NURTURING HOPE
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LENGTH: App. 80,000 words
PUBLISHED UNDER: Kara Ripley GENRE: Contemporary Romance / Set in California, 2019 RELEASE DATE: 23 August, 2022 CONTENT WARNINGS: This book contains sexually explicit content, which may only be suitable for mature readers. Depictions of drug/alcohol use/addiction, guns, incarceration, past trauma, racism, racial violence, torture (mention of), war BLURB: Desiree Adler does not want a girlfriend. Why would she? She has a demanding career as a photographer and content creator, an eccentric but supportive family, and a huge responsibility as a foster parent to a teenager named Hope. Desi’s life is just fine the way it is. Why risk another heartbreak? However, Desi’s sister is annoyingly persistent and when she arranges a blind date for Desi, it’s less trouble to agree, get it over with, and return to normal life. The blind date is every bit as terrible as predicted. So why can’t Desi stop thinking about Soledad Reyes? If Desi has any hope of finding balance in life, she must help Hope confront the ghosts of her past, while confronting her own assumptions about race, power, and identity in the present. |
RIDING THE TRACK
LENGTH: App. 30,000 words.
PUBLISHED UNDER: Kara Ripley
GENRE: Contemporary Western Romance (Cowgirl)
RELEASE DATE: 29th May, 2018
CONTENT WARNINGS: Swearing/coarse language. Has some medium-level sexual content. 18+.
BLURB:
Herding cattle and drinking Australian beer aren’t pastimes that particularly appeal to an ‘indoor girl’ like Clara, but she’d be damned if she’d let her cheating ex-boyfriend have the vacation they were meant to share. So, to salvage some piece of her self-respect after a bad break-up, she finds herself riding a horse along the Oodnadatta Track for five days.
When Clara arrives, she can’t help but feel an intense attraction to Evelyn, the drover who guides their group through the immensely unique landscape between Coober Pedy and the Anna Creek Station. Clara’s never been one for a no-strings-attached fling, but cowgirl Evie becomes increasingly difficult to resist.
In combination with the exquisite outback, soulful horses, and overly cheerful tourists, Evie may just be exactly what Clara needs to escape her own pessimism.
PURCHASE LINKS: NineStar Press
Amazon
PUBLISHED UNDER: Kara Ripley
GENRE: Contemporary Western Romance (Cowgirl)
RELEASE DATE: 29th May, 2018
CONTENT WARNINGS: Swearing/coarse language. Has some medium-level sexual content. 18+.
BLURB:
Herding cattle and drinking Australian beer aren’t pastimes that particularly appeal to an ‘indoor girl’ like Clara, but she’d be damned if she’d let her cheating ex-boyfriend have the vacation they were meant to share. So, to salvage some piece of her self-respect after a bad break-up, she finds herself riding a horse along the Oodnadatta Track for five days.
When Clara arrives, she can’t help but feel an intense attraction to Evelyn, the drover who guides their group through the immensely unique landscape between Coober Pedy and the Anna Creek Station. Clara’s never been one for a no-strings-attached fling, but cowgirl Evie becomes increasingly difficult to resist.
In combination with the exquisite outback, soulful horses, and overly cheerful tourists, Evie may just be exactly what Clara needs to escape her own pessimism.
PURCHASE LINKS: NineStar Press
Amazon
