Austin and McCall had seriously funny dialogue, I laughed a lot in the beginning. The twins were adorable and Gam was fabulous! Boo and Cody Joe added to the comic relief. I almost expected Zoey to know that McCall would be the one. Wonderful story!

A high tempo tale of falling in love and new beginnings, of family drama, the past catching up to mess the present when a one-time blessing turns into a hindrance to happiness in the future.
When everything happens at once and your emotions are high and intense - especially when children are involved - things have a chance to turn a bit horrendously comical. And Delores Fossen surely knows how to create those scenes where you do not know if you laugh until you have tears in your eyes or just cry cause all the feels, but at least you swoon cause all the hot cowboys.
I enjoyed this story immensely, it pulled me into the swirling world of intriguing characters, insane happenings, and profound emotions. I adored Austin Jameson and his twin girls, he is such a great father, caring, fun, considerate, and protective. I loved that to build a new relationship with McCall Dalton there was no need to make his former wife and his love for her any less than it was (often happens in romance novels). But it was celebrated, her memory was cherished, and the adorable girls told stories about her.
So much happens in a short time, it seems like a tornado of events toss everything up in the air and changes everyone's lives in one swift sweep. And as the ending came a bit abruptly, I am excited to know this book was part of a series, and more mayhem and romance are to come. So hold on to your stetsons cause there's a new western romance series to be followed, and knowing Fossen's style, it is going to be one with passion, sensation, drama, and humor.
~ Four Spoons with a teaspoon on the side

Chasing Trouble in Texas (Lone Star Ridge #2). By Delores Fossen. 2020. HQN Books. (ARC eBook).

After a disastrous turn at a charity fundraiser, former child star McCall Dalton returns home to Granny Em’s farmhouse to escape the media. But when the fiasco follows McCall, her childhood neighbor and crush Austin Jameson steps in. Austin sees McCall’s vulnerability and it pushes him to offer her friendship and protection, but soon sparks fly and he wonders if he may now be ready to move on from the grief he has been struggling with over the loss of his wife.

As part of a reality tv show, McCall was labeled the serious triplet. And she still strives to maintain the serious and professional image, but when one scandal threatens to turn into more, McCall struggles with whether Austin and his twin three-year-old girls can afford to have her in their lives.

I am loving this series! Delores Fossen delivers the perfect combination of sizzling and tender moments in her cowboy romances. And with their trials and triumphs, the Dalton and Jameson families of the Lone Star Ridge series are truly enjoyable characters to read and root for.

Austin doesn't need issues in his life hes already got enough on his plate being a single father to a interesting set of twins. His mother in law wants the girls to have a mother figure or will threaten to go trough with taking custody. Meanwhile in comes trouble in the form of McCall who came right up to his doorstop with baggage. McCall is a great person who seems to have bad luck wanting to attach itself to her.

If you like books with drama all around the place like I do then you'll want to check out this book. McCall was a women trying to keep on the straight and narrow and do right but seriously couldn't catch a break and its not even things shes done. Things were being done to her with a cheating ex and his mother who couldn't take a hint and use her as a pawn in their game. Then there was a person in her past that was trying to do something nice I supposed but it was dragging her down to the point of becoming a dirty little secret. Then McCall want's to have something more Austin and of course things couldn't be easy. This book has loads of drama, theres some romance and a bit of steam. Overall pretty good book I really enjoyed it!

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Just loved this book and recommend it to everyone.

If there's one thing we can all use during a crazy pandemic that has us at our wits' end, it would have to be laughter. I know it's at the top of my list of things we need more of these days, and Chasing Trouble in Texas goes a long way toward taking care of that problem. This is the second in the series, but as far as I could tell, it works as a standalone. At least I didn't feel like I was missing anything. The story is pretty funny at times, and it also has its emotional moments, so I'd say it's a pretty good mix of the two. To be honest, Delores Fossen is a hit or miss with me, but this one turned out to be just what I needed. The romantic couple is likable and they have good chemistry. Of course, Austin isn't hard to like. I mean, seriously, what's not to like about a sexy cowboy? Then we get a double whammy since he's a single dad. It's a swoon-worthy combination all the way around.

Great story! This book in the second in the Lone Star Ridge series. You don't have to have read the first one but I do recommend that story as well, it's good! Highly recommended author and series.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.

Austin and McCall are getting a second chance. It couldn't come at a more inconvenient time - but their lives have never been convenient. Austin's fiercely protective nature is provoked when McCall makes her way home to escape the madness and mayhem her life has become. McCall desperately tries to stem her attraction to Austin, knowing that he is in a tenuous situation.

Their efforts to avoid each other are continuously thwarted by Cupid's arrows.

This was a heartwarming, yet steamy story about mending fences, making wishes, and building dreams.

4 Stars.

It’s been two years since Austin wife passed away and he has been a single father to Gracie and Avery, his three year old twin daughters, ever since. They are the driving force of his life and he would do anything for them so when he finds himself entertaining surprise guests the situation is both humorous and awkward.

