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  • Published: 27 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593708149
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $26.99

Near Misses & Cowboy Kisses




A swoon-worthy YA rivals-to-lovers romance between a Nebraskan cowboy and California girl, thrust together on the Oregon Trail.

Anything’s possible under a prairie sky…

A swoon-worthy YA rivals-to-lovers romance between a Nebraskan cowboy and California girl, thrust together on the Oregon Trail.

Anything’s possible under a prairie sky…

Riley Thomas is feeling stuck—she’s moved from California to Nebraska, she’s on a weeklong Oregon Trail family bonding excursion, and her luggage is lost. There’s no one her age on the trip except a tall, dark and irksome cowboy who wrongly assumes she has zero ability to handle the great outdoors. She can’t wait for this misery to end—even though going “home” isn’t even possible anymore.

Lone wolf Colton Walker loves the simpler life of the plains and his family’s tourism business that helps protect them. He’s a stand-up guy—not a love ‘em and leave ‘em type like his rival, Jake. And he knows better than to take his chances with a prairie princess like Riley.

But Riley’s got more sense than Colton thinks--and he’s not nearly as inflexible as he seems. And under a wide prairie sky of puffy clouds and bright stars, everything comes into focus--including a cowboy’s heart.

Katrina Emmel’s Near Misses and Cowboy Kisses will take you on a sweeping journey across the American prairie . . . once you love a boy in a Stetson, you’ll never be the same.

  • Published: 27 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593708149
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $26.99

About the author

Katrina Emmel

KATRINA EMMEL is the author of Near Misses & Cowboy Kisses and Trail Rides & Starry Eyes. She grew up in New Hampshire, moved to the Midwest for graduate school, and is now a resident of Nevada. In addition to writing fiction, she loves science,crafts, making up silly songs for her kids, and supporting monarch butterfly conservation by planting lots of milkweed.

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