “Delaney might be a lot of things, but easy ain’t one of ’em.’” He sat back, appraising Zac. “You did better than me in school. What’s your IQ?”

“I dunno. Hundred twenty-eight maybe.”

“Beats mine by at least five.” He was still regarding Zac as if he were a bull on the auction block.

“What the hell are you looking at?” Zac snapped.

“You, Zac. Just wondering what kinda breeder you’d be. She says she wants above-average IQ, tall, and athletic. Seems to me you got that part in spades. I’m just wondering if it’ll offset your lack of looks and nonexistent sense of humor.”

“Fuck you, Ty.” Zac snatched up the glass Gabby slid in front of him.

“I’m serious. You need money. Maybe you should volunteer?”

Zac met his gaze. “And what if I decided to do just that?”

“Hell, Zac,” Ty laughed. “I’d consider it a personal favor. I’d even buy your damned ticket to Oklahoma.

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Victoria Vane is an award winning
author of smart and sexy romance. Her collective works of fiction range from
historical to contemporary settings and include everything from wild comedic
romps to emotionally compelling erotic romance. Victoria is the founder of the
Goodreads Romantic Historical Fiction Lovers and the Romantic Historical Lovers
book review blogs.

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