McCall is a former child actor who is trying to outrun her past, but it doesn’t help when her appearance in a fundraiser leads to her finding her fiancé in a compromising position. She needs some time and space so she decides to head to grandmother’s only to get some comfort from her friend Austin along the way when she finds her fiancé already there looking for her.

As McCall and Austin spend time together the chemistry between them erupts but when her past threatens his relationship with his daughters will they have to choose between their love for the children and their love for each other?

This is a fun and flirty story about love and family which is both heartwarming and humorous. They certainly had some obstacles to overcome but that only made them appreciate it more.

Chasing Trouble in Texas is the second novel in Delores Fossen's Lone Star Ridge series, but, as usual, I'm reading this series out of order, but it certainly didn't hamper my enjoyment of this novel, which has the funniest, laugh out loud, comedy of errors first chapter I've ever read. I was laughing so hard I had tears streaming down my face and my sides ached. Since I don't normally read romantic comedy, this was all the more impressive and it gets 4.5 stars from this reader.

At its heart, Chasing Trouble in Texas is a second chance at love novel. Austin Jameson lost the love of his life, Zoey, who was the mother of his twin 3-year-old girls, to cancer two years ago, and is now raising his girls alone (with lots of help from his family), as well as sharing them with his late wife's parents. The children's grandmother, Edith, is cold, judgmental and wants custody, but so far, Austin is doing a fine job of raising them. While I'm not a fan of children in romance novels, Austin's twin 3-year-old daughters, Gracie and Avery, were so funny, cute and charming, that I fell in love with them, their dress-up outfits, and their hilarious games, like fairy tale rules and cops and bobbers, almost immediately.

As the novel opens, we meet McCall Dalton, who shows up at Austin's after her fiance, Cody Joe Lozano, a famous rodeo bull rider, cheats on her during the Miss Watermelon contest fundraiser for Saddle Up for Tots, a charity McCall Dalton started, and one which both Cody Joe and his wealthy mother help support financially. The engagement is off, and McCall Dalton, still in pageant costume, heads for her grandmother Em's house in Lone Star Ridge, but considering the cadre of trouble close on her heels, drives to Austin's ranch instead, with Cody Joe, Miss Watermelon, and her friend and assistant, Boo, as well as the media, close behind. When Austin steps outside to see what's happening in his front yard, he's wearing a tiara and a pink tutu, because he was playing with his daughters. If that image and the slapstick mess that follows doesn't have you in hysterics, I don't know what will.

McCall Dalton has a crush on Austin back in high school and she and her friend, Zoey, rolled the dice back them to see who would pursue him--Zoey won, and was happily married to Austin before she died. Once McCall sets her eyes (and lips) upon Austin, she's still as attracted to him as she was in high school, and the attraction is mutual, but there are plenty of stumbling blocks ahead for both of them. McCall and her sisters starred in a television series from the time they were 3 until one of her sisters got into trouble at age 15, and the series was cancelled. Her mother stole all her earnings, and so twelve years earlier, to pay for her college education, McCall worked part-time as a waitress in a strip club, and when its owner died, she left the Peekaboo Club to McCall with conditions--she cannot sell it or give it away. It's been a well kept secret, and a thorn in her side, but as we soon discover, not much stays a secret in Lone Star Ridge. Nor does it help when Austin's former mother-in-law, the snooty and manipulative, Edith, decides to fight him for custody of her grandchildren, and McCall hardly meets her high standards. McCall doesn't know whether to pursue the relationship or not. She and Austin generate a lot of heat, but she doesn't want to be the reason he loses custody of his twins.

There are a lot more twists and turns, and ups and downs in this story than I can share without spoiling it for you, but except for the far too abrupt HEA ending and lack of an epilogue (and yes, I know all about Harlequin Desire page/word counts), this novel had me laughing, crying, and totally absorbed in these characters and thoroughly entertained throughout. If you're looking for a fast-paced, fun read, look no further--I highly recommend this one.

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

The story was good, although not my favorite from Delores Fossen. It was shorter than expected, and by that I mean it seemed to wrap up really quickly, after being drawn out. My Kindle said I was at 73% of the book, only to turn the page and it ended. Then there were 2 short stories included.

Nice to keep up with the family, and although part of a series, it can be read as a standalone story as background is provided.

I received a free ARC eBook from Net Galley and the publisher in exchange for my honest opinions.

Complementary copy given for honest review and opinion

Cowboy hotness and total drama! Throw together a meddling mother in law and you have a perfect storm. But this storm isn’t anything a tutu won’t fix. You are guaranteed to fall in love with the characters in this book!

I didn't like both of the books, there are a long and a short story, maybe because I didn't find them as funny as the author meant probably. But anyway it's just a question of taste.

Queste due storie, una lunga ed una breve, contenute nel libro, non mi sono piaciute, probabilmente ció é dovuto al fatto che l'ironia dell'autrice é diversa dalla mia e non mi ha fatto ridere per niente, specialmente per alcune situazioni veramente....troppo.....ma é solo una questione di gusti.

THANKS NETGALLEY FOR THE PREVIEW!