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Four Corners Ranch #1
Unbridled Cowboy/Once Upon a Cowboy
Welcome to Four Corners Ranch, where the West is still wild...and when a cowboy needs a wife, he decides to find her the old-fashioned way.
Cowboy Sawyer Garrett has no intention of settling down. But when he becomes a single dad to tiny baby June, stepping up to the responsibility is non-negotiable. And so is finding a woman to be a mother to his infant daughter. So he decides to do it the way the pioneers by putting out an ad for a mail-order bride.
Evelyn Moore can't believe she's agreed to uproot her city life to marry a stranger in Oregon. But having escaped one near-disastrous marriage, she's desperate for change. Her love for baby June is instant. Her feelings for Sawyer are...more complicated. Her gruff cowboy husband ignites thrilling desire in her, but Sawyer is determined to keep their marriage all about the baby. But what happens if Evelyn wants it all?
Includes a bonus novella Once Upon A Cowboy where single dad Adam gives Belle the fairy tale she's always dreamed of.
Cowboy Sawyer Garrett has no intention of settling down. But when he becomes a single dad to tiny baby June, stepping up to the responsibility is non-negotiable. And so is finding a woman to be a mother to his infant daughter. So he decides to do it the way the pioneers by putting out an ad for a mail-order bride.
Evelyn Moore can't believe she's agreed to uproot her city life to marry a stranger in Oregon. But having escaped one near-disastrous marriage, she's desperate for change. Her love for baby June is instant. Her feelings for Sawyer are...more complicated. Her gruff cowboy husband ignites thrilling desire in her, but Sawyer is determined to keep their marriage all about the baby. But what happens if Evelyn wants it all?
Includes a bonus novella Once Upon A Cowboy where single dad Adam gives Belle the fairy tale she's always dreamed of.
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Maisey Yates
1,161 books2,998 followersNew York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Maisey Yates lives in rural Oregon with her three children and her husband, whose chiseled jaw and arresting features continue to make her swoon. She feels the epic trek she takes several times a day from her office to her coffee maker is a true example of her pioneer spirit. In 2009, at the age of twenty-three Maisey sold her first book.
Since then it’s been a whirlwind of sexy alpha males and happily ever afters, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. Maisey divides her writing time between dark, passionate category romances set just about everywhere on earth and light sexy contemporary romances set practically in her back yard.
She believes that she clearly has the best job in the world.
Since then it’s been a whirlwind of sexy alpha males and happily ever afters, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. Maisey divides her writing time between dark, passionate category romances set just about everywhere on earth and light sexy contemporary romances set practically in her back yard.
She believes that she clearly has the best job in the world.
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May 23, 2022
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UNBRIDLED COYBOY (Four Corners Ranch Book #1) by Maisey Yates is an emotionally charged first book in a new contemporary cowboy romance series set in Oregon. A single dad cowboy is looking for a mail-order bride.
Cowboy Sawyer Garrett had no intention of ever settling down, but then he found out he was going to become a father. He takes full responsibility for baby, June Bug, but he also wants to find a woman to be her mother. He and his siblings did not grow up with a mother’s love, but he is determined to make it happen for June. He puts out an ad for a mother on-line.
Evelyn Moore is about to be married in two weeks when she walks in on her fiancé and co-owner/best-friend having sex on her desk. She sees Sawyer’s ad and falls for baby June immediately. She uproots her life in NYC and moves to the ranch to be June’s mother and is shocked by her attraction to her to-be husband who believes he can have a marriage based on respect, not emotions. Evelyn knows Sawyer is a good man and she is determined to show him is worthy of giving and receiving love.
Evelyn is a heroine I cared about immediately and I really loved how she took responsibility for her own emotional responses and life. She was mistreated in the past, but she respected Sawyer for all his decisions and his care of his ranch and family so she wanted to help him to believe he was worthy of love and could love. Sawyer is quiet, responsible, and stoic. The gentle way Evelyn discovers his secrets and leads him to let go emotionally was well written. The sex scenes are smokin’ hot and explicit, but not gratuitous. I especially loved how Sawyer at times knew that Evelyn had plans and he enjoyed disrupting them.
I enjoyed meeting Sawyer’s siblings and the characters from the other three ranches. I really loved the setting for this story. Even though it is contemporary, the ranches are still run and in a location that makes them feel as if they are from the past, but the characters are very present day. The whole series was set up very well for more stories to follow.
I highly recommend this cowboy romance and I am anxiously awaiting more books in this series.
UNBRIDLED COYBOY (Four Corners Ranch Book #1) by Maisey Yates is an emotionally charged first book in a new contemporary cowboy romance series set in Oregon. A single dad cowboy is looking for a mail-order bride.
Cowboy Sawyer Garrett had no intention of ever settling down, but then he found out he was going to become a father. He takes full responsibility for baby, June Bug, but he also wants to find a woman to be her mother. He and his siblings did not grow up with a mother’s love, but he is determined to make it happen for June. He puts out an ad for a mother on-line.
Evelyn Moore is about to be married in two weeks when she walks in on her fiancé and co-owner/best-friend having sex on her desk. She sees Sawyer’s ad and falls for baby June immediately. She uproots her life in NYC and moves to the ranch to be June’s mother and is shocked by her attraction to her to-be husband who believes he can have a marriage based on respect, not emotions. Evelyn knows Sawyer is a good man and she is determined to show him is worthy of giving and receiving love.
Evelyn is a heroine I cared about immediately and I really loved how she took responsibility for her own emotional responses and life. She was mistreated in the past, but she respected Sawyer for all his decisions and his care of his ranch and family so she wanted to help him to believe he was worthy of love and could love. Sawyer is quiet, responsible, and stoic. The gentle way Evelyn discovers his secrets and leads him to let go emotionally was well written. The sex scenes are smokin’ hot and explicit, but not gratuitous. I especially loved how Sawyer at times knew that Evelyn had plans and he enjoyed disrupting them.
I enjoyed meeting Sawyer’s siblings and the characters from the other three ranches. I really loved the setting for this story. Even though it is contemporary, the ranches are still run and in a location that makes them feel as if they are from the past, but the characters are very present day. The whole series was set up very well for more stories to follow.
I highly recommend this cowboy romance and I am anxiously awaiting more books in this series.
November 13, 2025
This is a Cowboy Romance, and this is the first book in the Four Corners Ranch series. Sawyer is a cowboy that is hard to really get to know, but he is a single new father that wants a mother for his little June Bug. Evelyn is a city girl that is trying to get over the fact her life is not what she thinks it should be right now. Evelyn answers Sawyer ad for a Wife and Mother for his little June Bug. I really loved getting to know the characters in this book, and Sawyer is so hard to really get to know. I think that Evelyn is everything Sawyer really needs. I love the romance and connection that the two main characters have. This book pulled me into this story super fast and I did not want to stop reading it. There are cute sweet moments, funny moments, and some very serious moments in this book which are so great. I cannot wait for the next book in this series. I received an ARC of this book. This review is my own honest opinion about the book like all my reviews are.
June 18, 2023
I feel like I'm being generous with giving this 2 stars.
This is a mail order bride book, but I didn't think it was well done. Sure this is probably my first contemporary mail order bride; however, I just wished they would have gotten married sooner? I listened to the audio of this one, and maybe that's why I didn't love it? But then again, I think I just wouldn't have loved it anyways. The conversations were just not the best. It didn't really flow well and what they were saying had me rolling my eyes constantly. This seems to get a good rating on Goodreads though, so maybe this just isn't a book for me? I love the cover.
This is a mail order bride book, but I didn't think it was well done. Sure this is probably my first contemporary mail order bride; however, I just wished they would have gotten married sooner? I listened to the audio of this one, and maybe that's why I didn't love it? But then again, I think I just wouldn't have loved it anyways. The conversations were just not the best. It didn't really flow well and what they were saying had me rolling my eyes constantly. This seems to get a good rating on Goodreads though, so maybe this just isn't a book for me? I love the cover.
November 27, 2024
This is my first Maisey Yates book and HOLY HELL, what have I just started. There are so many layers to this one and why was my face wet at the end. This one kicked me in the solar plexus. It stripped me bare and that’s exactly what this story was - stripped down to the bare bones in all its pain, anguish, stoicism finally chipping through to that love center. This is why I will forever hold Cowboy romance in such high regards because they just hit different. These men are born and bred with that grit that I feel is trying to be extinguished today. Give me a rumble, tumble, tough cowboy anyday, as long as he goes weak for his woman.
I’m so happy that I found a NEW author and series that I am hooked on. I will read nothing else the rest of this year! Here’s hoping Wolf’s book is next. I do love a Wolf.
I’m so happy that I found a NEW author and series that I am hooked on. I will read nothing else the rest of this year! Here’s hoping Wolf’s book is next. I do love a Wolf.
May 25, 2022
Thank you to the publisher, Harper Collins, and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of Unbridled Cowboy in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
The Gist
This is the first book in the Mass Market Romance Summer Reads blog tour. And let me tell you right now, I’m not in a good mood.
