Review: "They say to the victor go the spoils.  I play to win."  ~ Mayor Judy Jasper to her Hells Belles
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2014
The book Last of the Red-Hot Cowboys was refreshing.  I love that the Mayor of the town, Hell, is a spunky cowgirl named Judy Jasper.  She loves her town and she plains on making it a better place.  She’s got her eyes on Trace Carter, but not for her, for her new group of Hell’s Belles.  She wants Trace to train her ladies Ava Buchanan, Harper Castleberry, and Cameron Dix to be the very first traveling female bullfighters.Trace, being the man that he is, will have no part in a female bullfighter, aka rodeo clown.  Trace and his partners/brothers in arms, Declan and Saint, decided when they got back from Afghanistan and started up Hell’s Outlaws Training Center, that they would not be training women.  They believe “it’s too damn dangerous” and that it’s a job for a man to risk his life for the other men who ride the bulls.  But Trace can’t seem to get the beautiful Ava out of his mind.Mayor Judy has other plains.  She wants to shake the town up and bring in some new females.  The town is full of a whole lot of males.  So when the Mayor tells the Outlaws she’s taking her ladies to train with their archrivals, the Horsemen,  that heats them up as much as the town’s name.  Judy is a woman who knows how to trick a man and him not know it, or in Traces case knew it and still fell.The ups and downs in this story makes you laugh out loud.  I’ll be honest and say I had to go back a few times and re-read because I felt like I missed part of the story.  I do look forward to reading the next book to see if the Mayor can play her game that involves her women and the defenseless bachelors of Hell.