Once a Cowboy by Linda Warren
So I was looking for a western or cowboy book and I found this one for free on Amazon! Free!!! But, unfortunately it wasn't THAT great or that much about a cowboy. And it had, perhaps, one of the top 10 worst romance novel lines of all time. But more about that later.
So in this book the FMC is a private detective who gets a new client, an older woman who is looking for her son who was stolen from the hospital as a baby 40 years ago. She brings in some pictures from the paper of a cowboy who she thinks is her long lost son. So she tries to figure out if this famous bull rider is really the baby that was stolen. The main plot was actually really good and interesting. But about half way through the book the author starts to go a bit crazy with the mystery past thing - no one in this book as a regular life. It is non-stop tragedy and craziness. I think if she would have pulled it back a little it would have been a good book.
But, there is the line - and it is terrible. And it is repeated at least 3 if not 4 times in different ways. Here you go - are you ready? The MMC is freaking out, worrying about the DNA test or something and he is out riding with his two best friends - he leaps off his horse, flings out his arms and yells "How do you fix a broken cowboy?!?!?!?!" Is that not awful? I laughed out loud, it was so dreadful. But do you know what is (almost) worse? The answer. You fix a broken cowboy with the love of a good woman.
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