My mood wasn’t great to begin with, but now having to deal with Unbridled Cowboy makes me want to mope into my bucket of ice cream and god help the person who tries to talk to me.
I shall explain my rotten mood below.
The Details
It all began with the very first sentence in this story: “It can’t be helped. I need a wife.”
My head almost exploded. No, fictional person, you do not need a wife. You are looking for a maid, cheap labour to help you deal with a mistake you willingly and knowingly made.
You know, years ago I wrote an essay on how women back in the 1800’s were nothing more than cash cows, cheap labour. I argued that wives were treated as unpaid labour around the house/farm under the pretext of it being their wifely duties to pretty much wipe their husbands’ butts.
Fast forward to 2022 and I get to read a new story that begins with “I need a wife”. Yeah, my hackles were raised and I became super defensive.
I really don’t care, if the core message of this story was the “love heals all wounds/love conquers all” cliche. It’s a bad way to start a modern story. Period.
On top of that, the reader has to deal with some atrocious storytelling that is all over the place. It almost reads like stream of consciousness writing, but really badly done.
Thoughts and topics jump all over the place and it’s difficult to follow the narrative.
The writing is pretty mediocre. Run-on sentences galore and just a general lack of effort.
The Verdict
Overall, it’s a big no-no from me.
I mean, if you are looking for a romance story to give you the warm and fuzzy feelings, try anything by Debbie Macomber.
June 6, 2022
I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Unbridled Cowboy by Maisey Yates is book one in the Four Corners Ranch series. In her latest novel, Yates delivered a story about healing, forgiveness, love, and personal growth.
What happens when your occasional sex partner becomes pregnant and saddles you with the baby? Place an advertisement in the newspaper seeking a wife and mother for the child. What do you do when you discover your fiancée cheating on you with your best-friend and business partner? Respond to the advertisement and abandon one’s life in the city and move to Oregon.
Unbridled Cowboy introduces unapologetic player Sawyer Bennett. Sawyer has no interest in a committed relationship and neither does he desire to be a father. However, when his casual hook-up got pregnant and wanted nothing to do with the baby, he chose to raise the child on his own. When the situation became overwhelming, he placed an advertisement in the newspaper seeking a willing female to be his wife and mother to his baby girl.
Evelyn Moore is a successful businesswoman who was on the verge of marrying the love of her life, or so she thought. Then she discovered that the man she planned to spend the rest of her life with was cheating on her. Sawyer’s advertisement came at the opportune time as she sees it as her chance to start over. So she departs New York City and shows up in Oregon. Not only does she fall in love with her new life, she also fell for Sawyer and his baby girl.
Unbridled Cowboy had many interesting elements. First, we have a man who, despite his reluctance to be in a committed relationship or being a father, willingly stepping up to take on his new responsibility. As the story progresses, Sawyer’s past is revealed and the circumstances from which his phobia for commitment arose came to light. Another interesting revelation within this story had to do with his reason for stepping up to his responsibility with no hesitation. The revelation will break your heart.
Evelyn didn’t have an easy life growing up, so her success in the business world meant a lot to her. It was her biggest accomplishment to date, along with her upcoming marriage to her fiancée. Then she lost it all in one fell swoop because of betrayal from persons whom she trusted. Her move to Oregon saw her gaining more that she lost. She gained a family and trusted friends. She discovered unconditional love and repaired the broken relationship with her mom.
I enjoyed interacting with the secondary characters, the most intriguing one being Sawyer’s brother, Wolf. I am so looking forward to his story.
The pacing was off. I am not sure if it was me or if the pacing was naturally slow. It took me a while to get through the story. At the moment where it appeared to be picking up; it ended. It had me wondering where was the rest of the story. I didn’t buy into the romance. The physical attraction was present, but the emotional connection was non-existent.
Samantha Cook narrated. I enjoyed listening to her female voices, but was not a fan of her male voices. Notwithstanding my dislike of her male voices, I found her narration befitting of the story. This review was originally posted on Totally Addicted to Reading
What happens when your occasional sex partner becomes pregnant and saddles you with the baby? Place an advertisement in the newspaper seeking a wife and mother for the child. What do you do when you discover your fiancée cheating on you with your best-friend and business partner? Respond to the advertisement and abandon one’s life in the city and move to Oregon.
Unbridled Cowboy introduces unapologetic player Sawyer Bennett. Sawyer has no interest in a committed relationship and neither does he desire to be a father. However, when his casual hook-up got pregnant and wanted nothing to do with the baby, he chose to raise the child on his own. When the situation became overwhelming, he placed an advertisement in the newspaper seeking a willing female to be his wife and mother to his baby girl.
Evelyn Moore is a successful businesswoman who was on the verge of marrying the love of her life, or so she thought. Then she discovered that the man she planned to spend the rest of her life with was cheating on her. Sawyer’s advertisement came at the opportune time as she sees it as her chance to start over. So she departs New York City and shows up in Oregon. Not only does she fall in love with her new life, she also fell for Sawyer and his baby girl.
Unbridled Cowboy had many interesting elements. First, we have a man who, despite his reluctance to be in a committed relationship or being a father, willingly stepping up to take on his new responsibility. As the story progresses, Sawyer’s past is revealed and the circumstances from which his phobia for commitment arose came to light. Another interesting revelation within this story had to do with his reason for stepping up to his responsibility with no hesitation. The revelation will break your heart.
Evelyn didn’t have an easy life growing up, so her success in the business world meant a lot to her. It was her biggest accomplishment to date, along with her upcoming marriage to her fiancée. Then she lost it all in one fell swoop because of betrayal from persons whom she trusted. Her move to Oregon saw her gaining more that she lost. She gained a family and trusted friends. She discovered unconditional love and repaired the broken relationship with her mom.
I enjoyed interacting with the secondary characters, the most intriguing one being Sawyer’s brother, Wolf. I am so looking forward to his story.
The pacing was off. I am not sure if it was me or if the pacing was naturally slow. It took me a while to get through the story. At the moment where it appeared to be picking up; it ended. It had me wondering where was the rest of the story. I didn’t buy into the romance. The physical attraction was present, but the emotional connection was non-existent.
Samantha Cook narrated. I enjoyed listening to her female voices, but was not a fan of her male voices. Notwithstanding my dislike of her male voices, I found her narration befitting of the story. This review was originally posted on Totally Addicted to Reading
June 22, 2022
4.75 stars
I loved this start to the series that I feel like I have been waiting forever for. I’m already obsessed and totally invested in the families and the ranches. There are going to be some great stories in this series. I can tell already. I love the little hints that have already been revealed of who is going to end up with who.
I loved how this was a modern day mail order bride story, which was very different from the typical Maisey Yates formula but that was what made it so good. It was very compelling to see two worlds combine of cowboy Sawyer and city girl Evelyn come together in order to give a mom to his baby girl. It made for an interesting setup.
What was great was seeing their journey on getting to know each other and bond over their love of baby June. The buildup of attraction between Sawyer and Evelyn was just amazing. It just got more intense and heated the more time the spent together. It was a very slow burn, and it took them a while to even kiss. I loved that so much because it just built up the tension and angst perfectly.
Then when they did finally get together it was more satisfying because of the build up. It was hot and sexy. I loved she made the move to seduce him though things don’t go as planned. There was such a connection that was beyond the physical that it just even more satisfying. It brought intimacy to their relationship as they got closer with their bodies. It was so good.
It was very much of an emotional read with many serious issues explored. It was tough to read as they relived their traumas they went through in their childhood and with their families. Even though they had to deal with those things, it actually made them heal and grow together. The transformation for both of them was phenomenal, and I loved that as much as the love story. It was just spot on.
The moments with baby June were just so sweet and precious. Whenever she was on the page just warmed my heart. She was the apple of their eye. They shared so many special moments with her. I loved that.
Overall, I’m very impressed with this first installment, and I can’t wait for me. I truly loved the story with the romance, transformation, the town, and the families. It had great build up. The pacing was amazing. I was truly invested from word one. I didn’t want to put it down for a second. I had to read this in one sitting. It was amazing.
TW: eating disorder and many issues dealing with grief and death.
I loved this start to the series that I feel like I have been waiting forever for. I’m already obsessed and totally invested in the families and the ranches. There are going to be some great stories in this series. I can tell already. I love the little hints that have already been revealed of who is going to end up with who.
I loved how this was a modern day mail order bride story, which was very different from the typical Maisey Yates formula but that was what made it so good. It was very compelling to see two worlds combine of cowboy Sawyer and city girl Evelyn come together in order to give a mom to his baby girl. It made for an interesting setup.
What was great was seeing their journey on getting to know each other and bond over their love of baby June. The buildup of attraction between Sawyer and Evelyn was just amazing. It just got more intense and heated the more time the spent together. It was a very slow burn, and it took them a while to even kiss. I loved that so much because it just built up the tension and angst perfectly.
Then when they did finally get together it was more satisfying because of the build up. It was hot and sexy. I loved she made the move to seduce him though things don’t go as planned. There was such a connection that was beyond the physical that it just even more satisfying. It brought intimacy to their relationship as they got closer with their bodies. It was so good.
