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Texas Cattleman’s Club: Blackmail #2
Two-Week Texas Seduction
Mills & Boon Desire series delivers powerful, passionate romances…
She’s willing to bet the ranch that he can't resist temptation…
Up-by-her-bootstraps Brandee Lawson fought hard to establish Hope Springs Ranch. But a mysterious blackmailer threatens to expose her secret to real estate developer Shane Delgado. She could lose everything, and she can’t let sexy Shane short-circuit her survival instinct!
Sure, Shane wants her land, but he can't help wanting Brandee, as well. When she offers Royal’s most notorious bachelor a winner-takes-all wager in a bid to keep the ranch, it’s the ultimate test. Can he resist her charms — and should he even bother to try when something much deeper than sexiness surfaces between them?
197 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 7, 2017
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Cat Schield
387 books201 followersCat Schield lives in Minnesota with her daughter, Emily, their Burmese cats and a Doberman puppy. Winner of the Romance Writers of America 2010 Golden Heart® for series contemporary romance, when she’s not writing sexy, romantic stories for Harlequin Desire, she can be found sailing with friends on the St. Croix River or more exotic locales like the Caribbean and Europe. Contact her at www.catschield.net.
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February 5, 2017
A blackmail plot leads to desperate measures! Fun characters lead us on a journey of deception that leads to unexpected feelings and big decisions.
Brandee Lawless has put her all into developing Hope Springs Ranch and finding out there were some previous shady dealings with the land that a blackmailer is threatening to expose, does not make her happy. She has to come up with a plan of how to hang on to her ranch without the info getting out.
Shane Delgado has been intrigued by Brandee for years, and when he's handed an opportunity to get closer to her, he jumps on it! Will stumbling across her true motivation for spending time with him derail what they have shared while on the ranch together?
Brandee Lawless has put her all into developing Hope Springs Ranch and finding out there were some previous shady dealings with the land that a blackmailer is threatening to expose, does not make her happy. She has to come up with a plan of how to hang on to her ranch without the info getting out.
Shane Delgado has been intrigued by Brandee for years, and when he's handed an opportunity to get closer to her, he jumps on it! Will stumbling across her true motivation for spending time with him derail what they have shared while on the ranch together?
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February 1, 2017Miniseries: Texas Cattleman's Club: Blackmail
May 18, 2017
This was a very good read that had everything that I love in a romance. There is of course drama, there is very good chemistry and most of all there is love. I loved Brandee and Shane they had similar backgrounds but at the same time very different. Brandee lost her father at a very young and her mother didn’t give a crap about her daughter. In Shane’s life he had both parents but his father wanted for him to work in the family ranch but Shane had other plans. In the end he had a mother that loved him and supported him even though she lived in her own little bubble. When Brandee received the blackmail she was very scared to lose her ranch the ranch that was her father’s dreams. She thought that she had everything figured out but in the end Shane is the one that gets hurt. Shane is a gem he is a very lovable man and he deserves the truth. I loved seeing him working the ranch with Brandee and how he helped her with delivering calves. He would be a great husband but in the end he is the one that makes the decision to leave. He doesn’t explain anything to her but in the end they do find their way back together again.
I totally recommend this read!!
Received ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an Honest Review
I totally recommend this read!!
Received ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an Honest Review
June 3, 2022
Ehhh... The Hero acted like he wouldn't do the same thing if in the heroine's place, lmao I'm sure he would be a bit more asshole-ish about it.
Sure the heroine hurt the Hero's feeling with her plan but it was all that she has or she would lose everything. It bugs me a bit that the Hero wasn't not nice enough to ask for forgiveness to the heroine because of his hurtful behaviour. Lmao he was an ass(a bit) and cocky too. His friend and his mother pointed out to him to think from the heroine's side of story.
Sure the heroine hurt the Hero's feeling with her plan but it was all that she has or she would lose everything. It bugs me a bit that the Hero wasn't not nice enough to ask for forgiveness to the heroine because of his hurtful behaviour. Lmao he was an ass(a bit) and cocky too. His friend and his mother pointed out to him to think from the heroine's side of story.
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March 17, 2017
Brandee bets her land that Shane can't make her fall in love with him...She loves her land dearly...but she is hit with the Maverick blackmailing her...Shane and Brandee become close as he moves in with her for two weeks and is helping on her ranch..After one particular good night their love making was totally different...Shane decided to sign the papers to give the ranch to Brandee but the Maverick strikes making him think she has played him..But thanks to his Mom and their friends they know they are meant for only each other! A really good book in this series!
February 17, 2017
Brandee and Shane have an interesting attraction to each other but will land they both desire put them at war? An enjoyable read however only a happy ever now.
January 7, 2017
What a great story! This is the second story in the Texas Cattlemen's Club Blackmail series. This time the Blackmailer has chosen to hit rancher Brandee Lawson. She has worked hard to get buy her ranch and has put all of her money into it. She is current trying to set up a camp to help teens. The blackmailer wants her to resign from the club and pay 50K or they will prove that the ranch really belongs to fellow rancher Shane Delgado. He is the one man that has been trying to get her to sell her ranch great read!
September 13, 2018
I was disappointed that Brandee resigned from the Texas Cattleman’s Club and gave in to the blackmailer. Did she unresign? Did she pay the $50,000? She and Shane were like oil and water. Honesty is a nice thing. They both meant well and had good intentions.
