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Lights, Cowboy, Action
Kaia Bardot is determined to move out from under her famous father’s shadow and prove she deserves her own director title. But when her lead actor needs cowboy lessons, she needs someone to get him up to speed, and fast. Who better than the real live cowboy who owns the ranch? If only he weren’t so infuriatingly stubborn.
Grady Langston’s trying to get the family ranch up and running again. Now his sister has decided the solution to their problems is to rent the place to a movie crew. He wants nothing to do with it. Until he lays eyes on the pretty director, who alternatively intrigues and drives him crazy.
Despite being opposites, there’s definitely a spark between Grady and Kaia. But how do a Hollywood director and small town cowboy manage a real life happy ending?
Grady Langston’s trying to get the family ranch up and running again. Now his sister has decided the solution to their problems is to rent the place to a movie crew. He wants nothing to do with it. Until he lays eyes on the pretty director, who alternatively intrigues and drives him crazy.
Despite being opposites, there’s definitely a spark between Grady and Kaia. But how do a Hollywood director and small town cowboy manage a real life happy ending?
74 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 5, 2016
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Cindi Madsen
66 books2,268 followersCindi Madsen is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance and young adult novels. She sits at her computer every chance she gets, plotting, revising, and falling in love with her characters. She loves music and dancing and wishes summer lasted all year long. She lives in Colorado (where summer is most definitely NOT all year long) with her husband and three children. She and her family also take their Marvel addiction very seriously, as their one-eyed cat, Agent Fury, and their kitty named Valkyrie can attest.
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August 23, 2017
Simple, light, predictable, entertaining are probably the words best describing this short story.
July 14, 2016
3.5 stars!
A quick, sweet read
A quick, sweet read
August 8, 2017
Originally posted at For What It's Worth on 8/7/17: http://www.fwiwreviews.net/2017/08/mo...
Kaia and Grady were complete opposites in every way - she's a movie director from LA, comes from money and he's a ranch owning cowboy, struggling to make end meet - but they are perfection together.
Despite being only 74 pages long, you believe in their connection, thanks to the addition of an epilogue with a solid HEA.
If you're looking for a quick, romantic read this one is for you. It was a freebie at the time I downloaded it.
Kaia and Grady were complete opposites in every way - she's a movie director from LA, comes from money and he's a ranch owning cowboy, struggling to make end meet - but they are perfection together.
Despite being only 74 pages long, you believe in their connection, thanks to the addition of an epilogue with a solid HEA.
If you're looking for a quick, romantic read this one is for you. It was a freebie at the time I downloaded it.
July 14, 2018
Of all the probably 200 books I have sitting unread on my Kindle, I wasn’t planning to read Lights, Cowboy, Action any time soon. I love Cindi Madsen, but cowboys aren’t really my thing, and neither are Hollywood books, but my Goodreads summer reading challenge said that I had to read a Western and it was close enough. I mean, is it really, technically a Western? I’m not sure. But it’s about a cowboy on a New Mexico ranch, so in my opinion, it’s close enough. (Also, I’ve owned it for nearly a year, so it qualified for my Killing the TBR challenge, and I’m all about two birds and one stone.)
I hadn’t realized that this was a novella. I also hadn’t realized that it would be a super cliched romance filled with enough insta-love to make me roll my eyes, but it is and it was. I think Cindi Madsen is a really talented writer, but I only kind of liked this novella. I mean, granted, things have to move pretty quickly in a book that’s only 74 pages, but I’m pretty sure Grady and Kaia were in love before they even met. They spend about a minute half-heartedly trying to deny their attraction before spending the rest of the book alternating between kissing and yelling out, “WHAT IN TARNATION.” (Side note: my manager likes to yell out “WHAT IN TARNATION” when something weird happens in the office, so that expression will never not make me smile.)
The whole story is fine if you’re into this kind of fast-paced, stereotypical romance, but I guess I was just hoping for a little bit more.
I hadn’t realized that this was a novella. I also hadn’t realized that it would be a super cliched romance filled with enough insta-love to make me roll my eyes, but it is and it was. I think Cindi Madsen is a really talented writer, but I only kind of liked this novella. I mean, granted, things have to move pretty quickly in a book that’s only 74 pages, but I’m pretty sure Grady and Kaia were in love before they even met. They spend about a minute half-heartedly trying to deny their attraction before spending the rest of the book alternating between kissing and yelling out, “WHAT IN TARNATION.” (Side note: my manager likes to yell out “WHAT IN TARNATION” when something weird happens in the office, so that expression will never not make me smile.)
The whole story is fine if you’re into this kind of fast-paced, stereotypical romance, but I guess I was just hoping for a little bit more.
June 2, 2018
3.5 / 5
A bit too insta-love-y for my taste. It took me a bit to fall in like with Kaia and Grady, and overall, I liked the second half of the story better than the beginning.
Still, it was well written, and Maverick gets a bonus point for stealing oats. Ponies gonna pony.
A bit too insta-love-y for my taste. It took me a bit to fall in like with Kaia and Grady, and overall, I liked the second half of the story better than the beginning.
Still, it was well written, and Maverick gets a bonus point for stealing oats. Ponies gonna pony.
August 7, 2017
I enjoyed Kaia and Grady's story! These two kept trying to fight their attraction and when they finally gave in it was HOT!
February 26, 2019
A cute, quick romance. A good, light read.
November 14, 2016
Kaia has a point to prove and big boots to fill - and she's not about to let any thing or any one get in her way.
With her first solo directorial debut happening, Kaia is determined to step out of her model mother, and director daddy's shadow. So when an overeager, over-exaggerating leading man says he can ride a horse, but is in fact worse than a toddler, Kaia turns to the grumpy property owner Grady who's sworn to stay away from her.
Grady never wanted the film crew on his land. But after taking control of the Lazy L ranch, the money is too god to turn down. Reluctantly he lets them continue. It doesn't mean he needs to go near the cute little blonde with the tight ass and big balls.
That is right up until the moment she makes him an offer he can't refuse.
A sweet, country read which makes you wish that men like Grady were real - Hell, I'd even eat his 3 alarm chilli if he was!
With her first solo directorial debut happening, Kaia is determined to step out of her model mother, and director daddy's shadow. So when an overeager, over-exaggerating leading man says he can ride a horse, but is in fact worse than a toddler, Kaia turns to the grumpy property owner Grady who's sworn to stay away from her.
Grady never wanted the film crew on his land. But after taking control of the Lazy L ranch, the money is too god to turn down. Reluctantly he lets them continue. It doesn't mean he needs to go near the cute little blonde with the tight ass and big balls.
That is right up until the moment she makes him an offer he can't refuse.
A sweet, country read which makes you wish that men like Grady were real - Hell, I'd even eat his 3 alarm chilli if he was!
July 15, 2016
a really sweet little novella. just right for an easy read on a sunny summers morning.
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