I do like stories about families and Maisey Yates did a great job to write heartwarming ones, that I enjoyed reading, discovering about one member of the family in each book.

Wyatt and Lindy had history without really having one. Just one look and it was like no one else existed but it wasn’t the right time. Years later and one failed marriage, Lindy and Wyatt were trying to fight this powerful attraction, turning into some awkward and uneasy relationship.

Just business and nothing else. Well, it was more easier to say than done.

I appreciated to read about them, especially about Wyatt who was more than he seemed to be, the man who didn’t do relationships, enjoying the moment, no hard feelings. I was glad to see beneath the good looks and charming personality.

As you might guess, the attraction is too hot to handle and well things going to be a bit more confusing for these two, you had to go through some soul-searching in order to find something real.

Every time I read one story about the cowboys of Gold Valley, it just felt effortless to fall in love with the characters who were genuine, authentic surrounded by family and great friends. This is the kind of story with a smooth pace, a bit of sweet and passion, with of course a beautiful scenery place.

Maisey Yates is the cowgirl queen of the angsty western romance. What I love about her books is that the difficulties that get in the way of the happy ever afters between her characters always feel real and never contrived. There are no misunderstandammits, just interesting people with too much baggage who get in the way of their own happiness by being human but not by being stupid.

That’s been the story through the Gold Valley series and through the series it spun off from, Copper Ridge. The two small towns are neighbors in Oregon. Their fates are tied, and so are the people who live there. The individual books in each series do stand alone, but it is fun to read them all and get to know the entire gang.

The Gold Valley series has been featuring the Dodge family as they get their once-and-future destination ranch back into shape for a new generation of both Dodges and tourists. In this third book in the series, we finally get around to oldest brother Wyatt Dodge. I say finally because Wyatt is the prime mover and shaker behind this resurrection of the family ranch, so the story so far has circled around him even though he hasn’t been the featured player until now.

There’s angst in this romance on both sides of the equation. Wyatt is keeping a big secret from his sister and brothers. They are all (except local vet Bennett Dodge, see Untamed Cowboy) throwing not just their money but also their time, energy and hearts into getting Get Out of Dodge Ranch back into shape. They all think Wyatt owns the ranch, but he doesn’t. Their dad still owns the ranch, and if the ranch doesn’t succeed immediately after its grand re-opening, dad is going to sell it out from under all of them.

Wyatt is sure that dear old dad is punishing him for his long past sins, not that there weren’t plenty of them. But Wyatt is all in, he can’t resist a challenge and he isn’t willing to let his sister and his brothers down – no matter how willing he might be to tell their father to go to hell and not bother with the handcart.

Wyatt is so far in that he’s willing to partner with the one woman in town who has proven completely resistant to his charms. Lindy Parker is the one woman he has never managed to get out of his head, even if, or perhaps especially because, he’s never managed to get her into his bed.

Lindy, the current owner of Grassroots Winery, wants to make the winery a success to spite her ex-husband and ex-inlaws. She got the winery in her divorce from her cheating ex. As much as she doesn’t want to work with Wyatt – because he drives her crazy for reasons she can’t articulate even to herself, having the winery partner with the ranch makes good business sense even if it makes lousy personal sense.

Lindy’s been divorced for two years, which is just long enough for her to be able to start getting a much clearer picture in her own mind of the truth about not just her marriage but about her part of what went wrong. And about the twists and turns in her life that have brought her to the place she is now.

And that if she wants her own happy ever after, with or without any man in general or surprisingly Wyatt Dodge in particular, she needs to drop her own baggage, get her head out of her own ass and finally get out of her own way.

Even if Wyatt isn’t ready to get out of his.

Escape Rating B+: Unlike many of the previous books in this series (and Copper Ridge) this doesn’t feel like it really follows any of the familiar tropes. Wyatt and Lindy initially are far from friends. At the same time, they are not enemies, or even frenemies. While it becomes clear that they have both always been way more aware of each other than either of them was willing to let on, the relationship they actually have had doesn’t fit into any neat little boxes.

