Sometimes when life knocks you down, the best place for you to go is home. And sometimes the person you least suspect is the key to find yourself again.
Emmy Ryder shows up at her family’s ranch in Wyoming after years of being distant, pursuing her barrel racing dreams – but after she has a bad fall, the same thing that killed her mother, she also has a breakdown and heads back home. Her trip home was unannounced so her father and two older brothers are surprised to see her, but no one is more surprised than Luke Brooks, her brother’s best friend, when she walks in looking like a smoke show he can’t take his eyes off of. Luke teaches riding lessons at the ranch, and Emmy needs to learn to be comfortable on the back of a horse again.
This is a really sweet and spicy romance. Luke is a yearning, protective love interest we love to see. He’s also a no-good good-for-nothing, at least in his harrowed past, and as Emmy gets to know him, she sees how he’s worked hard to separate himself from that, and why he was that way to begin with.
There is just enough depth to the characters to get you engaged with the story, but not so much that we forget why we’re there – to watch two hot young people fall in love, despite it all.
The covers for this series are amazing…like an old time classy western, but what lies inside is a modern spicy romance full of tropey goodness you won’t want to put down.
Details
Title:: Done and Dusted (Rebel Blue Ranch #1)
Author:: Lyla Sage
Genre:: Cowboy Romance
Publisher:: Dial Press
Length:: 356 pages
Audio Length:: 6h 51m
Audiobook Narrator:: Aaron Shedlock, Stella Hunter
Audiobook Publisher:: Random House Audio
Published:: June 6th, 2023
The Litertarian Rating:: 4-Stars