Whatcha Gonna Do With A Cowboy

Deputy Laney Briggs Series- Book 1.5

By Jodi Linton

Synopsis:

A thrilling suspense from Entangled’s Ignite imprint…

Some cowboys are worth getting dirty for.

In her latest adventure, sassy Deputy Laney Briggs discovers the local high school football coach passed out under the stadium bleachers wearing nothing but a smile…and his wife’s lingerie.

Things really start to get wild when she runs into the smoking hot Federal Marshal, Colt Larsen, snooping around the Granger’s house. Quicker than a cold snap comes and goes in Texas, Laney finds herself up to her eyeballs in a case involving a ruthless motorcycle gang, a Mexican drug cartel, a kidnapping, and a shoot-out to rival the O.K. Corral.

In over their heads, Laney calls in the big guns—her very own Texas Ranger, Gunner Wilson, who’s ready to fulfill every last one of her desires. But as things heat up between them, the stakes get higher than ever, and Gunner’s help may not be enough for Laney to get out alive…

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Tina’s Review

** This is a quick novella that takes place after book 1, PRETTY RECKLESS. **

Laney Briggs is a small-town Sheriff’s Deputy in west Texas. When she gets a call from fellow Deputy, Elroy Sampson to come up to the local High School, she arrives to find the football coach passed out drunk behind the bleachers dressed in women’s lingerie. Now, while this could undoubtedly become the subject of several jokes, Briggs can’t help but think that there was more to it and this was going to be a long night. And that’s before Coach’s wife goes missing and Federal Marshal Colt Larsen showed up in town. Now she needs to team up with the sexy Marshal to solve a missing person’s case that MAY have something to do with a Mexican gang that deals in drugs, arms, prostitution and human trafficking – all while keeping her hormones in check.

The sex scenes leave sexy and sensual behind and go straight for graphic but clinical porn. There’s a lack of emotion and warmth in the exceedingly lengthy scenes. This is not a book for readers under the age of 18, regardless of the fun looking cover.

Sold on the idea that the novella could stand on it’s own, I agreed to read this story. There is frequent mention of some bad stuff that happened “last year” (I assume in PRETTY RECKLESS), nightmares caused by some ordeal that I’ll also assume occurred in book one & some sexual history between Laney and her boy toy, Texas Ranger Gunner Wilson that dates back as far as High School. But despite the hints at a deeper back story, this novella CAN be read without reading Pretty Reckless first.

Living in west Texas, not 15 minutes from the Rio Grande’s Mexico border, I have to laugh when authors write about “swimming across”. The Rio Grande is a sandy, cracked-earth, waterless riverbed for all but a few weeks per year. Ms. Linton has a unique choice of humorous phrases, some off-putting sexual commentary and an obsession with Wranglers, I dare to say. Laney’s okay, but for supposedly being a professional law enforcement officer, I did feel that she neither took her job seriously on many occasions nor did she respect her superiors and/or others in her field.  But being rude and disrespectful must be hereditary since her mama is just as bad. Gunner and Colt are both written to be stereotypically cocky, arrogant cowboys. The other secondary characters are okay. The chemistry and interaction between characters is passable. The sex scenes were cold, sterile and way too long. The plot was intriguing.

Author Bio:

Jodi Linton lives and works in Texas, with her husband and two kids. She can be found cozied up to the computer escaping into a quirky world of tall tales, sexy, tight jean wearing cowboys, and a protagonist with a sharp-tongue quick enough to hang any man out to dry. She writes the Deputy Laney Briggs Series.

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