It was very much of an emotional read with many serious issues explored. It was tough to read as they relived their traumas they went through in their childhood and with their families. Even though they had to deal with those things, it actually made them heal and grow together. The transformation for both of them was phenomenal, and I loved that as much as the love story. It was just spot on.
The moments with baby June were just so sweet and precious. Whenever she was on the page just warmed my heart. She was the apple of their eye. They shared so many special moments with her. I loved that.
Overall, I’m very impressed with this first installment, and I can’t wait for me. I truly loved the story with the romance, transformation, the town, and the families. It had great build up. The pacing was amazing. I was truly invested from word one. I didn’t want to put it down for a second. I had to read this in one sitting. It was amazing.
TW: eating disorder and many issues dealing with grief and death.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 27, 2022
Overall book rating: 3.5
Audio Book: N/A
Book Cover: 4
Mail Order bride - YES
Grumpy Cowboy set in his way - Yes please
Loveable accomplished woman - Yes and thank you
Adorable little new born - Bring it
Unique farming / rag-tag family community - Oh I'm liking this!
So what went wrong with the 3.5?
Well... where to start. Why Oh Why not make this book a little bit longer and
in doing so, I don't know...
- maybe make the time frame more believable and Less Insta-Love Like?
- Give the characters more time to flesh out and build believable bonds?
- Make the emotional journey they have to go through mean MORE by actually supporting it with more TIME to develop in a natural believable way?
I really enjoyed this book. The author gave it thought and a whole bunch of nice touches that was in my humble opinion, made to feel less because the story seemed rushed.
It's like it was still in one of the final stages of fleshing out when it got published.
If these circumstances where real, I have to believe that a hard headed man like Sawyer would
not have broken down all his barriers in the time span of 3 weeks? If it even was that long?
And I feel as if something really great was stolen from this story because of the rush.
It would have been so so amazing to see both Sawyer and Evelyn really grow both in who they are and in their relationship with each other as well as Bug.
There were a whole lot of GOOD stuff in this story but again, it wasn't given the TIME
to grow and be GREAT.
I did not enjoy the way all the "issues" were sorted in a quick strung together ending thing... I don't even know what to call that.
I was really just so disappointed because this story and those special parts and the idea around it and the supporting characters and unique setting.. it all just has so much potential!
And the potential wasn't' reached because of 150 - 200 MISSING pages and time.
The author has the talent, the potential, but damit can someone just give her the time and inspiration to take this GOOD to next level GREAT? Because it's clear that it CAN be done...
Audio Book: N/A
Book Cover: 4
Mail Order bride - YES
Grumpy Cowboy set in his way - Yes please
Loveable accomplished woman - Yes and thank you
Adorable little new born - Bring it
Unique farming / rag-tag family community - Oh I'm liking this!
So what went wrong with the 3.5?
Well... where to start. Why Oh Why not make this book a little bit longer and
in doing so, I don't know...
- maybe make the time frame more believable and Less Insta-Love Like?
- Give the characters more time to flesh out and build believable bonds?
- Make the emotional journey they have to go through mean MORE by actually supporting it with more TIME to develop in a natural believable way?
I really enjoyed this book. The author gave it thought and a whole bunch of nice touches that was in my humble opinion, made to feel less because the story seemed rushed.
It's like it was still in one of the final stages of fleshing out when it got published.
If these circumstances where real, I have to believe that a hard headed man like Sawyer would
not have broken down all his barriers in the time span of 3 weeks? If it even was that long?
And I feel as if something really great was stolen from this story because of the rush.
It would have been so so amazing to see both Sawyer and Evelyn really grow both in who they are and in their relationship with each other as well as Bug.
There were a whole lot of GOOD stuff in this story but again, it wasn't given the TIME
to grow and be GREAT.
I did not enjoy the way all the "issues" were sorted in a quick strung together ending thing... I don't even know what to call that.
I was really just so disappointed because this story and those special parts and the idea around it and the supporting characters and unique setting.. it all just has so much potential!
And the potential wasn't' reached because of 150 - 200 MISSING pages and time.
The author has the talent, the potential, but damit can someone just give her the time and inspiration to take this GOOD to next level GREAT? Because it's clear that it CAN be done...
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May 22, 20223.75-4 stars
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC!
What a great read! Another lovely romance by Maisey Yates, and doesn't she just make me love Oregonian cowboys with every book she writes! Sawyer Garrett is a hard man and a man who goes after what he wants, and what he wants is a mother for his unexpected baby, June Bug. The birth mother has no interest and he's committed that June Bug won't grow up abandoned by her mother, like he was, or discarded by her father, also like he was. So he wants to find a woman who will stick and will commit to being June's mother.
Along comes Evelyn Moore, who sees the ad and the article about it when she's eating ice cream on her coach with a romantic movie on in the background, crying her woes out in her lonely apartment. She's just days from having walked in on her supposed best friend and business partner having sex with her soon-to-be husband (as in, 2 weeks away), so she's feeling a bit like everything in her life needs to drastically change, and a change in scenery is just the beginning.
Sawyer and Evelyn have off the charts sexual tension between them from the start, which troubles Sawyer a little, because he wants the relationship to be about June and doesn't want passion to cloud the issue. But little does he know that sexual tension is only the beginning of what will be between them!
I have to say, the ending felt kind of abrupt and I would have liked a bit more détente. I liked the relationship development between Sawyer and Evelyn, but would have liked there to have been more than just a few hours between when it all comes to a head and when it's resolved. I just feel like Sawyer had to sit with it for a little longer than that maybe, and would have liked seeing an exchange between him and his siblings (or one of them) about how he loved them, as opposed to just seeing it in passing in the epilogue (though I'm very thankful for the epilogue! lots of goodness packed in there!).
Four Corners is a wonderful world to be introduced to and I'm excited about this new series; can already see some of the characters that are going to be paired off together and looking forward to it! Though where was Nelly and Tag's story?? They're already together in the book and I want to read their story (turns out it's in the novella The Cowboy She Loves to Hate , which I have immediately purchased and can't wait to read!). Love these four families and the community they've built with one another.
As often is the case, the book had a short novella at the end, Once Upon a Cowboy, and Belle and Adam's story in it was very sweet. Belle has come to be his live-in nanny and housekeeper, Adam has no idea why she's there (because it was actually his ex-mother-in-law who arranged it for him and his three kids), so they start off on rocky ground. They decide to give it a month trial period and in little to no time, Belle is fully enmeshed in Adam and his kids' lives ... but will they risk rocking the boat and seeing if there can be more to their relationship? I'm sure you can't guess the answer! Lol. Very sweet, I liked it a lot.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC!
What a great read! Another lovely romance by Maisey Yates, and doesn't she just make me love Oregonian cowboys with every book she writes! Sawyer Garrett is a hard man and a man who goes after what he wants, and what he wants is a mother for his unexpected baby, June Bug. The birth mother has no interest and he's committed that June Bug won't grow up abandoned by her mother, like he was, or discarded by her father, also like he was. So he wants to find a woman who will stick and will commit to being June's mother.
Along comes Evelyn Moore, who sees the ad and the article about it when she's eating ice cream on her coach with a romantic movie on in the background, crying her woes out in her lonely apartment. She's just days from having walked in on her supposed best friend and business partner having sex with her soon-to-be husband (as in, 2 weeks away), so she's feeling a bit like everything in her life needs to drastically change, and a change in scenery is just the beginning.
Sawyer and Evelyn have off the charts sexual tension between them from the start, which troubles Sawyer a little, because he wants the relationship to be about June and doesn't want passion to cloud the issue. But little does he know that sexual tension is only the beginning of what will be between them!
I have to say, the ending felt kind of abrupt and I would have liked a bit more détente. I liked the relationship development between Sawyer and Evelyn, but would have liked there to have been more than just a few hours between when it all comes to a head and when it's resolved. I just feel like Sawyer had to sit with it for a little longer than that maybe, and would have liked seeing an exchange between him and his siblings (or one of them) about how he loved them, as opposed to just seeing it in passing in the epilogue (though I'm very thankful for the epilogue! lots of goodness packed in there!).
Four Corners is a wonderful world to be introduced to and I'm excited about this new series; can already see some of the characters that are going to be paired off together and looking forward to it! Though where was Nelly and Tag's story?? They're already together in the book and I want to read their story (turns out it's in the novella The Cowboy She Loves to Hate , which I have immediately purchased and can't wait to read!). Love these four families and the community they've built with one another.
As often is the case, the book had a short novella at the end, Once Upon a Cowboy, and Belle and Adam's story in it was very sweet. Belle has come to be his live-in nanny and housekeeper, Adam has no idea why she's there (because it was actually his ex-mother-in-law who arranged it for him and his three kids), so they start off on rocky ground. They decide to give it a month trial period and in little to no time, Belle is fully enmeshed in Adam and his kids' lives ... but will they risk rocking the boat and seeing if there can be more to their relationship? I'm sure you can't guess the answer! Lol. Very sweet, I liked it a lot.
