Looking For Trouble (41 page)

She has been writing fictional short stories
and novels for fun, as well as technical copy for her jobs for many
years. She was a member of the Writer's Guild on AOL during her
last venture into writing romance, as well as a founding member and
treasurer of the first online chapter of the Romance Writers of
America, From the Heart Romance Writers.

With the advancement of online publishing
opportunities, Becky has started writing again as voraciously as
she reads. Be looking for all of the books in her Texas Trouble
Series, a contemporary cowboy romance series, with hot cowboys, a
dash of suspense, and a lot of southern flavor.

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Be sure to read the first three books in the
Texas Trouble Series, by Becky McGraw,
MY KIND OF TROUBLE
(#1, Texas Trouble),
THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE
(#2 Texas
Trouble), and
DOUBLE THE TROUBLE
(#3, Texas Trouble)

READ EXCERPTS BELOW

MY KIND OF TROUBLE

by Becky McGraw, Texas Trouble Series #1

Copyright @ June 18, 2012

Cassie Bellamy thought she'd left Bowie,
Texas and Luke Matthews behind for good. She'd been gone for ten
years and in that time had built a successful real estate business,
had a new fiancé, and had all but forgotten about the Texas bad boy
who'd sent her running to Phoenix in the first place.

She wouldn't be going back now, but her
daddy needed her at the Double B.

Driving her old pickup truck "Bessie" back
to Bowie had seemed like a good idea when she'd left Phoenix, but
it didn't seem so good when she was broken down on the side of the
road in ninety plus Texas weather in between Bowie and her daddy's
farm. And it seemed an even worse idea when her knight in brown
khaki turned out to be none other than the bad boy himself, a
Sheriff now, and still as hot as the Texas sun.

Cassie does her best to ignore Luke and
remember her fiancé back in Phoenix, but Luke seems determined to
make her remember his kisses and their nights of stargazing by the
lake instead. And she definitely still has stars in her eyes when
she looks at the delectable Sheriff.

Luke Matthews had worked damned hard to
change the way people thought of him. He wasn't know as the bad boy
son of the town's drunk anymore, they called him Sheriff now. For
ten years, Luke had been living on the right side of the law, and
had forgotten about Cassie Bellamy, the woman who'd left him
dangling on a limb ten years ago.

All that changes when he plays good
Samaritan and stops to rescue a woman stranded on the side of the
road. He finds out the fine behind and illegally long legs sticking
out from under the hood of the beat up old truck belong to Cassie
Bellamy. She was back in Bowie and just as sassy and stubborn as
always...looking better than ever.

Luke is determined to get answers as to why
she left like she did, and she's just as determined to keep him at
arm's length. Taking the choice away from her, Luke takes a
vacation from his job, and hires on at the Double B as a ranch hand
to help out while her daddy's down. The heat and the close
proximity work in his favor and soon Luke has her cornered like a
stray calf...but what was he going to do with her now?

He had a few ideas, and all of them involved
a king-sized bed and his lasso. She might be trouble, but Cassie
Bellamy had always been his kind of trouble...and if it took
hog-tying to get her to believe that, he was definitely game.

THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE

by Becky McGraw, Texas Trouble Series #2

Copyright @ July 2, 2012

Sabrina Roberts has become a reclusive
workaholic, since her husband Kenny, an adrenaline junky cop, was
killed in the line of duty eighteen months ago. Determined not to
let the same thing happen to her after his death, Sabrina makes her
job as a detective with the Phoenix Police Department her life.

In lieu of a social life, Sabrina focuses on
researching her cases, working out to make herself stronger and
staying at the gun range to make sure she is on top of her game.
She knows the life she is living is no life, but doesn't know how
to change it. Since Kenny's death, she doesn't even know who she is
anymore. The only thing she did know was she was never dating a cop
again.

When her new friend, Cassie Bellamy, calls
Sabrina from Bowie, Texas to ask her to be maid of honor in her
wedding, and to help with her horse ranch while she's on her
honeymoon, Sabrina jumps on the opportunity to reevaluate her life
and decompress in the sedate small town.

Almost from the first minute her feet touch
Bowie soil though, Sabrina realizes the small town is far from
sedate, and certainly not a place she is going to be able to
decompress.

Between the infuriatingly sexist, but oh so
sexy, Sheriff Cole Jackson, who treats her like she's incompetent,
and the hair raising events at the wedding, then a surprising call
for help from the older brother she hasn't spoken to in eighteen
months, Sabrina has more action in Bowie than she ever had back in
Phoenix.

After a while, Sabrina starts hoping that
action will include some personal action with the handsome Sheriff,
who lights fires inside of her that have been banked for a long
time.

Cole Jackson has enough on his hands taking
over as Sheriff of his hometown after his friend resigns, without
having to deal with the trouble sexy Sabrina Roberts dumps in his
lap.

