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In this steamy cowboy romance, a grumpy ranch owner and a sunny horse trainer must learn to work together—the second novel in the Silver Pines Ranch series.Wade Ashby doesn’t let anyone in. With the death of his father and his failed marriage, plus the weight of the family business on his shoulders, Wade has plenty to deal with. He thrives on being the one constant and steady thing in his family’s life and on their ranch, Silver Pines.
Ivy Spencer knows two things for certain: Animals show more make better friends than people and she can only count on herself. After a turbulent childhood and a string of bad luck since, Ivy is excited to start fresh at Silver Pines Ranch and live out her dream of training a racehorse en route to the Kentucky Derby.
Wade needs help on the ranch, but with two entirely different views on how to train his star horse, it makes absolutely no sense why he allows her to stay on. She’s chaos and he’s control, but it doesn’t take long for the levee to break and their passion to ignite. show less
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This is definitely the spiciest cowboy romance I’ve read. I was intrigued by the synopsis of this story on NetGalley, but was not prepared for the amount of spice. I picked up and read Holding the Reins to read before I read this one. It definitely had a lot of heat too, but this one was on fire. I personally don’t need that much spice and would have enjoyed less of that and more story. It just really wasn’t totally necessary to the story.
The story. That is what I loved. As a woman who has grown up in a home with verbal/emotional abuse and alcoholism I felt all that Ivy felt. Throw in a bit of infertility talk, which hit me dead in the gut, as I dealt with years of infertility treatments to bring my own show more children into this world. The journey to get where Ivy and Wade ended up was beautiful. They both had been hurt deeply by people they trusted and to be able to be there for each other and learn to trust again was amazing.
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Grumpy x Sunshine
Forced Proximity
Workplace Romance
Pregnancy
One Bed
Thank you NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group, and Paisley Hope for allowing me to read an advanced complimentary copy of the book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. show less
This is definitely the spiciest cowboy romance I’ve read. I was intrigued by the synopsis of this story on NetGalley, but was not prepared for the amount of spice. I picked up and read Holding the Reins to read before I read this one. It definitely had a lot of heat too, but this one was on fire. I personally don’t need that much spice and would have enjoyed less of that and more story. It just really wasn’t totally necessary to the story.
The story. That is what I loved. As a woman who has grown up in a home with verbal/emotional abuse and alcoholism I felt all that Ivy felt. Throw in a bit of infertility talk, which hit me dead in the gut, as I dealt with years of infertility treatments to bring my own show more children into this world. The journey to get where Ivy and Wade ended up was beautiful. They both had been hurt deeply by people they trusted and to be able to be there for each other and learn to trust again was amazing.
Tropes:
Grumpy x Sunshine
Forced Proximity
Workplace Romance
Pregnancy
One Bed
Thank you NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group, and Paisley Hope for allowing me to read an advanced complimentary copy of the book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. show less
I hate to say it but there was way too much spice for my liking! I loved everything else! Wade and Ivy were great together and they were fun characters.
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