{"id":1220,"date":"2019-08-08T22:21:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T22:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=1220"},"modified":"2020-03-09T16:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T16:56:26","slug":"the-marlboro-man","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/books\/men-of-the-sprawling-a-ranch\/the-marlboro-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marlboro Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em>Book Two- Mark and Gabriella<\/em><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Marlboro-Man_ebook-e1423458839495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Marlboro-Man_ebook-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marlboro Man by Anna Alexander\" width=\"153\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a>For years Mark Webber was in love with his best friend\u2019s girl, and it had become well past time for him to move on for greener pastures. Not long after he left,\u00a0 Mark realized the Sprawling A was his home, so now he\u2019s back, ready to leave the past in the dust. While he was gone, there had been some changes at the A, including a new ranch hand who comes with a sister that stirs Mark\u2019s passions in ways he never felt.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriella Montoya has come to the ranch seeking shelter after a failed marriage. Not only is she welcomed with open arms, but she gains six big brothers. But one man doesn\u2019t look at her like he would a sister. Oh, no. Mark gazes at her with a heat and promise in his eyes, and damn if he doesn\u2019t deliver on every one. But Gabriella\u2019s not certain she\u2019s ready to embark on another relationship so soon with a man who has made no bones about wanting forever, especially when both of their pasts rise from the ashes and threaten everything they have.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Excerpt-MM1.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click to read an excerpt<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Now available on Kindle Unlimited!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=annaal20-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B00T7U8B0A&#038;asins=B00T7U8B0A&#038;linkId=543e9d847accda8ca9404cec5b2bdd95&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\">\n    <\/iframe>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two- Mark and Gabriella For years Mark Webber was in love with his best friend\u2019s girl, and it had become well past time for him to move on for greener pastures. Not long after he left,\u00a0 Mark realized the Sprawling A was his home, so now he\u2019s back, ready to leave the past in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":718,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1220","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P39eCR-jG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1220\/revisions\/1464"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}