As I've learned to expect, a beautifully written and fun read. Yates writes wonderfully believable stories with flawed but truly good heroes and heroines

Maisey Yates takes readers back to Copper Ridge for Joshua Grayson's story. The second Grayson son, Joshua is fed up with his father's meddling. His dad went too far when he placed an ad for a wife for Joshua and Josh wants nothing more than to teach his father a lesson. Posting his own ad, he's looking for the most "unsuitable" woman he can find. When Danielle Kelly shows up on his doorstep, tattooed and with baby in tow, he's sure he's found her. Can they convince his father that she answered his ad, and teach him a lesson about meddling in his son's life in the process?

Danielle Kelly is desperate. Out of work, soon to lose her apartment, she needs to find both if she is going to keep custody of her baby brother. Seeing Joshua Grayson's ad seems like a God-send. The money he's offering will allow her to buy her own house and stay home with the baby. It would be a huge win for her if she can convince him to let her stay. Who could possibly be more unsuitable than she is?

As Danielle and Joshua share his home, she begins to see the pain beneath his tough-guy exterior. Can she tempt him to fall in love, when he's sure his broken heart can never mend?

I have enjoyed this whole series of books by Maisey Yates. If I have one complaint, though, it's that Ms. Yates seems to "pad" the stories with a lot of repetition, hammering points home until I'm tempted to just skim. I've seen this in several books now, and it's the only reason this one didn't get 5 stars from me. I liked the story and the characters, just not all of the execution.

My Kindle is chock full of Maisey Yates. Having enjoyed many of her Harlequin Presents, when she made the move to single title and Harlequin Desire I kept buying. But she's prolific and I'm a slow reader and here we are. So I decided it was high time to try one of the Desires and randomly landed on Claim Me, Cowboy because 1) I've had an ARC languishing forever and 2) it just finaled for a RITA, so why not this one? It's smack dab in the middle of the Copper Ridge series, but it stands alone very well and Yates keeps the series-itis to the bare minimum.

The plot is patently absurd, but it tweaks the nose of patently absurd category romance plots that have come before, so I bought it hook, line and sinker. Joshua Grayson is a successful PR guy with a loving family and a big fancy house in Copper Ridge, Oregon. What he doesn't have is a wife and his father thinks that's just no good - so the old man puts an ad in the newspaper. Yes, an ad. to find his son a wife. Joshua is highly annoyed with his old man so places another ad, this one looking for a woman who will play the role of highly unsuitable potential wife and just maybe his father will get the message to butt out. Who Joshua gets is Danielle Kelly and a baby.

Danielle is all of 22, Joshua assumes the baby is hers, and she doesn't correct him. Life hasn't been easy for Danielle, raised by a single mother (who had her at 14) who was always looking for love in all the wrong places. Finally away from Mom, working as a grocery store cashier in Portland, life is pretty OK - until the day Mom shows up pregnant. Danielle takes her in, baby Riley is born, and while Mom says she's going to change her ways...she naturally does not. Danielle ends up losing her job thanks to unreliable child care, and social services expects her to have a steady life and income if she's to keep custody. She's desperate. So desperate she answers Joshua's ad and we're off to the races.

I've been reading romance a long time, meddling parents are pretty much a staple, and frankly Joshua's father is one of those guys who thinks the little woman should make a happy home, and squeeze out a passel of kids while the man of the house brings home the bacon. So if Joshua thinks he can tweak the old man by bringing home a much younger fiance with a baby - more power to him I say. Frankly the old guy has it coming to him.

No, what doesn't really work with this story is the romance. I just never believed in it because I never felt like Joshua grew as a person. He starts off the story as a jerk. The kind of jerk who uses woman but that's OK because they know the score:
He was happy enough now to be alone. And when he didn't want to be alone, he called a woman, had her come spend a few hours in his bed - or in the back of his truck, he wasn't particular. Love was not on the agenda.
My. Hero.

Not.

