JULIE MILLER

KANSAS CITY COWBOY

The Precinct: TASK FORCE

FROM HIS HAT TO HIS BOOTS, THIS COP WAS ALL COWBOY

For small-town sheriff Boone Harrison, the investigation into a serial rapist turned killer is painfully personal. Boone's priority is to find the coward who murdered his sister. But to accomplish that, he'll have to work with Dr. Kate Kilpatrick, a secretive woman whose striking beauty and kind heart just may be the lawman's undoing....

Forensic psychologist Kate Kilpatrick was wrong about Sheriff Harrison. He's smarter and more resourceful than she'd given him credit for-and entirely too attractive. In their combined grief, Kate finds something she didn't even know she needed: protection. Because when the Rose Red Rapist sets his sights on Kate, she'll need more than the power of the badge to save her. She'll need her very own cowboy.

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Related Books in Series: The Marine Next Door (May 2012); Chain of Evidence (Mar 2013), Protector Without a Past (June 2013), Task Force Bride (Sept. 2013), Yuletide Protector (Dec 2013)

Book’s location: Kansas City, Missouri and a fictional Missouri town of Grangeport

Julie Miller QUICK FACTS

• published 45 books
• began writing in 1997
• hometown or favorite city: Kansas City, MO
• ice cream or cake? both-but not together
• hiking or biking? hiking

Can you tell us about a real-life hero you’ve met?
JULIE: My dad, the veteran Marine.  I miss him.  Even after he retired from the Corps, he lived as a Marine—patriotic, protective, honorable—yet it was just a man doing his job.  And yes, he had the jarhead haircut his entire life.

What or who inspired the hero for KANSAS CITY COWBOY?

JULIE: The Magnificent Seven movie and TV show have always been my favorite cowboy inspiration. But his horse is Ben Cartwright’s buckskin off Bonanza.

Is there a hero you’re just dying to write about for Intrigue? 

JULIE: I’m excited about getting to write Pike Taylor’s story in an upcoming Precinct: Task Force book.  He’s a K-9 cop, so that research has been so interesting (and I love dogs).  Plus, he’s my favorite type of hero—the big, brawny protector type.

What’s your favorite way you’ve killed someone (in your books of course)?

JULIE: Usually, I love a good explosion <g>. But in the book I’m writing now I used a simple brick as the murder weapon and found it really helped shape this particular villain.

What’s your favorite thing about the Harlequin Party?

JULIE: There’s just…so much.  Good food, wonderful friends, interesting things to do, fun decorations, nice honors awarded to authors.  But I think my favorite thing is the dancing!

Where are some unusual places your characters have ‘made out’?

JULIE: In a cave.  During a chess game.  In a museum.  On a motorcycle.

GOTTA ASK: If you had to choose a movie to describe KANSAS CITY COWBOY, which would it be?

JULIE’S GOTTA ANSWER:  This is hard!  Maybe the closest thing plot-wise would be CROCODILE DUNDEE? You know, instinctively smart country boy in the big city.  But not a comedy and the hero isn’t an Aussie.  My hero has a lot of Chris from THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, too.  That sort of tortured, weight-of-the-world-on-his-shoulders, leader and protector.

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UP NEXT by JULIE:

THREE COWBOYS
an anthology with fellow Intriguers: Dana Marton & Paula Graves
Harlequin Intrigue
December 2012

PREVIOUS RELEASES by JULIE:

THE MARINE NEXT DOOR
May 2012
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THE PRECINCT complete list 

ALWAYS FAITHFUL

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