I love a dual timeline and I loved the fight back for these two.
This is a fantastic addition to the Wells Ranch universe. The build-up to this story was worth the wait.

ARC REVIEW

4⭐️
2.5🌶

This was an emotional roller coaster for me. I literally felt every single emotion while reading this. I laughed, I cried(a lot), I got mad, confused, and angry but mostly I felt love. Blair and Denny finally got their second chance at love, just took nearly 15 freaking years to get it.

Listen, I ended up LOVING Denny and he really proved himself to Blair but why why why did he have to be the biggest manwhore. 😭 The fact that EVERYONE questioned whether he would hurt Blair or just use her for an ONS made me so angry. From the second Blair came back into town he was 100% all in on her. While their breakup wasn't entirely his fault, he definitely did grovel and made it up to her.

Blair is so independent and always the one you go to for help but she never feels like she can ask for help in return. Having Denny step in and help take some of the load off of her was a challenge at first but when she accepted it, she realized that she could trust him.

I enjoyed the flashbacks and they were necessary to their story. I just feel like they didn't need to let so much time pass before they reconnected, especially since they both never moved on. I also reallllly didn't like that Denny was such a playboy. It made me feel icky.

Tropes:
✨️ Second Chance
✨️ High School Sweethearts
✨️ Mental Health Rep
✨️ Cowboy/Nurse Practitioner
✨️ Girl Gang 👧

I fell in love with Wells Ranch and Wells Canyon in Alive and Wells. Chasing Red deepened that love. Change of Hart makes me wish it existed as a place I could actually live. I’m so happy I was able to receive a copy for an honest review.

Denny and Blair are a great example of right person, wrong time, and getting a second chance when it’s the right time. I love the dual timeline, and getting to see the actual events that led to them breaking each others hearts. Their love story is so sweet, and definitely lends to the idea of soulmates. The story sucked me in and left me wanting more. I love how close knit everyone on Wells Ranch is, and that adorable epilogue was perfect.

This book is actually phenomenal. Denny and Blair have lived in my head rent free and I don’t think I’ll ever recover. This book was emotional and heavy, but still had sweet and steamy moments. Bailey will always be a go to author for me. I’m in love.

I was not expecting this much emotion in a small town second chance romance. Bailey Hannah, this is probably my favorite second chance romance book of the year. I cried more than I would like to admit, but this was amazing. So heartfelt, real emotions, and heartbreaking moments for the characters in this story.
This story is told in dual timelines and dual POVs. We fall in love with these characters from when we meet them at 12 years old. Denver “Denny” Wells and Blair Hart start off as strangers, then develop a friendship that turns into young love. Some heartbreaking events lead to their initial break up, but when they are reunited 14 years later, you see Denver stopping at nothing to win back Blair. I loved his persistence and just being there for Blair, even though she is reluctant to ask for help. Denver Wells is the epitome of the perfect book boyfriend.

Change of Hart is a sweet story, but it is SPICY! There is a crawling moment that I did not see coming, and it was perfection. The mouths on Denver and Blair are just perfection.

Tropes:
Second Chance
Barrel racer x saddlebronc
Ice cream
Dual timeline + POVs
Reformed playboy
High school sweethearts


Thank you Netgalley and Bailey Hannah for the opportunity to read this early. This is my honest review.

I had a feeling Denny and Blair were going to wreck me and hi, hello 👋 I was right. But like... in all the best ways?

I'm such a sucker for childhood friends to lovers AND second chance romance so this one almost felt made for me. The history, the pining, the way he's so gd down bad for her and willing to crawl (and beg)... I ate it up. And, while the spice was definitely what we've come to know and love from Bailey Hannah's writing, I feel as if the history between the main characters lent a unique tenderness to it all. There's something to be said about seeing two people who already know each other so well fall back together again.

This book deals with some heavy and sensitive topics (check your trigger warnings friends) but, as always, I think the author did an impeccable job at writing them with the sensitivity, tact, realism, and respect they deserve. The truth is... life is messy. We don't always make the right choices. Sometimes we lead with our hearts instead of our heads and respond in ways we later regret. All of the above is true for both Denny and Blair, and the authenticity it provides to the story and the depth it adds to their characters was *chef's kiss* for me.

Bailey Hannah has a way of making me cry and sweat all at once and you know what? I'm here for it.

This was another incredible addition to the Wells Ranch series. I can't get enough of these characters and can't wait to see what comes our way in the next. Thank you so much to the author and Dell Romance for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest, early review.

