This was not my favorite Diana Palmer book, but the story was definitely a good one.

Preacher's daughter Colie Thompson falls for her brothers much older best friend when she is barely out of high school. They date for a bit, move in together, then break up when he believes the lie that the baby she is carrying belongs to someone else. She leaves her family behind, moving to Texas, to protect them from the evil men her brother is hanging out with. She marries another man to give her baby legitimacy, but does she really love him?

J.C. Calhoun grew up in foster care, most of it in awful homes. He remembers his parents, and he remembers being abandoned by his father. Burned one too many times by the women he dates, he is anti-relationship - unless it means getting physical. He does his best to stay away from Colie, until he just can't resist her pull anymore. When he realizes the girl he assumed was as experienced as he was in the bedroom was really a novice, he begins to see her differently. He isn't a bit surprised to learn she is pregnant, but he is livid and throws her out when her brother tells him the baby isn't his. What will it take for J.C. to see Colie's innocence?

So, is this the point where I confess that I read the very beginning of this book, to about 20% - enough to understand the characters - then I skipped to about 76% and finished it, and I don't think I missed much of the story. Palmer repeats, and repeats, and repeats, until I got frustrated and just skipped ahead. (I hate doing that because I think I might miss something, but in this case, her repeating carried through to the end of the book and I was able to catch most everything that I missed.)

Fans of Diana Palmer's writing, will still enjoy this book. Her hero is still strong, but damaged, and her heroine is still young and virginal, a theme I've seen in other books she's written.

This book was fantastic, Once I started reading i couldn't put it down. It covered every emotion you can imagine. I highly recommend this book.
JC does not trust any one but he falls for Colie, Then her brother tells JC she is pregnant with another man's child. Colie is heartbroken and heads to her cousin's ranch in Jacobsville.

Thank you Netgalley and harlequin for allowing me to read this titke for an honest review

Diana Palmer is a wonderful writer who's books I honestly love. This one just adds to that feel. Wyoming Winter tells the story of Colie and of JC. They were once in love but life happened. When a little girl lost brings them back together, they're unsure of what to do and how to feel. They have to face things they haven't felt in many years and deal with a past they both misunderstood. This is a great ready and fun as well!

Review: Diane Palmer is a talented author. Her novels are amazing. They melt readers hearts and suck them into the juicy plots. There’s always a risk for both characters to overcome. I enjoy reading what this writer brings to her books. Western romances are engaging. There is danger, risks both emotionally and physically, and some heat to enjoy.

In this new novel, I did like the characters and their story. However, it just felt forced out…the pacing was slow and their time together and apart felt dragged out. The characters knew the risks they were getting into with each other. Yet, they continued to be together. Both were fighting a war they couldn’t win. Until fate intervened…

J.C. is a sexy cowboy. He knows women. Or thinks he does. A bad experience with a woman has his heart turned against all women. He fell in love and was taken advantage of…then, there was his family. He was abandoned by his father. A drunk dad who ended up killing his wife and left his son to the elements. It’s no wonder J.C. feels the way he does. Despite his hard exterior, he has a good heart. He meets his friend’s sister and from there he can’t stop seeing her. He thought he could love her and leave her. But she wasn’t like the women he knew. She was a good woman. Then, danger entered the equation, lies came out, and J.C. ran away from it all. But it didn’t end there.

Color is a conservative kind of woman. A white picket fence kind of girl. She wants a family of her one. She falls in love with the irresistible J.C. That’s where her heart lies. Her brother has turned away from his values and in doing so ends up endangering his sister. He lies to his friend and leaves both Colie and J.C. away from each other. Sad, hurt, and feeling betrayed both Colie and J.C. try to survive.

But they can’t live without each other for long…

Wyoming Winter by Diane Palmer is interesting. Not her best, but still worth reading. The pacing is what mostly made this a four star read for me. It felt too dragged out…but there was romance, loss, death, and a whole lot of sweet moments inside. I recommend it to other readers.

