Ginger Danforth has always had to keep her life and appearance neat and tidy, she is a congressman's daughter after all. However, there's a wild side to Ginger that is dying to escape. Cole Ashby is the local newly elected sheriff, he's a single father that wants to prove himself to not only the town but also his family that he is the right fit for this job. Ginger and Cole have been orbiting each other since they were younger and after a surprising weekend in Las Vegas with their friends, things have taken a turn in their friendship. Now they are trying to navigate how to keep this a secret from not only their families but the town, especially since Cole is in his probationary period as sheriff, while also trying to not fall for one another.

This book was a fun read, and makes a great addition to Paisley Hope's Silver Pines Ranch series. Cole and Ginger have been two characters I have enjoyed reading about from the sidelines but I was so excited to finally read their story! I have not read too many accidental marriage stories but this one is now a top favorite, especially with how well it was done. Paisley was able to establish a history around both of these characters and did not immediately jump to a form of instalove. This is a somewhat slow burn but has a kick of spice to it especially to keep readers interested.

One thing that did bother me was at times the book seemed to jump around, and I sometimes I needed to reread sections in order to figure out what was going on.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and cannot wait to see where the series goes next. I think I have an inkling based upon how Paisley seemed to end this book in order to set up for the next one.

Thank you net galley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review ✨️

This is my first book I've read by this author and yall did I eat this up!!! I know I know I read this put of the series order but I have no regrets

Cole is a single dad who just became the new sherif in town. Ginger is the daughter of a congressman always needing to be well put togethe as her dad prepares for an election. These two have their priorities focused until a night in Vegas takes a turn and they play a risky game of truth and dare leading them to tie the knot. They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas and these two need to keep their secret sealed to not mess the next election and coles induction

Tropes
🔥single dad
🔥best friends brother
🔥friends to lovers
🔥small town romance

The banter between Cole and Ginger made their chemistry RADIATE off the page and the character development was great. I also loved the snippets we got from friends and family. It was just enough to feel like you knew everyone and their relations

Yes yes yes recomend this book!! 👏

GAHHHHHH, I love this series! ❤️ Cole and Ginger are life-long friends. Cole is Ginger’s best friend, CeCe’s, brother.
They are the epitome of “always meant to be.” Ginger is Cole’s
nanny for the summer. Cole and Ginger get married during a drunken night in Vegas and decide they’ll separate after the summer… or will they?
This one made me laugh, tear up, want to kick rocks I was so mad at some of the characters… I felt all the things!
Paisley Hope has outdone herself with this whole series!! I’m just in LOVE and I can’t wait to see what’s next!

I really really tried to love this book, but it just is not for me. The characters had a one-track mind, and a lot of scenes felt overly tropey and cringey. Cole was kind of a dud besides being an amazing Dad, and Ginger felt more like a 20-year-old. Their story was still really cute though!

I absolutely adored the first two books in this series. If you did, too, then I really hope you love this one just as much.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for my copy of this e-arc in exchange for my honest review.

Wow I am a sucker for small town / cowboy(sheriff) romance!! I’ve been waiting for these characters to get together since book 1 in the series and paisley hope DELIVERED!! The banter was exquisite, the pining was all I ever hoped for, I loved watching ginger transition into her step mom era and loved watching Cole soften up and be the man she deserves, always knew he had it in him,

Riding the high is the third installment in the Silver Pines Ranch series and delivers a captivating story full of romance, personal growth, and tension galore.

The book follows Cole, a single father and sheriff & Ginger a teacher that has been pining after him for years. An impulsive Vegas wedding and a job nannying for him bring the two closer together.

All in all it's a charming, feel good, small town romance.

"Ginger Danforth doesn't chase any man, even Cole Ashby."

Cole Ashby, the man you are!

Ginger and Cole are secret friends throughout the years and both are fighting their attraction to one another. One drunken night in Vegas got them hitched. They agreed to hide their marriage while Cole's gonna sworn in as the local sheriff and Ginger worked for him as the nanny to his daughter.

I am so glad I love this. This is my favorite book in the series yet!

We've seen glimpses of Ginger and Cole's throughout the first two books and I was so intrigued by them. Their dynamic seems so refreshing and I am always a sucker for the tropes in this book, and it really fit them.

I love both our main characters. Ginger's a sunshine girl who's outgoing, ball of sunshine and just knows what buttons to push for Cole. He, on the otherhand, is a doting father and just prioritized his daughter above all else, and lowkey down bad for Ginger ever since.


"There is a lot to do to get ready, but first, I must make my secret wife some coffee. Husband, brother, and dad mode, activate."

They have history since they were teenagers so they saw each other's ups and downs, good and worst. Not generally a fan of friends-to-lovers but this book just delivered it. Their friendship was solid and that was a great foundation that when they found out they got married, they got through it together.

Mabel, Cole's daughter, is a great addition to the story. Generally, I don't like kids in books but I didn't mind her because she was so endearing and acts her age at the same time.

Love seeing the side characters and the overall found family and girl friendship presented here was great. It stayed true throughout this series.

