Kelly Dawson Author

I am so excited! My 10th book is finally here! Daddy Takes Command  is a follow-up to  Daddy Takes the Reins   and  Daddies Take Control but it's entirely  stand-alone so you don't need to have read the first ones to enjoy this one  (although if you do want to read them all, I would suggest doing so in order). Here's the blurb: After a serious injury leaves her father incapacitated, Sarah Taylor is faced with a stark choice. To keep the farm that has been in her family for generations, she will have to run it herself. But despite her best efforts, it quickly becomes clear that she is going to need help. Nick Martin is a champion bull rider, and when he accepts a job managing a farm he is just looking for a paycheck. But then he meets Sarah, and from the moment he sets eyes on her, Nick can tell she is in desperate need of a man who will take her in his arms... and over his knee. Over the coming weeks, Nick makes it his business to ...

I'm so excited to be part of an awesome anthology of hotness - 25 incredible authors , 25 super hot stories - all for just 99 cents ! (limited time only) Releases 18 September 2018!! Pre-order at your favourite retailer now!! Amazon Apple Barnes & Noble Google Kobo My contribution: Trusting Daddy Tessa Patterson is all alone in the world. But she’s never felt it as keenly until now, when her horse is playing up at the rodeo. Enter Caine Foster, the cowboy she’s idolized for years. He helps her, claims her, and makes her his own, commanding her submission in ways she never would have imagined. Chapter One “No, don’t do this to me!” Tessa begged the big gelding straining at the end of the rope. “Just this one time, please stand still!” She was so tense her whole body was tight. Her heart pounded so hard she figured Thunder, her jet black gelding, could probably hear it. This day was so important to her, the fulfilment of a lif...

Especially those incurred by bull-fighters, a.k.a. rodeo cowboy protection athletes. Thanks for joining me! I'm having a lot of fun doing the  #SpankA2Z  this month. Cowboys have been a life-long obsession of mine, and most of my deepest, darkest fantasies (or any fantasy really) involves cowboys. (Photos stolen from  Pinterest ) While working on my brand new release Rachel's Journey I found a huge appreciation and admiration for the heroes of the rodeo ring - the cowboy protection athletes. Possessing immense skill and bravery, these men risk their lives to keep the bull-rider from harm. Despite their skill and bravery though, sometimes there are injuries, to both bull rider and protection athlete. And, very rarely, to the bull. Here is a scene from my brand new release showing James getting injured in his role as a cowboy protection athlete: It happened so fast it was a blur – one second there were 3 men surrounding the bull, in the next, James w...

Hello and welcome to my blog! As you know, I'm taking part in the  June Challenge: Spanking A-Z Back when I was at school, in the dim dark ages of the 90s, friendship books were all the rage. You know the ones - question after question of 'favourite' and 'worst' of every subject under the sun. I thought it would be fun to do that on here. But I'm not doing 'worsts' and there's just 10 random questions. Read on to get to know more about me ... Favourite colour: Pink. Isn't it obvious? Favourite food: Chocolate. Specifically, white Lindt Lindor. I could be bribed to do anything with that gourmet treat! Favourite book:   I read anything I can get my hands on, although rural romance is my favourite genre. I love most spanking romance, but to list my favourite spanking romance books here would take all day, so I'll stick with mainstream: Therese Creed's Redstone Station  is a book I have read twice so far, and will no doubt re...

Thank you for visiting my blog for the #SpankA2Z  June Challenge !  B was a particularly challenging letter to decide on. There are so many awesome words that start with "B". In the end, I wrote all my ideas down on little bits of paper and put them in a hat and got my kids to pull one out. After much fighting, they managed to pull out just one. Barrel racing! Barrel racing is probably my favourite event in the rodeo. I love the bond between horse and rider, I love watching the cowgirls spin around those barrels in a figure 8 pattern at full gallop, I love the power and agility of the horses. I did it a bit when I was younger, on my farm pony, but we were never good enough to compete, so barrel racing at the rodeo has always been an elusive dream. I tell myself it will happen one day, but I'm not getting any younger, and I don't currently have a horse, so I'll live vicariously through my characters instead. Below is an (unpolished, first draft) e...

Welcome to my #WIPITUP WEDNESDAY post for this week - James & Rachel are back! Rachel's Journey is currently being edited, and is due for release soon! Hopefully at the end of the month, fingers crossed! :) As you all know by now, I have a *thing* for cowboys. When I was younger I dated a bull-rider and I was always awed by the daring bullfighters who put their lives in the hands of their colleagues, to protect the cowboys. In his spare time, James is a rodeo bullfighter. Here in NZ the rodeo circuit doesn't pay enough to do it full-time, but we've got some pretty talented cowboys and bullfighters. The scene I share below is based on an actual event in a NZ rodeo which you can read about  here  if you want to :) Although a newcomer, it was obvious James was a competent bullfighter, and he took his role seriously. He was dressed from head to toe in brightly coloured clothing – from a red ribbon tied around his cowboy hat, orange shirt, lime green shorts,...

Welcome to my blog, and this week's WIPITUP blog post!  Rachel's Journey , my second book, is due for release in a month and I'm SO EXCITED!! Because I'm a newbie I'm uber-enthusiastic about life in general at the moment - the excitement of an impending book release is spreading to all aspects of my life. But my kids are happy, as it means I'm not as grumpy as usual when they have very selective hearing :)  All you experienced authors are probably laughing at me right now, thinking 'what a dork ... it's not that big of a deal!' but it still is, to me. One day, I'll probably not get quite as excited, I'll get old and jaded and a new book will just be a 'meh ... whatever ... another one done' but to be honest, I hope that doesn't ever happen because it might mean I've lost my love for writing. And I can't imagine that. Anyway, enough aimless waffling. Onto this week's excerpt: “Ow!” Rachel squealed, twisting ...