The Cowboy Contract ~ a new romantic Western comedy by Paula Altenburg

Cowboy and beautiful girl in a Wild West Montana town

A new romantic western comedy coming March 3rd, 2026 from Tule Publishing!

When a high-end, off-the-grid, Wild West themed ghost town needs a country singer for an elite international client, Burning Scrub has two months to turn a reluctant country star into a cowboy.

Winner of a national vocal competition Beau Jones hates country music and the recording contract hanging over his head. But his family needs the prize money. His agent books him into a remote Montana ranch for two months to polish his brand, teach him how to cowboy up, and to write original country music, whether Beau agrees to it or not. When Beau wakes up in a frontier jail, watched by a beautiful jailer, he resolves to be the worst cowboy this town has ever seen.

Internal medicine doctor Belle Forsythe is tasked with keeping Beau out of trouble. She has no interest in celebrities or country music. She has a five-year contract, which will pay off her medical school debt. Until then, she’s determined to keep her twenty-first-century doctoring skills current while researching nineteenth-century medical practices.

Belle’s resolved to her fate until Beau. He’s an advertisement for trouble, and she soon discovers she can’t wait to help him stir it up.

Available for pre-order.