Suddenly, his peaceful little town, where
the most he had to look forward to was the rollover of a chicken
truck on the highway, becomes a hotbed of trouble, and it seems
like the beautiful detective he'd met in Phoenix a month ago, is at
the heart of it all. She and her brother are magnets for trouble,
it seems.

To protect his best friend and his new wife,
Cole invites Sabrina and her brother to stay at his house, and
welcomes more than trouble into his life. He finds out the gorgeous
policewoman has depths he can't wait to uncover...and she can cook
better than his mama! The heat she stirs inside of him is
definitely more than the heat in the kitchen though, and soon Cole
wants to sample everything on her menu.

But first, Cole has to rescue her from the
bad guys chasing her brother...and then from herself. He's
determined to convince Sabrina that even though he's a cop, he's
not the risk-taker her late husband was, and that he's worth taking
a risk on.

DOUBLE THE TROUBLE

by Becky McGraw, Texas Trouble Series #3

Copyright @ July 18, 2012

Professional rodeo team roper, Karlie Upton,
is done with arrogant testosterone-soaked cowboys, and she's done
with the rodeo. Worn out from traveling and battling with the
abusive bull rider she'd just broken up with, Karlie heads for
Bowie, Texas to see if her old friend Cassie Bellamy needs help
with her new horse operation. Her identical twin sister, and roping
partner isn't happy about Karlie leaving her high and dry, but
Karlie can't stay, and she can't tell her sister why she's
leaving.

Karlie knows her ex will probably come
looking for her, because not only did she leave, she took his meal
ticket with her, a fifty-pound slack-jawed bulldog named Sarge, who
he got five-thousand dollars a month to care for from his crazy
grandpa's estate. After she saw her ex kick the lovable mutt, there
was no way Karlie was leaving Sarge behind with the neglectful man.
She could only hope her sister kept her mouth shut, and maybe he
won't find her in Bowie.

When she reaches the city limits of Bowie,
Karlie receives a welcome she didn't expect. Not paying attention
to her speed, Karlie had let 'Freddie', the hot rod Lincoln she'd
had since she was sixteen, have his head and he didn't like to go
slow. He liked to blow the stripes off of the road, because she'd
souped him up in automotive class in high school.

So, the first person she met in Bowie,
wasn't the one she went there to see, but he was easy on the eyes
nonetheless.

The handsome deputy gave her a lecture then
a ticket that would empty her pocketbook. Then after she tried to
bargain her way out of the ticket, he arrested her and threatened
to send Sarge to the pound! Karlie knew she would have enjoyed the
frisking, but when the hot lawman took her dog into custody, he
crossed the line, and Karlie showed him she wasn't known as the
'Wild Child' in the pro rodeo circuit for nothing!

Her impulsive nature yet again lands her in
a heap of trouble, but it also gives her a reason to see the good
looking lawman again, when she cuts a community service deal to fix
his police car. Karlie's not looking for a relationship with any
man, her ex may have soured her for life on those, but she sure
could go for a little romp in the hayloft with the tall, dark and
handsome deputy sheriff.

But then she finds out he has issues, deep
dark issues, which meant he was a 'fixer-upper'. Karlie knew she
was in trouble then, because if there was one thing she had a
problem avoiding, it was projects. From cars to men, the more they
needed fixing, the more they interested her.

Bowie's Chief Deputy, Gabe Kelley, had never
encountered a woman like the red hot redhead he stopped for
speeding, while filling in for his patrolman Elmer on traffic duty.
Sitting at the city limit sign, minding his own business, almost
dozing off, because he was so bored, Gabe was jolted out of his
lethargy when a black Lincoln went past him doing at least one
ten.

When he finally caught up to the sassy
redhead, she gave him lip, then he gave her a hefty ticket, and a
stern warning about driving through his town recklessly. He never
expected the beautiful cowgirl to proposition him to get out of the
ticket! He was so shocked, he arrested her, then called the dog
pound to come get her ugly dog.

The next thing Gabe knew, he was laying on
his stomach on the hot Texas roadway, hogtied, and mad as hell,
watching the hotheaded woman drive off leaving him there. He was
going to get untied, and when he did, there would be hell to pay,
and the one paying it would be Miss Karlie Upton. It might take him
a while to find her, but he would, if it was the last thing he ever
did. One way or another, Gabe was going to teach the bratty woman
he wasn't a man to be messed with...if it took spanking her shapely
ass to drive that point home.

Gabe would have to be careful though,
because although he liked his women with a little edge, he knew
this beautiful redhead had enough of it to cut his throat, if he
wasn't careful. Her ex was after her, and the only thing standing
between the rough bull rider and her is Gabe, and this guy is
playing for keeps, but so is Gabe.