Today I’m excited to welcome you to the teaser tour
for Baxter’s Draw,
the second book in The Lockwood Legacy series by Juliette Harper. This is
an adult contemporary mystery that is also very focused on family, small town
and ranch life as well as some clean romance.  Check out the excerpt
and then enter the giveaway at the bottom for the $100 Amazon gift card! 

Kate, Jenny, and Mandy. The daughters who inherited
Langston Lockwood’s millions and his mysteries. In this, the second book of The
Lockwood Legacy, the women uncover not just the secret of Baxter’s Draw, but
the secret of their father’s hidden life. Return to the Rocking L for the next
part of the sisters’ journey to discover the truth about their family and to
understand their own roles in The Lockwood Legacy.

For more information about this book please visit Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Smashwords. 

Langston Lockwood, or at least the shadow of who he had
been in life, leaned against the front gate of the Rocking L and stared at his
eldest daughter drinking coffee on the front porch.

He absent-mindedly pushed his hat back and scratched his
head. It never occurred to him when he blew his brains out in the barn with his
favorite pistol that he’d spend the afterlife with an itchy scalp.

“Morning, Boy,” an older man said, joining him at the
gate.

“Morning, Daddy,” Langston replied.

Milton Lockwood pushed his own hat back on his forehead
and stared at the granddaughter he never knew in life. “That one’s a Lockwood.”

“That she is,” Langston said. “I sure as hell was hard on
her.”

“You were hard on everyone,” Milton said, turning his
head to spit.

“I learned from the best,” Langston answered. “They’re
surprising the hell out of me, those girls.”

“How’s that?”

“I figured the way I wrote the will they’d tear each
other up like wildcats. Damned if they didn’t go make a family,” he said,
disgust dripping off the words. “And now they’re taking up with men. Moving’em
on the ranch. And Sister is talking about planting grapes. Goddamn grapes, like
we was farmers or something. They even care about their Daddy doing grave
spins?”

“You got a burr under your saddle this morning, Boy,”
Milton said mildly. “You’re dead. You don’t call the shots on this place now
any more than I do. That gal yonder is the boss of the Rocking L.”

“When did you get so even tempered?” Langston growled.

“I’ve been dead a hell of a lot longer than you have,
Boy,” Milton observed. “Tends to make a feller kinda mellow.”

“They’re going up to Baxter’s Draw, Daddy,” Langston
said. “It’s all gonna come out.”

“Like I said, Boy, you’re dead. Stuff comes out once
you’re dead.”

“You know what I expected to find on this side, Daddy,”
Langston said. “Everything I wanted was right under my damned nose all those
years and I never knew it. Now those girls are going to find out everything I
did.”

“That’s why men like you and me don’t rest in our graves,
Boy,” Milton said sadly. “We have to watch the consequences of everything we
did play out. I was a bastard of a father to you so you were a bastard to
them.”

“That wasn’t the whole reason and you know it,” Langston
said. “Who would have thought we’d get along better haunting this place than we
ever did alive?”

They watched as Kate, her sisters, and three men mounted
their horses and rode through the pasture gate headed up to Baxter’s Draw.

“Just because I’m dead doesn’t mean I don’t have my
pride,” Langston said.

“We gonna go with’em?” Milton asked.

“I don’t think I can watch this, Daddy,” Langston said.

“Makes no difference to me,” Milton answered, spitting in
the dirt again. “Not like I got any place to be.”

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Juliette Harper is the pen name used by the writing team
of Patricia Pauletti and Rana K. Williamson. Like the characters of their debut
series, The Lockwood Legacy, Juliette is a merging of their creative energies.

Pauletti, an Easterner of Italian descent, is an
accomplished musician with an eye for art and design. Williamson, a Texan from
a long line of hardheaded Scots, knows the world of the Lockwoods like the back
of her hand.

“We decided to write under a pen name because neither one
of us by ourselves could have created Kate, Jenny, Mandy, and their world,”
says Pauletti. “Juliette is a little bit of us both. We want to be her when we
grow up.”

“Patti teases me that I just don’t want to own up to
writing a book with romance in it,” Williamson adds, “but that’s not true. I
like the Lockwood women and the way they tackle everything life throws at them.
And before we’re done, they’ll be ducking a lot. I imagine coming into the office
every day and saying, ‘Okay Juliette, what’s going to happen now?’ She tells
us, and we get it down on paper.”

For more information about Juliette Harper please visit the website and Twitter.

 

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