Cowboy Brothers in Arms, Book 1
From the publisher:
He’s Emerald Creek’s hottest cowboy—and the one man she shouldn’t want
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On the surface, Egan Donnelly is hometown hero material—top gun, commanding an elite fighter training squadron and ranching royalty. Inside, he feels like a fraud, convinced he’s responsible for his best friend’s death. At least he won’t let himself succumb to the heat between him and Jack’s widow, Alana. But now that she’s making regular trips to his ranch to care for his dad, that vow is getting harder to keep.
Alana Davidson isn’t just grieving her husband’s loss, she’s feeling betrayed over his secret infidelity. Wanting Egan makes things even more complicated. As a nutritionist, she can help Egan’s dad recover from his health scare, but it’s not so easy to get her own heart back on track. Because despite shared guilt and family pressure, she’s falling fast, and Egan is right there with her…
This is the first book of a new series and it’s a good one. Set at the Donnelly family ranch in a small town in Texas, where the patriarch of the family has a heart attack. He survives, but is definitely weakened in body and soul. He has four sons, all in the military, but his oldest, Egan, takes leave for a month to come home and run the ranch. Egan figures his father will be back to himself quickly, but that doesn’t happen. His stepmother is a General and stationed overseas. She can only get away for a few days so it is up to Egan to make things work.
Alana is a nutritionist and is assigned to help out with the food side of getting Egan’s father heart healthy again. Egan has been avoiding her and her son, despite her being his best friend’s widow. Alana was hurt when Egan stopped coming around, but now that she sees him all the time she starts finding herself thinking about him. A lot.
Turns out Egan feels guilty about his friend’s death, and that’s why he’s been keeping his distance. Plus there is the tiny issue that he is strongly attracted to her and he feels guilty about that. It takes some time for these two to face their feelings and get to their happy ending, but it such a rewarding journey to get there. I loved these characters and the setting and I’m looking forward to the next book in the series.
12/2023 Stacy Alesi, AKA the BookBitch
HEART LIKE A COWBOY by Delores Fossen. Canary Street Press; Original edition (November 28, 2023). ISBN: 978-1335009487. 384p.
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