This book begins when Blair and Denver spy each other at a rodeo for the first time in 14 years and realize the feelings of first love not gone away. However, things are complicated, of course. Blair has just now moved back to town to assist in caring for her mother whose memory is failing. During this time, Denver has tried to get Blair out of his system by dating a myriad of women over the years. Even though their feelings exist, Blair is hesitant to give the relationship a chance due to Denver’s playboy reputation.
This book, told in alternating perspectives and timelines paints a picture of how deeply these characters feel for each other and what events tore them apart. The question that remains is only will this time be different?
Many thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for the advance copy. All opinions are my own.

Unfortunately, with less than 100 pages left, I will not be finishing this book.

I did not realize the main plot point was the FMC's abortion. The actual description was not graphic and brief, but I could not stand her attitude for the whole of the book, and the way she treated the MMC especially. She gave him no rights as the father of his child, and it was especially cruel to read after he lost his grandfather, mother, and father in a very short period of time. Blair, their child, and his brothers were quite literally all he had left, and the entirety of the book up until the reveal we are made to believe that somehow Denver was the bad guy, and had abandoned Blair when SHE needed him, when really it was the other way around!

I really could not stand to read more after this, when Blair (much like Cassidy, I'm sensing a pattern in the Wells FMCs...?) was already not my favorite character to begin with. Denver, however, was obviously a very perfect, probably too perfect, fictional man. Besides that, I had honestly been struggling to get through the story up until this point anyways, as it was quite slow with not a lot of anything going on. I vastly preferred the flashbacks to present-tense romance and story.

I will be continuing this series because I really liked the first installment, Alive and Wells, and while I didn't love the second's FMC, Seeing Red was still also enjoyable. Bailey Hannah's writing is really great and I enjoy the Wells Ranch setting and other characters.

BAILEY!!!! THIS is how you write a second chance romance! I ate up the dual timeline and the banter. I was not expecting to be hit by the emotional flashbacks but dang even those got to me AND THE SPICE?!?! Do not even get me started on that one. I am the queen of if there is cowboys and smut i will be reading and this did not disappoint!!! I am still kicking my feet and smiling about it weeks later. Thank you so much to NetGalley for the the ARC on this book.

if you love the cowboys and the smut with a rugged lead male you will eat this up like i did. 10/10 Miss Hannah. TEN OUT OF TEN.

Okay ummm.. I think I cried like a million times through this book! I needed a minute 🥹

It’s been so long since I was able to relate to a book and man did I relate to this story! I know the pain that Blair went through and it hit me right in the feels!! Bailey’s writing is soo beautiful and pulls you in right away. This series just keeps getting better and better! She did an amazing job with the second chance aspect in this! FRENCH KISS🤌🏼If you haven't started this series yet, what are you doing? I am obsessed.

Blair and Denver have my heart and I don’t want it back! Their love story is everything you need and more! The chemistry, the antsy. THIS WAS A MASTERPIECE!

Thank you Bailey Hannah for the net galley arc for my honest review!

5/5⭐️
2/5🌶️

Tropes:
❤️Small Town
✨Second Chance
❤️Childhood Best Friends
✨Dual Timeline
❤️Reformed Playboy
✨Cowboy x Nurse Practitioner

I loved jumping back into Wells Canyon! Dual timelines and second chance gives the perfect amount of angst and anticipation to see what happened to Denver and Blair 14 years ago when they broke up. I loved seeing them fall in love in the past and reconnect in the present.

4.5 stars.

"Change of Hart" by Bailey Hannah is an excellent installment in a wonderful cowboy series. I think it might be my favorite of the bunch! I am typically not a fan of second-chance romances, but this is one of the best ones I have read. Childhood friends-to-lovers is really having a moment this year! I loved Blair and Denny's reconnection story! Denny is SO obsessed with Blair, it's not even funny. The way he pines for her and yearns for her was delicious. The reformed playboy trope is one I usually don't get too into, but I feel like it made sense for Denny's character. Blair's coming back to Wells Ranch is not under the best of circumstances. She's got a lot on her plate. She never really stopped caring for Denny, forced to move on after something big happened in their lives. Blair's mental health struggles feel authentic and realistic. All of the pieces of their romance felt just right. Nothing felt forced, nothing felt stilted, nothing felt unnecessary. Even the dual timeline is handled with care. It all adds up to make one fast-moving, emotional, cohesive, reminiscent, perfectly paced book that I will definitely come back to over and over again. Hannah balances serious topics with expert precision, banter, and levity. I just loved this book!

