Amazon Cindy Spencer Pape Category:  Romance Publisher: The Wild Rose Press ISBN-10:  1601540434 Type: Fiction Pages: 164 Copyright: March 15, 2007 ISBN-13: 9781601540430 Tough-as-nails Sheriff Fitz Hall has learned the hard way that transplanted city girls are not to be trusted, so he plans to steer clear of the new arrival in town. Rhiannon Jakobowski has lived a staid, regimented life. Inheriting a bookstore in Shirley, Wyoming, is her first chance at independence, and she’s determined to make the most of it. Within days of arriving, however, she wakes up to find the handsome sheriff in her bed. Pretty soon she’s talking to ghosts. Is she losing her mind? Or is she just crazy for the cowboy? Book 2 in the series "Love at the Crazy H." A contemporary western romance with humor, heat, and a touch of the paranormal. Excerpt Ree really wished she didn’t have her back to the door. But somehow, even without seeing him, she knew who had just walked in. She heard the slap of cowboy boots on the linoleum behind her as the newcomer walked up to their table. When the footsteps stopped, Ree didn’t even turn. Summoning every bit of nonchalance she could muster, she took a sip of her iced tea and smiled. “Hello, Fitz.” “Hey, Ree. Lily.” His voice was better today, was the first thing she noticed. Then she finally looked up. Mistake. The beast was even more handsome when his eyes weren’t sunken in, and he’d shaved. “Join us, Fitz,” Lily invited with a sweet smile for the sheriff. “Ree, dear, scoot over.” “I just came in to grab a sandwich,” Fitz replied. “I’m not staying to eat.” “Yes, you are,” Lily said with another saccharine smile. Her voice was so soft that Ree could barely hear her, but it was hard as concrete. “Faulkner Fitzgerald Hall, you will sit down next to Rhiannon, you will order a healthy lunch, and you will chat pleasantly with the pair of us while you eat it. After fifteen minutes, you may finish your sandwich and leave, still smiling. Is that understood?” “Yes, ma’am.” He folded his long legs under the table as Ree scooted as far as possible into the booth. He sent a rueful grin at Ree, who felt her stomach flip at the sheer sex appeal he projected. “Never pays to argue with someone who was your second-grade teacher.” Lily shrugged gracefully. “One uses the powers one was given. Mine is that I never did tell your mother about the frog in Susan Blakewell’s desk.” “No, ma’am, you did not,” Fitz replied. He sat as close to the edge of the booth as possible, Ree noticed, so the contact between their thighs was minimized. Her thigh still tingled where it brushed against his. “However, might I point out that it’s a little late to do so now, as my mother has been gone for nearly ten years?” “Your mother may be gone, young man, but Susan Blakewell is not. Furthermore, her husband sits on the County Board of Commissioners, which is the body responsible for approving the sheriff’s department budget. Somehow, I don’t think you want him to find out about that incident, either.” Ree tried to suppress her laugh at Fitz’s chastened look, but a small giggle escaped as Fitz replied grimly, “No, ma’am.” “Good, then I’m glad that’s settled. How’s your cold?” He raised one eyebrow at Ree, who shrugged in response. She hadn’t said a word to the older woman about Fitz being sick. “Oh, please,” Lily snorted. “The entire town knows you took the day off yesterday. Which as I recall, happens about once every four to five years, so we all know just exactly how ill you must have been. Are you feeling better?” “Yes, ma’am.” “You look good.” Lily turned to Ree. “He spent nearly half of second grade in the hospital for his asthma attacks. Fortunately by high school, he’d outgrown them. But those of us who watched him fight for breath back then still tend to worry about him with respiratory ailments.” “I understand.” Actually, she was astounded by the concept that anyone would remember and still care about a student from so long ago. Lily was a treasure; no wonder her grandfather had been involved with her. “So to what do I owe the honor of having lunch with two beautiful women?” Fitz asked as soon as the waitress, who was all smiles for Fitz, Ree noticed, had taken his order and moved back out of earshot. Lily shook her head, as if to say he should have been able to figure it out for himself. “How many people in this café right now, do you think know that you two spent at least one if not more nights together?” He flinched visibly. “Well, old Al over there has probably forgotten already, and Jenny Lipton’s only two, so she’s probably clueless.” That left about twenty people, by Ree’s count. “Precisely,” Lily agreed. “So if you give the appearance of ignoring Rhiannon, what does that tell the populace?” He nodded, then spoke slowly through a clenched jaw. “That whatever may or may not have happened was meaningless, and that she isn’t worth a few minutes of my time. Whereas, if we’re seen in public as friendly, the implication will merely be that we’re still working out the details.” Ouch! Ree hadn’t even thought of that. “Sorry,” she murmured. “This small-town stuff is way more complicated than I expected.”

