Wild Ride Cowboy
Copper Ridge #9
By Maisey Yates
Released: August 29th, 2017
Harlequin Books
Tour Host: Barclay Publicity
Source: ARC provided by the Publisher
He's come back to Copper Ridge, Oregon, to keep a promise—even if it means losing his heart…
Putting down roots in
Copper Ridge was never Alex Donnelly's intention. But if there's one thing the
ex-military man knows, it's that life rarely unfolds as expected. If it did,
his best friend and brother-in-arms would still be alive. And Alex wouldn't
have inherited a ranch or responsibility for his late comrade's sister—a woman
who, despite her inexperience, can bring tough-as-iron Alex to his knees.
Clara Campbell didn't ask for a hero to ride in and fix her ranch and
her life. All she wants is the one thing stubborn, honorable Alex is reluctant
to give: a chance to explore their intense chemistry. But Clara has a few
lessons to teach him, too…about trusting his heart and his instincts, and
letting love take him on the wildest adventure of all.
*ARC provided by the publisher, in exchange for an honest and unbiased review*
So when I got Wild Ride Cowboy, I will honestly admit, it was for the
name and the cover! And while the old adage states that I shouldn't judge a
book by its cover, there was just something about this cover, I had to read it,
and I will say, the cover is one of my favorites! It's simple, I haven't seen
it on a bunch of other books, and it portrays love, which for me, is
perfection.
Now for all clarity, I have only read one other Maisey Yates and Copper
Ridge book before, and that was the Christmas novella, Snowed In At Copper
Ridge, so I haven't been heavily invested in this series….until now!
Oh My Goodness, I absolutely loved the story of Clara and Alex…From
their shared heartbreak from their families, to Alex's survivors guilt, and
everyone underestimating the level of maturity that Clara has! It truly was one
scrumptious tale!
The writing was smooth, and the plot detailed, even if the pace did
dawdle there for a little, the book was overall enjoyable, and is totally going
to make me read the other books in the series. And don't worry if you haven't
read the other books, Wild Ride Cowboy can totally be read as a standalone, and
you will not be lost.
I give Wild Ride Cowboy 4.5 stars!
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Reluctantly, she
covered the coffee with a white to-go lid then turned to walk out the door. She
didn’t make it very far, though, because she ran right into a brick wall.
Well, it wasn’t
really a brick wall. It just felt like one. Large, hard and uncompromising. But
breathing. Which brick walls definitely didn’t do.
“Clara Campbell.
Fancy meeting you here.”
Clara blinked and
stared up into Alex Donnelly’s forest-green eyes and felt a strange response
that seemed to originate in her stomach and travel upward to her chest, where
it twisted, hard and sharp.
After looking at
Asher, his understated physique and much softer brown gaze, the sight of Alex
was jarring. Too intense. Too masculine. Too a lot of things.
His dark hair
wasn’t military short anymore. It was long enough to hang into his face. He
pushed it back off his forehead and again, something twisted, low and deep
inside of her.
And then it wasn’t
only his features that seemed too sharp. It was seeing him at all. She had been
studiously avoiding him ever since he had moved back to Copper Ridge. If ever
she’d caught a glimpse of him out of the corner of her eye, she’d gone the
other way.
The last time she’d
seen him up close had been at Jason’s funeral.
Pain washed through
her, canceling out all of the good Asher feelings from only a moment before.
No wonder she’d had
such a strong, immediate response to the sight of Alex. The man was dragging a
bunch of her baggage in with him. Another thing she liked about Asher. He was
separate from her life. From her pain.
Alex was all wound
up in it.
“Hi, Alex,” she
said, clutching her coffee cup tight, the warmth bleeding through to her palms.
Which she was grateful for at the moment since her stomach had gone ice-cold at
the sight of him.
“I’ve been meaning
to stop by,” he said.
“That’s really
okay,” she said, and she meant it. More than okay. Jason’s death meant that she
was alone. Both of her parents were already gone. They’d had children later in
life, and when her mother had gotten sick, her father had done everything he
could to make his wife comfortable as her health declined. She’d died when
Clara was twelve. And there had been no amount of preparation that could soften
the blow. No amount of expectedness that could have made it feel less like a
giant, ugly hand had reached into their life and wrenched the beauty out of it,
leaving nothing but a dark abyss.
Copyright © 2017 Wild
Ride Cowboy by Maisey Yates
NewYork Times and USA Today Bestselling author Maisey Yates lives in rural Oregon
with her three children and her husband, whose chiseled jaw and arresting
features continue to make her swoon. She feels the epic trek she takes several
times a day from her office to her coffee maker is a true example of her pioneer
spirit. In 2009, at the age of twenty-three Maisey sold her first book.
Since
then it’s been a whirlwind of sexy alpha males and happily ever afters, and she
wouldn’t have it any other way. Maisey divides her writing time between dark,
passionate category romances set just about everywhere on earth and light sexy
contemporary romances set practically in her back yard.
She
believes that she clearly has the best job in the world.
