Change of Hart has changed my life as Bailey Hannah always tends to do. This is tied as my top read of 2025 (but would have still been #1 if the original September 2024 pub date happened - IT IS THAT WONDERFUL). I have reviewed to Goodreads (see below), but it’s only preliminary because I cannot talk about everything this book means to me without spoilers and I’m choosing to hold that version until release day. Let’s just say as a Blair Hart girly, I am beyond grateful to the universe for giving me my own Lucy & Denver Wells to cherish. 💕 Thank you to Bailey Hannah for once again creating characters and a story that are so painfully real and treasured to me. Thank you to the publisher for this ARC!

From Goodreads:
BAILEY HANNAH, YOU MINX. 99% of this review has to remain [REDACTED] until release because I cannot and will not and must not get through this without spoilers and a 10K word novel stream of consciousness style.

100 gold stars for you and 1 entire Kleenex box destroyed for me! Did I go to bed once I opened this book? No, and you’re not my real dad so you can’t punish me for staying up all night!!!

Change of Hart is tied for my NUMBER ONE read of the year and I may or may not have just said sorry for peaking early in my other winning review BUT I’M NOT SORRY AT ALL. If you’ve been along for the ride of developments in this series - HOLD ONTO YOUR BUTT. I promise you’re not ready and there’s nothing you can do to get that way and I imagine you will also lose sleep over Denver and Blair. 😈 GOODNIGHT BESOS UNTIL MAY!

*Thank you to the publisher for an ARC; I’ll never forgive you for irrevocably changing my life with this one. 😘*

Change of Heart by Bailey Hannah
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice Level: 4/5
All reviews are my own opinions.

This book? Whew. It was everything.

Change of Heart is an emotional, second-chance romance that hits you right in the feels while turning the heat way up. Bailey Hannah has this amazing way of writing characters that feel so real and raw—you can’t help but root for them. The chemistry between the leads is undeniable, and their journey from pain to passion is one you won’t forget.

There’s tension, there’s heartache, there’s healing—and there’s spice. Four-pepper heat that builds beautifully with the emotional connection. It’s the kind of story where you feel every glance, every touch, and every moment of vulnerability.

If you’re into heartfelt romances with real depth and seriously swoony steam, this book needs to be on your TBR. I’ll definitely be reading more from this author!

I am just eating these books up by Bailey Hannah. This book makes you want to curl up with a blanket, cancel your plans, and fall headfirst into a world of small town secrets, heartbreak, and the kind of love that never really goes away. BECAUSE IT NEVER DID FOR THESE TWO!!

Blair Hart is a relatable and resilient! With the news of her moms diagnosis, she is back in Wells Canyon where she was staying away from and just not the town but Denver Wells. Reasons for staying away are deep and painful, and broke my heart a little. Bailey does an incredible job of peeling back those emotions little by little. When Blair is back though, not only is she taking on work, her family but she is also now needing to confront Denver who she can't shake as this man still has her hart ( ... see what I did there)

Denver is every bit the swoon worthy cowboy I want to read about, but he’s also complex, wounded, and carrying a reputation that he can't get rid of from when Blair left. He is ready to prove he is not the same man who hurt Blair. Watching him do this over and over and beings hope! His growth is genuine, his vulnerability raw, and his love for Blair??!?! NEVER WENT AWAY!

You looking for a book with all the feels: grief, longing, redemption, and slow-burning tension this will keep you up past your bedtime.. PROMISE.

5 ⭐️

If you like:
Second Chance
Small Town
Childhood friends
Cowboy(SaddleBronc Rider)
Reformed Playboy

Thank you Net galley for the e arc!! Can I just say I was absolutely shocked that I was approved for this arc. I'm such a huge fan/ lover of the wells ranch series that I couldn't believe my luck.This book was no exception. We follow Blair who has moved back to Wells canyon because her dad need help caring for her mom because she was diagnosed with dementia. When Blair moves back in town she is immediately thrust back in to small town life, she's helping her best friend with her newborn, helping her sister with here 10 year old, taking care of her mom and running into Denver wells her ex boyfriend since they were 13 years old!!! The story switches timelines between past and present and Blair and Denver's love story is beautiful and tragic at the same time. We watch Blair and Denver put the pieces back together and work on their relationship now that they are older and wiser. Bailey Hannah does such a beautiful job of writing a heartfelt, heartwarming, yet heartbreaking story of young love and also she does such an amazing job writing about small town country life. Also can we just talk about the spice YALL it had me breathing heavily lol,l mean the girl can write spicy, spicy scene and I eat it up every single time. I also really enjoy that we get snippets of the past couples from the other wells canyon books, I think about those characters a lot and I'm happy to read about them again.If you're looking for a sweet, spicy, cowboy time look no further!