April 20, 2017
It's been almost 20 years since I read the first books in the original Texas Cattleman's Club series and loved it. Two-Week Texas Seduction: Blackmail is a spin-off of that series and also the first book I've read by this author. I give it 4 stars.
Brandee Lawless is the heroine of this novel and she's not had an easy life. After being abandoned by her mother at birth and losing her ranch foreman father at the age of twelve, she's learned how to be independent the hard way. She's smart, she's tough, and she managed to make her fortune designing and selling a bohemian clothing line which took off. She then sold it and fulfilled a dream she shared with her father, owning and operating her own ranch--Hope Springs. In addition, she's opened her ranch and devoted her time to helping troubled teens by pairing them with therapy dogs, and is working to open Hope Springs Teen Camp.
Shane Delgado, the hero in this novel, had childhood issues with his rancher father and as a result, he hates ranching even though he does own the ranch which is his family legacy. His main interest, however, is in running his real estate development company which builds first class resorts and luxury housing for the wealthy. He's been flirting with Brandee for years (to no avail), while trying to get her to sell him her land, on which he wants to build more luxury housing. So far, she's resisted his charms and his offers, being well aware that he's not into commitment (nor is she), that he's quite a player, and that there's no way on earth she'd ever sell her ranch. At least until she receives a mysterious text message.
The text message in question is from Maverick--no one she knows, although she suspects 3 new female members of the Texas Cattlemen's Club (TCC), with whom she disagrees on remaking the Club. The message is a blackmail attempt, and contains quite a revelation. It alleges that her ranch and the land on which it sits really belong to Shane Delgado, and Maverick threatens that if she doesn't come up with $50K and resign from the TCC within the next two weeks, Shane will be informed of that fact, and she'll lose her ranch.
Brandee does her research and discovers that Maverick is correct, her ranch really does belong to the Delgado family, and she comes up with a plan to save the ranch she loves. She approaches Shane with a wager: move into her ranch for two weeks and work with her, it's calving season and she needs the extra help. If she wins, he gives up and signs away all current and future attempts to buy her ranch, and if she wins, she'll sell him her ranch for 10 million dollars, but there's one caveat. If her falls in love with her first, she wins and he gives up his attempts to acquire the ranch, but if she falls in love with him first, he wins, and she'll sell him the ranch.
Intrigued? So was I, and if you want to find out who wins the wager and what happens to these engaging characters, you'll just have to read this very entertaining novel. Be forewarned, although there's a HEA ending there's still a cliffhanger--the true identity of mystery blackmailer, Maverick, has yet to be discovered.
Brandee Lawless is the heroine of this novel and she's not had an easy life. After being abandoned by her mother at birth and losing her ranch foreman father at the age of twelve, she's learned how to be independent the hard way. She's smart, she's tough, and she managed to make her fortune designing and selling a bohemian clothing line which took off. She then sold it and fulfilled a dream she shared with her father, owning and operating her own ranch--Hope Springs. In addition, she's opened her ranch and devoted her time to helping troubled teens by pairing them with therapy dogs, and is working to open Hope Springs Teen Camp.
Shane Delgado, the hero in this novel, had childhood issues with his rancher father and as a result, he hates ranching even though he does own the ranch which is his family legacy. His main interest, however, is in running his real estate development company which builds first class resorts and luxury housing for the wealthy. He's been flirting with Brandee for years (to no avail), while trying to get her to sell him her land, on which he wants to build more luxury housing. So far, she's resisted his charms and his offers, being well aware that he's not into commitment (nor is she), that he's quite a player, and that there's no way on earth she'd ever sell her ranch. At least until she receives a mysterious text message.
The text message in question is from Maverick--no one she knows, although she suspects 3 new female members of the Texas Cattlemen's Club (TCC), with whom she disagrees on remaking the Club. The message is a blackmail attempt, and contains quite a revelation. It alleges that her ranch and the land on which it sits really belong to Shane Delgado, and Maverick threatens that if she doesn't come up with $50K and resign from the TCC within the next two weeks, Shane will be informed of that fact, and she'll lose her ranch.
Brandee does her research and discovers that Maverick is correct, her ranch really does belong to the Delgado family, and she comes up with a plan to save the ranch she loves. She approaches Shane with a wager: move into her ranch for two weeks and work with her, it's calving season and she needs the extra help. If she wins, he gives up and signs away all current and future attempts to buy her ranch, and if she wins, she'll sell him her ranch for 10 million dollars, but there's one caveat. If her falls in love with her first, she wins and he gives up his attempts to acquire the ranch, but if she falls in love with him first, he wins, and she'll sell him the ranch.
Intrigued? So was I, and if you want to find out who wins the wager and what happens to these engaging characters, you'll just have to read this very entertaining novel. Be forewarned, although there's a HEA ending there's still a cliffhanger--the true identity of mystery blackmailer, Maverick, has yet to be discovered.
October 2, 2017
D2498 Feb17 Texas Cattleman's Club: Blackmail #2 Brandee Lawson has worked hard to get her dream of a ranch to provide a structured, supportive place for young adults. Hope Springs Ranch has been her dream. A blackmailer has threaten exposing that Shane Delgado's family owned her ranch. What can she do to keep her ranch... Sharing their pasts expose how that past made them the way they are now. Can they change?
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