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The McIntyre Men #2
Oklahoma Moonshine
THE McINTYRE MEN
The Most Eligible Billionaire Bachelor Cowboys in Oklahoma!
Robert McIntyre has his eye on a sprawling ranch outside Big Falls that’s about to be auctioned. Determined to be his own man, he wants to buy it without help from his father or his inheritance, but he’s only saved up about half what he needs to make that happen. Partnering up with a gorgeous redhead wasn’t part of his plan. A dishonest woman burned him badly, and he’s still not over it. But Kiley seems straight up, and besides, he’ll buy her out of her half in short order. Until then, it’s not exactly gonna be a chore to be around her.
Kiley Capone was raised by a con-man, so she knows how to get what she wants, and what she wants, is that same ranch. But it’s going to go for about twice as much cash as she can put her hands on. The busy-body at the real estate office let on that one of the McIntryres wanted it, too and with a little encouragement, spilled all the juicy details. So Kiley shows up at the McIntrye family business, The Long Branch saloon, just after closing time to catch Robert alone. He’s the brooding middle brother, and most people are a little bit afraid of him. Kiley is not most people.
When they decide to buy the ranch together, he actually thinks it was his idea. But Kiley has no intention of sharing. She’ll buy him out soon enough. And until then, she figures she can sweet talk him enough to make sharing the place bearable.
But Robert isn’t as easy to wrap about her finger as she’d expected, and Kiley isn’t fooling him half as much as she thinks she is.
If you loved The Texas Brands, and The Oklahoma All-Girl Brands, you’re going to LOVE this brand new series set in the same world.
“Maggie Shayne is better than chocolate! She satisfies every wicked craving.” New York Times Bestselling Author SUZANNE FORSTER
The Most Eligible Billionaire Bachelor Cowboys in Oklahoma!
Robert McIntyre has his eye on a sprawling ranch outside Big Falls that’s about to be auctioned. Determined to be his own man, he wants to buy it without help from his father or his inheritance, but he’s only saved up about half what he needs to make that happen. Partnering up with a gorgeous redhead wasn’t part of his plan. A dishonest woman burned him badly, and he’s still not over it. But Kiley seems straight up, and besides, he’ll buy her out of her half in short order. Until then, it’s not exactly gonna be a chore to be around her.
Kiley Capone was raised by a con-man, so she knows how to get what she wants, and what she wants, is that same ranch. But it’s going to go for about twice as much cash as she can put her hands on. The busy-body at the real estate office let on that one of the McIntryres wanted it, too and with a little encouragement, spilled all the juicy details. So Kiley shows up at the McIntrye family business, The Long Branch saloon, just after closing time to catch Robert alone. He’s the brooding middle brother, and most people are a little bit afraid of him. Kiley is not most people.
When they decide to buy the ranch together, he actually thinks it was his idea. But Kiley has no intention of sharing. She’ll buy him out soon enough. And until then, she figures she can sweet talk him enough to make sharing the place bearable.
But Robert isn’t as easy to wrap about her finger as she’d expected, and Kiley isn’t fooling him half as much as she thinks she is.
If you loved The Texas Brands, and The Oklahoma All-Girl Brands, you’re going to LOVE this brand new series set in the same world.
“Maggie Shayne is better than chocolate! She satisfies every wicked craving.” New York Times Bestselling Author SUZANNE FORSTER
242 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 5, 2016
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About the author
Maggie Shayne
257 books2,571 followersI live in the teeny, tiny town of Taylor, NY, (Alliteration Alert!) though my mailing address is Cincinnatus, my telephone exchange is Truxton and I pay taxes and vote in Cuyler. All of these are at least in the same rural county in the southern hills of New York State; Cortland County. There are more cattle than people here. The nearest “big” cities are Syracuse and Binghamton and they are an hour away, in different directions, and not really all that big by most standards, though they both seem humongous to me. I look out my window to see rolling, green, thickly forested hills, wildflower laden meadows and wide open blue, blue skies. My road is barely paved. The nearest neighboring place is a 700 acre dairy farm.