And then there's the matter that, while they're overstepping, his family ultimately cares about him. Deceiving them sticks in Danielle's craw for a good chunk of this story, but our girl is desperate - a desperation that Joshua is ultimately counting on:
She was prickly and difficult, but at least she had an excuse. Her family was the worst. As far as she could tell, his family was guilty of caring too much. And she just couldn't feel that sorry for a rich dude whose parents loved him and were involved in his life more than he wanted them to be.
And there's the rub. To counteract this, Yates gives Joshua a tragic backstory - a former fiance, a late miscarriage, and a spiral into drug addiction, which I think was supposed to make him sympathetic to the reader, but instead he comes off as even more self-absorbed and narcissistic. He doesn't seem to care all that much what became of the former fiance (he assumes she's living on the streets now) - he's more concerned that "he failed her." Um. Well, what did you do to, oh I don't know - get her some help? Look, people who turn to drugs ultimately have to help themselves break the cycle - but from what I could tell Joshua pretty much leaves her to wallow in her depression and drug addiction until she cheats on him with one of his coworkers - and then he walks away to live in seclusion back in his home town and wallow in "his failure."

Which leads us through to the end of the book with Joshua and Danielle ultimately deciding to get married for real. He proposes out of a sense of guilt. She accepts because it means financial security for her and Riley. Naturally Danielle falls in love with him, but knowing his baggage we get The Black Moment:
He didn't love her. He wanted to fix her. And somehow, through fixing her, he believed he would fix himself.
I never felt convinced that Joshua moves past this. That he's only with Danielle out of a sense of guilt and atonement. I never felt like he loved her for her. He loved her because he could provide for her and "save" her. As for Danielle? Well, naturally, she's a virgin. So is she falling head over heels for the rich dude because he can make her life easier and he gives her incredible orgasms? Look, marriages have been built on less, but I spent a good chunk of this story feeling like she deserved better - especially since her sassy, spunky smart mouth is kind of what saves this story for me.

There's an audience for this story, no doubt. The joy I've found in Yates' work with Presents is that she can flat-out write The Fairy Tale. But, to be honest, Cinderella is one of the harder fairy tales for me to swallow in the modern romance genre. Too much Rescue Fantasy for me. But there's an appeal there for a lot of readers. The idea that the handsome rich dude will swoop in, fix everything, and give the woman a damn break for a change. Look, I get it. It's appealing. Just not to me. And Joshua never really grows as a character enough to convince me that he's past his need to assuage his guilt. Plus, he's kind of a jackass.

Final Grade = C-

ARC provided by NetGalley and Harlequin in exchange for an honest review.

Millionaire architect/cowboy Joshua needs a fake girlfriend to get his meddlesome father off his back. He comes up with a plan to hire a totally unsuitable fake fiance. Down and out, smart talking city girl Danielle and her baby brother arrive on his doorstep to fill the position. Wonderful characters, great witty dialogue ensue. A heartwarming contemporary romance from one of my all-time favorite authors, Maisey Yates.

I love Maisey Yates' books and Claim Me, Cowboy is no exception! It was sexy, witty and a true delight to read!

You know that somewhat famous movie line – you had me at hello. In CLAIM ME COWBOY I was hooked as Danielle thought to herself – what kind of idiot puts an ad in a paper looking for a temporary wife. Joshua was advertising for someone unsuitable – and as Danielle so deftly puts it – “I would say that I’m pretty unsuitable.” Just one of the many magical moments in CLAIM ME COWBOY. Too many to mention.
Copper Ridge has been a delightful series. Each story so unique and totally engaging. Maisey Yates really showcases her talent for character development in this series and be prepared to fall in love with Danielle Kelly. Totally rough around the edges and yet surprisingly grounded. Life hasn’t been kind. No one has ever taken care of Danielle and she has managed pretty darn well on her own. But now she needs help.
Hardest thing ever is to acknowledge that you need help. Made even more difficult in the reality that there is no one to turn to. But then fate perhaps steps in and gives Danielle an opportunity she can’t turn down. From its inception the plan had some major flaws. But Danielle was determined to see it through. She was looking at the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Joshua was at a strange point in his life. Didn’t want to face down his past. Couldn’t or wouldn’t shape a satisfying future. But even so he was just not willing to have any input from his family. Joshua and his father had conflicting ideas about how personal life was progressing and so each put out a personal ad looking for a wife. His father made it look too good to be true. Joshua made it a competition. And you guessed it Danielle is the one that answered one of their ads.
As it turns out Joshua gets much more than he bargained for in his tongue and cheek ad. But life was definitely going to get more complicated and wonderful. Joshua just has to open his eyes and heart and see the possibilities that were right before him. Joshua is a smart man – let’s just hope he is smart enough to know a good thing when he sees it.
If you read Maisie Yates bio you will see what I did – Maisie Yates is just the kind of person I would chose as a friend. And that’s how her books make you feel. CLAIM ME COWBOY is once again a feel good, humorous, heartwarming story that keeps you smiling throughout. Maisie Yates likes to put her characters in awkward but funny positions and CLAIM ME COWBOY is no exception.