Thank you to NetGalley, Bailey Hannah, Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, and Dell for the complimentary ARC of this book. All opinions are my own. I was not compensated for this review.

Change of Hart is a beautifully written second-chance romance full of heartbreak, healing and a love that refuses to give up. Childhood best friends, Blair and Denver’s bond is messy, emotional and deeply real. I loved how the story leaned into the pain while still holding onto hope.

The flashbacks to their younger years added so much depth and emotional weight. I’m a sucker for second chances and childhood best friends, and this hit both perfectly. You can’t help but root for these two as they find their way back to each other through grief, guilt and personal growth.

The Wells Ranch series just keeps getting better - this installment is raw, romantic and quietly powerful.

Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for the ARC.

If you are in your cowboy romance era then you MUST meet the cowboys of Wells Ranch and Denver might be my favorite!

Change of Hart is book three in Hannah’s Wells Ranch series but can easily be read as a standalone if you want to dive right in to Denver and Blair’s story. While I’ve read the first two books and enjoyed them, Denver has taken top prize as my favorite cowboy of the series so far.

This book will be catnip for readers who love childhood friends to lovers. Denver and Blair basically find their soulmates at the age of twelve and while it broke my heart that they spent so many years a part, I’m so glad that they were able to find their way back to one another without a lot of drama.

Honestly, all it took was Blair to move back to her hometown fourteen years after leaving it for them to finally right their wrongs and get back together. It was really refreshing for there not to be much drama impacting their reunion or decision to get back together considering the reason that broke them in the first place.

Because it was a simple reunion while Blair had to work through her trust issues, I really enjoyed the chapters that shared how their friendship and then love developed over time in the past. By the time you get to the past time period where they were eighteen and falling apart, it was gut-wrenching given what was happening at that time in both of their lives as you knew they were soulmates destined to be together.

I loved that Blair voiced her sadness and hurt that Denny had become such a playboy and that they had their 5 minutes of honesty that gave each the place to share their feelings.

This year seems to be the year of romance books that have dementia has a side theme and this book is one of them. It didn’t overwhelm their love story but was the impetus to her moving home and was a good side story to show how Denny was really trying to show that he could be there for her.

And if you love steamy romance books, Hannah does not hold back in her books. These two get it on in quite a few scenes which were H-O-T hot!

What I loved most is how Denny could be a man who owns his past, can apologize and will do anything for his woman. I also love how Blair didn’t lose sight of her own goals and dreams as a young teen and despite being alone in her decisions, stuck to them.

Can we also give a shout out to the cover designer for this series! Whoever it is has knocked it out of the park with every one. Perfection for these cowboy romances 😊.

*I received a copy from the publisher. All opinions are my own.

This was actually my first Wells Ranch read and I absolutely loved it! I love Second Chance romances like this - no third act breakup, no immature miscommunication, just a real attempt at making it work! I especially loved that Denver and Blair were childhood sweethearts that never quite got over one another - *chefs kiss*!

I liked that both Blair and Denver had family they were close to, and that each of them had to support the other in similar ways at different points throughout the story and the vulnerability that showcased in each character. I really loved the connection that Blair and Denver had and thought the flashback chapters were really well done. I liked the structure of them, and felt like showing us just one piece at a time throughout the story was fabulous!

Overall, a really great second chance romance that I will definitely recommend!

Thank you to NetGalley and Dell Romance for the eARC of this book. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review after reading.

