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Lisa Cooke

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I started writing fiction at the age of forty-five. It wasn’t easy for me since my formal training is in science education. Lab reports are written very differently than novels or at least they’re supposed to be, though some of my students never fully understood that concept.

I made it my goal to be published by the time I retired from teaching. It took a lot of work and dedication, but four weeks after I taught my last day in the high school, I received “the call” from Leah Hultenschmidt of Dorchester Publishing. An extremely exciting day, that was. My agent took over the negotiations while I spent a great deal of time squealing.

Always having had a love for all things historical, it seemed only fitting that I fell into that genre. So now I
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“I believe the way to solve this dilemma is if you marry me, so I’ll always be close by.”

Love swelled up in her heart. “I think I can manage that.”

“Good, ’cause the way I’ve got it figured, it’s the only way I can stay somewhere in the same vicinity as my balls.”

~Dryer and Charlotte”
Lisa Cooke, Texas Hold Him

“He squeezed his eyes shut and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Perhaps you should invent a new deck with numbered pink butterflies and God cards."

~Dyer”
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“All in? Hell, he's give her his left nut to get all into her. Or at least he would if she did'nt already have it.

~Dyer”
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