Small-town second chance…

I don’t remember a time when I was not a fan of this author. Years ago I snuck her books from my mom’s book back and they were worth the risk! Alpha males alongside increasingly stronger females find love in many different scenarios but my favourites will always involve this author’s irresistible cowboys. JC and Colie’s story involved family, lies and a beautiful little girl who was going to give them a shot at a second chance….

Suspense, drama and family dynamics swirled around a plot that, while not new, had my heart invested from the start. JC and Colie had been separated through lies and choices that felt inevitable. They were stubborn and each felt they were in the right so it was good there was a little girl between them who was going to remind them what was really important… And while the emotions between them initially had more anger and animosity, underneath it all was love…

A good story has me connecting with the characters and feeling the emotions that they go through as if they were my own. JC and Colie’s story fit the bill nicely in a read that was a warm hug on a lazy weekend afternoon…

Diana Palmer is back with the seventh novel in her Wyoming series. In previous reviews of the novels in this series, I've made no secret of the fact that her novels are formulaic, and this novel, for the most part, follows that formula with a few exceptions, and it gets a 3.5-star rating from this reader.

Yes, there's a shy, religious, virginal heroine, Colie Jackson, the 19-year-old minister's daughter with views that seem ancient in today's world. Yes, she's crazy about a much older man, a friend of her brother's--32-year old J.C. Calhoun, who holds equally archaic views and has a low opinion of women in general since he found himself in love and wanting to marry a woman who he later learned was a call girl--something she learns from her brother, Rod, who served in the military with J.C. and who holds the same archaic views. When I reached his statement, "A woman who prostitutes herself usually does it because it's easy money," I simply had to pause, shake my head and consider the statement. I find it hard to believe that any woman would "choose" prostitution as a career, I've always considered it the last desperate attempt to survive for women and men with no other options.

As expected J.C. looks just like all of Ms. Palmer's other heroes, tall, strong and handsome, with jet black hair, much of it on his chest. The difference here is his pale gray eyes. Also as expected, he's drawn to Colie's looks and kindness, and the fact that she's a good listener, but he's also commitment phobic and won't promise her anything more than a few dates. He also assumes she's older than she is and sexually experienced as well, so, of course, he takes her virginity, hard and fast, and although she's in pain every time they have sex, she never says a word. As for seeing blood after they first have sex, J.C. assumes she's getting her period and she doesn't disabuse him of that notion. But, although he won't promise marriage, and says he doesn't want children, J.C. wants Colie to move in with him, and although that's a shocking thing for the small-town minister's daughter to do, she agrees, and J.C. is willing to let her use a fake engagement as an alibi to stifle some of the gossip. Of course, Colie ends up pregnant, and hasn't yet figured out a way to tell J.C.

What was surprising and somewhat different about this novel were the additional complications involving Colie's brother, Rod. He's changed in the past year and Colie is worried. He's been spending a lot of time away from his home and job, and he's spending money he can't possibly have earned working at the local hardware store for minimum wage. He also appears to be on drugs, and although there's ample evidence of it, she never confronts him about it. While J.C. is away on business, Colie happens to see her brother receive a suitcase full of drugs from a shady character, and she's threatened into silence.

When J.C. returns, he's got a ring in his pocket for Colie, but he's met at the airport by Rod, who knows J.C.'s past, and Rod's shady friend, who tell him that while he's been away on business, Colie has been cheating on him and is pregnant with another man's child. They know that by separating Colie and J.C. , they have a better chance of keeping Colie from telling what she knows about their drug business. Also as expected, J.C. believes them and as soon as he sees Colie, he's verbally and emotionally abusive to her, blaming her for cheating on him, calling her a whore, assuming she's been lying to him and playing him for a fool. He's throws her belongings in a suitcase and actually throws her out of his house, leaving her standing on his porch in the snow with tears streaming down her face. Through all of this, Colie never says a word to defend herself, or to even try to reason with J.C.