What it does remind me of is the French phrase that is usually translated as “love at first sight”. But love at first sight is not what they have. What happened to them at the very beginning, back when Lindy was still married to her cheating ex and Wyatt was still a champion bull rider on the rodeo circuit, feels more like the literal translation of that French phrase. Their first meeting was a “coup de foudre” or thunderbolt, that left scorched earth in its wake. And it’s the sudden intensity of that first meeting that neither of them has ever gotten past – no matter how much time they’ve both spent paddling that famous river, De Nial.

Their business partnership has forced Wyatt and Lindy into each other’s proximity on an uncomfortably frequent basis – and that original thunderbolt still has plenty of sparks left in it. There’s a big problem, with sticking your finger in a light socket over and over – electricity hurts.

Both Wyatt and Lindy have become experts at keeping other people away from their true, core selves, and are very good and not letting themselves need other people, because both of their foundational experiences, although very different in their particulars, made them learn back when they were children that they had no one to rely on but themselves. Other people always let them down.

That’s a hard lesson for a child to learn, and it leaves scars that affect adult relationships. Wyatt feels like he has to shoulder the entire burden of their father’s demands alone, that he can’t let his siblings know their futures are riding on the grand opening.

Lindy feels like she can’t ever let her uber-calm, ultra professional ice princess ever falter, because she’s certain that people will judge her for upbringing and her choices. And while she’s right, they will judge, she needs to learn that it doesn’t have to matter. Not being her authentic self is her part of what broke her marriage, and her inability to be her real self keeps her from relationships, including one with her brother.

And both of them have things they need to forgive, both to forgive themselves, and to forgive others. Those are hard lessons to learn, and painful ones. But ultimately freeing.

Also totally real. And that’s what makes Maisey Yates’ angsty romances so terrific to read! Speaking of angst, the next book in the Gold Valley series is going to be chock-full of it. I can’t wait to read Grant Dodge’s story in A Tall, Dark Cowboy Christmas this fall.

4.5 Stars

I was pulled right into this story. The story has laughs, secrets, and heartbreak.

If you have not read the below I would recommend reading those books(s) first:
Cowboy Christmas Blues (Gold Valley, #0.5)
Smooth-Talking Cowboy (Gold Valley, #1)
Mail Order Cowboy (Gold Valley, #1.5)
Untamed Cowboy (Gold Valley, #2)
Hard Riding Cowboy (Gold Valley, #2.5)

This is Lindy and Wyatt’s story. Lindy used to be married to Wyatt’s best friend but now she is free and needs his help. Wyatt has always felt a pull towards Lindy, but she was married. Now that she is not he can feel the pull even more. But she needs help can he help her and also explore something with her? Or will the heat between them cause even more issues? Can he be with her knowing she is a forever kind of woman? Can Wyatt decide if he wants to have her forever before she gives up on him?

I loved these characters and the side characters. I felt I could connect with the characters and the story was a great read.

I highly recommend this book.

Good Time Cowboy was a fun and steamy summer read. I felt as if Lindy could be my friend and I absolutely loved watching Wyatt change from page to page. These two made the journey very enjoyable.



Lindy is still trying to get over her divorce, with which she dropped her lying cheating ex, but picked up a whole lot more - namely his family winery. Determined to keep the place up and running and have it be a major success, Lindy's willing to try just about anything - including a joint business venture with the ranch next door - the ranch run by the Dodges. Lindy knows all about Wyatt Dodge and his playboy ways and she knows she wants nothing to do with them - until that is, she kind of does.



Wyatt's got his own reasons for wanting to stay away from Lindy - the least of which is his past friendship with her ex. Wyatt can't help but be compelled by the new Lindy though. There's a lot of chemistry between them and it's only compounded by the banter they deliver. The push and pull between them just builds within each page and makes you question what would happen if they gave in to what they truly wanted.



