Barn Burner: A Small-Town Cowboy Firefighter Second-Chance Romance.

Dallas Bradshaws #1

by Kayce Lassiter

After being away for over six years, fire fighter Tripp Landers has returned to the rural suburbs of Dallas to find his high school sweetheart, Laney Bradshaw, up to her eyeballs in a hay fire. Laney broke Tripp’s heart their last year in high school when she dumped him the night of their senior prom, and they haven’t seen each other in over six years. So, why is it that he’s never been able to get her out of his head?

Laney’s affluent girlfriends had been determined to break up the match because they considered Tripp to be from the wrong side of the tracks. So, they had conspired to create a situation where Laney would catch Tripp kissing another girl—and Laney had played right into their hands. She had told Tripp to get lost that night, but it didn’t take long for her to figure out what had really happened. Unfortunately, it would only have hurt Tripp to know they considered him low-class, and Laney would rather die than ever cause him that kind of pain. She chose, instead, to let him believe she was shallow and unfeeling than to ever tell him the truth about what had happened that night—even though it meant letting him go.

Now Tripp Landers is back in town, but there’s a lot of water under that bridge, and Laney Bradshaw is buried under a mountain of life-gone-wrong.

Will old grudges destroy their lives and keep them apart forever?

Can Tripp and Laney find a second chance at love?

Or are they destined to screw things up yet one more time?

223 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 17, 2017

About the author

Kayce is country through and through, and she writes snarky contemporary romance in a country setting—what she calls "Chick Lit in Cowgirl Boots," and she likes to throw in some magic now and then just for fun. Now she is adding nonfiction works to her catalogue, which includes dysfunctional family stories—something she knows a heck of a lot about.

Kayce is an author, a Butterscotch Martini Girl, and a consummate smart-alec, which shows in her humorous, heart-tugging stories about everyday people complete with broken hearts and all the flaws that come with being human. Some of her characters will make you laugh, others will touch your heart, but they will all take you to a world where dreams are possible, hearts can be mended, and people survive through the power of love.

A second-generation native Arizonan, Kayce was born to deaf parents and grew up on a dairy farm. Living on a farm as a kid can be fun, but it can be lonely, too. So she learned to dream, to imagine, to pretend—something she's never grown out of. Kayce still lives in rural Arizona with her horse and dogs, including a nut-job named Riley whose claim to fame is having eaten an entire rattan chair in one afternoon.

So let Kayce introduce you to her world of "Chick Lit in Cowgirl Boots" and seriously dysfunctional families. After all, what would a good story be without a little magic, or a crazy or two? That's what makes the world go round—right?

Reviews

[Kayce Lassiter]

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[Stacy J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Laney and Tripp had been friends growing up who eventually developed feelings for one another. A mean high school prank forced them apart.

Years later, they meet again when Tripp moves back and sees the devastation that Laney has had to deal with. He offers to help and they grow close again. Not knowing the danger was watching and waiting.

I enjoyed this book and liked the lengths Tripp would go to help Laney.