My house is a big, century old farmhouse. I moved in here after my divorce in 2006. Just a little over a year later, the house, which I had named, SERENITY, burned. It was 99% gutted, and I lost my two dogs, Sally, an 11-year-old great Dane, and Wrinkles, my 14-year-old, blind bulldog. This was the culmination of my Dark Night of the soul, which had seemed to hit me all at once in 2006-2007. My mother died that year, after a 14 month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was only 60. The youngest of my five daughters had left home that same year, and while that’s not a tragedy at all, it felt like one to me. Then came the divorce. And finally there was the fire--it seemed my darkest night wasn’t quite finished with me after all. I had lost almost everything before that point, and as I poked through the wet ashes and soot the next day, I realized that I had now been stripped all the way to the bone.
No better time to start over. (And no, I didn’t come to that realization that day--there were a few days of wallowing in pity first, particularly the day after the fire, when I hit a deer and smashed up my car, which I was practically living in!)
That’s when I started to laugh. Just sat on the side of the road as the deer bounded, uninjured and carefree, out of sight, and laughed. It was just too ridiculous at that point, to do anything else!
And from there, I picked myself up, and brushed myself off, and said, okay, there’s only one way to go from here. Forward. And that’s what I did. There I was at the age of harrurmphemmph, living in my one, mostly undamaged remaining room, with a dorm-sized mini-fridge, a futon, a TV, my cat (nine lives!) and a laptop. And not much else. (Though thank goodness the room that survived the fire, was a room that had its own attached bathroom!)
Since then I have rebuilt my beloved home, which really has become my haven, my “Serenity.” I share it now with my fiancé, Lance, and we have accumulated quite the little family together. “Little” being a relative term. We have a pair of English Mastiffs, Dozer and Daisy, who weigh 203 pounds and 208 pounds respectively, and a little pudgy English Bulldog named Niblet, who is bigger than both of them, inside her mind. We also have the aforementioned cat, Glorificus (“Glory” for short,) who adores her canine pups and keeps them firmly in line. And we've acquired a pair of stray cats as well, a mother and son, Luna (Lulu for short) and Butters aka Buddy. Lulu showed up pregnant during a lunar eclipse, had a litter, and vanished again. We found homes for all the kittens except one. Butters. We got him fixed and kept him. A few months later, Lulu returned, again expecting. This litter was born on the "Monster Moon." Again, all the kittens were spayed and neutered and placed in homes, and this time we got Lulu to the vet in time to spay her before the cycle could repeat.
Glory is not amused.
She has a story of her own, my old Glory cat, having been with me before the Dark Times descended, she went through it all with me, moved with me, survived the fire, and remains with me still. She's tolerating the newcomers. Barely.
My partner is an artist, a mechanic, a welder and an inventor, and the rumors are true, he is much younger than I
My house is a big, century old farmhouse. I moved in here after my divorce in 2006. Just a little over a year later, the house, which I had named, SERENITY, burned. It was 99% gutted, and I lost my two dogs, Sally, an 11-year-old great Dane, and Wrinkles, my 14-year-old, blind bulldog. This was the culmination of my Dark Night of the soul, which had seemed to hit me all at once in 2006-2007. My mother died that year, after a 14 month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was only 60. The youngest of my five daughters had left home that same year, and while that’s not a tragedy at all, it felt like one to me. Then came the divorce. And finally there was the fire--it seemed my darkest night wasn’t quite finished with me after all. I had lost almost everything before that point, and as I poked through the wet ashes and soot the next day, I realized that I had now been stripped all the way to the bone.
No better time to start over. (And no, I didn’t come to that realization that day--there were a few days of wallowing in pity first, particularly the day after the fire, when I hit a deer and smashed up my car, which I was practically living in!)
That’s when I started to laugh. Just sat on the side of the road as the deer bounded, uninjured and carefree, out of sight, and laughed. It was just too ridiculous at that point, to do anything else!
And from there, I picked myself up, and brushed myself off, and said, okay, there’s only one way to go from here. Forward. And that’s what I did. There I was at the age of harrurmphemmph, living in my one, mostly undamaged remaining room, with a dorm-sized mini-fridge, a futon, a TV, my cat (nine lives!) and a laptop. And not much else. (Though thank goodness the room that survived the fire, was a room that had its own attached bathroom!)