With the basis of a forbidden romance - there's a lot to work with between these two, just the right amount of drama, a whole host of chemistry, and a deep connection. Things are just the right amount of complicate to suck you in and keep you reading as these two try to figure thin

Over the summer, I jumped off the Maisey Yates bandwagon. She’s prolific and I did have an ARC in the TBR. Something Something Cowboy. I read the first page, slapped the Kindle shut and moved on. No can do. There it was *eye roll* the typical Yates antagonism, the heroine with the defiant mouth, the surly and/or laid-back hero … usually, this is reading catnip for me. I quixotically thought, Yates and I are parting company. You’d rightly say: here you are, MissB., reviewing another Yates romance. (Which I loved, btw … ) So, what happened? I have a terrible reader confession, so petty, kinda mean: I cannot read tall heroines, just can’t. No way. Every other ilk I’m cool with, but once a heroine confesses to tallness, there’s a disconnect. And that points to something about what I want as a reader: a tiny connection with the heroine that says, “You’re small, but you can do this.” Maybe because I’m small, like Jane-Eyre small, and since reading Brontë’s novel, it has stood as a model of what a heroine should be: humble, but never diminished. It’s terrible and … prejudicial … and goodness knows, we don’t need any more of that in the world, but there you have it. But with Good Time Cowboy, Yates hit all my satisfaction levels and I’m back on the bandwagon.

Good Time Cowboy is another volume in the vast world that Yates has built around two fictional Oregon towns, Copper Ridge and Gold Valley. Hero and heroine will be familiar to long-time Yates readers. Wyatt Dodge and Lindy Parker had cameos in the first two Gold Valley novels. More importantly, they’re signature Yates. Somewhere in their mid-thirties with their past to work through, circumstances and people in their lives who have knowingly or unknowingly, and because of an inner reluctance to confront, blocked them emotionally. Impeded them from falling in love. At this stage in their lives, Yates’s hero and heroine tend to think in terms of why they cannot embark on a committed relationship. While this state of mind and heart seems entrenched, there’s maturation that the hero and heroine have reached that allows them to overcome their past wounds and make that commitment. The journey, however, is a painful one, like giving birth. There’s pain, drama, uncertainty, but also anticipation and joy, possibility and fulfillment.

Wyatt Dodge, former bull-rider, is trying to make a success of his family’s ranch, Get Out of Dodge. Though he appears laid-back, he’s anxious to ensure the ranch’s solvency for his younger brothers, Grant and Bennett, and sister, Jamie. The siblings do not know that their father, Quinn, has given Wyatt an ultimatum: prove the ranch a success or Quinn sells. Wyatt and Quinn’s relationship is strained; there is something that lurks from their past that must be resolved for Wyatt to be able to love and commit to heroine Lindy. (Please note that Wyatt had a transgressive relationship in the past. I thought Yates handled it well, but some readers may not agree.)

Lindy’s emotional impediments come from her difficult relationship with a cold, lacking-in-love mother, her sense of herself as less-than because of her “trailer-trash” childhood, and her divorce from cheating husband, Damien. While Lindy and Wyatt are all kinds of messed-up internally, they’re successfully working towards building their respective businesses, Lindy’s Grassroots Winery and Wyatt’s ranch. In the past few months, they’ve been partnering on offering a tourist experience: the great outdoors and horses at the dude ranch and sophisticated wine pairings for meals and picnics.

From the get-go, their business acumen is left in the dust by their antagonistic banter (loved it!) and physical attraction. Yates is marvelous at shedding her characters’ emotionally protective carapaces as they shed clothes. Lindy and Wyatt’s business proximity sees them agree to sleep together, reasoning it’s only “for sex.” Famous last romance words. This is what distinguishes romance from erotica, sex is not primary to the romance narrative. A physical relationship, even in a kisses-only romance, is integral to the emotional work that needs to be done. It can be a conduit, a metaphor, a threshold, but like dialogue, it can only go as far as the characters are willing to go emotionally.