June 20, 2022
Rating: 4.5 Stars
Maisey Yates kicks off her brand-new series, Four Corners Ranch, with a sexy, sparkling and scintillating contemporary romance you will fall hook, line and sinker for: Unbridled Cowboy.
Sawyer Garrett likes being footloose and fancy-free. The handsome cowboy has got no intention of settling down and making a home of his own as the single life suits him just fine. However, when he becomes a single dad to tiny baby June, Sawyer realizes that he cannot keep avoiding responsibility. He needs to step up to the plate and give his adorable baby the best possible childhood, but he cannot do this on his own. Sawyer intends to find the perfect wife and mother the old-fashioned way – by putting out an ad for a mail-order bride!
Evelyn doesn’t know what possessed her to leave her city life behind to marry a stranger in Oregon! Having already escaped one near-disastrous marriage, Evelyn is going into this arrangement with Sawyer with her eyes open. This marriage is going to be purely about baby June – whom she is instantly smitten by. Feelings and emotions are not going to be a part of this arrangement, however, keeping Sawyer at arm’s length proves to be rather complicated as she is finding herself increasingly drawn to her husband!
When Sawyer had advertised for a mail-order bride, he never imagined that he would find himself falling for his convenient wife! Will he find the courage to admit to Evelyn that he’s crazy about her? Or is he about to lose the best thing that’s ever happened to him?
I love Maisey Yates’ books and her latest contemporary romance, Unbridled Cowboy, is a fabulously enjoyable tale I couldn’t stop myself from devouring. Written with all the wit, humor and sensuality which have become Maisey Yates’ trademarks, Unbridled Cowboy dazzles readers with a wonderful mix of red-hot passion, country charm, powerful emotion and sizzling intensity.
Fun, feel-good and wonderfully romantic, Unbridled Cowboy is another winner from Maisey Yates.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Maisey Yates kicks off her brand-new series, Four Corners Ranch, with a sexy, sparkling and scintillating contemporary romance you will fall hook, line and sinker for: Unbridled Cowboy.
Sawyer Garrett likes being footloose and fancy-free. The handsome cowboy has got no intention of settling down and making a home of his own as the single life suits him just fine. However, when he becomes a single dad to tiny baby June, Sawyer realizes that he cannot keep avoiding responsibility. He needs to step up to the plate and give his adorable baby the best possible childhood, but he cannot do this on his own. Sawyer intends to find the perfect wife and mother the old-fashioned way – by putting out an ad for a mail-order bride!
Evelyn doesn’t know what possessed her to leave her city life behind to marry a stranger in Oregon! Having already escaped one near-disastrous marriage, Evelyn is going into this arrangement with Sawyer with her eyes open. This marriage is going to be purely about baby June – whom she is instantly smitten by. Feelings and emotions are not going to be a part of this arrangement, however, keeping Sawyer at arm’s length proves to be rather complicated as she is finding herself increasingly drawn to her husband!
When Sawyer had advertised for a mail-order bride, he never imagined that he would find himself falling for his convenient wife! Will he find the courage to admit to Evelyn that he’s crazy about her? Or is he about to lose the best thing that’s ever happened to him?
I love Maisey Yates’ books and her latest contemporary romance, Unbridled Cowboy, is a fabulously enjoyable tale I couldn’t stop myself from devouring. Written with all the wit, humor and sensuality which have become Maisey Yates’ trademarks, Unbridled Cowboy dazzles readers with a wonderful mix of red-hot passion, country charm, powerful emotion and sizzling intensity.
Fun, feel-good and wonderfully romantic, Unbridled Cowboy is another winner from Maisey Yates.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
May 25, 2022
Unbridled Cowboy is the first book in Maisey Yates's Four Corners series, is a modern day mail-ordered bride story; and this story had me believing it could actually happen. This deeply moving, beautifully written and heart-wrenching tale deals with two very different people, from very different walks of life, who have both been scarred and wounded by events in their lives, and who are brought together by their shared love and devotion to Sawyer's newborn daughter, June Bug. The reasons for why Evelyn decided to pack up and leave NYC for Four Corners Ranch, and the reasons why Sawyer is convinced that love is not ever something he'll experience are way too much. I enjoyed Evelyn's patient handling of Sawyer's quietness and his no nonsense approach to life's decisions. I enjoyed their back and forth as they learned to balance the day-to-day demands of life on a ranch with the heart-to-heart talks they needed to build a strong foundation together. I can't wait to see them in future books, and really can't wait to see Wolf, Hunter, and Elsie find their matches too.
Then there’s the novella at the end. It's a Beauty and the Beast retelling, but the Beast has three half-feral children instead of an enchanted castle and Belle has to bring her own library with her. Also set in the Four Corners Ranch universe, it had me smiling from start to finish; and fanning myself at times as well.
Ms. Yates wrote a wonderful, intense, emotional and steamy story that should not be missed. She provided a tale rich with soul-searching, angst, characters whose personal stories will tug at your heartstrings, sizzling chemistry, and an amazing cast of secondary characters as Sawyer, Evelyn and June Bug find their happily ever after. There were many wonderful characters introduced in this story and hopefully they will get their story and chance to fall in love as the series progresses. I highly recommend Unbridled Cowboy to other readers.
I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.
Then there’s the novella at the end. It's a Beauty and the Beast retelling, but the Beast has three half-feral children instead of an enchanted castle and Belle has to bring her own library with her. Also set in the Four Corners Ranch universe, it had me smiling from start to finish; and fanning myself at times as well.
Ms. Yates wrote a wonderful, intense, emotional and steamy story that should not be missed. She provided a tale rich with soul-searching, angst, characters whose personal stories will tug at your heartstrings, sizzling chemistry, and an amazing cast of secondary characters as Sawyer, Evelyn and June Bug find their happily ever after. There were many wonderful characters introduced in this story and hopefully they will get their story and chance to fall in love as the series progresses. I highly recommend Unbridled Cowboy to other readers.
I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.
June 2, 2023
I enjoyed a lot about this book. Modern mail order bride. I love the way they negotiated what they would be. And I liked a lot of what Evelyn did to grow and make things work.
But this book dragged quite a bit. There was so much talking inside their heads and out. And the whole pushing the guy until he broke and said "I love you" at the end was not the most satisfying ending.
It's too bad I didn't like it more because this author has a lot of audiobooks.
But this book dragged quite a bit. There was so much talking inside their heads and out. And the whole pushing the guy until he broke and said "I love you" at the end was not the most satisfying ending.
It's too bad I didn't like it more because this author has a lot of audiobooks.
July 21, 2024
3 stars⭐️: Entertaining, but not my favorite Yates book. The mail order bride was a little far fetched, but I would probably continue the series at some point.
December 31, 2024
here we go
May 25, 2022
Loved this book, it was simply a wonderful heartfelt love story of two lost souls who didn’t know they were lost till they had each other.
September 21, 2023
Unbridled Cowboy by Maisey Yates
Four Corners Ranch #1
Once Upon A Cowboy
Four Corners Ranch #0.7
409-page Kindle Ebook main story ends on page 315, novella starts on page 315/318
Genre: Western Romance
Featuring: Unwed Father, Arranged Marriage Trope, Ranch, Oregon, New York, Emotional Baggage, Sex - Detailed, Bonus Novella: Once Upon a Cowboy : Single Father Nanny Trope, Military Vet, Retelling, Book Preview - Rough Rider Ch. One pages 387-407
Rating as a movie: X for strong sexual content
My ratings:
Unbridled Cowboy 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🤠 💒
Once Upon A Cowboy 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👢
My thoughts: 🔖Page 158 of 315/409 Ch. 10 - I'm loving this story. It was awesome from the first page. I already feel like I need to read the entire series.
Unbridled Cowboy - I loved this story, it got a little drawn out towards the end but in a good way.
Once Upon a Cowboy - This is pretty much a retelling of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and I'm not mad at it. It was pretty good in fact. It's set simultaneously during the time of the first book.
I was surprised the scenes were so explicit, there wasn't any vulgarity but she was detailed. Marriages of Convenience seem to be her niche and I'm here for it. I will be reading the rest of this series, I can't wait to get the details on the sister and neighbors' future.
Recommend to others: Yes! I Loved it.
Four Corners Ranch
Her First Christmas Cowboy (2021)
The Cowboy She Loves to Hate (2021)
✔︎ Once Upon a Cowboy (2022)
✔︎ 1. Unbridled Cowboy (2022)
Her Cowboy Prince Charming (2022)
2. Merry Christmas Cowboy (2022)
aka Merry Christmas Cowboy / Her Cowboy Prince Charming
Her Wayward Cowboy (2023)
3. Cowboy Wild (2023)
4. The Rough Rider (2023)
Wild Night Cowboy (2023)
5. The Holiday Heartbreaker (2023)
6. The Troublemaker (2023)
The Rival (2024)
Four Corners Ranch #1
Once Upon A Cowboy
Four Corners Ranch #0.7
409-page Kindle Ebook main story ends on page 315, novella starts on page 315/318
Genre: Western Romance
Featuring: Unwed Father, Arranged Marriage Trope, Ranch, Oregon, New York, Emotional Baggage, Sex - Detailed, Bonus Novella: Once Upon a Cowboy : Single Father Nanny Trope, Military Vet, Retelling, Book Preview - Rough Rider Ch. One pages 387-407
Rating as a movie: X for strong sexual content
My ratings:
Unbridled Cowboy 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🤠 💒
Once Upon A Cowboy 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👢
My thoughts: 🔖Page 158 of 315/409 Ch. 10 - I'm loving this story. It was awesome from the first page. I already feel like I need to read the entire series.
