Kaje Harper’s Winter Cowboy is a thoughtful and satisfying age-gap romance that acts as companion piece to the novella Cowboy Dreams (also highly recommended if you haven’t already read it). It picks up the story of one of the secondary characters in that book, Frankie Morse, a kid of seventeen, terrified that his abusive father…
Downpour is the second in the Griffith Brothers series from author Maggie Gates and while I’ve enjoyed other books by her and wish I could have loved this one it wasn’t a winner for me. Ray Griffiths is a champion bull rider. The prologue is told from Ray’s perspective as he recovers after a competition…
Keep You Safe is the second book in Annabeth Albert’s Second Chance Ranch series, and returns readers to the Colorado property owned by Maverick Lovelorn, who has decided to stick around and turn the failing business he inherited into a dude ranch / holiday destination. I enjoyed this one more than the first book (Want…
Novellas are generally a bit hit and miss for me – they can feel rushed or too insubstantial – so I’m very selective about which ones I read. I enjoy Kaje Harper’s work, and she writes fabulous short stories which she posts on her Facebook page every Sunday, so I was pretty sure her new…
Jennifer Ryan is back with the second installment of her Dark Horse Dive Bar series, Wilde for You, a subtle romantic suspense wrapped up in a small-town cowboy romance. It’s the first Ryan novel I’ve read, and I liked this standalone enough to delve into her backlist as soon as I was finished. Layla Brock…
This is my very first A.J. Pine book, and her confident storytelling and likable characters have convinced me to keep her on my to-watch pile. A good story with likeable characters, Holding Out for a Cowboy is missing a few ingredients that keep it from hitting DIK range, but is still compelling. Casey Walsh is…
At the end of Burning Season, the third published book in Rachel Ember’s Wild Ones series, the epilogue saw the arrival, on Bo and Dylan’s doorstep, of Dylan’s great-nephew, Johnny Chase. I still haven’t had time to read books one and two in the series, but I managed to pick up enough here to be…
I’ve categorised Rachel Ember’s Burning Season as an historical romance – although it feels utterly weird to use the word ‘historical’ to describe a story that takes place during my lifetime! Set in 1972 (when I was eight!) it’s the third published book in the author’s Wild Ones series, but is the first chronologically; I…
A Thorn in the Saddle is Rebekah Weatherspoon’s fun, fresh modernized take on Beauty and the Beast. It’s smart about people, warm, and filled with thoughtful commentary about how to accept growth and change in ones’ life. Hot-tempered Jesse Pleasant is not like his brothers, in that he’s more of a gruff loaner type. The…
Blind Tiger is a classic Sandra Brown romantic suspense story and if you are a fan of this author or that genre at all, you will definitely want to pick it up. The Great War is over but almost two years after armistice, Thatcher Hutton is still finding his way home. Lack of money and…
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