I believe that Yates writes romance as a carnal experience of faith. Wyatt and Lindy’s first encounter, when Lindy was still married, is described as a prefiguration:

He’d looked at her … This had been like a lightning strike. Electric. Immobilizing. Lethal. She’d had to force herself to keep moving forward, and the whole time he’d stared. His brown eyes locked on to hers, his expression filled with a kind of intensity she had never seen before. It had been like her whole body had been hollowed out, making room for this feeling that he had created and placed inside of her. There had been nothing but that. For a full thirty seconds. Nothing else existed outside of it. Not her life. Not her marriage.

In this first moment, and expressed as a flashback, Yates establishes the idea of the beloved as predestination. But I also like that predestination doesn’t mean predetermination. Lindy and Wyatt have to work on themselves, overcome their fears, acknowledge their internal impediments and make a free choice to love, to choose the beloved. Maybe it was “meant to be”, and certainly for Yates there are no coincidences, but it must also be chosen. Yates’s language strains here, but it is rich in religious imagery:

The full burst of that moment she had first laid eyes on Wyatt Dodge. It hadn’t been love at first sight. But it had been the promise of love. The taste of it. And now, she was immersed in it, like a baptism. In fire, in heat and desire. An unending, all-consuming love. This was the moment she had known she would have. The fulfillment of that destiny that had been promised the moment she had walked into that bar.

Wyatt mirrors Lindy’s revelation when he admits to himself that he loves her:

Perhaps he had from the moment she had walked into that bar. Like a moment of faith. One he wouldn’t ever fully understand. Like he had seen her and known something, deep in his bones. Like he had looked into a crystal ball.

Finally, there is a familiar echo, for any person of faith, in Wyatt’s final realization, that love abides:

… there was only one thing that endured. That lasted. That lived on after people died. It was love. And of all the temporary, vain things in the world, it was the only thing that would stand tall in the end.

Yates echoes Ecclesiastes and St. Paul’s Corinthians 1, chapter 13. Before reaching the point when the past is burned away, love stands sentinel. But for the sentinel to have motion and possibility, the hero and heroine must choose. Then, possibility becomes reality and the shadows in the mirror, darkly, clear.

What else can I say, folks, other than I’m a Yates fan-girl. I loved Good Time Cowboy not because it did something new, not because Wyatt and Lindy will stand out. They’ll meld into Yates’s world, along with all her happy couples. What will linger is the sense that in the humble romance, in our carnal, temporal, and temporary reality, we can fulfill our human calling: to love and be loved. (Good Time Cowboy is followed by a Yates novella. I didn’t read it. Even for Yates, I can’t do one after another. But I’ll be back for it.) With Miss Austen, I say that Yates’s Good Time Cowboy is proof “there is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,” Emma.

Maisey Yates’s Good Time Cowboy is published by HQN Books. It was released on August 21st and may be found at your preferred vendor. I received an e-ARC from HQN, via Netgalley.

I seriously love Maisey Yates writing. She always pulls me into her amazing small town romances. Good Time Cowboy was no different.
Wyatt definitely won my heart with his sexy, cocky attitude. I love how he shamelessly pursued Melinda. Ha! He loved to get under her skin. The slow burn build between the two was hot. But once Lindy finally gave into her attraction to Wyatt it was even HOTTER.

I can't wait to devour whatevers next from Maisey Yates.