Since then I have rebuilt my beloved home, which really has become my haven, my “Serenity.” I share it now with my fiancé, Lance, and we have accumulated quite the little family together. “Little” being a relative term. We have a pair of English Mastiffs, Dozer and Daisy, who weigh 203 pounds and 208 pounds respectively, and a little pudgy English Bulldog named Niblet, who is bigger than both of them, inside her mind. We also have the aforementioned cat, Glorificus (“Glory” for short,) who adores her canine pups and keeps them firmly in line. And we've acquired a pair of stray cats as well, a mother and son, Luna (Lulu for short) and Butters aka Buddy. Lulu showed up pregnant during a lunar eclipse, had a litter, and vanished again. We found homes for all the kittens except one. Butters. We got him fixed and kept him. A few months later, Lulu returned, again expecting. This litter was born on the "Monster Moon." Again, all the kittens were spayed and neutered and placed in homes, and this time we got Lulu to the vet in time to spay her before the cycle could repeat.
Glory is not amused.
She has a story of her own, my old Glory cat, having been with me before the Dark Times descended, she went through it all with me, moved with me, survived the fire, and remains with me still. She's tolerating the newcomers. Barely.
My partner is an artist, a mechanic, a welder and an inventor, and the rumors are true, he is much younger than I
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April 4, 2022
Although an interesting concept, I didn't really enjoy it. How does a girl change her ways when she has been raised to lie, cheat, and steal? And when? And what spurs the change? Kiley is a lot younger than Rob, who comes across as gentle but savvy. He looks like a pushover for someone like Kiley, but he isn't. The subject was handled well, but I didn't feel any investment in it or in the characters. Something just seemed off.
July 19, 2016
Great start to a new series. The McIntyre Men are related to the Brands of Oklahoma and they fit right in. I loved seeing the characters from the Oklahoma Brands as a part of the Oklahoma Moonshine story line. The plot is interesting, the characters great and romance first rate. Looking forward to the next book in the series.
November 4, 2017
Loved Kiley & Rob. Kiley has such a great idea for the ranch, and I loved how she & Rob worked together. The trials they face worked out because Kiley decided to trust and -be- trusted! I'm looking forward to the rest of the series, and I'm going to have to go back and read the Oklahoma Brands series! 😀.
January 8, 2019
Good Read!
I really enjoyed reading this book! However, I feel like it wasn't finished completely. I wanted to know what happened with Kiley's dad once he realized what happened! Other than that, I really enjoyed it! I think everyone who reads this book will enjoy it! I will definitely recommend it to others!
I really enjoyed reading this book! However, I feel like it wasn't finished completely. I wanted to know what happened with Kiley's dad once he realized what happened! Other than that, I really enjoyed it! I think everyone who reads this book will enjoy it! I will definitely recommend it to others!
March 25, 2023
Good read!
This was kind of different! Not the usual, man meets girl, man looses girl, man gets girl back! This could actually be out of some peoples lives. Because this type of ruse really does happen! Kylie and Robert work together to right a few wrongs and fall fully and totally, oh wait, I can't blow the ending! Read it!. It's a great book!.
This was kind of different! Not the usual, man meets girl, man looses girl, man gets girl back! This could actually be out of some peoples lives. Because this type of ruse really does happen! Kylie and Robert work together to right a few wrongs and fall fully and totally, oh wait, I can't blow the ending! Read it!. It's a great book!.
March 4, 2019
What can I say....
another great read by Maggie Shayne. I have read all of the other Brand books Oklahoma and Texas. Always feels like I drove into town and being back home. Now onto the next.
another great read by Maggie Shayne. I have read all of the other Brand books Oklahoma and Texas. Always feels like I drove into town and being back home. Now onto the next.
October 8, 2024
Going Straight
Life changing love. She found her new life and gave up being a con artist for love. If people could really give up being a criminal and not send the family to jail at the same time it would be grate.
Life changing love. She found her new life and gave up being a con artist for love. If people could really give up being a criminal and not send the family to jail at the same time it would be grate.
February 27, 2025
Great story
It is so hard to start over and walk on the straight and narrow when you are broke and come from a family of drifters. She only needed to run one more con, well, maybe two. She just didn't plan on meeting Robby McIntyre.
It is so hard to start over and walk on the straight and narrow when you are broke and come from a family of drifters. She only needed to run one more con, well, maybe two. She just didn't plan on meeting Robby McIntyre.