What Colie does do is try to pick up the pieces of her life and her broken heart and get out of town, and it's here that Ms. Palmer varies from her usual formula. Colie heads to Jacobsville, Texas, where she has family, and a job in a law office similar to the one she's been working in. It's there that one of the partners, Darby, knowing her predicament, and knowing he's got terminal cancer, offers to marry her to give her unborn child a name--and Colie accepts his offer. It's from this point on that Ms. Palmer delves deeper into the emotions of her leading characters, and takes the time to really allow the reader to understand what motivates them. While Colie is in Texas, J.C. slowly befriends and is counseled by Colie's minster father, playing chess with the man every week.

When J.C. finally gets a clue that he may have been lied to and that he was far too harsh with Colie, it's too little, too late--she's already married, and a couple of years later, when Colie's father dies and she returns to Wyoming to handle his funeral arrangements, the suspense of the drug dealing backstory deepens, as does the danger Colie and her 2-year old daughter, Ludie, are in.

With a court case against the drug cartel in Texas looming ever closer, the need for Rod's shady, drug-dealing friend to silence the only witness against him takes an ominous turn, and the last quarter of the novel is indeed quite a page-turner. When J.C. first sees Colie's daughter, he knows that the child is his, but will Colie ever forgive him for not believing her? Will an attempt on Colie's life and her daughter's life end badly? Will she ever forgive the terrible things he said to her and the way he tossed her out like a sack of trash? Will J.C. ever be able to redeem himself in her eyes? Will Colie ever be willing to forgive and forget how she was treated? Will she decide to return to Texas? What will happen to her brother, Rod? For the answer to those questions, you'll just have to read this novel to find out.

While there's still plenty of room for improvement and modernization, I found this novel to be somewhat better and more engaging than Ms. Palmer previous novels in this series..

I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions expressed are my own.

3 adorable stars

Diana Palmer is one of those author that when i've read her books, i remembered them for being memorable and funny. None of the stories were similar as they all have something that makes them great, however, there was something with Wyoming Winter that made it very hard to connect with the story and the characters. I know Diana Palmer is a great author, but for me, Colie was too perfect and J.C., the kind of man that even through clearly suffers from PTSD from his tours overseas, seemed to brush it off as nothing at times.
I wish i could have connected more with this story, and maybe that's just because i was expecting something more upbeat with a twist of humor, but that doesn't mean that someone else won't appreciate or enjoy it, it simply means that this wasn't the book for me.


*ARC provided by Author in exchange for an honest review. Reviewed by Kathleen, The Small Girl from A small girl, her man and her books

I have been a huge Diana Palmer fan for a while. I always expect to get a good read from her. Wyoming Winter did not disappoint, it was sweet, romantic, and just what I expect to get from Palmer. I enjoyed this one and can't wait to see what comes next from this amazing author that I love.

MY REVIEW::

Cowboys, horses, oh my! This is the seventh book in the Wyoming Men series by Diana Palmer and what a return. Can we say deception, blatant stupidity and youthful conservative prejudices galore?

With a chip the size of the Cowboy State on his back from a past relationship, J.C. goes too far with, preacher's daughter, Colie Jackson. Their relationship is rocky at best, she does what she thinks he wants, he does what he wants and listens, but doesn't trust Colie. Just ripe for a movie of the week right?

I wanted to smack J.C. right from the beginning. Actually give both of them a shake or two and stand up in the congregation and tell the nosey, holier-than-thou townsfolk just who Jesus ministered to when he walked this earth. So yes, Palmer did a great job of pulling me into her story.

In fact, there were times I laughed, cried and called characters names I was so invested in the outcome of these characters. This is a book worth taking off the shelf and adding to your cart. While you're at it, buy one for every member of your family. It's that good. That infuriating, that heart wrenching. If not for the fact J.C. finally wised up, I would have thought something was wrong with my Wyoming cowboys.

Another great offering from Diana Palmer. This is the 7th in the Wyoming Men series. It is a good series for fans of romance and especially cowboy love stories.

Colie is just 19 but her brother's friend JC makes her feel alive. He doesn't trust love and she believes in happily ever after. ARC from NetGalley.