Unbridled Cowboy - I loved this story, it got a little drawn out towards the end but in a good way.
Once Upon a Cowboy - This is pretty much a retelling of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and I'm not mad at it. It was pretty good in fact. It's set simultaneously during the time of the first book.
I was surprised the scenes were so explicit, there wasn't any vulgarity but she was detailed. Marriages of Convenience seem to be her niche and I'm here for it. I will be reading the rest of this series, I can't wait to get the details on the sister and neighbors' future.
Recommend to others: Yes! I Loved it.
Four Corners Ranch
Her First Christmas Cowboy (2021)
The Cowboy She Loves to Hate (2021)
✔︎ Once Upon a Cowboy (2022)
✔︎ 1. Unbridled Cowboy (2022)
Her Cowboy Prince Charming (2022)
2. Merry Christmas Cowboy (2022)
aka Merry Christmas Cowboy / Her Cowboy Prince Charming
Her Wayward Cowboy (2023)
3. Cowboy Wild (2023)
4. The Rough Rider (2023)
Wild Night Cowboy (2023)
5. The Holiday Heartbreaker (2023)
6. The Troublemaker (2023)
The Rival (2024)
May 23, 2022
Sensuous, heartwarming romance
Sawyer's baby mama doesn't want to be a mom, and he doesn't want to raise his daughter as a single dad, so he takes a very business-like approach to finding a mother for his little June Bug, someone who would be more permanent than just a nanny.
After finding her fiancé in bed with her best friend, Evelyn is at a crossroads, as well. Moving thousands of miles to a ranch in the country to marry a stranger and raise his daughter doesn't seem like the craziest idea to this city girl.
Good thing they're both so danged attracted to each other, because that kind of chemistry can be a good start for a whole lot of emotional investment.
I enjoyed Evelyn's patient handling of Sawyer's reticence and his no nonsense approach to life's decisions. I enjoyed their back and forth as they learned to balance the day-to-day demands of life on a ranch with the heart-to-heart talks they needed to build a strong foundation together.
The HEA was wonderful and even hinted at a couple other romances that I hope will be revealed in future books in this series. This author is known for her deeply introspective inner monologues and I was consistently charmed by the hearts of both of these main characters. Romances by Maisey Yates are always an unqualified recommendation from me. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.
Sawyer's baby mama doesn't want to be a mom, and he doesn't want to raise his daughter as a single dad, so he takes a very business-like approach to finding a mother for his little June Bug, someone who would be more permanent than just a nanny.
After finding her fiancé in bed with her best friend, Evelyn is at a crossroads, as well. Moving thousands of miles to a ranch in the country to marry a stranger and raise his daughter doesn't seem like the craziest idea to this city girl.
Good thing they're both so danged attracted to each other, because that kind of chemistry can be a good start for a whole lot of emotional investment.
I enjoyed Evelyn's patient handling of Sawyer's reticence and his no nonsense approach to life's decisions. I enjoyed their back and forth as they learned to balance the day-to-day demands of life on a ranch with the heart-to-heart talks they needed to build a strong foundation together.
The HEA was wonderful and even hinted at a couple other romances that I hope will be revealed in future books in this series. This author is known for her deeply introspective inner monologues and I was consistently charmed by the hearts of both of these main characters. Romances by Maisey Yates are always an unqualified recommendation from me. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.
May 5, 2022
I was eager to get in on the first book of Maisey Yates' new Four Corners Ranch series, and intrigued by the fact that it was a contemporary mail-order bride romance, having enjoyed many historical mail-order bride romances over the the years, and, to put it bluntly, Ms. Yates knocked my socks off with this one and it gets an enthusiastic 5-star rating from this reader.
Sawyer Garrett is a rather stoic rancher whose short, no-strings hook-up ended up in an accidental pregnancy. When informed that he's about to become a father and that his hook-up will carry the pregnancy to term but doesn't want anything to do with the baby, he decides to be a better father to his child than his father was to him. Apparently, the men at Four Corners Ranch have had really bad luck when in comes finding women who want to stay, but Sawyer's grandfather placed an ad for a mail-order bride after his first wife left him, and the second wife stayed, and was more of a mother to Sawyer than his own had been, so he places an ad for a woman to become a mother to his baby daughter. He's not looking for love or romance, just stability and staying power, but sometimes love finds us when we least expect or want it.
The woman who answers his ad is Evelyn Moore, a highly successful entrepreneur in NYC. She's been engaged to Andrew for a decade, and the wedding is only weeks away when she discovers him having sex on her office desk with a woman who is both one of her business partners and someone she's considered one of her closest friends since college. She simply walks out of her office, feeling stunned, betrayed, angry, and hurt, and she has no plans to go back. What she's always wanted is a family and children, and when she sees Sawyer's ad, she contacts him, arranges to fly out and is about to venture into the unknown with a man and a lifestyle she knows nothing about.
But that's just the start of this deeply moving, beautifully written and heart-wrenching tale about two very different people, from very different walks of life, who've both been wounded and scarred by the events in their lives, hidden it well, and who are brought together by their shared love and devotion to Sawyer's newborn daughter, June Bug.
If you're looking for a novel filled with serious character development, angst, and well-drawn characters who both need to do some serious soul-searching and healing, this is that novel. It kept me reading until 4:30 a.m., because I simply couldn't put it down, and I think it will have the same effect on you. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions expressed are my own.
Sawyer Garrett is a rather stoic rancher whose short, no-strings hook-up ended up in an accidental pregnancy. When informed that he's about to become a father and that his hook-up will carry the pregnancy to term but doesn't want anything to do with the baby, he decides to be a better father to his child than his father was to him. Apparently, the men at Four Corners Ranch have had really bad luck when in comes finding women who want to stay, but Sawyer's grandfather placed an ad for a mail-order bride after his first wife left him, and the second wife stayed, and was more of a mother to Sawyer than his own had been, so he places an ad for a woman to become a mother to his baby daughter. He's not looking for love or romance, just stability and staying power, but sometimes love finds us when we least expect or want it.
The woman who answers his ad is Evelyn Moore, a highly successful entrepreneur in NYC. She's been engaged to Andrew for a decade, and the wedding is only weeks away when she discovers him having sex on her office desk with a woman who is both one of her business partners and someone she's considered one of her closest friends since college. She simply walks out of her office, feeling stunned, betrayed, angry, and hurt, and she has no plans to go back. What she's always wanted is a family and children, and when she sees Sawyer's ad, she contacts him, arranges to fly out and is about to venture into the unknown with a man and a lifestyle she knows nothing about.
But that's just the start of this deeply moving, beautifully written and heart-wrenching tale about two very different people, from very different walks of life, who've both been wounded and scarred by the events in their lives, hidden it well, and who are brought together by their shared love and devotion to Sawyer's newborn daughter, June Bug.
If you're looking for a novel filled with serious character development, angst, and well-drawn characters who both need to do some serious soul-searching and healing, this is that novel. It kept me reading until 4:30 a.m., because I simply couldn't put it down, and I think it will have the same effect on you. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions expressed are my own.
May 10, 2022
A new series from Maisey Yates? Yes, please!
Unbridled Cowboy is--believe it or not--a modern-day mail order bride story. *And* Ms Yates had me pretty much convinced that it could actually happen that way. Plus, there's a baby named June Bug, which is just so adorable, but when you find out the reasons behind the name? I just can't even.
Sawyer and Evelyn's story is just lovely--sure, June Bug is the best behaved baby to ever exist, but I was willing to mostly overlook that tiny, slightly unrealistic detail, because their marriage of convenience story is just so full of all the emotions. Seriously. The reasons for why Evelyn decided to pack up and leave NYC for Four Corners Ranch, and the reasons why Sawyer is convinced that love is not ever something he'll experience are just...so much. I hovered on the edge of tears a whole lot while reading this, except at the end when resistance was futile. I can't wait to see them living their HEA in future books, and really can't wait to see Wolf, Hunter, and Elsie find their HEAs too!
And the novella at the end? Just so stinkin' cute. It's a Beauty and the Beast retelling, but the Beast has three half-feral children instead of an enchanted castle and Belle has to bring her own library with her. Set in the Four Corners Ranch universe, it had me smiling from start to finish--and fanning myself at times as well.
Rating: 4 stars / A-
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book
Unbridled Cowboy is--believe it or not--a modern-day mail order bride story. *And* Ms Yates had me pretty much convinced that it could actually happen that way. Plus, there's a baby named June Bug, which is just so adorable, but when you find out the reasons behind the name? I just can't even.