Coffee Time Romance
CRAZY FOR THE COWBOY [SERIES: LOVE AT THE CRAZY H]
CINDY SPENCER PAPE
ISBN# 1-60154-043-4
March 16, 2007
The Wild Rose Press
www.thewildrosepress.com
E-Book
$5.00
164 Pages
Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4 Cups

Sheriff Fitz Hall remembers returning home after responding to a car-pile up, only to pass out on the bed because he was sick with a cold and exhausted. However, he has no memory of the woman there when he awakens.

Rhiannon, Ree, Jakobowski is enjoying one hot, delicious dream with a most satisfying man, until she awakes to learn the stranger next to her is real.

Fitz rents the apartment over the bookstore that Ree has just inherited from her great-uncle Harry Broome, someone she hardly knew but an uncle who spoke to Fitz about Ree. What gets strange is when they both wake and discover they shared the same bed, as well as some hot sex. Very feverish from his cold, Fitz had no idea someone else was in the bed. She was so deep into slumber, she never noticed anyone getting in the bed. Now she nurtures him with some health remedies to help his cold and he wonders about the night they shared. Fitz is not just any sheriff, Ree finds him handsome, with a macho pose that leaves her with salacious thoughts until he makes demands, making him a stubborn cuss. After he informs if that one episode leaves her pregnant, she will be getting married, and that was fact, Ree wonders what kind of primitive town is Shirley, Wyoming.

Whew what a fantastic read. Crazy for the Cowboy has a mind-blowing beginning making this page-turner difficult to put down. I love the strong character of Fitz, who has a finesse that is awesome and alluring. Ree is delightful and she shares banter with Fitz that is delectably fun. I could almost see their expressions especially when Fitz gives his ultimatums. Cindy Spencer Pape delivers a spellbinding read with appealing characters that enthralls. This story was so engaging it was hard to take a bathroom break.



Red Roses for Authors Reviews
Crazy For The Cowboy
(Series: Love At The Crazy H)/Cindy Spencer Pape/The Wild Rose Press/ebook/2007/

Rhiannon Jakobowski is a city girl who has just inherited a bookstore in Shirley, Wyoming. Her first claim at independence. But things are about to take an unexpected turn as she awakens to find the towns Sheriff Fitz Hall in her bed. If it were a dream it was a good one. But as the morning comes, this stranger becomes more then that. As Fitz claims the apartment as his and she must go, believing Rhiannon was up to nothing but tricks. He had another thing coming for Rhiannon was determind not to give up now and leave. But was she just determind to keep her new found independence or was she really crazy for the cowboy?

Cindy Spencer Pape writes a fun and entertaining, page turning story in Crazy For The Cowboy. Humorous and sensual and very romantic. A great read I highly recomend. I award this five red roses.

Fallen Angels Reviews
Ree Jakobowski has just inherited a small shop and an apartment from an uncle she didn’t know. Since nothing special is keeping her in Detroit, she packs up her belongings and moves to Shirley, Wyoming, hoping to begin a new chapter in her life with this unexpected bequest. But when she wakes in her new apartment to find that she hasn’t been having the most wonderful dream of her life, that there actually is a handsome, virile man in her bed and the two have just experienced sexual bliss—well, that puts an unusual spin on her inheritance.

Sheriff Fitz Hall, never expects to come home to his apartment to find a woman in his bed. He’s been working non-stop, has a miserable head cold and just wants to get some rest. But when a woman writhes beneath him, a very pleasant dream indeed, he does what any other guy would do. He responds. It isn’t until morning that he finds he’s just had sex with his friend Harry’s relation, the woman who’s just inherited Harry’s possessions—including his apartment.

Ree and Fitz begin, in that unlikely manner, a romantic dance that has enough interesting twists and turns to keep anyone interested. I read Crazy ForThe Cowboy by Cindy Spencer Pape in one sitting. The interplay between the two main characters is bright and often funny, and the supporting characters are all interesting as well. The plot kept me hooked, and all too soon this story ended. I haven’t read the first book in this series but this was so entertaining that I plan to read the first one in the near future. I believe that anyone who enjoys a little cowboy loving with their romance will enjoy this book. It is witty and fun and makes me want to take a trip out west—soon!