This is an angsty book!! It will have you crying...I don't like these kinds of books usually because there's so much drama that they leave me all snot-nosed and sniffling, but this one was really good! I found myself wondering why the hero was pushing the heroine away and then I wanted to go after him myself and knock some sense into him. Sometimes you get invested in characters in books and it's not a good thing. This book left me with a hangover...not a good one. I stayed up all night on Monday to read it and thought "just one more page couldn't hurt and I'll dictate my review." Well, that backfired. If you haven't read the rest of the books in the series - run and get them because they're really well-written. I must say that this author is a must-buy for me automatically and this was no exception when I saw it!! Great job again!!

I was given an ARC copy of this book by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect anyone else’s.

Wyoming Winter takes readers back to the cowboy state where the men are as fierce as they are loving. Diana Palmer's seventh Wyoming Men novel tells the story of J.C. Calhoun, Ren Colter's head of security, and the innocent young woman that melts his hardened heart. Colie Jackson has been in love with J.C. for as long as she can remember. Even though he's much older and has a reputation around town, she doesn't hesitate when he offers to take her on a date.

There are many factors moving against their blossoming relationship. For instance, Colie had a conservative upbringing while J.C. has traveled the world and lives a modern lifestyle. Colie's father is a minister and disapproves of the relationship. Only time and life experience will determine if these two will ever find a happy ending.

What I love about the few Diana Palmer stories I've read is that they begin with something in the character's lives that they have to overcome whether it's a problem of their own making or outside influences. This story has that special little something that Diana Palmer adds to her stories to draw you in and make you feel something for the main characters. If they make a mistake you hope they can redeem themselves or if they get hurt you want to jump in and make it all better. The characters are laid bare for readers to truly see who they are and what they desire, which makes it easy to keep reading to see how they resolve their issues. The story moves at a fast pace and I'm amazed at how Colie and J. C. are transformed by the end. If you loved the previous book, Wyoming Brave, you'll love Wyoming Winter even more so!

The Wyoming Men series is perfect for fans of Linda Lael Miller and Maisey Yates. Also, if you haven't read any of the previous stories, jump on it. You don't want to miss out on these heartwarming romances!
*ARC provided in consideration for an honest review*

Wyoming Winter is book 7 in the Wyoming Men Series but it can be read as a standalone and I know this because Diana Palmer is a new author to me and I still really enjoyed JC Calhoun and Colie Jackson’s story. This book is all about families, love and most importantly trust, it’s a romantic thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat, it has secrets, twists and turns and strong characters that you can’t help falling for. JC is an older man with trust issues and Colie is a sweet preachers daughter, can two people from very different backgrounds and who have very different views on life make a go of it or will the trust issues tear them apart, will JC be there when Colie is runnng for her life or will the past get in the way, guess you need to read the book to find that out.
I need to check the rest of this series and this author out, really enjoyed Wyoming Winter.

** spoiler alert **

Normally if I can't rate a book a 3 or above I bypass leaving a review but in this case I couldn't walk away from Wyoming Winter without saying something..

I can't, I just can't rate this book..... It so sounded like my kinda read but the blurb and the actual story don't really match (in my opinion). There were so many things about this book that I didn't like but to list them would take an eBook of it's own and pretty much be all spoilers... so I'm gonna just quickly sum up my thoughts

The 'hero' JC wasn't a hero, he was a douchebag who bumped his gal without giving her a chance to explain. For someone who claimed that he knew a lie when he heard it - 'cos he was in the police force for 2 years when he was younger - he swallowed the biggest bloody lie he'd ever been told (by someone that he knew himself was a barefaced liar) and then he went back for seconds!! Even when the reason behind JCs lack of trust and belief in other people was revealed I couldn't feel any kind of sympathy for him as his childhood story just seemed way too OTT and unbelievable.

