I've been waiting for Clay's story since we first met the Davis siblings in Lost Rider. Harper Sloan did not disappoint. Cowboy Up was everything I was hoping it would be from the very first page. Clay and Caroline's story is sweet, passionate and full of emotion. I didn't want to put it down. If you like sexy cowboys, their commitment to family and their devotion to the women they love, I highly recommend all three books in Harper Sloan's Coming Home series.

Cowboy Up is book 3 in the Coming Home series and brings us Clayton and Caroline. I liked this story it was sweet and romantic, a chance for healing and growing it had me holding hoping for the characters. I am enjoying this series overall and will recommend to readers

This is a series that will be a joy to re-read. In Cowboy Up, Caroline and Clay give the bad things in their lives a name, "the ugly". It's almost as if by naming it they are better able to deal with it. They don't keep anything from each other, it's refreshing how open they are with each other. And then you have their "bad". It's not what you think it's the the sexy kind of bad and it's the kind that everyone should strive to find.

It takes a bit of an adjustment to get back into cowboy land with Harper Sloan.

Throw in the soap-opera angle (because it really is) with many overreactions, over-the-top responses, lengthy declarations of emotions and there’s always something loud, hysterical and irrepressible about this series where characters don’t do anything softly. They laugh, weep, shout and wave their arms with exaggeration in a place where cowboys swagger hard, women’s panties get wet like dripping taps and hard verbal shots are slung without abandon. ‘Cowboy Up’ is for want of a better word, an impetuous read that rides on the wild side, and it’s akin to getting blown through an oncoming hurricane of torrential high drama.

And the story started that way—all in, with no room for regrets that briefly pushed their way to the surface, from a scorching one-night stand that dovetailed really quickly into a declaration from Clayton Davis that Caroline was the woman he’d always wanted in his life, though it’s probably swoony enough for readers who want to read about a male protagonist who found himself balls-deep (and not just literally) and wholly devoted to the woman from the start.

This was the unbelievable stretch for me, since I found it bewildering that Clayton extrapolated that bright future for him and Caroline all after a one-nighter where a connection had apparently been forged soul-deep. Yet all I could see was a relationship that felt at first, more like dependence on Caroline’s part rather than one of equals—with Clayton acting almost as a crutch while she got her feet up and about again. To be fair, Caroline’s skittish and somewhat needy behaviour has stemmed from losing everything and being in several abused relationships in a manner that Clayton could only step in as the alpha protector role which was easy for him to do so.

‘Cowboy Up’ rides high on emotion, albeit too much for me perhaps, because too much of it felt overplayed and I really thought I would have enjoyed this more. As always, there isn’t any reason why this wouldn’t work for others even if it couldn’t resonate with me. But with my ears feeling as though they’re still ringing and my head still woozy at the speed with which things went down, I was nonetheless, sort of relieved when the sun finally set on their HEA.

I've been waiting for Clay's story since we first met the Davis siblings in Lost Rider. Harper Sloan did not disappoint. Cowboy Up was everything I was hoping it would be from the very first page. Clay and Caroline's story is sweet, passionate and full of emotion. I didn't want to put it down. If you like sexy cowboys, their commitment to family and their devotion to the women they love, I highly recommend all three books in Harper Sloan's Coming Home series.