This slow-burn romance will have you on the edge of your seat with a "when will they" and a "do it already" until your panting right along with Lindy. Oh my goodness, that wicked Wyatt is a master at playing the game of making Lindy want it then backing off. Waiting for the woman ask for it! But Lindy has a spine of steel and a formidable resolve. Their slow build gives you a chance to really get to know these wonderful characters. They're not perfect but that would be boring and these characters are anything but. The author does a fantastic job of letting Wyatt and Lindy marinate as they forge a working relationship, albeit sometimes contentious, with their neighboring lands and shared interests. Wyatt inherited, with stipulations, a dude ranch from his father and he's restoring it to its former glory after retiring from bull riding. Lindy received her ex's family's winery in a divorce settlement and is not content with the status quo. She wants to build the business and is working to prove herself to be more than gold-digging trailer trash. Wyatt and Lindy have know each other for years and each harbor desires that go beyond friendship but the stubborn cusses refuse to give in. Their push and pull set the tone for a sizzling matchup as they go at each other. Will the smooth-talking cowboy win her over? As they really get to know each other they discover truths that move their relationship to new levels of respect and intimacy. The evil ex pops up for some added drama and with the sexy Dodge men there's always something going on. This is a wonderfully written cowboy tale that will have doing the two step all the way to the end. Just fabulous! I voluntarily reviewed an ARC. 4.5 stars

Good Time Cowboy is the third novel in Maisey Yates' Gold Valley series, and if there's one thing about her novels, it's that they grab you and don't let go until the final page--in my case, I got to that last page at 5:00 a.m., and this novel gets 4.5 stars from this sleep-deprived reader.

The main characters in this novel are Lindy Parker, who owns and operates the winery and vineyard that one belonged to her cheating ex-husband, Damien, whom she divorced 2 years earlier after discovering that he was cheating on her. She got the winery, vineyard and lavish home in the divorce, leaving some of the Gold Valley residents and Damien and his family thinking she was a trailer trash gold-digger who married Damien for his money. Well, she did grow up in a run-down trailer park, and during her ten year marriage, she worked hard on becoming someone that fit well into the rarefied social set she'd married into. She worked like mad to make the winery a success, her ex couldn't have cared less about it during their marriage, and she polished her image into that of a cool, sophisticated, well-dressed, in-control, and successful business owner. But there was one person who made her lose her cool, from the moment their eyes met across a crowded bar and his name is Wyatt Dodge, former bull rider, friend of her ex-husband, and currently trying to restore the failing Get Out of Dodge ranch into a stylish, successful and profitable destination dude ranch.

Before and more so after the divorce, Lindy has put all her energies into improving the local business community, and has teamed up with the Dodge ranch and other local businesses to make Gold Valley a vacation destination, not unlike nearby Copper Ridge, the location of the author's previous and excellent series. Wyatt has his own issues, his father is the primary one. When his father gave up on the ranch, he gave Wyatt an ultimatum--turn the ranch into a success within a year or lose it. His father would just as soon sell the ranch out from under him and his siblings and split the money between them, but the ranch is something Wyatt put all his rodeo winnings into, keeping it afloat and providing for his siblings, and he's not about to have his father take it away simply because his father didn't like his career choice. There are also secrets to be revealed about Wyatt, and why he left the ranch at the age of seventeen, but I'll let you discover what those reasons are rather than explain them here.

Wyatt and Lindy couldn't be more different in personality, outlook or behavior. Handsome-as-sin, Wyatt's style has always been that of an easy-going, sexy, charming, and commitment-free bull rider/cowboy. Lindy, on the other hand, is as straitlaced and buttoned-up as a woman can be. She's not dated since her divorce and her ex is the only man she's ever been with before, during and after the divorce. Lindy can't see herself ever allowing herself to trust another man enough to commit to him, but her ire and dislike of Wyatt's love 'em and leave 'em lifestyle and reputation doesn't mean she's oblivious to his gorgeous looks, strength and sex appeal.

Since the day Wyatt set eyes on Lindy for the first time he was strongly attracted to her, but once his friend, Damien, introduced them and made it clear that she was his, Wyatt backed off and respected Damien and Lindy's relationship, but the attraction between Wyatt and Lindy managed to survive her 10 year marriage and divorce, and now that he and Lindy are working together, Wyatt finally has his chance to pursue the sexual relationship he's always wanted with her. The only thing that bothered me, and the reason this novel didn't get a 5-star rating was my difficulty in understanding what, besides her looks, Wyatt saw in Lindy. I had a tough time warming up to the uptight, straitlaced, cold and standoffish Lindy, and I actively disliked her personality and persona for the first half of this novel. But, like Wyatt, Lindy has some secrets of her own, and once they are revealed she became a much easier character to warm up to and understand.