Thank you Bailey Hannah for the opportunity to read Change of Hart as an ARC.

It felt so good to be back on Wells Ranch and this book did not disappoint adding even more of the characters into this story.
I honestly don’t know where to start…..Denver (Denny) and Blair’s story took me on an emotional roller coaster that I didn’t want to end. Who doesn’t love it when childhood best friends turn into lovers?
Seeing parts of their story from the beginning made me love these two even more.
You get to see both grow individually and through their friendship together that eventually blossomed to a soul mate relationship.

Denver and Blair’s love story had me hooked from the get-go. But be warned—their heartbreak will hit you right in the feels, and trust me, I was a mess! Bailey’s writing is so powerful that I was crying and laughing along with the characters. You'll go from aching for their broken hearts to smiling at their fun, playful banter. It’s a must-read, and definitely my favorite in the series!

Please be aware of the trigger warnings available at the beginning of the book before reading.

Thank you to NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group, and Dell for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. 

I loved going back to Wells Canyon for a third time. This book should be the standard for second-chance romance. I loved going back in time to see what went wrong in the first place, and I LOVED that there was no third-act breakup. Why put Denny through it again, or any character? Blair returns home to help care for her mother and sees Denver (Denny) for the first time in 14 years, seeing it as an opportunity to get his girl back. The things this man does in this book are phenomenal. I loved the chemistry and the heart between the two of them. They went through hell as teenagers, and seeing how they've grown separately and then come back together is super sweet. 

Also, I think the author does a wonderful job balancing the difficult topics with sweet and spicy moments. Hannah is able to write about vulnerable topics with sensitivity, and it feels truly part of the story rather than just randomly being put in the book to check a box. 


Read if you like:
- Second chance
- Dual POV
- Dual timeline
- Small town
- It was always you
- Mental health rep

Bailey Hannah will always be a must read author in my mind. Every book she publishes has heart, laughter and emotions in one deliciously outlined story. This one is no different. Change of Hart is a second chance, no third act breakup

This book is the 3rd in the series and it follows Denny and Blair. There are so many emotional components to this book that you will laugh and you will cry and reach for a fan because the history and chemistry is top tiered. This book does run on a dual timeline so there is some past and present moments but it only makes the FMC and MMC's story's so much more real (to me, anyway). I loved the second chance trope and this book does not disappoint.

Change of Heart was emotional, angsty, and sexy. It was everything you hope for in a second chance romance.

Denny and Blair stole my heart! Watching these two find their way back to each other after 14 years apart was so beautiful. I loved Denny's dedication to winning Blair back and how Blair made him earn her. These two will put you through the emotional ringer. Their love was an all consuming kind, and it definitely felt epic.

The spice was so good too! The "good boy" and crawling!!! I'm deceased!

The setting is great and I had a lot of fun with the girl gang.

A wonderful second chance cowboy romance.

As usual, loved this book! Bailey has become an autobuy author for me and I love this series! Blair and Denny were so cute when they were younger and I was rooting so badly for them to get their chance again!

Bailey Hannah just ripped my heart out and put it back together again with this book. I love this series so much and the longer wait I had for this book was so worth it!!! Blair and Denver are childhood sweethearts but had 14 years in between where shit really went down. The way they talked through it was so adult I can’t even relate. I love Bailey’s writing and knew this book would be a gut punch to the heart.

This is a DNF for me. It makes me so sad to say that because I am a huge Bailey Hannah fan. However, I CANNOT stand Denver! He is so annoying and immature. Also, I’m not a huge fan of time jumps in books. I feel like the character never come off as the age they are supposed to be in that time frame. Overall, it’s just not interesting enough for me to keep reading right now. Thank you for the arc. I will not post a review of this book because it was a DNF.

I can’t even put into words how much I loved this book! It was so well thought out, and the ending was so cute and sweet and perfect. TBH, there wasn’t a single point where the butterflies in my stomach stopped. I am so in love with Blair and Denver, and their characters were so RAW and felt so REAL!!!

When Blair was describing her depressive episodes and her panic attacks, it was like the emotions were so true to my own experiences that I couldn’t help but feel a sense of kinship to her character. Although the reasons for our episodes are so different, it was almost like I was watching my struggles play out before me.

Bailey, girl, idk if you’re gonna read this, but you did such an incredible job with this book. Fuck, with this ENTIRE SERIES! After reading Alive and Wells, I thought “there’s no way it can get any better than this.” But then you wrote Seeing Red, and after reading that I thought the same exact thing. AND THEN YOU HIT ME WITH THIS???