Welcome back to Wells Ranch, round #3!

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X Second Chance
X Dual Timeline
X Barrel Racer X Saddlebronc Rider
X Reformed Playboy

Oh Blair and Denver….my sweet babies.

Blair Hart is the sweet “weird” girl who falls for her popular best friend, Denver Wells. With the support of her childhood best friend turned high school sweetheart, she believes she can conquer the world. When difficult circumstances arise, choices are made….that lead to breaking up with the man she thought she’d marry.

14 years later she is forced to move from Vancouver to her hometown, Wells Canyon, to take care of her dying mother. Her only goals: Take care of her mom, and avoid Denver Wells at all costs. Two major challenges: her best friend lives on Wells Ranch, and she's only one of two health care providers in town.

After a rodeo accident leads her to the back of an ambulance with the one man she’s been trying to avoid…she’s suddenly transported back to her teenage self and realizing her feelings really never went away.

Follow along on Blair and Denver’s journey with their second chance at love.

Austin Wells has officially been dethroned for me, Denver Wells is top-tier.

(I recommend checking the trigger warnings prior to reading, this book does contain some heavy topics, though, Bailey handled them wonderfully.)

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I’m so glad that one day I randomly saw an ARC ad for Bailey’s first book in this series because I because instantly hooked! She’s an insta-buy author for me now. Everything she writes just gets better and better. I go through so many emotions with her books! One second I’m laughing and then next I’m crying.

Denver and Blair’s story was so emotional but you could feel from the very beginning how much they loved each other even after all these years. Blair had no chance against Denver winning her back. But everything made me love Denver even more 😍

How does Bailey Hannah make me cry with every book in this series? She writes the best characters who are flawed but you can’t help rooting for. I don’t usually love second chance romance, but this one was done so right. The maturity, the emotional responsibility, the yearning. I can’t get enough of these cowboys and this entire series. I love flashbacks in books, especially second chance, so we can get the full picture and these painted the perfect picture. My only complaint is that by the mid-end of the book, I wanted less flashbacks and more present day time with the couple. Of course, we can’t review a book without mentioning just how DOWN BAD Denver was for Blair. It was sexy, emotional, and an overall fun ride.

So fantastic! Makes me want to run away to ranch life and never come back. Just an escape in pages with an amazing story and the characters were pure perfection. I have been wanting to read Bailey Hannah after hearing so much praise and this was the perfect opportunity and now I need more.

I have been sitting on this review since I finished on February 22nd. I STILL do not have the words to describe everything I felt while reading this book. Denver and Blair's entire story ripped my heart out, shredded it, stitched it back together... and do NOT even get me started on the scenes with Lucy. When I tell you I audibly SOBBED. There are so many layers, so much depth, to this story. I always rave about Baileys writing, but she truly just improves with each book. This is definitely how you do second chance romance. ugh. I could go on for ages, truly. Bailey is the QUEEN of small town, cowboy romance, and that a hill I will die on.

"Change of Hart" has been at the top of my TBR list since last September (the original release date). I was thrilled to receive an ARC from Ballantine, Bailey Hannah, and NetGalley.

The absolute last thing Blair wants to do is move back to Wells Canyon and risk running into her ex, Denny, whom she's still not over. However, fate has other plans for her. When her mom becomes sick, Blair returns to care for her, all while landing a job as a Nurse Practitioner at the local hospital.

A chance encounter reunites Denny and Blair at the local rodeo. Their lengthy history takes them on a journey to explore the present, forcing them to confront their past and decide if there's really a future for them.

Bailey wrote "Change of Hart" with so much emotion. I'm not lying when I say I cried through 50% of the book. Denny and Blair are the most perfectly complex characters. I have a sweet spot for Golden Retriever MMCs, and Denny didn't disappoint. I knew from the moment I finished "Alive and Wells" that Denny's book would be my favorite in the series.

These Wells Ranch men are all 🥵🥵🥵!!! I absolutely love this series.

Denver & Blair's story is: second chance, best friends to lovers to enemies to lovers, small town, cowboy romance and it is PERFECTION!

Denver Wells & Blair Hart became best friends as young teenagers, and then started dating. But when they turned 18, their lives changed dramatically and they drifted apart. It has now been 14 years since they have been together, and Denver is hell bent on getting Blair back now that she is back home for good.

This book was heart wrenching, funny, happy, and spicy. I love how we got to go back and forth between their teenage years and the present. We learned bit by bit how their relationship developed and them imploded when they were 18. And we learned that these two have loved each other for the entire 14 years that they were apart.