Like every other Maisey Yates novel I've read, Good Time Cowboy is about much more than your average cowboy, enemies-to-lovers romance. There's a lot of depth to this novel as well as character development, backstory, and enough angst for a least a dozen novels, and while I felt that the build-up was a bit slow, the wait was so worth it, because Ms. Yates delved deep into what made her characters the people they were, how they were hurt by their own lives and upbringing, past and present, and what they each needed from the other. While there isn't much in the way of action in this novel, what there is in abundance is a deep and profound understanding of the human psyche, the true nature of what makes a marriage work, and an honest and adept appraisal of her own characters, and when in comes to that kind of depth, Ms. Yates has few peers.

As I stated at the outset, this was an impossible to put down read, even though it took me some time to warm up to the heroine. It was certainly hot and sexy, but also deeply moving, and I loved its HEA ending, and I think you will too. While this novel works just fine as a standalone, I will suggest that reading this series in the order in which it was written will make it easier for you to understand the secondary characters and the complex relationships between those characters. Kudos to the amazingly talented Maisey Yates for writing yet another addictive and emotional read.

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

“If I kissed you right now, if you kissed me back… I think we would light this whole vineyard on fire.”

If you’re looking for a good time with a cowboy, then look no further than Maisey Yates’ Good Time Cowboy. Her latest Gold Valley novel, it manages to be playful and sexy—think enemies-to-lovers style banter—while still digging down deep and reaching for your very heart.

It’s a story that touches on a great many things—not the least of which is self-worth—and it does it while finally giving readers of this series payoff when it comes to Wyatt and Lindy. For me, it was perhaps a little too reflective at times, which made it drag just a skosh, but then again, it also moved me to near-tears, so…

If you’re not already reading Ms. Yates, this is a great place to start. Her brand of gruff, sexy cowboy is my favorite brand of cowboy, and she’s become something of a go-to for me when it comes to true love, down-home grit, and happy endings—and, of course, a damn good time.

She was ready. Ready to let him destroy her. Because he was worth it.
And so was she.

Lindy caught her ex cheating on her and when they separated she was left the vineyard. Now she's getting help from his friend Wyatt who's a Rancher. Wyatt secretly had some feelings towards Lindy but had self control enough to keep his distance. Both have baggages and don't want the hassle of relationships but they both seem to have come up with an agreement they both might enjoy. If only they could keep their heart out of it.

I really enjoyed this Western contemporary thought it was such an enjoyable read. I love Wyatt and Lindy's character and getting to know them over the course of the book. I thought it was interesting seeing how they dealt with their past (or didn't) and how they were working to better themselves in this book. They were such a hard-working people and refused to let old baggage get them down. I love getting the dual point of view seeing what was really going on in their mind. Overall it was a really good luck I really enjoyed it. I also enjoyed the novella it was a nice little addition. Highly recommend.

I love reading Maisey Yates and her series for it is more than the story you see the whole gang and how they end up. It was nice to come back to Gold Valley seeing the whole gang. These two are just like dynamite waiting for the fuse to combust and boy does it ever. What got me is though Wyatt has his issues he is man enough to confront them and won't back down when it comes to Lindy. Maisey Yates once again proves that no matter if you rodeod and faced hundred pounds of bull love can still scare any strong man. Takes a strong woman to make you see how good it can be.

"I received an eBook copy from the publisher for the purpose of an honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own."

What a lovely story, it was an emotional journey with a sexy cowboy.

I loved that in this story we have grown up characters and I loved their connection.They were intense and there were moments that they make me smile a lot.