So glad I gave cowboy romance a chance, I love this! Maisey Yates has certainly made a believer out of me.

Cute cowboy love story! Very short and feelgood. While it is part of a series, I didn't realize it when I requested this book but I didn't feel like I needed the other books to know what was going on. I will go back and read, because Ms. Yates has a way of making the words fly.


**I received an advance copy of this book from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.**

DNF at 25%

I just wasn't charmed enough to continue. The premise was so good but I couldn't get into the story.

Is there anything better than a lazy Saturday where you open windows letting the breeze in, lie on the couch, occasionally glance up from your book to watch the leaves dancing, and read to the final page? Nope, there isn’t. I gave the pile of work from the day-job a disdainful smirk-and-sniff and went right to the Kindle. With a compact Maisey Yates Desire, Claim Me, Cowboy, I knew it would be a reading-snack in one setting.

I’ll start right by saying I loved Yates’s outlandish premise. Rich-guy hero Joshua Grayson’s father puts an ad in the Seattle paper for a wife for his son. Joshua is over-the-top handsome and rich, but he eschews love and marriage. He lives in an idyllic, state-of-the-art house in the Oregon mountains in Yates’s mythical Copper Ridge (this being book 6). A sad thing once happened to Joshua and his life is now made of money-making, riding horses, and living in solitude (except for an occasional one-night-stand) in his big-ass house and ranch. His father, Todd, a farmer of modest means, but a big, loving heart places the ad to shake Joshua out of his self-condemning love-exile. Joshua, in turn, advertises for a fake fiancée, “an unsuitable, temporary wife” to get back at his father and gets her in the form of “elfin” Danielle Kelly, 22, with a baby in tow, the well-mannered, sleeping four-month-old Riley.

I have unabashed crazy-love for all things Yates and Claim Me, Cowboy, didn’t disappoint. Au contraire, it gave me exactly what I was looking for: pointedly, sharp banter tempered by the hero and heroine’s emotional baggage, just angsty enough, and an ethos that posits fidelity and love is brought about by a force beyond the protagonists’ will. I would say that in her own Yatesian way, this might be God, but Yates never names Him and I won’t purport to read more than that in her romance ethos.

For my readers’ purposes, I will say I loved Yates’s Joshua and Danielle and their Cinderella premise. Joshua is taciturnly determined to treat Danielle and Riley as the means to foiling his sentimental father. But, like all of Yates’s heroes, Joshua suffers from a closed-off-ness to love out of a heightened sense of how a man should be, with love, generosity, a gentlemanliness and knight-hood capacity for sacrifice. If there is even a possibility that he can’t reach these heights, especially one couched in past failings, then, the hero sees himself as lacking in worth and hides his light under a chosen demeanor; whether gruff, or ruefully charming, it’s a mask. But the light comes through anyway when Joshua realizes how straitened and miserable Danielle’s circumstances are. She’s too thin, too brittle, too vulnerable, too young – and she has a tiny, little life attached to her. He pays for nannies, ensures that Danielle has plenty to eat, and treats her, despite his protestations to the contrary, with respect and consideration.

I loved Danielle too. She’s a woman who’s had a life devoid of love and care and yet, she’s chosen to lavish it on baby Riley, who, it turns out is not hers (not a spoiler, we pretty much learn this from the first chapter). Despite her desperate poverty and the ethical ambiguity of accepting Joshua’s offer, Danielle IS principled. She’ll do anything to keep and care for Riley, even accept Joshua’s unorthodox proposal. True to Yatesian fashion, Danielle’s spirit soars as her body recovers from privation. She makes a bargain to gain a decent life for herself and Riley, but as her deprived heart begins to see the good in Joshua, she loves him. And when she learns she loves him, like all Yates’s heroines, she cannot settle for anything less than his love, no matter how much she may need his money, or support, or name, or any his possessions.

