I loved this one. You get the sexy, the sweet. You get the laughs and you get your heartstrings pulled just a little. You will love this one. I mean how can you go wrong with a sexy cowboy and a meddling grandma. All I gotta say is Martha is a hoot. Jessica is sweet with a strong head on her shoulders. She is clumsy and somewhat a magnet for disaster. Jason is gruff and puts family and his ranch first. I love Jason even when he runs hot and cold with Jessica. It's his relationship with his grandma Martha that seals the deal for me. It is just so sweet. The chemistry between Jessica and Jason is so hot. You will love and may get a little annoyed at times with how much effort they fight things between each other. But trust me it is worth it. This book is fantastic and I couldn't get enough. I'm looking forward to another visit to Sweetwater.

I absolutely loved this story about two individuals that have had losses, and been deeply hurt. Jason is a former famous baseball player that has been burned by a city gal, left the game he loved , lost his parents in an airplane accident, loves his grandmother whom he wants to keep happy and is dealing with a ranch that is barely surviving. Jessica escapes the city after being betrayed by her fiancee and is given leave from her job as a divorce lawyer when she speaks her mind to the wealthiest client of the firm. She rents a cabin in a little town in Texas, hoping to write a book about divorce, and looking for some peace in her life.
From the moment these two meet , sparks fly as well as distrust .
It’s an engaging, heartbreaking, at times funny as well as heartwarming story about family. About once again trusting your heart, finding oneself , forgiveness and of course romance.
You will fall in love with the main characters, as well as the secondary ones, especially Jason’s grandmother. Though I have to confess that at times you’ll want to shake Jason with all his insecurities.
Can’t wait for book 2 in the series.
I was entrusted a copy of this book by Netgalley and Entangled.

I was stoked to receive my first ever ARC from Lisa Renee Jones through NetGalley. It's my first ARC but not my first read.

The blurb pulled me in... I love romance, I love cowboys and I love baseball and I thought this sounds like something I'd enjoy to read and so here we are.

I think there's a certain way to write a love-hate relationship without completely exasperating the reader and this one has just the right amount of push and pull that gives you those romantic chills. I kept on bracing myself because I was excited of the build-up.... Build up is everything when it comes to romance.

Reading this kinda' reminded me of Country Nights by Winter Renshaw, and I've re-read that book many times especially when find myself in a bookfunk. I'm pretty sure I'll be re-reading this one in the future as well.

I enjoyed the book though there were times when I think Jason was being too much of an a$$hö£e, but he makes it work because Jessica isn't someone who can be pushed-around without pushing back as well.

If you're looking for something to read that would relive the stress away and escape real life for a bit, then this is the book to pick up next.


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Yikes, talk about a toxic relationship! The meanness of the “hero”, Jason, literally lasted the entire book. From beginning to end. He constantly attacked Jessica, accused her of dressing in such a way to attract and distract his men, and then they would have makeup sex. It was literally insult, sex, repeat. For the whole book. Jason is an emotionally abusive guy who has no business with Jessica. The best ending to this book would have been her slapping him and walking away. Sadly, that is not what happened. I thought she got a backbone for a second there but then sexual appeal won out in the end. Because his personality sure didn’t win her over.

I am usually not so tough on books, but having just recently separated myself from a relationship with a person exactly like Jason, this is a sore spot for me. Abuse is abuse, and just because the abuser claims to love you and apologizes doesn’t mean he won’t do it again. Which Jason showed over and over again in this book.

A City girl roughing it in the mud with high heeled boots. This has disaster written all over it. But wait! In comes a Cowboy to the rescue, only this Cowboy hates city girls with a passion. A romcom that is filled with angst, passion and love. Two broken hearts fighting against one another, to see who will give in first. But being burned makes trust hard.
Jason, has a lot of people that count on him, making him even the worst kind of alpha male. You know the kind that has to take care of everything and wont let a woman help. Yeah that is Jason.
Jessica, a divorce attorney with a heart of gold, trying to reinvent herself as a writer, becomes more than that as she bonds with Jason's grandmother. Baking cookies and becoming part of something she never thought she would have. A steady loving family. Divorce in the morning, cookies in the afternoon
This book is the perfect combination of passion and heart, written as only Lisa can write it.
I read this book while raining outside, it made me feel as if I were Jessica typing away at her laptop listening to the raindrops hit the roof. The description and wording in this book transport you to another place, a place called Sweetwater Texas.
An 8 start read!
My Favorite Passage from the book ~ Holy hotness, Batman. Who's the ----alicious cowboy?