November 28, 2017
Interesting
I enjoyed this book. There were a few surprises. I am looking forward to reading more of this author's work.
I enjoyed this book. There were a few surprises. I am looking forward to reading more of this author's work.
January 22, 2018
love her writing
April 6, 2018
Good series
December 19, 2020
Great book
This author writes from the heart and you can read it in every line. Love her Brand series and loving this one too.
This author writes from the heart and you can read it in every line. Love her Brand series and loving this one too.
December 23, 2022
Oklahoma Moonshine (The McIntyre Men Book 2)
When the chips are down and everything seems hopeless, all you can do is keep going and do the next right thing.
When the chips are down and everything seems hopeless, all you can do is keep going and do the next right thing.
February 8, 2024
Great book
What a great set of books. I really enjoyed this set of books and well be reading more of this authors books.
What a great set of books. I really enjoyed this set of books and well be reading more of this authors books.
October 24, 2024
Muy entretenido
Estas series no solo son entretenodas, románticas, pero todas tienen historias bien distintas, la autora tiene una gran imaginación, nunca es aburrida o repetitiva.
Estas series no solo son entretenodas, románticas, pero todas tienen historias bien distintas, la autora tiene una gran imaginación, nunca es aburrida o repetitiva.
November 15, 2024
Review
Rob comes up against a con artist when he tries to buy a ranch at the auction. She claimed to have her grandmother’s ring and he made her drop it.
Enjoy
Rob comes up against a con artist when he tries to buy a ranch at the auction. She claimed to have her grandmother’s ring and he made her drop it.
Enjoy
April 23, 2025
Who doesn’t like hot small town Oklahoma cowboy! Sweet, honest and just an all around great guy! Kiley, Kendra and her father’s story was believable and really loved how it turned out for them all!
March 18, 2017
Sweet book
It was a good clean read. Enjoyed all the characters . Will continue to read the rest of the series.
It was a good clean read. Enjoyed all the characters . Will continue to read the rest of the series.
February 20, 2017
3.5 stars. Cute read
July 26, 2016
**I received an ebook in exchange for an honest review.**
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Maggie's on a roll! This take-off from the Brand series hits all the high points of any romance she's written. There are secrets, history, pain, joy, and love in abundance!
Kiley is desperate; her sister is dead, her father's in jail, her family home is up for auction, and she wants more than anything to go straight. Up 'til now life has been a journey of attempts and failures at being "normal". Raised in a con-artist family she has never truly fit in, but now she needs to complete one last con to get everything she's ever wanted.
Robert is distrustful of women because of his father's money, and can smell a lie a mile away. That doesn't stop him from wanting to help Kiley - even when she won't tell him the truth. There's just something about her that tugs at his heart strings.
Robert's family accepts Kiley as she is because he's asked them to... and because that's who they are. From nothing to everything - can Kiley accept the future and be brave enough to grab for it?
I love Maggie's down-to-earth storytelling. This was a fairly quick read for me which helps as I sometimes get caught up in one book for weeks and need a smaller read to lighten the load - so to speak. You won't regret picking up the newest installment in this family's saga!
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Maggie's on a roll! This take-off from the Brand series hits all the high points of any romance she's written. There are secrets, history, pain, joy, and love in abundance!
Kiley is desperate; her sister is dead, her father's in jail, her family home is up for auction, and she wants more than anything to go straight. Up 'til now life has been a journey of attempts and failures at being "normal". Raised in a con-artist family she has never truly fit in, but now she needs to complete one last con to get everything she's ever wanted.
Robert is distrustful of women because of his father's money, and can smell a lie a mile away. That doesn't stop him from wanting to help Kiley - even when she won't tell him the truth. There's just something about her that tugs at his heart strings.
Robert's family accepts Kiley as she is because he's asked them to... and because that's who they are. From nothing to everything - can Kiley accept the future and be brave enough to grab for it?
I love Maggie's down-to-earth storytelling. This was a fairly quick read for me which helps as I sometimes get caught up in one book for weeks and need a smaller read to lighten the load - so to speak. You won't regret picking up the newest installment in this family's saga!
February 14, 2017
Great story....