Rating: 4.25 ⭐️
Spice: 🌶️🌶️

4⭐️
3🌶️

Second chance romance always makes me cry and of course this was no different! I had the best time reading this and felt ALL the emotions. Denny & Blair’s love was just everything. Their story was filled with so much emotion I simply wanted to cry 24/7. I loved how dedicated Denny was to getting her back, he wasn’t gonna watch her leave him again. They also had fire TENSION and chemistry because oh my hotness🤭. This was such a great read!🩵

Change of Hart is book three in the Wells Ranch series and is Blair and Denver's story.

Their story is told in dual timeline and dual POVs. This really helped to get a sense of their story and how it begins. Denver and Blair were childhood friends who had fallen in love. They went through something that put an end to their relationship. Years later, however, they get reunited.

This is an emotional story, and I was here for it! Change of Hart touches on some difficult things and the author does a job with writing about them. Denver and Blair's story will touch your heart and give you all the feels.

If you take the audiobook route (which is amazing btw), do not listen to the last 30% while driving. You may have to pull over due to crying. I’ve been there.

I teared up many times while reading this one and I bawled at the end. Second chance romance just hits you right in the solar plexus. Bailey Hannah did a phenomenal job with the second chance aspect of this story. She has created such a beautiful world that I love to visit. I love her writing and the banter she brings to her stories-I laugh out loud so much.

DENNY 😭 I love him so much it hurts. Denny & Blair were made for each other, it just takes them a minute to find it out. I loved the timelines of the story, seeing them in their younger years added depth to their story. Denny is stubborn and has only loved one girl, Blair. Blair is strong and has built a wall to protect herself. Only Denver can be the safe place for her and she crumbles when she goes back to her small town. I loved this story and seeing all of the past Wells Ranch characters.

I have been looking forward to this one and it did not disappoint! Blair and Denver were childhood sweethearts and seeing these two find their way back to each other was so beautiful. My favorite thing in second chance romances is the past and present timelines and this book did it so well! I feel like it really helps you appreciate their second chance and makes the HEA so much sweeter. Denver was just the sweetest in how he did whatever he could to help Blair and these two might not have had the easiest road at getting back together but I am so thankful these two found their way back to what was always supposed to be

4.5 stars

There are so many amazing moments in this book! It is an emotional journey that I'm still not over after reading earlier this year!

I loved the balance of past and present story lines and how they came together to build the story up. Seeing more of Denny and his thoughts and feelings was so satisfying after the first couple books in the series.

Blair is definitely a strong lead and while I loved seeing her have everything together and being strong for her family, the moments she opened up and was vulnerable was everything!

I still tear up thinking about these two and that will probably never stop!

I can't wait to see what the next story brings!

i’m warning you now. if you don’t want to sob, don’t pick up this book. okay, you’ve been warned. now go pick it up 🥹

denny and blair went from friends to soulmates when they were teenagers, until it all came crashing down during the worst moments of their lives.

it’s been 14 years and their pull towards each other is still as strong as ever when blair moves home to help care for her mom who has early onset alzheimers. as they navigate their second chance at first love, denny does everything he can to prove he’s ALL IN and blair has to figure out how to trust his words and actions when they broke each other so thoroughly in the past 😭💔

there are so many wonderful moments with the wells ranch crew. and so many emotional moments THE MOMS THE DORM ROOM but I completely lost it at one particular line from denny’s mom, still tearing up thinking about it 😭😭😭

💙second chance
💘reformed playboy
💙they both ride
💘dual timeline
💙she’s pierced + he has a secret tattoo

see you all for 9am sangria with the girls while the guys do some hot cowboy sh*t 😉

- 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒃𝒚 𝑩𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒚 𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒉
𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘴:
✰ 𝘤𝘰𝘸𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦
✰ 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴
✰ 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴
✰ 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦
✰ 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘺
✰ 𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦

What a lovely read this was! I have a love/hate story with second chance romance but this book worked for me. Mainly because I genuinely liked the main characters and I could understand why they broke up. So watching them start over was heartwarming.
I would keep this book in mind if you're looking for an angsty but also sweet cowboy romance.
I definetely need to read more from this author as well.

This installment in the Wells Ranch series is a tender, emotionally charged tale of reconnection, growth, and love that never truly faded. It delivers everything you’d want in a return to Wells Canyon—and in a delicious second chance romance full of heart and heat.

