Grace and Rowan's characters were captivating from their introduction. The story has interesting elements and gravitating moments that keep your focus on the happenings in the story. The setting, story and characters were all stand outs in the story.
Review copy received by Harlequin Aus via Netgalley

This is the second book in the series. The characters in this book are just so warm that you cant stop reading . I connected to all the characters and you have won a new fan in me.

Snowy Mountains Cattleman takes us back to the fictional small town of Bundilla in the NSW highlands, the second in a series of linked novels which I hope will continue to grow.
Bundilla is quite a close knit town which makes the mystery involved in this story all the more compelling.

Rowan is a cattle farmer and stonemason who has had his heart broken and refuses to allow himself to end up in the same position again. Besides, he has more than enough to keep him busy with the farm and his work as a stonemason.

Grace is an interior stylist trying to heal from the death of her parents. She has made the tree change in honour of her parents memory, buying a bluestone mansion to restore. A job that gets bigger at every turn.

Rowan is employed to help with the restoration and the two share a similar vision for how best to bring the mansion back. Together they uncover a decades old mystery that is compelling to follow.

A heart-warming tale that I did not want to put down.

Grace is the new owner of a crumbling historic stone mansion, that she bought in tribute to her parents recent death.
Rowan is a local cattle farmer who also happens to be a stonemason who has been hired to restore the mansion to its former glory. Instantly the two have chemistry that they both try to ignore due to their past.
I love that we are back in Bundilla with the fun cast of small town characters. I really enjoyed the fact this was a rural romance but a little less focused on the farming side of things for a change. I lived seeing the growth in the characters and I always love the unravelling of hidden history that the mansion reveals.
If you love Alissa Callen's other books or you enjoy rural romance you will be sure to enjoy this.
Thanks to Netgalley.com and Harlequin Mira for my complimentary eARC copy.

City girl Grace finds peace as she sets out to renovate an old mansion that turns out to hold a mystery Grace and Rowan, her Snowy Mountain Cattleman, together with the town's close community, simply must solve..

Snowy Mountains Cattlemen is full of charaters that are both warm and memorable. I loved both the main characters Rowan and Grace, and especially Bundy. In fact, the whole town, despite being new to me, felt very familiar... like some places do even though you've never been there before.

It did take me a while to get into the story, but once the mystery started to unfold I was fully invested. Personally, I thought some of the character reflection scenes were a tad repetitive, about giving each other space, but there were some lovely, heartfelt moments too, as well as a sense of satisfaction when I turned the last page.

Not a tear-jerker, but certainly a story to warm your heart.

This is my first time reading a book by this author, and it won't be the last.

Coming back to Bundilla is like coming home to family, I love falling into an Alissa Callen story she brings out the best in her characters, her stories are heartwarming and heartfelt and real page turners and seeing cattleman Rowan find his happiness and the love of his life with City girl Grace was heavenly and beautiful, the setting is gorgeous and I do hope that you pick this one up.

Interior Stylist Grace Davenport needs time to overcome losing her parents she is an only child and when she loses both her mother and father so close she needs to escape and she goes the small Snowy Mountain town of Bundilla, a place her parents wanted to retire to, she has purchased the old mansion Crookwell Park, this is a beautiful bluestone building and she is going to restore it to its original spender. She plans on being there for the summer only but when she meets the stonemason who is going to do the work for her, he is not what she expected.

Rowan has returned home, determined to do better with his life, after losing his parents and getting involved with a woman he shouldn’t have he took off overseas to sort himself out and now it is time to make amends to his sister and anyone else he feels he let down. He is not looking for love or marriage so staying clear of the quilting club and their match making is a must. He is a cattleman and a stonemason and loves what he does and when he meets the young woman who has hired him to work on Crookwell Park he feels something that scares him silly.

While working together to restore the mansion they uncover a secret apartment that goes back to the 1950s and World War 2, Grace and Rowan are determined to get to the bottom of this secret and working close brings them closer they are both feeling emotions that neither of them wanted but neither can ignore.

