E.E. Burke's Best of the West: Ride the High Lonesome from Rosanne Bittner

Are you ready to RIDE THE HIGH LONESOME with USA Today Bestselling Author Rosanne Bittner in a brand new novel published by Sourcebooks?

Widowed Kate Winters is stranded in outlaw country, alone, unarmed,  and desperately in need of food and water. When fate leads her to saving Luke Bowden from a hanging, her life is changed forever. Luke, consumed with a need for revenge against those who tried to hang him and stole his cattle, is on a mission to find and kill the culprits, but now the woman who saved his life needs him for help and protection. RIDE THE HIGH LONESOME is an unforgettable love story, as well as an action-packed depiction of survival in some of the biggest, loneliest country in the American West of the 1800’s, and sometimes “lonely” means need and desire come before love. Told by an award-winning author who’s been called an “emotional powerhouse,” RIDE THE HIGH LONESOME is a book you won’t be able to put down until you reach the exciting ending. 

Here's an excerpt

   Kate awoke to a crackling fire, her head on something soft, two blankets covering her. She thought she smelled coffee, and the smell reminded her she was hungry. She opened her eyes to a dimly-lit room – except it wasn’t a room in a house. The walls were made of rock, and the only light was that of the fire.

   A horse whinnied, and now she saw a man wearing a gray wool jacket sitting on the floor of the cave and leaning against the rock wall only about five feet away. He appeared to be sleeping. She lay still, thinking. She remembered falling … someone telling her she was bleeding … something about a cave … lying face-down over a horse. Her head hurt. She put a hand to her forehead and realized it was bandaged.         The fall! A snowstorm! She gasped and sat up. Her blankets fell away, and she looked down to realize she wore only her camisole and ruffled pantaloons. Where was her dress? And where was SHE?

   The man spoke up then. “So, you finally woke up.”

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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Let's ask Rosanne some questions...

What is your biggest vice?

Rosanne: NIBBLING! When I’m sitting at the computer all day, I’m as bad as a dang mouse – constantly “nibbling” at something. Usually it’s either nuts, or animal crackers. I love those animal crackers!

Which of your characters would you most like to invite to dinner?

Rosanne: Luke Bowden from RIDE THE HIGH LONESOME, of course, because the poor guy is so heartbroken over a lost love and so lonely. I’d make sure he wasn’t lonely anymore!

What one thing about your hero (in RIDE THE HIGH LONESOME) drives the heroine crazy?  Rosanne: Luke won’t commit. He had his heart shattered when he came home from the Civil War to find the woman he loved married to his brother. He vowed to never love that much again.

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

Rosanne: My grandsons. They are teenagers now, but they still give me hugs. And now I have to look “up” to all 3 of them – those little boys who once couldn’t even see over the counter tops.

What are five books are on your “to be read” pile?  

Rosanne: Lucy Kubash’s WILL-O-THE-WISP. Diane Burton’s NUMBERS NEVER LIE. Diana Stout’s TOMORROW’S WISH FOR LOVE. Mary Dorla Russell’s WOMEN OF COPPER COUNTRY. And Margaret Coen’s THE GIRL WITH BRAIDED HAIR and THE SPIDER WEB.

What inspires you daily?

Rosanne: My love for American history, especially the Old West of the 1800s and America's magnificent west.

Rosanne is always such a generous guest. Today she's raffling off the following awesome prizes:

Third Prize – TWO BOOKS – Autographed copies of RIDE THE HIGH LONESOME and my March 2019 book, LOGAN’S LADY.

Second Prize – THREE BOOKS -  Autographed copies of RIDE THE HIGH LONESOME and my 2019 Christmas anthology – LONGING FOR A COWBOY CHRISTMAS, plus an autographed copy of my March 2019 book, LOGAN’S LADY.

First Prize – FOUR BOOKS! – Autographed copies of RIDE THE HIGH LONESOME and my 2019 Christmas anthology – LONGING FOR A COWBOY CHRISTMAS (my story is called CHRISTMAS IN PARADISE) – PLUS an autographed copy of my book PARADISE VALLEY (the original story about the couple in CHRISTMAS IN PARADISE). Also, an autographed copy of my March 2019 book, LOGAN’S LADY.

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Reader's question: If you were stranded in the middle of a desert or on a mountain, what character from a novel (or historical character ) would you want to come to your rescue, and why?

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