Don't Play the Cowboy

Written by Sandy Appleyard

Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

She’s never been kissed. He’s a cocky cowboy with notches in his bedpost. When a wedge is driven between them, she tries to walk away, but will he let her? Then he finds out something about her that makes her worth fighting for.

Life became more complicated, and I didn’t even notice. Not until two decades pass and it seems like everyone has moved on except me. Nobody told me that this part isn’t normal. And nobody ever tried to make me feel like it wasn’t, until I wanted something I couldn’t have. I wanted it so badly I made up lies to get me there. Wyatt is the only one that sees through it all. He’s the only one that can see the truth and it terrifies me. Until it doesn’t. Until the lies become the truth and there’s no turning back. And only Wyatt knows the difference.

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I’m not gonna lie. It’s completely messed up. Liz is off bounds as far as my brother Billy is concerned. Just because she works for him doesn’t mean that he calls all the shots. I’m just as much a part of this family as he is. And when he finds out what I already know, he’s got no leg to stand on, either. Nobody can give her what she needs until one person cuts her loose. And that will never happen, not as far as Liz can see. But when push comes to shove, and the accident happens, I’m in more than I ever thought I would be in, and I hold the spade, in more ways than one. Problem is, I’m not sure if Liz is ready to set it free, the spade, that is. And then we end up using a spade to dig...six feet under.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Appleyard Enterprises
• Release date: Jun 30, 2025
• ISBN: 9781997635062

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!