Sawyer and Evelyn's story is just lovely--sure, June Bug is the best behaved baby to ever exist, but I was willing to mostly overlook that tiny, slightly unrealistic detail, because their marriage of convenience story is just so full of all the emotions. Seriously. The reasons for why Evelyn decided to pack up and leave NYC for Four Corners Ranch, and the reasons why Sawyer is convinced that love is not ever something he'll experience are just...so much. I hovered on the edge of tears a whole lot while reading this, except at the end when resistance was futile. I can't wait to see them living their HEA in future books, and really can't wait to see Wolf, Hunter, and Elsie find their HEAs too!
And the novella at the end? Just so stinkin' cute. It's a Beauty and the Beast retelling, but the Beast has three half-feral children instead of an enchanted castle and Belle has to bring her own library with her. Set in the Four Corners Ranch universe, it had me smiling from start to finish--and fanning myself at times as well.
Rating: 4 stars / A-
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book
December 12, 2022
Unbridled Cowboy by Maisey Yates
Sawyer Garrett lives on the Garrett land out in the west. He and his family run cattle on their part of the Four Corners Ranch. He has no desire to marry and settle down, but an accident occurred and suddenly he is a dad of a beautiful baby girl. He knows she is going to need the love of a mother, but it is not easy to find the right person out his way. So he puts a letter out looking for a mail order bride. After all, it worked for his grandfather!
Evelyn Moore has gone out with the same man for years. She has started her own company with her best friends and is planning to marry Andrew soon. Until she finds him having sex one of her best friends and finds out other best friend knew about it all along. What a mess, but she was done, done, done.
Evelyn can’t believe she traveled to the Four Corners Ranch to meet Sawyer and the baby. In fact applying and auditioning for the job. Sawyer can’t believe she will leave her cushy life for a life in the boonies and a bunch of cowboys. The two have mad chemistry though and that is sure to help - or make things harder.
There is a novella within this novel called Once Upon a Cowboy. In this novel, Belle and Adam find each other thanks to Adam’s mother-in-law Debbie. She hired Belle to be a Nanny and housekeeper to help Adam and his three children. Adam is definitely not on board and Belle is much too innocent for him. Until she isn’t!
Maisey Yates knocked this story out of the park! I loved the characters. I loved the storyline. I even loved Junebug. Another great read - Unbridled Cowboy.
Sawyer Garrett lives on the Garrett land out in the west. He and his family run cattle on their part of the Four Corners Ranch. He has no desire to marry and settle down, but an accident occurred and suddenly he is a dad of a beautiful baby girl. He knows she is going to need the love of a mother, but it is not easy to find the right person out his way. So he puts a letter out looking for a mail order bride. After all, it worked for his grandfather!
Evelyn Moore has gone out with the same man for years. She has started her own company with her best friends and is planning to marry Andrew soon. Until she finds him having sex one of her best friends and finds out other best friend knew about it all along. What a mess, but she was done, done, done.
Evelyn can’t believe she traveled to the Four Corners Ranch to meet Sawyer and the baby. In fact applying and auditioning for the job. Sawyer can’t believe she will leave her cushy life for a life in the boonies and a bunch of cowboys. The two have mad chemistry though and that is sure to help - or make things harder.
There is a novella within this novel called Once Upon a Cowboy. In this novel, Belle and Adam find each other thanks to Adam’s mother-in-law Debbie. She hired Belle to be a Nanny and housekeeper to help Adam and his three children. Adam is definitely not on board and Belle is much too innocent for him. Until she isn’t!
Maisey Yates knocked this story out of the park! I loved the characters. I loved the storyline. I even loved Junebug. Another great read - Unbridled Cowboy.
May 26, 2022
Maisey Yates never disappoints. Unbridled Cowboy is a great start to the Four Corners Ranch series. You will fall in love with Sawyer and Evelyn as you watch them navigate the road to true love. I loved every minute of this book and look forward to the next in the series.
August 14, 2022
Maisey, I think like Andrew and Evelyn we have relationship problems we should have talked about. I think like Evelyn I’ve been ignoring the red flags in our relationship, avoiding the hard conversations because we’ve been together for so long, through so many of your books, our continued author/reader relationship just felt comfortable because I knew what to expect. It was easier for me to ignore what was no longer working for me in your books. As a man I’m a bit uncomfortable admitting this but while I think your women’s lit. stories like Lost and Found Girl are still amazing, your small town Oregon ranch and farm based stories have grown repetitive and a bit stale. IMHO you’ve begun recycling both characters and story lines with only minor changes. When Unbridled Cowboy showed up in my Kindle Library as new I was excited to have a new story by you to read even though it hadn’t been that long since I’d finished reading Lost and Found Girl. But after reading only the first couple of paragraphs I thought maybe there was some sort of mistake. I thought maybe somehow Amazon had gotten it wrong. Because I knew a few years ago even though I could no longer remember the specifics, I had read either in your Copper Ridge or Gold Valley series, a story about a rancher, an eldest sibling who with his younger siblings runs a ranch. He unexpectedly finds himself a single dad so he goes looking for a mail order bride to help him raise her. Sort of an updated version of the classic Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan. I was so convinced this was that book I even set it aside a few times convinced I’d already read it. Which is probably why I ended up reading Lost and Found Girl before this one. I finally realized that this was in fact a new book. Other than the basic premise of this story, stoic (read: extremely emotionally closed off) rancher seeks woman to live in a passionless marriage, to be a mother for his child, take care of their home, cook his dinner and warm his bed, in Sawyer Garrett you’ve created another male protagonist who believes a loveless marriage with friendship and sexual chemistry is not only perfectly suitable but preferable to bringing messy emotions like love into it. The difference between this story and your others with misguided male leads is your female protagonist Evelyn Moore after watching her life crash and burn two weeks before her planned wedding to Andrew the guy she’d been with and waiting to marry for 10 years, when she catches him banging Holynn one of her two BFFs and business partners and discovers Lioni her other BFF and business partner knew about them and was willing to keep silent and let her go ahead and marry Andrew, is Evelyn actually agrees to his proposal for a marriage where passion and love aren’t a factor. Unlike your other female protagonists Evelyn doesn’t come to the realization that she needs more from the relationship until after she marries.
Just to reiterate with this story we have a very similar theme to a previous story you have written that itself was very similar to a classic story by another author. You’ve written the same sort of emotionally closed off male protagonist who thinks a marriage without love is acceptable whom you have inserted into multiple other stories you’ve written. And if I’m being completely and brutally honest you continue your same writing habit of having your protagonists repeatedly beat their emotional issues to death in their internal monologues and external dialogues. In this story it’s primarily Evelyn who while on her voyage of self-discovery by leaving her former successful life in Manhattan behind becoming an Oregon rancher’s wife and mother to his child, keeps telling us (and Sawyer) how when she hit puberty and her new womanly body despite developing an eating disorder to try and force it to conform to the required lithe ballerina body type, no longer allowed her to make her mother happy by becoming a prima ballerina. In anger and frustration she quit the ballet academy and rebels by symbolically burning her old life down by starting to abuse her body, smoking, dabbling in drugs and casual sex. When she realized this act of teenage rebellion wasn’t making her happy she cleaned up her act, refocuses her efforts to become a top student and then successful business woman to win her mother’s approval. But she discovers even that success and planning to marry the right man doesn’t win mommy dearest approval. So after the big betrayal she burns down her old life again and runs off to rural Oregon to build a new life and prove to her mother she can be a success in a totally different life as a mother and ranchers wife. There’s really nothing wrong with this part of the story other than Evelyn repeats her history i over and over again, practically cutting and pasting the same dialogue.
Sawyer Garrett is a man who knows who he is and he knows what he knows and that’s all he needs to know. Sawyer passionately avoids any real self-reflection of what motivates him to be the way he is. He demonstrate just how closed off and afraid of his emotions he is from the first time he meets Evelyn. The fact that the minute their eyes meet he feels their powerful attraction and is immediately drawn to her makes him worry that if they marry he won’t be able to keep feelings out of the equation to have the passionless marriage he desires. Yes, he’d hoped to find his future bride likable and attractive since he did want a sex life with her. But he didn’t want to find her so likeable and attractive he was tempted to feel more than some physical lust. Because in his experience from watching his parents failed marriage he believes passion is a destructive force that eventually destroys relationships. Even after they marry the more he feels for Evelyn the more he tries to deny and fight those feelings. He’s so closed off that he won’t even explain to Evelyn why he named his daughter June Bug until she torturously drags it out of him. Because of admittedly sad events that occurred in his past he can’t even utter the words “I love you” to his infant daughter or his younger siblings whom he obviously does love.