You would rightly think that if I know all that Yates has to offer and can identify it thus, why keep reading her? Why do I keep reading Betty Neels, with her cryptic, knowing heroes and humble heroines? Several reasons, I think. One is that I agree with their ethic: both Neels and Yates show a couple that instinctively know they belong to each other; obstacles are of the mind, of ingrained emotional habits that need be overcome, of circumstances, but not of the heart and body. The body, whether a subtle attraction in Neels, or Yatesian coupling, and heart know what the mind ratiocinates. I also read for the how, how they bring the reader along, how they write their scenes. Here are favourite snippets from Claim Me, Cowboy to entice you:

“You’re right. We have to do a better job of looking like a couple. And that would include you not scampering under the furniture when I get close to you.” She sat up straight and folded her hands in her lap. “I did not scamper,” she muttered. “You were perilously close to a scamper.” “Was not,” she grumbled.

The kiss hadn’t changed anything for him at all. Hadn’t been more than the simple meeting of mouths. It had been her first kiss. It had been everything. And right then she got her first taste of just how badly a man could make a woman feel. Of how – when wounded – feminine pride could be a treacherous and testy thing.

A combination of incisive, droll banter and emotional wisdom, a boring beyond what people say to each other, to themselves, to the sagacity of heart and body. Was Claim Me, Cowboy perfect? Not by any means, given the pace at which Joshua and Danielle were brought to the love moment, it was all too precipitous. But it was perfect for me, for this care-light Saturday afternoon. With Miss Austen’s agreement, I would say that Yates’s Claim Me, Cowboy is indicative of “a mind lively and at ease.”

Maisey Yate’s Claim Me, Cowboy is published by Harlequin Books. It was released on April 3rd and may be found at your preferred vendor. I received an e-ARC, from Harlequin Books, via Netgalley.

Joshua has a successful career in marketing, and has moved back home to escape city life and enjoy fresh ranch air. His sister is an extraordinary architect, and he has started working with her, using his marketing skills to help her business. He is happy and content – but his dad thinks he needs to settle down and start a family. And to make that happen, his dad puts an ad in the newspaper asking for women to apply to be Joshua’s girlfriend.

When Joshua learns of this, he gets very angry and decides to play his dad’s little game. He puts his own ad in the newspaper for a fake fiance, advertising that he will pay a woman to pretend to be his fiance for a few months. He wants this woman to act improper, so his dad will realize his mistake and back off. Danielle answers the ad.

Danielle is twenty-two and has had a very hard childhood. Her mother has a lot of problems, and when her mother gives birth a few months prior to the book starting, her mom takes off afterwards, leaving Danielle to raise her infant brother. Danielle loses her job since she doesn’t have anyone to provide childcare. With child-services sniffing around, she knows she needs money quick so her brother doesn’t end up in foster care. She sees the ad in the paper, and knows the amount of money Joshua is offering is enough to get her own place and raise her brother properly. She is very intimidated by Joshua and his grand house at first, but she also enjoys the comfort he and the house provides. Joshua is shocked to see such a young woman at his door – and she never mentioned she had a child. At first he thinks she will be perfect to thwart his father, but soon he starts to feel bad for using her in such a way.

The premise is a bit silly in this one – Joshua’s dad, who is a great family man, takes out an ad in the newspaper for a girlfriend? But I’m always here for a fake fiance story. Joshua comes off a little cold throughout the book, but I fell in love with Danielle. For as much crap that life has thrown her way, she has fought back. She takes on so much responsibility once her mom flakes on her own baby, and her resilience and sense of humor she still has won me over.

But the romance in this one never worked for me. I feel like we never move past “woman for hire” in Joshua’s eyes, and “I’m safe now in this big house” in Danielle’s eyes. Did Danielle grow to truly love Joshua, who was a complete stranger to start this book? I think she likes him a lot, but I also think she would spend his life with him and all of his money, rather than go back to her old apartment with no furniture. That’s not a solid HEA.

Joshua had a serious girlfriend in the past and she had a miscarriage late in her pregnancy. He blames himself for not protecting her enough and then not being there as their relationship unraveled. I think he looks at Danielle and her infant brother as a chance to prove to everyone he can care for a wife and have that baby he was supposed to have …instead of true love for Danielle.

Maybe we needed more time for it all to develop, but the true romance feelings never showed up for me.

Grade: C

Such a great read. I loved the characters and would highly recommend this to anyone looking for a feel-good story.

I really liked this story. It moved really well and I didn't want it to end

Maisey Yates is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors, EVER!