After years away, Blair returns to Wells Canyon, called home by her mother’s declining health—only to be confronted by the one man she never quite got over: Denver Wells, the cowboy who once broke her heart. Told through a beautifully woven dual timeline, the story traces their bond from its sweet beginnings at thirteen to the painful breakup at eighteen that left a lasting ache.

Blair, now a committed nurse practitioner, is juggling the emotional weight of family obligations. Denver, still deeply tied to the land and working the family ranch, hasn’t changed much on the surface—he even still calls her “Bear,” as if no time has passed. Their breakup was rooted in heartbreak, silence, and circumstances too overwhelming for two young people to handle. Denver didn’t fight for them back then, and while it was painful, it was understandable. But now? He’s making sure he doesn’t lose her again.

What made their reunion so special was how grounded and real it felt. They weren’t simply revisiting the past—they were rebuilding something new and meaningful. Denver’s quiet, steady efforts and their “five-second truth” game brought both heart and humor to their reconnection, while Blair’s emotional journey—learning to let others in and share the weight—added powerful depth. The chemistry was electric. Denver’s dirty talk paired with Blair’s boldness made every spicy moment feel genuine and earned, a natural extension of their complicated, deeply rooted connection.


What to expect:
-Small Town
-Cowboy x Nurse Practitioner
-Second Chance
-It’s always been you/soulmates
-Acts of Service
-Childhood sweethearts
-Mental health rep
-Man Obsessed
-Dual Timelines

4 ⭐️ | 2.5 🌶️

🩵 Small town romance
🩵 FMC returns to hometown
🩵 Second Chance romance
🩵 Dual timeline
🩵 Reformed Playboy
🩵 Cowboy

I was so excited for Change of Hart because I LOVE a second chance romance. Bailey Hannah knows how to write a swoony cowboy and she absolutely nailed it with Denver Wells.

This was an emotional read for me, and the Alzheimer’s and cancer storylines really hit home. It was so sweet seeing the bonds the MCs have with their families, and I really loved the way the two were able to bond over their shared past and childhoods.

I thought Denver was so incredibly charming and goofy and I really loved his personality. The second chance romance was so beautiful and I loved how the dual timeline showed sweet memories and moments between the two to add to their connection & highlight issues in the present timeline.

I love a headstrong FMC, and I loved Blair for most of this book (no spoilers here) but there was one specific plot line where I didn’t agree with the way she treated Denny. I personally would have loved more conversations to have taken place between the two, and when it was brought up again in the current timeline for there to have been more healing instead of “all is well, let’s move on!”

Overall a good small town second chance romance if you love the listed tropes and are okay with the triggers listed!

Thank you to Bailey Hannah and Dell romance for the opportunity to read Change of Hart as an e-ARC!

⚠️ Please check TW before diving in (includes but not limited to a parent with Alzheimer’s Disease, MC with depression, A parent who dies from cancer, Abortion).

I absolutely love this entire series! Each book gets better and better. I’m a sucker for childhood friends to lovers & second chance love.

Blair & Denver are made for each other! I loved the look into their past as well as present. Add in no 3rd act breakup or crazy miscommunication and you get the best kind of story. Don’t get me wrong she’s still spicy in all the right places. Their banter is also top tier!

Overall I clearly loved this one! It gave me all the feels I even teared up a bit!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶️🌶️.5

Love love love!!!! Once again, Bailey Hannah NAILS it. My review is coming just a little late because I kept rereading parts and got caught up in the research for Alzheimer’s (a part of the story). As someone who was the caretaker of my grandmother who suffered from this awful disease, this book resonated with me in more ways than one. I love the representation and awareness this brings to the disease and not only what it means for the patient but for the family and friends. I looooooved Denver. From the very beginning I loved everything about him. I actually think the break in time together did them a great favor: they were able to grow and learn apart so they can be better together. Her hesitation was something believable especially with everything she’s going through . But I love that he never gave up on her.

Thank you for the arc in exchange for a honest review!