It has also enough drama to keep you intrigued until the end.

After a messy divorce from her cheating husband, Lindy is determined to prove that she can not only survive but thrive without a man. And she will most definitely be keeping far away from the sexy ranch owner Wyatt Dodge no matter what her body says when he is around.
I loved Lindy and Wyatt's story. Watching them fight their attraction to each other all while trying to plan a huge event that will benefit both of their businesses was alot of fun. However there was a lot of backstory and inner monologues that had my interest fizzling at times. This was definitely not a one sitting read for me. While I loved the push and pull between these two, I found myself getting frustrated at the pace of the story. I did love seeing these two get their happy.

After ten years of marriage Lindy divorced her husband due to his cheating ways and as part of the divorce settlement she received his family’s winery. She never wants to experience again what she endured as a child, so she has worked hard to ensure it was a success.

Wyatt was friends with Lindy’s husband, but he has always been drawn to her. They are working together to ensure the success of the dude ranch he is opening as if it doesn’t work out the consequences will be devastating to his entire family.

They are very attracted to each other but Wyatt’s reputation with the ladies makes her cautious and he wants to show Lindy how to relax and have some fun. Will they be willing to cross the line from professional to personal?

Once Wyatt and Lindy get to really know each other they learn that appearances can be deceiving and there is no denying the heart between them. It was great to return to Golden Valley and I look forward to visiting again soon. I voluntarily reviewed an advance reader copy of this book.

If you're looking for an intelligent read with all of the feels, check out Good Time Cowboy by Maisey Yates, the latest entry in the Gold Valley series.

In the previous two novels, it was apparent that Wyatt and Lindy were going to come together at some point. They seemed literally combustible, rubbing each other the wrong way, exchanging barbs.

In Good Time Cowboy, however, they become fully realized characters, both of whom are dealing with a lot of baggage and both of whom have ruled out future marriage--Lindy because she was hurt by her divorce and Wyatt because he thinks he understands himself well enough to know that he wouldn't want to commit to marriage.

Lindy and Wyatt begin working together on a project that would attract attention to Lindy's Grassroots Winery and Wyatt's dude ranch, Get Out of Dodge. The more they work together the more obvious it is that they will have to deal with the unspoken attraction they both felt five years earlier when a single glance made them feel something they'd never felt before. Because Lindy was still married, they never acted on the intense moment.

Good Time Cowboy is everything you would want in a cowboy romance---heat, characters who are more than just walking, talking sexual projectiles, and situations that will make you laugh and situations that will have tears streaming down your cheeks. The drama felt real as did the characters. Yates obviously cares about these characters and gave them believable backstory so that they felt like real human beings with real, unapologetic foibles.

While Good Time Cowboy  is the third in the Gold Rush series, it can be read as a standalone and works amazingly well as one.

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is a hard review to write and not just because of words not coming to me at 3 am, but because I've been waiting for Lindy's book for the past couple of books. I was really anticipating this and it's one of those where the hype you build in your head for a massive five-star review - doesn't make it to paper. First off, I loved Lindy and Wyatt - in theory. They're both incredibly good together, they're stubborn and fun. They have great chemistry and it all worked for them "on paper." My problem was that this kind of seemed repetitive to me, as in "a been there and done that" sort of plotline that's been told before. The formulaic way everything played out had been done before in a previous book. The book itself is well-written and grammar is spotless. I had issues with all the inner dialogues going on with the characters and this took me out of the story. Also, my pet peeve is when there's angst - when two characters like each other and yet they keep pushing the other away just to fill up pages...

I love interactions between characters and when I don't have that...well that's when my mind starts to wonder. A professor once taught me that to be a speed reader you had to take the most important parts of what you read and then move on - most important parts are dialogue, back stories and unfortunately for me, it's not reading about thoughts and feelings for pages and pages. I was really expecting kind of a lighthearted, fun, and non-angsty read and I got the opposite.