Bailey did such an amazing job with this book and this series. I love Wells Ranch!

omg denny and blair are everything!!! this is a second chance romance with a dual timeline (which i love)!!! no third act breakup, no miscommunication, and the spice was spicing!!!!! this was so good!!! bailey has a way of writing that keeps you immersed into the story and not able to put the book down. i really love the found family with all of the characters in this series like their scenes together are everything!

you’ll also need tissues. esp once you hit chapter 30. i-

i really enjoyed seeing their teenage love story and falling back in love as adults. it was so sweet. denny would do anything and everything for blair, she is his entire world. the way they are always there for one another and supportive. do not forget the tissues. i’m telling you.

*do check content warnings*

the first ever cowboy romance i’ve read, and i’m obsessed. “Change of Hart” i honestly find comparable to “Love and Other Words”, which is amongst the most well-done second chance books i have come across. the particulars are, obviously, very unique to each story, but at their heart (hehe, see what i did there?), they encapsulate that sweet, wholesome childhood friends to lovers.. perfectly. i’ve been irrevocably changed from meeting Denny, and i’m uber excited to read more from Bailey Hannah.

(please rewind to write how Jackson & Kate came to be🤞😩)

thank you to NetGalley, Dell, and Bailey Hannah for my advanced copy!

I have been following this series since the first book and this one did not disappoint! I love a second chance romance and one with no miscommunication is the way to go! Fun read!

Second chance romance will always win in my book! What a beautiful story this was! This was my first cowboy romance book and did not disappoint. I read this series out of order but I had no trouble understanding the story.

It was full of angst and I DEVOURED IT!! Denver and Blair were everything and I loved the flashbacks as it helped me and provided so much depth as well as the emotions that came along with it.

I can’t wait to go back and read the other books before this one.

Thank you for the early copy!

Bailey did it again. I enjoyed this book so much that I think it may have even beaten my love for Alive and Wells. She is such an immersive writer and I tend to devour her books in 1-2 sitting. I can’t wait to see where she takes the rest of the series

I was so excited when I received approval to read this ARC, but I put it off for an embarrassingly long time, because I was afraid it would hurt my feelings. I had grown to really like Blair in Seeing Red, and was worried Denny had done something terrible and unforgivable to her. I’m personally not a person that generally loves second chance romance, because some people just don’t deserve a second chance after what they’ve done and how little they grovel.

There was definitely pain in this story, but I am happy to report that Bailey Hannah didn’t fully rip my heart out. The circumstances that drove Blair and Denver apart made sense given everything happening around them at the time and their age (18). Without spoiling anything, they both apologize for how they handled certain situations and their failure to communicate well. We’d seen a lot of Denny being an immature playboy, but he fully shed that facade in the face of a second chance with Blair.

I have SO MANY highlights from this book, and I’m so happy to see this series continuing. I first read Alive & Wells in 2023, and can remember coercing others to read it because I was baffled it wasn’t more popular at the time. I’m already ready to pitch my tent and wait in line for the next one 💕

When I tell you that I absolutely devoured this book, could hardly put it down! I love a second chance trope so much, but I also know it can easily be done wrong. That cannot be said for Bailey Hannah though because she definitely delivered with Change of Hart.

Present day Denver & Blair were both such great characters. I loved them each in their own ways. Denver laid eyes on Blair back in Wells Canyon and knew from that moment on he was going to win her back and he worked hard to do so. And our girl Blair grew so much in learning to allow someone else to take care of her for once rather than always doing everything for everyone else without any concern for herself. And I just loved them relearning who the other was after 14 years apart. That dynamic of them knowing everything about each other from their childhood/teen relationship to having to learn new things about each other as adults was so perfect.

The flashback scenes to their teen years were also perfectly placed within the story so the pacing was never off. They gave you the best insight into how these 2 met and fell in love. Plus, the late 90s/early 2000s nostalgia was so fun. And the reason they broke up was not something contrived or unforgivable on either's part. They were young and made mistakes but neither cheated nor intentionally hurt the other.

If you've read the previous 2 books in this series, you'll already know what happened between Blair and Denver that was the thing that broke them up but if you haven't read them, I think the information unfolds really nicely between the present day POVs and the past POVs. So that said, while I absolutely love the first 2 books, I feel like reading this book as a true standalone without having read those 2 first would make for an extra emotional experience. Either way though, I loved this book so much and highly, highly recommend it to fans of second chance, childhood friends-to-lovers, and cowboys.