Once Sawyer is reasonably satisfied that Evelyn isn’t going to pack up and abandon June Bug like most of the women in his family had abandoned their husbands and children and he’s had a taste of just how sexually explosive their chemistry is he’s ready to marry Evelyn. Once Evelyn who had immediately fallen in love with June Bug and believes in her bones that Sawyer is the right man for her, is convinced she is enough of a woman to keep Sawyer satisfied from straying from her bed like Andrew did, she’s ready to marry him. After a 48-hour sexual marathon honeymoon they settle into married life on the ranch. While Evelyn gets to know some of the other women on Four Corners Ranch, is busy caring for Bug, their home and Sawyer which includes nightly mind blowing orgasmic sex, she’s also doing a lot of soul searching and self-examination of her life, what she’s done wrong and what she really wants her future to be. What she needs to make her happy. She finally comes to the realization after 34 years that she’s wasted most of those years doing things to win her mother’s approval and love. Even her move to Oregon to build a totally different life was in some ways motivated by her desire to do the same. Was she really running to her future or away from her past? She also realizes that avoiding the hard and uncomfortable conversations with her mother, with Andrew and with her friends is partially to blame for her life’s disappointments. She realizes she not only loves Bug but also her taciturn husband. She decides she needs more from him than great sex and unspoken affection and eventually so will their daughter. As she tells him, “Sometimes women need to hear the words.” So despite her agreement before they married that she accepted Sawyer’s plan for an emotionally if not sexually passionless marriage, to accept him as he is, she sets out to break down his emotional walls. He of course resists but Evelyn determined to no longer avoid the hard conversations in her life fights for what she needs from him as his wife. A frustrated and angry Sawyer finally reveals the reasons, the events that led him to become a man who runs from and is incapable of verbally expressing his feelings. Evelyn in what I felt was perhaps the most powerful scene in this story, armed with her newly discovered insights on life and happiness and inner strength and determination, uses her truths and love to break down Sawyer’s walls to allow himself to express both his pain and his love.
This was actually a pretty good story. But because I felt it in many ways it seemingly recycled plot and characters from previous Yate’s books, I just couldn’t in good conscience give it more than 3 stars.
This isn’t the first visit to Four Corners Ranch for regular readers of Maisey Yates. In The Cowboy She Loves to Hate an “enemies to lovers” novella we met mousy, virginal librarian Nelly Foster and her life long antagonist Tag McCloud who becomes her fiancée. Tag doesn’t appear in this story but Nelly does as she becomes Evelyn’s closest friend among the women of Four Corner’s ranch. And unless I’ve totally lost my mind I remember another earlier novella where a character very similar to Nelly, perhaps Nelly’s mother because she was the newly hired school teacher at Four Corners, gives shelter to a wounded man (Nelly’s eventual father?) on the run from his psychotically violent, criminal brother whom she falls in love with and gives her virginity to.
As a bonus there’s a novella Once Upon a Cowboy, included at the end of this story. It’s a take off of the Beauty and the Beast fairytale. Nothing however like K.F. Breene's raunchy retelling. The female protagonist is even named Belle. It’s impossible not to notice the similarities in the personalities between the protagonists in this novella and protagonists from previous Yate’s books. The story takes place on a ranch near Pyrite Falls and Four Corners Ranch. The timing of this story is just before Evelyn answers Sawyers ad and arrives at Garrett’s Landing. The Sullivan sister’s and their farm market and Wolfe Garrett and Hunter McCloud make a cameo appearances. Belle like Nelly Foster is a bookish introvert who had led a sheltered life raised by her late beloved grandmother in Seattle. At 24 she's still never been kissed. Having just been forced to close her grandmother’s failing bookstore and seek new employment elsewhere she answers an ad for a nanny for three young children in Pyrite Falls. Like Nelly in her book Belle is at 24 still a virgin when this story begins. Despite her lack of real life experience with people outside of the bookstore Belle has a quiet confidence about herself. Like Evelyn she quickly falls in love with both the children she’s been hired to be the nanny of and Adam their father. Adam Winchester is very similar to Sawyer Garrett. He’s handsome, physically imposing and for different reasons is almost as emotionally closed off as Sawyer was. Because of scars you can and can’t see that he received serving in the military he’s the beast in this story to Belle’s quiet beauty. And just like Evelyn’s love for Sawyer and Bug gave her the strength and determination to break down Sawyer’s emotional walls, Belle’s love for Adam and his children does likewise for her. It’s a very sweet and heartwarming quick read with a little bit of sexy when Belle decides she deserves to have more than half of what she really wants and goes for it.
Just to reiterate with this story we have a very similar theme to a previous story you have written that itself was very similar to a classic story by another author. You’ve written the same sort of emotionally closed off male protagonist who thinks a marriage without love is acceptable whom you have inserted into multiple other stories you’ve written. And if I’m being completely and brutally honest you continue your same writing habit of having your protagonists repeatedly beat their emotional issues to death in their internal monologues and external dialogues. In this story it’s primarily Evelyn who while on her voyage of self-discovery by leaving her former successful life in Manhattan behind becoming an Oregon rancher’s wife and mother to his child, keeps telling us (and Sawyer) how when she hit puberty and her new womanly body despite developing an eating disorder to try and force it to conform to the required lithe ballerina body type, no longer allowed her to make her mother happy by becoming a prima ballerina. In anger and frustration she quit the ballet academy and rebels by symbolically burning her old life down by starting to abuse her body, smoking, dabbling in drugs and casual sex. When she realized this act of teenage rebellion wasn’t making her happy she cleaned up her act, refocuses her efforts to become a top student and then successful business woman to win her mother’s approval. But she discovers even that success and planning to marry the right man doesn’t win mommy dearest approval. So after the big betrayal she burns down her old life again and runs off to rural Oregon to build a new life and prove to her mother she can be a success in a totally different life as a mother and ranchers wife. There’s really nothing wrong with this part of the story other than Evelyn repeats her history i over and over again, practically cutting and pasting the same dialogue.
Sawyer Garrett is a man who knows who he is and he knows what he knows and that’s all he needs to know. Sawyer passionately avoids any real self-reflection of what motivates him to be the way he is. He demonstrate just how closed off and afraid of his emotions he is from the first time he meets Evelyn. The fact that the minute their eyes meet he feels their powerful attraction and is immediately drawn to her makes him worry that if they marry he won’t be able to keep feelings out of the equation to have the passionless marriage he desires. Yes, he’d hoped to find his future bride likable and attractive since he did want a sex life with her. But he didn’t want to find her so likeable and attractive he was tempted to feel more than some physical lust. Because in his experience from watching his parents failed marriage he believes passion is a destructive force that eventually destroys relationships. Even after they marry the more he feels for Evelyn the more he tries to deny and fight those feelings. He’s so closed off that he won’t even explain to Evelyn why he named his daughter June Bug until she torturously drags it out of him. Because of admittedly sad events that occurred in his past he can’t even utter the words “I love you” to his infant daughter or his younger siblings whom he obviously does love.
Once Sawyer is reasonably satisfied that Evelyn isn’t going to pack up and abandon June Bug like most of the women in his family had abandoned their husbands and children and he’s had a taste of just how sexually explosive their chemistry is he’s ready to marry Evelyn. Once Evelyn who had immediately fallen in love with June Bug and believes in her bones that Sawyer is the right man for her, is convinced she is enough of a woman to keep Sawyer satisfied from straying from her bed like Andrew did, she’s ready to marry him. After a 48-hour sexual marathon honeymoon they settle into married life on the ranch. While Evelyn gets to know some of the other women on Four Corners Ranch, is busy caring for Bug, their home and Sawyer which includes nightly mind blowing orgasmic sex, she’s also doing a lot of soul searching and self-examination of her life, what she’s done wrong and what she really wants her future to be. What she needs to make her happy. She finally comes to the realization after 34 years that she’s wasted most of those years doing things to win her mother’s approval and love. Even her move to Oregon to build a totally different life was in some ways motivated by her desire to do the same. Was she really running to her future or away from her past? She also realizes that avoiding the hard and uncomfortable conversations with her mother, with Andrew and with her friends is partially to blame for her life’s disappointments. She realizes she not only loves Bug but also her taciturn husband. She decides she needs more from him than great sex and unspoken affection and eventually so will their daughter. As she tells him, “Sometimes women need to hear the words.” So despite her agreement before they married that she accepted Sawyer’s plan for an emotionally if not sexually passionless marriage, to accept him as he is, she sets out to break down his emotional walls. He of course resists but Evelyn determined to no longer avoid the hard conversations in her life fights for what she needs from him as his wife. A frustrated and angry Sawyer finally reveals the reasons, the events that led him to become a man who runs from and is incapable of verbally expressing his feelings. Evelyn in what I felt was perhaps the most powerful scene in this story, armed with her newly discovered insights on life and happiness and inner strength and determination, uses her truths and love to break down Sawyer’s walls to allow himself to express both his pain and his love.
This was actually a pretty good story. But because I felt it in many ways it seemingly recycled plot and characters from previous Yate’s books, I just couldn’t in good conscience give it more than 3 stars.
This isn’t the first visit to Four Corners Ranch for regular readers of Maisey Yates. In The Cowboy She Loves to Hate an “enemies to lovers” novella we met mousy, virginal librarian Nelly Foster and her life long antagonist Tag McCloud who becomes her fiancée. Tag doesn’t appear in this story but Nelly does as she becomes Evelyn’s closest friend among the women of Four Corner’s ranch. And unless I’ve totally lost my mind I remember another earlier novella where a character very similar to Nelly, perhaps Nelly’s mother because she was the newly hired school teacher at Four Corners, gives shelter to a wounded man (Nelly’s eventual father?) on the run from his psychotically violent, criminal brother whom she falls in love with and gives her virginity to.