Joshua Grayson places a fake fiancé wanted ad to teach his meddling father a lesson. What he wasn't expecting was for that fake fiancé, Danielle Kelly, would actually teach him a lesson.

A lesson in love.

Joshua & Danielle were an unlikely pair. Yet, they were perfect together. I felt such a connection to these two. My heart ached for Danielle and all that she'd been through. She was just so real and a well balanced heroine. There was one particular part in the book where I thought I was going to be slightly disappointed with her character. But I should've known better because Maisey Yates never disappoints. Danielle's strength & self love at the ending had me tears.

" She knew far too well what it was like to pour love out and never get it back."

IN TEARS!

I can't wait to read everything by this author!

CLAIM ME, COWBOY (Copper Ridge Desire #4) by Maisey Yates
* Unexpected
Danielle and Riley need a fresh start and financial security. How can she achieve that white working as a cashier? By answering a wealthy cowboys newspaper ad of course. Joshua is tired of his parents meddling in his love life, his father even takes out an ad in a national newspaper advertising that he's looking for a wife!!! Can't they just accept he's perfectly fine on his own? Joshua wants to teach his father a lesson about meddling, but is it Joshua who actually learns a lesson, or two? Will Danielle get the financial security she's looking for for herself and Riley, or will she walk away from it all? You'll have to read CLAIM ME, COWBOY to find out. Maisey continues to add more depth in Copper Ridge with each story I read. While each story is it's own standalone story, they also coincide with the rest of the series for a complete picture..... I can't wait to read more!! ARC received from Publisher via Netgalley for an honest voluntary review.

Maisey Yates has done it again--I don't know how she manages it, book after book, but she never fails to wrap her stories around my heart and even in this shorter format in the Harlequin Desire series, she got to me again. Claim Me, Cowboy is a 5-star read.

Joshua is wealthy, accomplished, has an excellent and successful career and a long list of no-strings affairs, and he likes it that way. What he doesn't like is his meddling father, who is so eager for his son to have what he considers a normal life, with a wife, a loving home and children. He's so eager, in fact, that he takes out a newspaper ad searching for the perfect woman to marry his son, and Joshua is not about to take that lying down. Instead, Joshua takes out an ad of his own, searching for a totally unsuitable woman to fake being his fiance, in the hopes that his parents will find her so unsuitable that they'll get off his back once and for all and leave him as he is--handsome, wealthy, and blessedly single. But you know what they say about best laid plans, don't you?

When the first person to respond to Joshua's ad turns up at his door, she's certainly not at all what Joshua was expecting. Her name is Danielle, she's 22--more than a decade younger than Joshua, she's too thin, too drab, wearing tattered clothing, driving a hot mess of a car, and, oh yes, she's carrying a baby with her. Joshua's ad was like a dream come true. Live with Joshua in his gorgeous home for a month, pretend to be his loving fiance well enough to fool his parents and siblings, and leave at the end of 30 days with enough money to give herself and baby Riley a fresh start in life and the chance of a good future.

Joshua wasn't expecting an unwed mother (and there's more to that story that I won't give away), but feels it will make Danielle even more unsuitable in the eyes of his family. He's very clear about what will and won't happen in this arrangement. He's not looking for love, he's not interested in marriage, or in having a family of his own. He's perfectly happy with his life as it is, and just wants to get his family off his back. Danielle, who has no other option than to continue working as a part-time cashier (if she can find another job, since taking care of Riley cost her the last part-time job she had), trying to keep a roof over her and Riley's heads, and since she isn't looking for love either, has little problem agreeing to Joshua's terms.

Both of these characters are keeping secrets, and since they are relative strangers, that isn't surprising. Danielle is floored by Joshua's beautiful home and his willingness to not only hire her for his ruse, but to provide her and Riley with everything she and Riley need, from clothing to diapers, and for someone like Danielle, who has never had much, including a stable family, life with Joshua seems like something out of a fairy tale to her. But as they share his home, and spend time together, each of them slowly begins to open up about their past, their upbringing, their history, and, as that happens, their attraction grows. When that attraction leads to sex, virginal Danielle has a lot of explaining to do, and when she does, Joshua finds a great deal to admire about her, like her strength of character, her determination, and her honesty. She's slowly falling in love with him, but Joshua thinks she's mistaking gratitude for love--he isn't looking for love and makes it very clear that he never will. But again, best laid plans.

