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Christmas Cowboys #3
Christmas Catch
Mitchell Caulfield’s soul is as wounded as his body once was. The former Air Force pilot, forced to retire after being shot down over Afghanistan suffers from PTSD. Working as a bodyguard to supermodel Riley Forbes, Mitch accompanies the model and his wife home to the ranch for Christmas. There he meets Riley's cousin Grayson, a former rodeo star who now runs Forbes Ranch. Can the magic of Christmas bring two men from diverse backgrounds together? And will they open their hearts to the possibility of love?
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First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
Lex Valentine
83 books198 followersAward-winning author Lex Valentine writes across genres from contemporary to urban fantasy but mostly M/M these days. A native of California, Lex lives in Orange County, with her husband Rott and a bunch of cats she collectively calls “babies.” She's a 17 year employee of a 100+ year old cemetery, builds her own computers and is generally considered the IT geek at work and to her family and friends.
A member of the Romance Writers of America, Lex is active in her local Orange County chapter and is a past treasurer for PASIC. Her publishers include Loose Id, Ellora's Cave, and MLR Press. She's the author of the self-published ARe and Amazon best selling series Souls in Bondage.
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A member of the Romance Writers of America, Lex is active in her local Orange County chapter and is a past treasurer for PASIC. Her publishers include Loose Id, Ellora's Cave, and MLR Press. She's the author of the self-published ARe and Amazon best selling series Souls in Bondage.
Lex loves to hear from her readers. Her door is always open at lex@lexvalentine.com or on her personal or author Facebook pages.
Website: http://lexvalentine.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/lexvalentineauthor
Facebook: http://facebook.com/cemeterywinter
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lexvalentine
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August 31, 2011
When you open the file it is 46 pages but there are several chapters of other books at the back. Maybe you had to read other books in a series to get this because in the blurb it said something about bodyguard to some model but without the blurb there is no reference to the career of the person being guarded in the actual story. So Mitch (the bodyguard) goes with mysterious (model) client to visit said person's cousin Grayson at a ranch in California. Seems Grayson has the hots for the former air force pilot but doesn't act (for at least 36 hours) until he hears Mitch having a nightmare and tries to wake him up. Mitch grabs him and they have hot sex, seems Mitch has been eyeing him up as well. Mitch fucks Gray, Gray fucks Mitch and hand jobs in the shower. Innnn, oh an hour maybe? 90 min. tops and they are raring to go again before their little discussion. Niiiice. I need to find me a man like this. It smacked of insta-love in a sense, but then it turns out Mitch had gotten Gray's MSN name from his cousin and had been chatting with him anonymously for awhile so they kinda knew each other. When he confesses Gray is pissed but they both realize that love at first sight does exist. I like me some sugar too, just ask Jen, but not this much. I'm in a coma.
December 22, 2011
Gosh... the story is quite okay, although there's nothing new or really exciting on it. It is the eBook that irritated me. It reminds me of my mom's Cosmo... you know, 10-20% of articles and the rest are ads? This one too. The book has 92 pages, but the story itself starts at p.6 and ends at p.32. Yep, that's right. That bad.
December 28, 2009
this story is only 16 pages long with another 30 pages of advertisements/first chapters of her other books
December 10, 2018
3.5 stars
December 5, 2016
3.1 Stars
Every now and then I read a story and wish that there was some sort of remix/redux event for published work. That has never been more true than with this one. There's nothing wrong with it...but it felt like that last IM revelation was just dropped in there to explain away the Insta-Love. Since I have no problem with Insta-Love - in fact, I pretty much expect it with such a short tale - it wasn't necessary.
Now, having said that, if the IM exchanges had happened at the beginning of the book and we got to read them maybe? That would have been interesting. It appears there was some cyber-sexing going on, but lots of conversations, too (if that's how Mitch essentially fell in love), and these anonymous conversations could have provided insight to the pain and suffering and stress of being in the service (without giving away their identity because each branch of the military has pilots, yo)...and an opportunity for us to see Gray maybe struggle with this attraction to Mitch while still kind of thinking about his "online-boyfriend."
THAT would have rocked. And it wouldn't have been any longer than the next MM title in this series (Cupid Christmas - which was SO much better)...but long enough that I wouldn't get all grumpy over the actual book ending before the 50% mark (with the rest being the first chapters of the MF titles that precede it).
Unfortunately, the R/R even is only in fanfic and I can't be assed out to write anymore anyway...so. Yeah. Again, not bad. Just, nothing special.
Every now and then I read a story and wish that there was some sort of remix/redux event for published work. That has never been more true than with this one. There's nothing wrong with it...but it felt like that last IM revelation was just dropped in there to explain away the Insta-Love. Since I have no problem with Insta-Love - in fact, I pretty much expect it with such a short tale - it wasn't necessary.
Now, having said that, if the IM exchanges had happened at the beginning of the book and we got to read them maybe? That would have been interesting. It appears there was some cyber-sexing going on, but lots of conversations, too (if that's how Mitch essentially fell in love), and these anonymous conversations could have provided insight to the pain and suffering and stress of being in the service (without giving away their identity because each branch of the military has pilots, yo)...and an opportunity for us to see Gray maybe struggle with this attraction to Mitch while still kind of thinking about his "online-boyfriend."
THAT would have rocked. And it wouldn't have been any longer than the next MM title in this series (Cupid Christmas - which was SO much better)...but long enough that I wouldn't get all grumpy over the actual book ending before the 50% mark (with the rest being the first chapters of the MF titles that precede it).
Unfortunately, the R/R even is only in fanfic and I can't be assed out to write anymore anyway...so. Yeah. Again, not bad. Just, nothing special.
December 18, 2012
This short is yet another excuse for a sex scene -- but, since both the MCs are studly macho men, and since they switch within the scene, it could be a lot worse. ;-) The MCs are: 1. Mitch, a former Air Force fighter pilot who was shot down and taken hostage the previous Christmas Eve, and who is now working as a body guard; and 2. Gray, a cowboy at the ranch where Mitch and his employer are spending Christmas. The sex isn't bad, but the overdone insta-love is annoying.
I'm rating this at 2.5 stars instead of 3, and rounding down to 2, because this is another one of those incredibly irritating and misleading "books" where the actual story takes up 17 pages but the "book" is 46 pages. Which means you get about 30 pages of teasers for OTHER books. Bah.
I'm rating this at 2.5 stars instead of 3, and rounding down to 2, because this is another one of those incredibly irritating and misleading "books" where the actual story takes up 17 pages but the "book" is 46 pages. Which means you get about 30 pages of teasers for OTHER books. Bah.
January 3, 2012
This was a very short but sweet story. Gray and Mitch were hot for each other but not sure the other was gay. Was almost an insta-love but the two had been Instant Messaging for a while. The other 30 pages were nothing but shameless self-promotion by the author which was a huge disappointment.
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