Review: The Cowboy Comes Home (Home at Last Texas Book 3) by Justine Davis

 

The invitation to visit his best friend at his new Texas digs is just what former rodeo champion turned Hollywood stuntman Tucker Culhane needs. When he and star Jackson Thorpe, worked together on a huge western hit, he’d enjoyed the life, but now Tucker’s at a career crossroads and missing home. But will returning to Texas open the door on the past he’s long avoided?

Police officer Emily Stratton loves protecting the citizens of her hometown, Last Stand, in Texas’ beautiful hill country. She was a huge fan of Tucker when he was on top of the leaderboard, but his reserve, humble spirit and kindness to a young boy intrigue her far more. Can she show Tucker that Last Stand can be the home and fresh start he’s been searching for?

Emily’s quick humor, warmth and golden eyes make Tucker forget his own name, but he’s all too familiar with the realities of police life, and the last thing he intends to do is fall for a cop….

 

My Review: 

An entertaining cowboy romance. 

When stuntman man, Tucker Culhane, decided to join his best friend, former Hollywood actor, Jackson Thorpe, in Texas, he thought he was just going for a visit.  He had no idea he would come to love the small town of Last Stand and fall for police officers, Emily Stratton.  Because of how Tucker was raised, he has some hesitations about committing to their relationship.  With the help of his friends and local residents, Tucker learns to put the past behind him and move on with his life.  This is a beautiful love story that I just couldn’t get enough of.

Review: The Cowboy’s Best Friend (The Careys of Cowboy Point Book 4) by Megan Crane

 

Sierra Tate has been best friends with Boone Carey since childhood. She can’t imagine life without him.

After finally leaving the husband who cheated on her for the entirety of their marriage, she wants a change. Life in Cowboy Point with her best friend, helping him get his artisan dairy up and running, feels like the perfect way to figure out who she really is. After all, Boone is so sweet. So kind. She knows that he’ll let her live in the apartment above his barn forever, if she needs to. And maybe she does.

Boone has wanted Sierra for as long as he’s known her. Even after she married a man he never thought deserved her, he figured he’d rather have her as a friend than not have her at all. Getting to spend all day, every day with the woman he can’t have is challenging—but Boone is used to that kind of suffering. That’s okay. He loves her enough to be her friend forever and nothing more.

Until one night, everything changes.

Boone finally has the chance to introduce his best friend to the man he really is, the man he’s always been—the man who’s been in love with her since the day they met.

And he’s prepared to show her that as far as he’s concerned, they’ve always been made for each other.

One kiss at a time.

 

My Review: 

A great addition to the Careys of Cowboy Point series. 

Zeke Carey still pretends to be dying in order to get his boys to settle down, get married and have children.  He won’t stop until he sees them all happily married.

In this book, we meet Boone, who has been in love with his best friend, Sierra Tate since seventh grade, even though she ended up marrying someone else.  When Sierra finally has enough of her cheating husband and asks for a divorce, she turns to Boone, not just as a best friend, but in a way Boone never expected.  But is it a rebound relationship or the real thing?  I really enjoyed this book and seeing Boone and Sierra get their happily ever after, along with catching up with the rest of the Carey family. 

 

 

 

Review: Blackmail and Kitty Tails (A Purr-fect Relic Cozy Mystery Book 5) by DeAnna Drake

A glamorous gala, a cursed dagger, and a killer on the loose—Rebecca Cuthbert and her talking cat, Aneksi, face their most dangerous mystery yet.

When Rebecca Cuthbert volunteered to help with the Citrus Grove Women’s Club gala, she envisioned a night filled with elegant silk drapes, Egyptian-themed decorations, and tasty hors d’oeuvres—certainly not murder. But then the lights flicker out during the party setup, and club president Deborah Ralston is found dead, stabbed with an ancient dagger.

With Aneksi purring by her side and a murder weapon steeped in legend, Rebecca must unravel a twisted web of secrets, blackmail, and bitter rivalries behind this sinister murder. Everyone from suspicious club members to scorned lovers is a suspect, and time is running out as Rebecca’s own antique shop becomes linked to the deadly artifact.

Can Rebecca and her cat corner the killer before tragedy slashes her world again?

 

My Review:

A fast-paced entertaining cozy mystery.

Another stolen Egyptian artifact, from Cuthbert Exotic Antiques, has surfaced.  This time it’s Sobek’s dagger and it was used in a murder.  Rebecca sets out to find the killer before someone else dies or the killer comes after her.  This was an entertaining story and a great addition to the Purr-fect Relic Cozy Mystery series.  I have enjoyed watching Rebecca blend in with the Citrus Grove residents and her getting to know her grandfather better.  I can’t end this review without mentioned Aneksi, Rebecca’s immortal talking cat.  She is such a fun addition to these books. 

 

 

Review: Holding Out For a Hero (With Love, From Kurrajong Crossing Book 12) by Dakota Harrison & Fiona Marsden

 

 

 

Marina di Maggoli knows exactly what she wants in a future partner. After years of failed matches, it’s time to look for the right kind of man to take his place beside her in Kurrajong Crossing society. Besides, with all her former friends settling down and starting families, Marina is ready to compromise on finding love for the sake of ending her unbearable loneliness.

Briar Appleton has no intention of ever having a relationship or children. He lost his mother and grandmother far too young to cancer and refuses to pass that risk onto a future generation. Teasing and tormenting the snarky, uptight Marina is something he is up for. They’ve been circling each other for years—long before he started delivering organic produce to her mother when he was a teenager and caught her looking down her nose at his recycled vintage clothing.

When the teasing turns into something more, Marina and Briar have to make choices they never planned on and take risks they always shied away from. Can they find a way to be happy together—for the sake of their new family?

 

My Review:

A heartfelt romance.

This story had a lot of emotion written into it.  Marina and Briar are total opposites and Marina’s mother doesn’t approve of Briar because of where he grew up, in a hippie commune.  Marina was raised to be prim and proper in a well-to-do neighborhood.  But the heart knows what it wants and Marina wants Briar.  When one wild night leads to a pregnancy, the secret has to come out.  Love always seems to win and for Marina and Briar love definitely wins, but it took a while for them to get there.  I enjoyed everything about this book.  I just wished it was longer.  I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to these characters and the little town in Australia.