Cowboy for Hire by Alice Duncan (
SYKM), is the 1st in her Dream Maker series of f/m historical romances set during the silent film era, this one a western movie-making installment starring an aspiring actress and her titular leading man, free courtesy of publisher ePublishing Works! (exclamation mark theirs), who are e-printing it from 2001 Kensington Zebra paperback.
According to the blurb, this one garnered a Romantic Times KISS Award.
Currently free @
B&N (might also drop in the
UK later),
Amazon (not available to Canadians or in the
UK, but might get matched at some point),
iTunes &
Google Play (both available to Canadians).
Description
It's 1905, early in the Silent Film era, and orphan Amy Wilkes is "discovered" by producer Martin Tafft at a Pasadena Health Spa. Whisked away to the movie-making set, Amy is glamorized and placed before her leading man: a rugged, oh-so-handsome Arizona cowboy named Charlie Fox.
Charlie, another "natural", needs money for his ranch, not the naive attentions of a beautiful starlet no matter how far she turns his head.
On screen, sparks fly between Amy and Charlie, as the pair struggle to act like people they're not. Off screen, they face the scuttling machinations of the other actors and Charlie realizes what Amy truly dreams of—love and security. He offers her both. But first, Amy must open her heart.