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It might be a sham to his boss, but it's all too real to him.

Administrative assistant Jonah Hollis has nurtured a hopeless crush on his boss, millionaire cattle rancher Lincoln Courtwright, ever since he started working for him. But hope is kindled when Linc and beautiful rodeo star Melissa Cutler break up just weeks before the biggest event of the Dallas social season, the Cattle Baron’s Ball, and Linc asks Jonah to accompany him in her place. 

Is it all a ploy to make Melissa jealous? Can Jonah fit into Linc’s world? It takes some encouragement from his roommates and his best friend, Caylee, for Jonah to agree. Before long, Jonah dares to believe Linc might just feel something for him… until interfering family and a series of misunderstandings threaten his fragile dream of happiness.

Book Review

What happens when a man with a crush on his boss ends up in what he believes to be a pretend relationship so the boss can show his high-maintenance ex-girlfriend he is over her? Assumptions, misunderstandings, and complications follow in this entertaining comedy of errors set in Dallas, Texas. This novel has all the required ingredients for a light drama firmly set in the world of cowboys: cattle, oil and gas, homophobic relatives, and a sweet best friend who makes some truly bad decisions.
 
Jonah is a dedicated administrative assistant with lots of initiative, organizational skills, and a hopeless crush on his boss. Jonah is a hard worker, and he knows nothing can ever come of his feelings because his boss, Linc, is straight. Except then Linc breaks up with his girlfriend, needs a date for the Cattle Baron’s Ball, and asks Jonah to go as his date. It would be a dream come true – if Jonah’s self-esteem weren’t too low to accept this as a possible beginning of a real relationship. His roommate and friends keep telling him to go for it, but Jonah is too afraid of failure for his own good.

Linc is a millionaire cattle rancher with lots of oil and gas under his land, and he knows what he wants. He doesn’t care what anyone else thinks – but Jonah has no idea how serious Linc is when he says that the opinion of Dallas high society doesn’t interest him. Instead of being open to see what happens, and despite considerable chemistry between them, Jonah won’t let himself believe the feelings are mutual and runs. What a mess!

If you like stories where assumptions almost spoil the happy ending, if a hesitant younger man and his self-confident boss strike you as an interesting pairing, and if you’re looking for a read that is full of cowboys, well-meaning friends, interfering family, and a series of almost-catastrophic misunderstandings, then you might like this novel.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook, print and audio
Length	Novel, 216 pages/54628 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	15-May-2016
Price	$4.99 ebook, $9.99 paperback, $9.99 bundle, $19.95 audiobook
Buy Link	https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/the-cattle-barons-bogus-boyfriend-by-nicki-bennett-6801-b