Dixie CashContemporary/The Domestic Equalizers series
Nothing soothes the holiday-frazzled soul like a nice, trashy bleach job. So while I was at my stylist’s the other day, I mentioned this week’s feature, “I Gave You My Heart, but You Sold It Online.” It’s about detective hairdressers, identity theft, and online dating, I told everyone.
Well, immediately I became privy to every matched-online Date from Hell anyone’s had or heard about. Apparently, nice guys exist, but they’re a) residing abroad, b) married and dating online, or, c) turning into nut-jobs who after six or so dates pop the question.
Problem is, that question turns out to have something to do with whether you’ve got a cute girlfriend willing to share the good thing you’ve got going with him.
Just goes to show you never can tell what you’re getting when you’re buying online.
Except here at RBtheBook. Even though my title, romance columnist, suggests I give online advice to the lovelorn, I stick with my strengths and try to give you experiences with romance that are always entertaining, and only shocking in that “I never thought I’d laugh out loud so often reading a book” way.
That’s what you can expect from “I Gave You My Heart, but You Sold It Online,” the humorous, off-beat, and right-on-the-money romance from the inimitable Miss Dixie Cash.
Handsome-as-Hollywood ProRodeo superstar Quint Matthews has a hot date with the sweet young thing from Salt Lick, Texas, with whom he’s been chatting online for a month. Sweet and young being key here, because he’s been set up by a 12-year-old girl pretending to be her pretty single mom, a woman the girl’s sure could use a night on the town, if not a man to head her family.
Allison Barker could definitely use a little time off from business -- and her precocious tween -- yet knows Mr. Sin in Wranglers has ridden bulls for longer periods of time than he’s been faithful to any woman. But his best buddy, Tag? Now there’s a cowboy who knows how to hang on for the duration – in and out of the rodeo ring.
But Quint’s got bigger fish to fry anyway; he’s got Salt Lick’s own hairdressin’ gumshoes, Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin, a.k.a., The Domestic Equalizers, hot on the trail of a hot little number that loved and left him with Visa bills escalating daily.
And when a woman from Quint’s past winds up passed on, Quint better hope those primpin’ PIs can wrap up the case real cut and dry-like.
“I Gave You My Heart, but You Sold It Online” has all the quirky, sassy appeal of the Southern sisterhood novels so popular now, but with the secret ingredients that make it the better read: a satisfying central love story and genuinely likeable characters traveling the bumpy, sometimes circuitous roads that lead to a definitive Happily Ever After.
As every Southern belle’s taught from the cradle: Never wear white after Labor Day and, if it’s a Dixie Cash, always --
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