Now, let's go over what the author did correctly - she wrote a complete novel without cliffhangers which I applaud her for. I hate those with a passion. She did have engaging characters when there was dialogue and it was interesting the interaction between Lindy and Wyatt. She did her research and I couldn't fault her for anything she wrote for the background. Even though the storylines been done before - what storyline hasn't? She wrote a really angsty book that some will love. The great thing about the book community is that we're all different and we all have different opinions and ideas about what's good. What I might find drawn out, someone else will love that detail (like my mother!!) In conclusion, if you've read all of Ms. Yates other books and loved them - read this because it's not going to hurt and if you haven't read her, then start somewhere else.

Soul baring family drama! With the next in the Gold Valley series, Maisey Yates brings us Lindy and Wyatt's story. We knew it was going to be good from all of the fire they each put forward in hating each other in previous glimpses of them, but I wasn't expecting them to touch my heart so much. Both of them have a back story that defined them and made them into the person they are today ... and also made them think they weren't worthy of the love they grow to feel for one another. The family camaraderie is very warm-hearted, the past confessions define the character in a way we couldn't have predicted, and the passion they share with one another is magical. Really loved their story!

Lindy Parker is putting her heart and soul into making Grassroots Winery better than ever before, and she will do just about anything to make sure it succeeds ... obviously, if she's willing to partner with her cheating ex-husband's friend Wyatt Dodge. He's just about the most arrogant man she's ever met, and just as much of a womanizer as her ex. She can't stand him, but if partnering with his ranch will make a success out of the winery she got from her husband in the divorce settlement, she'll bite her lip and pretend for all she's got!

Wyatt Dodge comes off as a sure of himself guy who goes through women like nobody's business ... but there's a side to him that no one ever sees. He had a reason for hitting the rodeo circuit at seventeen and never looking back, and being back on the ranch and trying to make it a success brings all of the old baggage to the surface time and time again. Lindy might hate him, but he came alive the very first time he laid eyes on her. She can fight it all she wants, but they are destined to cause an explosion of desire one day soon!

I did enjoy this book but it wasn't my favourite in this series. I did have a bit of issue getting into the story and I found it repetitive.

Good time cowboy is the third book in the Gold Valley Series. The stories are interconnected but it can be read as a standalone.

Lindy is trying to prove herself and running the vineyard that she claimed after her recent divorce. She has a long way to go and first had to believe in herself before she can make others believe in her.

“Some people have beautiful things. Some people have beautiful lives. Some people don’t. And when you’ve lived an entire life of dirty and ugly it’s hard to imagine you could ever have anything else. That you could ever deserve anything else.”

Wyatt has crushed on Lindy since the first time he saw her across a crowded bar. He immediately found out she was not only taken, but the wife of a rodeo friend. Now Lindy is free and they have to work together, but Wyatt is not looking for more than a fling.

Author Maisey Yates has become my go-to for hot cowboy stories with real emotional depth.
-4Stars!-

3.5 stars
Ms Yates brings us back to Gold Valley to spend time with the Dodge family - this time with oldest brother, Wyatt.
I liked Wyatt and Lindy and enjoyed watching them poke and prod at each other before finally giving in to their mutual attraction. They are both interesting characters with more in common than they initially appear to have. Unfortunately, as much as I liked both characters, I had a little bit of a hard time connecting to them.
Good Time Cowboy was an entertaining read, but the emotional epiphanies seemed a little forced, especially Lindy's. Both Lindy and Wyatt had road blocks to deal with, it just seemed that they danced a little too much before things magically happened.
This is not my first Gold Valley book, but I think I missed the second book in the series. This is what I would consider a heavily interconnected standalone with numerous references to things that have happened previously and setting up future books. It's not necessary to have read the previous books to read Good Time Cowboy, but by having missed a book in the series, I had a nagging sense of "what am I missing here" as I witnessed interactions with secondary characters. I am curious both to go back and see what I have missed as well as what may be coming next.