Colie (the MF) just annoyed the ever-loving crap out of me... she did stuff without considering the consequences, didn't speak up when she should and could have - which would have saved a lot of people a lot of pain.... What happened and how things progressed when she moved away was just WTF???? in fact I have to admit that I found myself saying 'for f*cks sake' A LOT when I was reading - and when I say reading, I mean kinda skimming through 'cos I was losing the will to read - there were just way too many WTF moments for me to deal with -and let's not forget the so so many repetitive thoughts and/or explanations; some of them read like they were being brought up for the first time when we'd already been given the info/facts more than once. The writing in the chapters jumped about too much for me too, at points we were reading from Colie's POV and then JC's but with barely any indication that we had changed character or location.

I didn't feel any kinda connection between JC and Colie. From what we read, when they were together at the start of the book sex was not good for her and it sounded like whenever they got ti one he was just getting his rocks off and had no concern for her needs or feelings!
The daughter, she's 2..... but gods, from what she said and did she sounded like she was 22 - when she was talking, full coherent sentences and I just, ugh.... I couldn't go with what I was reading. I love, love, love to read and more often than not you have to suspend belief and go with things that are a little beyond possibility but this was just too much.

This was my first Diana Palmer read and unfortunately, it will be my last.

I love the old school feeling of Diana Palmer's books. In this book , Colie has unrequited love for J.C.. When he starts to show an interest in her, she falls totally in love even though sh knows he isn't looking for marriage. When the ineviable pregnancy happens, she doesn't get a chance to tell him before her brother poisons J.C. against her. She leaves town and starts a new life.
I really enjoyed this book. Yes, Colie was a bit of a wimpy heroine and J.C a bit of a cad but that's what I expect from a Palmer book. The best part is seeing both people make changes and act like adults. She had some backbone and he had some feelings for her which gave them a starting place to work from. I also liked the references to past books and the couples featured in them. Good old Jacobsville! A very good read from a favorite author.

Wyoming Winter is book 7 in the Wyoming series, by the amazing Diana Palmer.

Now I love Diana Palmer books, for so many reasons; first of all, her books do contain sex, but it is a tiny part, she mainly focuses on the relationship between the main characters, and that makes her a refreshing change. 2, he stories normally have a key theme, which is redemption, and that is a story I can get behind. And lastly, Diana Palmer introduced me to the world of western romance, and I am forever grateful for it.

And keeping all that in mind, Wyoming Winter is the tale of J.D. and Collie; an innocent young women, who falls in love with her brothers best friend, but J.D. has had an awful childhood, and a difficult life, and even though he fell for Collie, when someone lies about Collie, J.D. believes it, and unfortunately set them all on a path of pain and heartbreak.

I love this series, and Wyoming Winter fits with it perfectly, the story is wonderful, the character's enjoyable, and it reduced me to tears!

I give Wyoming Winter 5 stars!

Always a sweet and tragic tale given by Palmer. Her books always sweep me up in her world. I adore her writing and this one did not disappoint!

JC Calhoun is a security expert who has a background in the army. He has survived a traumatic childhood and was betrayed by the one woman he let close and since then he lives his life the way he wants and trusts very few people.

Colie is 19, works as a paralegal and is the sister of one of the men he served with. Her father is a preacher so she has lived a sheltered life and has no experience with men.

When he comes to visit her brother they have an instant attraction and she is willing to do anything to be with him even though moving in with him is frowned upon by the town. When Colie is betrayed by someone she should be able to trust it causes an insurmountable wedge between them but that is just the start of her problems.. I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.

I’m not gonna lie I had issues with the main character Colleen (colie) in the beginning. She claimed to be a good girl but she disrespected her dad when he tried to help her. She falls in love with J. C. Who has so much trauma from the past that needs dealing with. The two are separated by lies spread around about Colie. Colie leaves home to hide her shame and to protect the ones she love from something she witnessed that was drug related. She marries a widowed lawyer that is terminally ill. Has J. C’s baby but hides it from him. She eventually has to return home because her father dies. Danger lurks once she returns but this time she takes a stand. There love survives the separation and old ghost are laid to rest. This is a really good love story with intrigue. Still a good page turner