This book by Lisa Renee Jones is something different from her normal genre. It was refreshing and was a nice change up! This light hearted story about a love gone wrong and two people meeting and not knowing but they are perfect for each other! This book was so easy to read and a page turner!

3.5 Granny Takes Charge Stars
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Oh My, What a Cover! He is the perfect ad for Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy! Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest.

Now the book. Lisa Renee Jones has created a female divorce lawyer who is successful and smart. She is respected and also has a personal life looking to be set...Until she finds her fiance' and his secretary going at it in bed. The moon must have been Mercury in Retrograde because the next thing she does is call out the biggest client she has as an asshat, pretty much destroying her high powered career in Dallas.

Not one to sit around and weep, she decides to take all she knows about divorce and write a book. Oh and she somehow connects with a sweet grandmother type woman who rents her a cottage away from Dallas.

What the Granny planned was for this woman to wake up her sweet grandson. This man gave up his Baseball career when his parents died. He needed to come back and save the ranch the way the parents had wanted. He also had been burned by his fiance' when she decided ranch life wasn't for her. So Granny's grandson has a chip on his shoulder about women and does not want her help.

These two meet, not in the best ways and the games begin...If Granny has her way, love will be in the air.

A gifted copy was provided by author/publisher via NetGalley for an honest review.

This was a hard push and pull romance with a couple that often straddled the line between love and hate.

While Jessica is working on writing a divorce guide, her drunk friends talk her into writing a romance. Soon she’s doing both and each books shadows her emotions towards the jerky cowboy that is stealing her heart. From the highs to lows, her writing is a reflection of what she is experiencing with Jason. Unfortunately, it looks like she might have to dig further into fiction in order for the romance to have a happy ever after.

Jason was burned by a city girl and with the death of his parents and the condition of the ranch, his plate is full. He gave up pitching in order to take care of business and ensure his grandmother’s future. While he loves the ranch as well as his grandmother, his passion is baseball until he meets Jessica. Now he’s tormented with wanting it all and unable to make his complete dream come true.

I enjoyed these characters. Jessica was smart but a bit clumsy which led to some fun moments. Jason was damaged and carried the world on his shoulders but was too afraid to make the changes that would bring him peace. They were each wounded by life and afraid to yield to what was growing between them.

There is a lot of back and forth between Jessica and Jason which created a wealth of angst. With every decision Jessica made, Jason seemed to take it the wrong way. Even while they battled it out, the chemistry between them sizzled keeping this couple in a constant state of want and desire that pushed against what their minds told them.

This has a great pace to it, never bogging down. There is plenty of humor, lots of steam, and some amazing secondary characters I can’t wait to see more of. Overall, this was a great read for anyone who enjoys the push and pull of which this couple excels!

This one is different from others in this author's recent releases but WOW was this one GREAT! Jessica is on the run. From her life, her career, her fiancee, and basically life but getting stuck in the mud on the way to her new lease and rescued by a cowboy is the best way to start this story. Add in the fact the cowboy is really an ex-pro pitcher and now rancher and she is staying in his cottage...err...office, rented to her by his grandmother, and this story just leaps off the page. I could not turn the pages fast enough. I highly recommend this one for a fun and sexy read!

**Received this ARC for review from the publisher via Net Galley*

Yes! Lisa you nailed it! Writing about a cowboy over a billionaire is different. But in a good way! It was a change of pace from her other books. This book was as dark. Took place in Texas away from the city. I enjoyed the humor you added as well. This book had all kinds of ups and downs in it. Downs as in: loss, cheating, debt, loss of dreams and snakes. But ups as in: humor, baking, love, new dreams and a sphinx cat! The banter between Jessica and Jason was hilarious. With Jason flying off the handle at Jessica so easily and Jessica comparing Jason to an ex every chance she could get! This all started with a sweet lady named Martha(aka-grandma). She just wanted to grandson to be happy and to stop living the life he wanted. If you are a fan of Lisa, this one will not disappoint. Just a different pace and setting.

5 HOME RUN STARS!! This book is different from this author normal book, that being said.....I LOVED IT!!! Lisa Renee Jones hit this one out of the park. This story had it all for me, drama, fun bantering, broken characters, friends, family and so much love. What more can you ask for a beautiful lawyer city girl and a jerky country boy that use to played professional baseball and these two clash. You should definitely 1-Click this book.....you will love it.

Lisa Jones brings to life a stand alone HEA read with her Truth About Cowboys. Life brings hurdles for our couple to jump over but Jessica and Jason find their new and improved life together with the help of Jason's grandma Martha. See how they do it by picking up this Sweetwater Texas romance. "A copy of this book was provided by Entangled via Netgalley with no requirements for a review. Comments here are my honest opinion."ENJOY SNOW CATS AND COOKIES WITH THIS READ!