I loved this story of adventure and romance. Wonderful creation and a great cast of characters, the author has done a great job of telling her story.
I loved this story of adventure and romance. Wonderful creation and a great cast of characters, the author has done a great job of telling her story.
July 30, 2016
Great new series..Spin off to the Oklahoma Brands.
Kiley Kellogg and her twin sister Kendra were raised by a con man of a father..He is now sitting in jail, and Kiley is told her sister Kendra died in a house fire.
Kiley returns to her home town of Big Falls to try to buy back her old home..But, she doesn't have enough money..She decides to try and pull a con on the most honest man in town. Rob McIntyre, who also is interested in the property when it goes up for auction. She cons him into pooling their money and go halves on the property..
Kiley is trying to go straight.. no more cons.. pay back those she has conned in the past..Trying to be a better person..
Until her "dead" sister shows up and things start to go wrong.
Kiley Kellogg and her twin sister Kendra were raised by a con man of a father..He is now sitting in jail, and Kiley is told her sister Kendra died in a house fire.
Kiley returns to her home town of Big Falls to try to buy back her old home..But, she doesn't have enough money..She decides to try and pull a con on the most honest man in town. Rob McIntyre, who also is interested in the property when it goes up for auction. She cons him into pooling their money and go halves on the property..
Kiley is trying to go straight.. no more cons.. pay back those she has conned in the past..Trying to be a better person..
Until her "dead" sister shows up and things start to go wrong.
July 8, 2016
Grab Maggie's newest book Oklahoma Moonshine and return to the magical community of Big Falls! From start to finish, I was captivated by the relationship between the beautiful con Kylie Kellogg & the honest Robby McIntyre. It began with a half-thought out con, but is Kylie still conning the Brand/McIntyre family? Can Robby learn to live with Kylie's mistakes? Will they find their happily ever after? Grab the book and find out! I promise you will love every single page of this book!
December 30, 2016
Can't stop reading Maggie's books! Love Big Falls! Love her stories, the Brand's and now the McIntyre! After Vidalia's and the Prequel now, we really get what was going on with Rob! And Selene was soooo right as always hahaha Kiley was there for good, to change and make a change in Rob's life to!
Didn't know what turn the story is gonna come with, and it was great to read! A con being conned! You go Kiley! i'm looking forward for the next brother, bring it on!
Didn't know what turn the story is gonna come with, and it was great to read! A con being conned! You go Kiley! i'm looking forward for the next brother, bring it on!
August 26, 2016
Oh wow!
I was so excited to see the Brand-McIntire series continue with the McIntire sons as the focus. This book was EXCELLENT!!! I loved every word. Maggie Shayne is definitely a favorite author. However my only disappointment was getting to the end and finding out I had to wait until December 2016 for Book 2! Lol.
I was so excited to see the Brand-McIntire series continue with the McIntire sons as the focus. This book was EXCELLENT!!! I loved every word. Maggie Shayne is definitely a favorite author. However my only disappointment was getting to the end and finding out I had to wait until December 2016 for Book 2! Lol.
February 4, 2017
Good read. Fun love story. People can change.
July 16, 2016
Excellent
I'm so happy to see the Brand stories continued. Very easy reading and great storyline and brings all the Oklahoma Brands back into the story. Can't wait for the next one.
I'm so happy to see the Brand stories continued. Very easy reading and great storyline and brings all the Oklahoma Brands back into the story. Can't wait for the next one.
July 30, 2016
Maggie Shayne has another winner. The McIntre men are a spin off and relations to the Brands. Can a seeker of truth and a con find happiness together? This book is definitely worth the read to find out. I loved it. I can't wait until the next book in this planned 3 book series.
August 16, 2016
There isn't much that Maggie Shayne writes that I don't love. This new series of McIntyre Men is not only entertaining, but brings new characters and old characters together (The Oklahoma Brands) I really enjoyed this book and I'm sure you will also.
November 26, 2016
Recommended
Rob and Kylie were great. I'm not sure the story really would have ended the way it did but clean and happy endings make me happy so I'm choosing to ignore the unbelievable part. Recommended.
Rob and Kylie were great. I'm not sure the story really would have ended the way it did but clean and happy endings make me happy so I'm choosing to ignore the unbelievable part. Recommended.
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