This is a gorgeous story filled with love and fabulous characters, Rowan and Grace are drawn together by their caring and helpful natures they meld in the most wonderful way, they find their happiness and the way to the future together and I was cheering them on. Bring in some goats and of course Bundy the best dog in the world, I say and meeting up with Clancy and Health, Taite and Brenna and Trent was just the best. There are lots of smiles in this one and some tears of happiness and I loved uncovering the mystery. I can highly recommend this one and can’t wait for the next one I am looking forward to seeing who Taite finds happiness with and if the quilting club has any say in it.

My thanks to Harlequin AU for my copy to read and review.

I always find myself smiling when I dive into the pages of an Alissa Callen story and that was certainly the case as I read Snowy Mountains Cattleman. I enjoyed returning to the fictitious Snowy Mountains town of Bundilla, where many of the characters were already familiar to me and I felt immediately at home.
This book has been just so easy to read. The characters are just the sort of people you’d meet in any Australian country town. Grace and Rowan have both lost their parents, though they each dealt with their grief differently. For Grace it’s all about realising her parents’ dream to purchase and rejuvenate the run-down Crookwell Park homestead that reminded them of England. Rowan went off the rails when his parents died in a European river boat accident, entering into an ill-advised engagement that he subsequently broke and then travelling to England in a bid to regroup. I loved that as these two got to know each other they also helped each other heal. Their romance bubbles along nicely while at the same time they delve into the mystery of a hidden apartment they’ve found within the building. The story is enhanced by the presence of matchmaking dog Bundie, who attaches himself to Grace immediately after she arrives in Bundilla. This is a dog with personality plus! It’s been an absolute pleasure to read this story, and I’m very grateful to Harlequin Australia for giving me the opportunity. This book is perfect relaxed summer reading.

At the moment I have stopped reading, as the formatting is making it impossible to read - I cam back to download it again, but it had been archived.

I got to 21% so far, but there are so many duplicates, from words,to half pages, and then sentences jump and things don't make sense

It is a shame as I am really enjoying it, but it is unreadable in this state.

Sorry - I will try again!

As Grace Davenport descended on the small town of Bundilla she wondered if she was doing the right thing. Having lost her parents recently the grief she was feeling was all-consuming. Leaving her Sydney life and work for a few months, going to the place her parents had wanted to retire to, to the house which had reminded them of home back in England, was something Grace was doing in their stead. She just hoped she could come to terms with her grief over the time she was in Bundilla.

Crookwell Park had been empty for a long time and the vandals had made short work of the windows as well as filling the old homestead with graffiti. Rowen Parker was a stonemason, and it was his job to renew and renovate the old place with the stone it was originally built with. When he met the new owner of Crookwell Park, he was recovering from his own grief and rocky experiences. But he saw in Grace a kindred spirit and their desire to bring the beauty back to the old place was in them both. The cottage beside the homestead had been readied for Grace and she soon made it her own. But it was the kelpie who attached himself to Grace when she arrived in town, that gave her the most security. Bundy was famous in Bundilla and it seemed he’d recognized in Grace her need to be gently cared for…

Snowy Mountains Cattleman by Aussie author Alissa Callen is another excellent read in the Bundilla series which I thoroughly enjoyed. Bundy is an ongoing character and it was great to catch up with him again. My last read was winter in the Snowy Mountains; this is summer in the same vicinity – a beautiful place whatever the season. Ms Callen writes wonderful, caring characters and this one involved a mystery from decades prior which Grace was determined to solve. Snowy Mountains Cattleman is a read I highly recommend – as I do with all this author’s books.

With thanks to HarperCollins AU for my ARC to read in exchange for an honest review.

As much as I have enjoyed the storyline so far, at 20% I have finally given up due to the terrible formatting of the book. As I can’t leave this page without giving a rating, I have left 3 stars.
I will look out for this book in future and leave feedback if able.