Don't Tease the Cowboy

Written by Sandy Appleyard

Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

A double life. A broken heart. A few bad actors. And a lesson learned that spells out four letters...but are they love...or dead...

Cassidy’s only hurting because of his past life. And it ain’t my fault that we’ve got something in common that doesn’t rub him right. But nothing spells trouble like what’s going on at his brother’s ranch. Except when Cassidy’s past catches up to me and he’s got a problem with me for it. The nerve. I soon learn though, that he’s got his reasons, and they’re good ones, too. It takes a tragedy for me to learn the difference. Luckily, he’s right there with me to see me through. Until his brother’s past catches up with him, too. And that’s when we’re all in trouble...and at the worst time, because it’s right when my sister Jade and her love Blair say their vows. Karma is a real problem.

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Karma’s got nothing to do with it. It’s all about sense. And Crystal didn’t have much of it in the beginning. Mixing with this and that, but all this time, I didn’t know why she was avoiding what was right in front of her. It takes time for it to sink in, but when it does, it also takes guts for her to confront her demons and be honest for the first dang time in her life. Fear is a powerful thing. And when you’ve been driven by it your whole life, hiding from it, too, it’s something to figure that all out. Especially when it comes clear after tragedy. It’s the look in her eyes that draws me in, see. That look that I hadn’t ever seen before. I just hope that I get to see that look for a long time, but I’m not sure after what happens at Blair’s wedding.

...maybe that look will haunt me for the rest of my life...or maybe it’ll be my dearest blessing.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Appleyard Enterprises
• Release date: Jun 9, 2025
• ISBN: 9781997635055

Sandy Appleyard

Some have said that if you see me on the street (usually with a book in hand or a laptop fired up), I appear a cold, hard-fisted person. However, once we've spoken for five minutes or less, you'll have laughed at least once. That is, provided you appreciate sarcastic, self-deprecating wit. My first short story was penned in middle school and I was hooked ever since. I graduated with honours from Humber College and began working as an Administrative Coordinator for a large, multinational corporation shortly afterward. Quickly learning that the corporate world, despite the love I had for my job, is a slow killer of creativity, I chose to quit during maternity leave in 2006. Difficulty thinking outside the box soon evaporated when I received something that didn't come in one: my first child. While at home with the baby my imaginative energy got the better of me and my first memoir was written. It had been a dream of mine to write about my late father, who passed away from alcoholism in 1992, and it took me two years to compose a fifty-page manuscript, but I did it. After my second daughter was born in 2008 I had more fuel to write, and felt it necessary to voice the challenges and inherent gifts I acquired during my struggles with Scoliosis. Hence, my second memoir was born. The words flowed out of me with such ease I shocked myself. My love for words grew with each book I read and every word I wrote. I soon realized I had no more material to write non-fiction, which led me to take a stab at fiction. The next two books were such a revelation: it became more and more clear what my true calling was. The rest, as they say, is history!