I have to admit that even if I like the dialogues a lot, there was still something in the supposedly hero that I didn't appreciate at all (see manhandling for example), there were also some other things but mostly that made it for me, pity, the story was pretty good all in all.

Devo ammettere che, nonostante i dialoghi fossero molto piacevoli, c'é stato qualcosa in questo libro che mi ha impedito di godermelo appieno e l'atteggiamento di quello che dovrebbe essere il maschio alfa/cowboy/stella del baseball in questione, é proprio l'atteggiamento da macho man che si é poi concretizzato in un paio di capitoli in modo per me estremamente disturbante, e quindi niente da fare....un peccato perché poi la storia non era male per niente.

THANKS NETGALLEY FOR THE PREVIEW!

This is a whole new sexy story! Get read for cowboy lovin’! Elizabeth @ Carolina Chic’s Read

This new series from Lisa Renee Jones is exactly what you always get from her, but with new fierce characters and a new world. I have fallen comes in love with this story! Jason and Jessica have off the charts chemistry... think Chris and Sara Level Heat!

5 Hot Texas Heat Stars!

One hot-headed cowboy, former pro baseball player, and freshly scorned lover meets no filter, balls-to-the walls divorce attorney, turned newly book author, and freshly scorned lover in the countryside of Texas. I think it's safe to say that sparks fly in The Truth About Cowboys.

I'm not one who loves a constant push/pull romance but there are exceptions I find that I tend to really enjoy. Jason and Jessica are one of those exceptions. It has a lot to do with the fact that I just really liked their characters and that push/pull they were constantly battling brought a lot of heat as a couple.

This had a great background setting on a farm in the Texas countryside with a feisty grandma, quite a few sexy cowboys, and a naked cat. This was a fun and entertaining read that I highly recommend!

While I do not usually read romance novels set on ranches, Lisa Renee Jones has me rethinking this. The Truth about Cowboys was a smart, witty, chemistry filled sexy read. Jessica is looking to leave the city behind- one with the cheating boyfriend and high pressure law firm. After she finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman she flees for the safety and security of the Flying J Ranch. Here she plans to write a survival guide for others on divorce. On her first night, in a rainstorm, she falls into Jason's arms. While he seems familiar she is not quite sure why. Jason is the ranches owner and unaware of his plotting grandmother. She wants find him a city girl with the hopes that it will jumpstart his baseball career again, bringing the city to the county. Jason is home running the ranch after his parents untimely deaths. Jason is also running from a former lover, one that changed his mind about city girls.

In The Truth About Cowboys you will find two people hurt by love. Can they find their way together to a future that is brighter than it would have been if they had run from love.

The Truth About Cowboys is well written and filled with two strong main characters and some funny and strategically placed minor characters. Together this is a must read!

Another awesome book by Lisa Renee Jones.
A hard headed ball player and a hard headed city girl go head to head in a battle of wills! Both have been hurt by someone else!
Will these two hard headed people be able to find love in each other or will their stubbornness have them going the other way?

Once bitten, twice shy..the consistent, witty banter between these two, along with the greatest grandma ever, kept me reading this LOL, never gonna do that again, hawt romance. Loved it!!😍😍😍

I'm struggling on how to rate this book. It was your typical city girl meets cowboy scenario. I've read a couple of books by Lisa Renee Jones and this wasn't quite like the previous ones I've read by her. I liked this book but I didn't love it. It had quite a few redeeming qualities overshadowed by the cliches written throughout. I loved the concept of the plot. There were some instances where I found myself asking what?! She seemed like such a strong character in the beginning but made such cliches mistakes for such a strong divorce lawyer.

Jason was a really likable character. He was a professional baseball player who suffered through some very personal issues and wants the best for his grandmother. I liked his possessive stuff. However, I still felt like he was a little cliches in certain instances as well.

There was definitely some great qualities in this book - lots of witty banter, whimsical accidents, and a meddling grandmother.

This is my first read by this author, so I honestly have nothing to go on based on her previous works. That said, this book brings together a seemingly unlikely couple. Big city divorce lawyer down on her luck. Broody cowboy giving off major 'leave me alone' vibes. And I never got the sense passed that that they really wanted to be together. There was some attraction and some fan girling, but why on earth did they want to put more effort into this?

There is some great humor and one liner zingers in here. Grandma was the star of the show in so many scenes. I'[m also kind of interested in Jason's friend. I might be tempted to read his story.

Just ok for me.