There was so much I loved about this novel. First, Danielle, who's described as elfin, but with an admirable inner core of strength, honesty, and one heck of a backbone, certainly when it comes to Joshua and her growing feelings for him. She doesn't buy into his story about never falling in love again, and she isn't afraid to stand up to him either. I also loved Joshua's family, warm, supportive, kind, open and sweet, something Danielle has always wished for and dreamed of, and something she believes Joshua doesn't truly appreciate, and she's right about that.

There's a lot more to this story, but I'd hate to spoil it for you. I will say that Maisey Yates managed to pack a whole lot of emotion and depth into this rather short novel, and, as usual, she once again managed to bring me to tears, and I loved every single minute of it. If you tend to shy away from series romances, make an exception for this one, you'll be very glad you did.

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

Danielle is a young woman very determined to take care of what’s her and not leave things to chance. So she took matters into her own hands and played her cards. When she accepted Joshua’s’ offer, she turned her world upside down and it toyed with her emotions. Now Danielle is more vulnerable to her emotions and some cracks are starting to show.

Joshua has been placed in a predicament by his father, manipulating the situation is leading Joshua to do crazy things. A strong horseman used to getting his way meets the headstrong Danielle. Danielle brought more than just luggage with her and it’s hitting all of Joshua’s well kept emotions and leading him to face long kept secrets. Unfortunately he kept his emotions locked away until it was almost too late.

Danielle and Joshua have a different relationship that is based purely off of a mutual benefit. They never seemed to really make it into a true couple relationship. The emotions were up and down and some would say immature. The couple were jumping into life changing decisions but neither one took time to assess their life and emotions, any time they were close they both just buried it and acted as if everything was okay. Joshua seemed very closed off in a lot of aspects, to the point of not being mysterious but cold. I could relate to the characters on one level, an unhealthy addiction to pop-tarts! The secondary characters made appearances throughout the novel, however they did not really add to the story or take away from it. Ms. Yates characters usually grab a person and wraps them in personality and charm allowing them to get carted off into the story; Joshua and Danielle were not able to wrap this reader up. It lacked consistent emotion from both hero and heroine, making the story easy to finish but not compelling me to reread it. I do look forward to more Copper Ridge novels, I want desperately to find one that makes me fall in love with Copper Ridge cowboys!

Well written sweet and sexy romance between a successful cowboy and a downtrodden waif. The story pulled me in from the beginning and although it was somewhat predictable the writing keep me reading. I assume this is one of a series but this is my first story. I liked the family and the cast of characters. Joshua is a big Alpha cowboy with a tragic backstory. Spunky Danielle was all upfront and a sympathetic character. I like both but I didn’t really feel their connection at times. Still worth the read and I plan to check out the rest of the series. I voluntarily reviewed a NetGalley ARC.

Danielle was hired to be an unsuitable girlfriends to Joshua to pretty much get his parents to stop meddling in his love life. She's not in the best of situation and with the money he's offering she'll take on this job but what both wasn't expecting was for the heart to be confused about this situation.

Overall this was a pretty good book. Too short for my liking but with the amount of pages there was and the info that was in this book about the characters and backgrounds you really get alot out of this book. I loved seeing that connection and how everything worked out in the end it was a pretty good book I really enjoyed it.

Rating: 3.5/5

Fed up with his father’s attempts to marry him off, Joshua Grayson decides to take his own steps to thwart his plans by posting his own ad for the job of pretending to be engaged to him. Well, that was his plan - but we all know what happens to the best laid plans! In this case, the potential bride is Danielle Kelly who turns up on his doorstep complete with Riley, a baby, in her arms! Well, she’s definitely going to be deemed unsuitable by his Dad and that was the plan - wasn’t it? This is one fake relationship that won’t become anything else because he’s paying her to play the role and that would be wrong - wouldn’t it?

This is a delightful story where the insecure childhood of the heroine makes her determined to provide a better childhood for Riley, which is why she took this job in the first place. Joshua always wanted more than the small town of Cooper Ridge could offer but a failed relationship and his closeness to his siblings has brought him home again. He has no plans to fall in love but that’s just another plan to go awry! It lacks some of the character and backstory building because it is such a short read but is still a page turner.

This is a fun, relatively quick, read and an enjoyable story to escape into when you have a couple of hours to relax and read.

I requested and was lucky enough to be given a copy of this novel, via NetGalley, with no obligation. This is my honest review of the book after choosing to read it.