Howeverrrr, I am not a fan of how the physical aspect was a bit prominent with little to no communication about their relationship. But, I just swept it on the rug because I love them. I am biased lol.

Overall, I had a great time reading this and it basically one of my top fave in the small town romances. Looking forward to the rest of the series and I am patiently waiting for Liv's story!

Cole and Ginger’s story was perfection!! I just loved everything from the beginning to the end!
The tension, the pining, the longing has all been building for years!! Cole was the sweetest, kindest person, best dad and oh man did he have a mouth on him. Ginger, she is fierce and her sass! I just loved these two perfect people and their accidental but perfectly perfect marriage! All the feels, laughing, crying, swooning.

“I wanted you. I never admitted it, not even to myself, but I knew if I kept spending time with you, if could just keep you in my grasp, one day you'd be mine.”

“Her heart is wild. Only he can capture it.”

Book 3 in The Silver Pines series follows the Cole & Ginger after a drunken night of truth or dare in Vegas ends in an accidental marriage!

If you're like me you've been wondering what is up with the tension and the relationship between the middle Ashby sibling, Cole, and Cece's best friend, Ginger since Book 1.. well, Paisley Hope delivered with their story😍

It was spicy, and so so sweet to read deeper into who these characters are behind the face they put on for their friends, family, and public. Cole is known as the ladies man of town, but you also get to see his dedication to his job and most importantly his daughter Mabel! His love and protection of her was heartwarming! And Ginger, you originally see her as this carefree, wild, troublemaker of a friend but come to see she has just as big of a heart for those around her and has worked to overcome the weight of the burdens her family (mostly her father) has put on her throughout her life.

Tropes/Themes:
- Dual POV
- Small Town Romance
- Single Dad x Nanny
- Best Friend's Brother
- "Secret" Friends to Lovers
- Forced Proximity
- Pining for each other for yearssss
- So many MY WIFE moments🔥🔥

My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Publication Date: May 6, 2025

Paisley Hope does it again! Riding the High is her third book in the Silver Pines Ranch series and it’s just so fun. I love this little world she’s created so much that I didn’t want to put this book down. If you’re looking for a cozy, feel good, small town romance, you have to read this series.

I loved Ginger and Cole. I love how they had this relationship for years where they confided in each other. From the start, it felt like they were more than friends based on how much they trusted and knew each other, so being together didn’t feel far fetched. I loved how Paisley incorporated Cole’s daughter Mabel into the story. Not only did we get to see Ginger and Cole’s relationship grow, but we saw Ginger become a role model to Mabel and how the three of them really became a team. I loved seeing Ginger, Cole and Mabel become a family.

This series is perfect for fans of Elsie Silver and Lyla Sage.

Plot Summary:
Riding the High centers around Cole, a single dad, and Ginger, his sister’s best friend. She’s been into him for ages, settling for being his friend and confidant over the years and giving him shit any chance she gets. Cole is about to become sheriff and Ginger is the daughter of a congressman running for re-election. When a group trip to Vegas leaves them waking up married, they decide to keep it quiet and stay married for a bit so as to not make headlines that would impact Cole’s appointment as sheriff or Ginger’s father’s congressional election. Ginger ends up nannying for Cole’s daughter Mabel for the summer, moving in and becoming even closer to the two of them. She starts to wish the countdown for her to return to her home at the end of the summer would slow down.

Thank you to Paisley Hope, Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine (Dell Romance), and NetGalley for an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Riding the High comes out May 6th.

Riding the High- Paisley Hope
Silver Pines book 3

The scream I scrumpt when I received this Advanced Reader Copy of Riding the High!

Paisley Hope has quickly become one of my favorite authors! The first 2 books in the Silver Pines series were so very good and the 3rd is no different!

Riding the High is the story of Cole and Ginger or Law Daddy and Vixen as they like to call each other. Cole is a single dad and Ginger is his sister's best friend. On a drunken night in Vegas they end up married. Newly elected sheriff Cole cannot afford to have a marriage scandal in his first days in office. So what better answer than to stay fake married while Ginger becomes nanny to his daughter. What could go wrong?

I laughed and I cried and am so happy to have gotten the opportunity to read their story. A+ again from Paisley Hope!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an opportunity to read this eARC!

When I tell you I did a happy dance when I got this ARC, I’m not kidding. I absolutely love the Silver Pines books and after seeing bits and pieces of Cole and Ginger in the first 2 books, I was SO excited to finally have their story.

I wanted so badly for this book to be 5 starts, but had to give it 4 for a few reasons.
Number one being, after Wade Ashby I don’t think ANYONE can compare 😂 Wade and Ivy relationship in the second book just did me in, and Cole and Ginger just didn’t quite get there for me.

Number two, I wanted more emotion!! I am allllllll for the spice and the bedroom scenes, but after having so much of them in the first two books, I wanted their story to really go deep.

I do love Cole and Ginger, both separate and together. And Mabel is just the icing on the cake for their story, she is just too cute! This was for sure a great third book in this series and I’m dying to see who the next one is about! Im already missing the family on Silver Pines Ranch!

