E.E. Burke's Best of the West: Featuring a Christmas anthology with Rosanne Bittner

A Christmas chock full of cowboys! What could be better?

LONGING FOR A COWBOY CHRISTMAS features stories from six bestselling authors including Rosanne Bittner and Linda Broday.

Today we're featuring Christmas in Paradise by Rosanne Bittner

When Sage Lightfoot falls in love with and marries Maggie Tucker in Bittner’s novel, PARADISE VALLEY, Maggie is carrying a child who is the product of an attack. Sage has vowed to love the child as his own … but can he? A Christmas “miracle” birth brings the answer. Love never fails.

 Excerpt from CHRISTMAS IN PARADISE:

…  “Sage, if this baby at least belonged to James, it would be different. He was my legal husband. But those men shot him down and now I’m carrying a baby fathered by one of them.”

“And I made sure they’re all dead, didn’t I? Through it all, I fell in love with you. Have you ever once heard me call that child a bastard?”

Maggie quickly wiped at tears. “No. But I can’t help wondering if you’ve thought it.”

“And what did I tell you about that baby when I told you I wanted to marry you?”

Maggie faced him. “That you would love it like your own, and he or she would inherit part of this ranch like they had your own blood.”

“Am I a liar?”

Maggie sniffed. “No. Joe Cable once told me how honest you are, and that’s what the men like about you.”

“Then why are you doubting my word?”  …

Maggie looked out at the heavenly colors and glorious beauty of Paradise Valley. … “It’s just me, I guess. You’re all man and so sure of yourself, and some men don’t want kids at all, let alone when they aren’t their own.”

Sage pulled her back into his arms. “Well, I do want kids. … I’ll love the one you’re carrying because I love his or her mother.  …  I’ve found the perfect woman to share this ranch with me, and as far as anyone other than you and me knows, that baby you’re carrying is mine.”  …

Longing for a Cowboy Christmas can be found in most Barnes & Noble book stores and WalMart. It can also be ordered at Amazon.com, and can be “one-click” ordered from Amazon through my web site. Check out this book trailer for more information:

Meet Rosanne

USA TODAY best-seller Rosanne Bittner has written and published 68 novels over the past 40 years.  Rosanne’s first love is American history, the Old West and Native Americans.  Her well-researched books cover real events and locations from all facets of the birth and growth of America. She has won numerous writing awards, including a RITA nomination from Romance Writers of America for SONG OF THE WOLF and a WILLA award from Women Writing the West for WHERE HEAVEN BEGINS.  She was named “Queen of Western Romance,” by Romantic Times Reviews, who nominated her second “Outlaw” book, DO NOT FORSAKE ME, for best western romance for 2015. Most of Rosanne’s novels have garnered over 95% five-star reviews from Amazon readers and great reviews from Publisher’s Weekly.  Rosanne belongs to several historical societies and is an active volunteer in a home-town charity organization.  She and her husband of over 50 years live in southwest Michigan.

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E.E.: What’s your favorite “love” word?

Rosanne: Adore

E.E.: What sound or noise do you love?

Rosanne: The hundreds of birds in the pine trees in my back yard in spring.

E.E.: What is your favorite movie of all time? 

Rosanne: That’s a hard one. I have a whole list of favorite movies, mostly westerns of course. But I also have favorite comedies. I guess I can narrow the favorite historical/westerns down to three –

QUIGLEY, DOWN UNDER – Tom Selleck’s great line - “This ain’t Dodge City, Mister, and you ain’t Bill Hickock.” Bam!

OPEN RANGE – Kevin Costner’s great line – “A lot of men are going to die today, and I’m going to kill them.”

LAST OF THE MOHICANS – Daniel Day-Lewis’s great line – “I will find you!” The heroine was about to be taken off by Indians, but she damn well knew he would find her.

And I have to add here that I absolutely love THE SHOOTIST, John Wayne’s last movie. It was about a dying gunfighter – so fitting for such a hero of western movies who was dying in real life.

And I can’t leave out THE BIG COUNTRY. Its theme song immediately takes you out west and into its magnificent landscape of “BIG” country!

E.E.: What is your biggest vice? 

Rosanne: Nibbling while at the computer. It destroys every diet I ever try.

E.E.: Be honest – when reading, do you put yourself in the heroine’s role?

Rosanne: Sometimes when reading – but  ALWAYS, ALWAYS when I am WRITING!

E.E.: Which era would you least like to have lived in, fashion-wise, and why?

Rosanne: I DID live in it. The 70’s! Yikes! Flowers everywhere! Oranges and golds! Daisies! Bell-bottom pants! Hair down past the eyes, even on men! Terrible movies! Green or gold appliances! Shag carpet! Ugly, ugly suits! Big, wide ties! Giant hoop earrings! Gaudy jewelry! Horrible era for fashion!

E.E.: What will always make you smile, even on a bad day? 

Rosanne: BIRDS

We have some great giveaways today thanks to Rosanne's generosity!

(Third Prize) – An autographed copy of the anthology, LONGING FOR A COWBOY CHRISTMAS.

(Second Prize) – An autographed copy of the anthology AND an autographed copy of my March 2019 book, LOGAN’S LADY.

(First Prize) – An autographed copy of the anthology, PLUS an autographed copy of LOGAN’S LADY, PLUS autographed copies of all four of my “Outlaw Hearts” books and a $25 Amazon gift card.

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