I laughed, I cried—like, an embarrassing amount—and I fell so hard for Blair and Denny’s relationship. In the future, whenever anyone asks me for a second chance romance rec, I’ll promptly deliver them this book with a side of tissues. Because I think we can all agree they’re going to need it.

This was really good! There were so many feelings. I laughed, I cried, I didn’t want it to end. I really liked how the flashbacks told the story of Denver and Blair’s past throughout the book. I kept wondering when I was going to find out what happened.

Change of Heart was a cute second chance romance that I couldn’t put down. Bailey Hannah is quickly becoming one of my favorites.

Thanks NetGalley for the eARC.

“it’s always been us. in any lifetime, any universe.”🧸💙✨
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my heart thuds a million miles per second just at the thought of my love for these two. from endless nights crying out to my friends about my love for them (even before the tropes for this book was revealed) and my larger than life wish to get an arc of this gem, to actually losing my breath and still actively recovering from possibly one of the biggest heartaches i’ve experienced in my time reading. denny and bear have stolen my heart, mind and soul, and i’m completely okay with never getting it back, because for as long as i live my heart will beat with fervor for my fictional parents forever and ever. Den and Bear. my everything. miss Bailey Hannah, mother to many! you never seize to amaze me with your work, but you, my dear, have outdone yourself gifting us a story i’ll carry with me forever and love more than life itself💙

p.d.: i’m still in disbelief i got an arc for this after months of begging on my hands and knees to every possible outlet at my disposal😭thank you, Ballantine Books and Net Galley for the opportunity!🌟

Typically second chance AND dual timeline are not some of my preferred tropes, but this book stands apart from others. Probably my favorite representation of both. By far my favorite in the series.

Interesting/unique storyline, well written and real-feeling characters in both the past & current time. Perfectly paced. Denver gives the sweetest, most intentional love.

I was excited to finally read Blair and Denny’s book because I love second chance romances. I liked some parts and disliked others. Blair and Denny were both likable characters and were sweet when they were together. I liked the flashback scenes, as they helped me understand their connections. At the same time, I wish Blair did not give into him as soon as she did. I understand Denny was grieving his mom when they broke up, but I didn’t buy his excuses as to why he never went after her. I am not a big fan of how he became a manwhore (including one of her best friends!!). He moved on too easily and I liked how she called him out on all of it. Regardless, I liked how he was all for her once she moved back.

Check trigger warnings! There are some heavy topics in this.

Overall, I thought it was a great story. I loved the duel timeline learning the things that broke them slowly. I loved the theme of family and learning more about the Wells family. I thought the relationship between young Denver and young Blair was handled very well, the fact that the author knew not to have sex scenes with the young couple was great. Overall I think the book was great, definitely way more emotional then most romance books, it definitely hits you in the feels.

Change of Hart

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟
🌶🌶🌶

"Blair Hart was the prettiest thing I’d ever seen. And, even though she had no interest in me, I could never comfortably say I thought of her like a sibling again."

We all know that if it's a second chance romance, I am going to read it! Now, Denver and Blair's story has been taunting us for the last two books. But I never could have expected the history between these two.

Blair is back in her hometown, the place where she has avoided since 18 - since she and Denny went their separate ways. But now, her mom is sick and she's home to take care of her.

I loved everything about this book. The characters, the build-up and flashbacks, and especially the love between Denver and Blair.

this book is for the girlies who struggle asking for help 😭😭

Denver and Blair are a couple that’ll always live in my head rent free. I really enjoyed the flashbacks and be able to see them as young kids in love. You could tell that there was no way they weren’t going to find their way back to each other. You can see the pain they both endured during their time apart. 🥺

Denver did not waste any time showing Blair that he’s serious about gaining her trust back and show her that he’s grown up. Blair was able to not only open herself back up to Denny but figured out that she can rely on him like she used to.

Bailey Hannah absolutely broke my heart and put it all back together in Change of Hart!

An absolute must read for second chance romance lovers and lovers of this series. I have been loving this series so I was very excited when I saw who the next book was on and it did not disappoint. Blair and Denny had so much tension, angst, chemistry and it makes your heart squeeze. It's so good! Once friends then lovers and then nothing until life puts them back in each others lives and he's determined to get his girl back. I loved seeing the past moments and present which gives a glimpse of the past, how they got there and their history. I loved seeing how they matured, grown up and they communicate and fix their issues and fall back. in love. Its such a sweet, angst and emotional story that is hands down amazing!