Thank you, NetGalley for the eARC.

This was my most anticipated couple from the series. I have been waiting to read about Ginger and Cole since we first got a glimpse of them in the first book. I loved the friendship between the both of them and how we got to see glimpses of their past to see how their relationship has grown from there. The tension was well written and the banter was so good. The friends to lovers and accidental marriage trope was done so well. Their friendship was special but adding a romance along with that was even better.
Cole is so dedicated to his job as sheriff and to his daughter, Mabel. You can really see how much he cares for her through all of his actions and it truly adds to the book and his personality. Ginger is sassy and fiery and you cannot help but love her as a main character. Together they make the perfect team and it was so cute to watch that blossom and become exactly what they need for one another.
I truly cannot wait for the next book in this series!

ARC review
I’m panting🤭😩🙂‍↕️1st of all yes and 2nd when is it my turn😭 I had a feeling Cole and Ginger would be my favorite in the series because I LOVE a single parent romance where we get to watch one of the main characters fall in love with their SOs child(ren)
Mabel was so so so perfect- I absolutely adored her and she made everything better.
I love how there were multiple scenes where I kept expecting there to be a blow out scene or fight between the MCs as that’s what we often see and have come to expect in the contemporary romance genre, especially as of late. Cole and Ginger treated one another with so much respect and kindness that it made that sexy stuff even hotter. I’m 100% obsessed!!

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing- Ballantine for the ARC.

Cute friends to lover entry in the Silver Pines world. The first one is still my favorite but enjoyed this sheriff and senator’s daughter match up. I look forward to the next book!

4⭐️

Now THIS is what I wanted from this series. In the other books, once the characters got together, it felt like their entire story from there on was just them getting intimate. In this book, however, the plot still felt present.

This one follows Cole and Ginger, who have known each other since childhood, and Ginger is his sister, Cece’s, best friend. The two of them have a secret friendship (think Hothouse Flower vibes), but they’ve always pined for the other behind closed doors.

Cole is a fantastic father and an even better partner, if that’s possible. Ginger is a spitfire who has no problem saying what she believes, when it comes to anyone other than her father.

This book has so much angst and tension, and when it finally comes to a head 🥵🥵🥵 definitely my favorite of the series!!

Definitely my favorite of the series so far! It was a lot of fun with a ton of banter. And these two were spicy! I knew I was going to love Law Daddy and Ginger based on their interactions in the other two books.

Their friendship was way deeper than I had realized. The way they looked out for each other when times were tough was really sweet, even if the sweetness was covered with a dry, sarcastic remark. Cole and Ginger had so much chemistry that I was surprised that it took so long for them to really act on their feelings. I loved seeing how Ginger got Cole to loosen up a bit and how Cole became a possessive man as the story went on. I couldn't get over how much they loved each other even before they officially admitted it.

This is also the first book where I feel like the storyline continued to be strong after they hooked up whereas the others lost that a bit.

So excited to see what comes next in this series!

Thank you Paisley Hope, Dell Random House, and NetGalley for the ARC!

okay but listen Cole and Ginger are my absolute favorites and the tension between both of them is crazy good. these two were hilarious and honestly such a cute couple and they always look out for each other which is adorable. The accidental marriage trope is adorable and definitely a favorite of mine!

Paisley Hope has become one of my favorite authors to read. I applied for this arc without realizing that this was the third in the series, so naturally, I had to go back to the beginning and read my way through the series. I am so glad that I did. Paisley hope writes stories in a way that make you want to continue to read them. The romance and characters drive the story line but in a good way. You connect with the characters and that has you ready for the next one. This book was easily 5 stars and well worth the read. I definitely recommend that you check out her other books!

I couldn't put this book down! Whenever I had to close my Kindle for my adult responsibilities, I thought about Cole and Ginger until I could finally curl up in bed with my Kindle. Their story completely hooked me, and I loved every second of it.

This book was a fun read—Ginger's witty comebacks and banter with Cole were spectacular. One of the things I love most about Paisley Hope is her writing and ability to draw you in from the very first page. The pacing and buildup were spot on, and the epilogue was perfect. I love when an epilogue fits the characters so well.

A massive plus for me? No unnecessary third-act breakup! These characters communicate; yay for that! I also loved seeing Ginger and Cole's secret friendship and how deeply they understood each other. And Mabel? Watching her and Ginger grow close and become inseparable was a sweet touch.

This book also features two of my favorite tropes in a cowboy romance: the single parent/nanny dynamic and the accidental/secret marriage. Paisley Hope executed them beautifully.

It's not quite a five-star read for me, though. While Cole and Ginger's relationship was well-written, I felt a disconnect between Ginger and her best friends. I also wish we had gotten more of them and a scene of Ginger's father apologizing in person rather than just through text.

That said, Riding the High is a solid 4-star read for me. It's easy to read, comforting, and the kind of book I'll be rushing to recommend to my book besties!

Thank you, NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group, for the arc!