RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
STEAM: 🔥🔥🔥
Dean Cade and Carolyn "Oly" Masterson have loved each other since they were children. But when Dean realized that he was only going to hold Oly back, he broke her heart and left for the Marines. Oly tried to mend her shattered heart by going away to veterinarian school.
Years later, both have come back to Wisper with scars, secrets, and a lingering love that they are more than willing to shake. Despite their futile attempts to stay away from each other, a sinister entity threatening Oly brings out Dean's protectiveness.
I was not ready for the angst from this read, but it was oh-so-good. The Cade brothers are certainly a big broody bunch with Dean possibly the broodiest of them all. Despite his grumpy personality, he is loyal to the ones he loves.
I love that Oly is his match in every way. She is driven and smart, and she brings out a different side of him that was also fun to watch. She too rides or dies with the people she cares about.
Despite their silly attempts at animosity and distance, you can feel their chemistry from the get-go. That fire only burned even more when these two dirty talkers finally got their act together.
I know we all came here for the angst, spice, and most importantly, cowboys, but the suspense was definitely a nice surprise that will keep you turning the pages.
ABOUT THE BOOK
IT’S BEEN SEVEN YEARS
Dean Cade has come home to Cade Ranch from his time as a sniper with the US Military, seven years after he lied and pushed Carolyn Masterson away. But when she returns from veterinary school in England to work at their local clinic, he can’t make himself stay away from her.
He needs her.
But Oly’s a different woman now, and Dean came back broken, harboring a secret that could destroy his brothers. What can he offer her?
HOME AGAIN
Oly’s back in Wisper, and all she wants to do is live her life, take care of horses, and avoid Dean Cade like the freakin’ plague. But she can’t get that brooding, stubborn cowboy out of her head. She knows he’s different—damaged—after his time with the Marines, but she can’t stop thinking about him and about the white-hot night they shared.
When Dean is hired to protect her from a mysterious threat in both their lives, she knows she can’t walk away, but if Dean doesn’t open up and let her in, that’s exactly what she’ll have to do…
And it would break her.
The second book in The Cade Ranch series, BROKEN, is a steamy, second-chance romance about coming home again and learning to forgive.
MEET GRETA ROSE WEST
Greta Rose West, the author of The Cade Ranch Series, was a floundering artsy flake until Jack showed up, knocking on the door of her brain, and then pounding on it, and then he just plain kicked it down. She lives in NW Indiana with her husband, her son, and her two precocious kitties, Geoff Trouble and Sally Mae Midnight. When she’s not writing, she’s reading and devouring music. She enjoys indie films no one else likes, and her favorite food is Aver’s Veggie Revival pizza.
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