As a bonus there’s a novella Once Upon a Cowboy, included at the end of this story. It’s a take off of the Beauty and the Beast fairytale. Nothing however like K.F. Breene's raunchy retelling. The female protagonist is even named Belle. It’s impossible not to notice the similarities in the personalities between the protagonists in this novella and protagonists from previous Yate’s books. The story takes place on a ranch near Pyrite Falls and Four Corners Ranch. The timing of this story is just before Evelyn answers Sawyers ad and arrives at Garrett’s Landing. The Sullivan sister’s and their farm market and Wolfe Garrett and Hunter McCloud make a cameo appearances. Belle like Nelly Foster is a bookish introvert who had led a sheltered life raised by her late beloved grandmother in Seattle. At 24 she's still never been kissed. Having just been forced to close her grandmother’s failing bookstore and seek new employment elsewhere she answers an ad for a nanny for three young children in Pyrite Falls. Like Nelly in her book Belle is at 24 still a virgin when this story begins. Despite her lack of real life experience with people outside of the bookstore Belle has a quiet confidence about herself. Like Evelyn she quickly falls in love with both the children she’s been hired to be the nanny of and Adam their father. Adam Winchester is very similar to Sawyer Garrett. He’s handsome, physically imposing and for different reasons is almost as emotionally closed off as Sawyer was. Because of scars you can and can’t see that he received serving in the military he’s the beast in this story to Belle’s quiet beauty. And just like Evelyn’s love for Sawyer and Bug gave her the strength and determination to break down Sawyer’s emotional walls, Belle’s love for Adam and his children does likewise for her. It’s a very sweet and heartwarming quick read with a little bit of sexy when Belle decides she deserves to have more than half of what she really wants and goes for it.
January 11, 2023
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Mary Jo – ☆☆☆☆
When worlds collide, you can either mend them together to create a whole new world or just try to subsist in each other's orbit.
Evelyn’s whole world imploded when she caught her fiancé and best friend – and partner in business – having sex in their office and feeling utterly betrayed when she finds out the third partner knew about affair. Evelyn's reaction to things she can't control or doesn't want to face is to walk away. Burn bridges and walk away.
Sawyer Garrett’s world has expanded in a way that he didn't expect. An unplanned pregnancy with a casual hook-up leaves him as a single dad who desperately needs a mom for his little girl. Believing that his family is cursed in the love arena, he plans on advertising for a wife/mom for his baby. He doesn't need love, he needs a mother for his child. If it's just business, she will have no reason to leave his little girl without a mother, right?
This is a complicated story full of emotional backstories of both Evelyn and Sawyer. Each has their own reasons for wanting to create a family and be a family for this little girl. Both Sawyer and Evelyn have to come to terms with their reasons for choosing the path they are on and what it means for their future.
There are a lot of moving pieces in this story and lots of characters, which can only mean lots more stories for the folks who make the Four Corners home.
Reviewers received a free copy of this book to read and review for Wicked Reads.
May 24, 2022
Sawyer Garrett lives and works on his family ranch along with his siblings. When Sawyer unexpectedly becomes a single father to his infant daughter, he sees only one way to give his daughter the life she deserves. Sawyer must find a wife! He has pain from his past and how he grew up and does not want that for his daughter. He decides to find a wife just like his grandfather did years ago. He puts an ad in the paper. He is not looking for love, he wants someone to commit to raising his daughter with him. Can Sawyer guard his heart and not fall in love?
Evelyn Moore has nothing left after finding her fiancé in the arms of her best friend. She needs a change, and she needs it badly. When she comes across an ad for a cowboy seeking a wife, this may be just what she needs to make a new start. She has always wanted a family, and maybe this is the only way she will ever have one. Can she love little baby June enough to stay on the ranch?
What a sweet story by Maisey Yates. I loved getting to know Sawyer and Evelyn which were fantastic characters, but adorable baby June steals the show. I enjoyed the old-fashioned twist to the story of a mail order bride and the history of Sawyers family along with getting to know some of the characters on the neighboring ranches. I am hoping that this brings us a few new book series by Ms. Yates. I was gifted a copy of the book by Harlequin Publishing for my voluntary review. If you are looking for a heartwarming tale of love and family, this one is for you!
Evelyn Moore has nothing left after finding her fiancé in the arms of her best friend. She needs a change, and she needs it badly. When she comes across an ad for a cowboy seeking a wife, this may be just what she needs to make a new start. She has always wanted a family, and maybe this is the only way she will ever have one. Can she love little baby June enough to stay on the ranch?
What a sweet story by Maisey Yates. I loved getting to know Sawyer and Evelyn which were fantastic characters, but adorable baby June steals the show. I enjoyed the old-fashioned twist to the story of a mail order bride and the history of Sawyers family along with getting to know some of the characters on the neighboring ranches. I am hoping that this brings us a few new book series by Ms. Yates. I was gifted a copy of the book by Harlequin Publishing for my voluntary review. If you are looking for a heartwarming tale of love and family, this one is for you!
June 9, 2022
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**A copy of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.**
I love a good cowboy romance. it’s like a Hallmark movie in book form, which makes it even better. I haven’t heard of Maisey Yates before but this book was offered to me for a review and I was excited to check it out.
The story follows Evelyn as her world falls apart and Sawyer as he decides he needs a wife that can be a mother to his baby girl. Just a typical mail order bride story. Now I know the storyline is expected because what are they really going to do? Not have it end in a happily ever after? Doubtful, but it was still fun to read how they got there. I really liked Evelyn. She was a city girl, but also adapted well to her new surroundings. Her overall personality was relatable and a character I really enjoyed reading. Sawyer Garrett sounded like he was good looking and an overall good guy, but he was a bit too hard headed for my liking. It definitely made for a good read and Yates did a good job developing this character throughout. You really saw growth.
I have one complaint about this book and it’s the inner monologues. They were SO long. There would be a conversation happening between two characters, usually Sawyer and Evelyn, and between every spoken word there was a giant inner monologue that would last pages. Actual pages! I just felt it was excessive and the story would have flowed nicer if those monologues were shorter or there were less. Sometimes I forgot what the conversation as about because there was so much inner commentary between.
With that said the story was good and the characters were enjoyable. I loved the extended family and the work together vibes it gave off. I loved the family of all females and their ability to do everything the men could do. Girl power! I look forward to reading the rest in this series, as it says it’s only book one.
**A copy of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.**
I love a good cowboy romance. it’s like a Hallmark movie in book form, which makes it even better. I haven’t heard of Maisey Yates before but this book was offered to me for a review and I was excited to check it out.
The story follows Evelyn as her world falls apart and Sawyer as he decides he needs a wife that can be a mother to his baby girl. Just a typical mail order bride story. Now I know the storyline is expected because what are they really going to do? Not have it end in a happily ever after? Doubtful, but it was still fun to read how they got there. I really liked Evelyn. She was a city girl, but also adapted well to her new surroundings. Her overall personality was relatable and a character I really enjoyed reading. Sawyer Garrett sounded like he was good looking and an overall good guy, but he was a bit too hard headed for my liking. It definitely made for a good read and Yates did a good job developing this character throughout. You really saw growth.
I have one complaint about this book and it’s the inner monologues. They were SO long. There would be a conversation happening between two characters, usually Sawyer and Evelyn, and between every spoken word there was a giant inner monologue that would last pages. Actual pages! I just felt it was excessive and the story would have flowed nicer if those monologues were shorter or there were less. Sometimes I forgot what the conversation as about because there was so much inner commentary between.
With that said the story was good and the characters were enjoyable. I loved the extended family and the work together vibes it gave off. I loved the family of all females and their ability to do everything the men could do. Girl power! I look forward to reading the rest in this series, as it says it’s only book one.
August 4, 2022
I received a free copy of this book to read and review for Wicked Reads.
When worlds collide, you can either mend them together to create a whole new world or just try to subsist in each other's orbit.
Evelyn whole world imploded when she caught her fiance' and best friend - and partner in business- having sex in their office and feeling utterly betrayed when she finds out the the third partner knew about affair. Evelyn's reaction to things she can't control or don't want to face is to walk away. Burn bridges and walk away.
Sawyer Garrett world has expanded in a way that he didn't expect. An unplanned pregnancy with a casual hook up leaves him as a single dad who desperately needs a mom for his little girl. Believing that his family is cursed in the love arena, he plans on advertising for a wife/mom for his baby. He doesn't need love, he needs a mother for his child. If it's just business, she will have no reason to leave his little girl without a mother, right?
This is a complicated story full of emotional back stories of both Evelyn and Sawyer. Each have their own reasons for wanting to create a family and be a family for this little girl. Both Sawyer and Evelyn have to come to terms with their reasons for choosing the path they are on and what it means for their future.
There are a lot of moving pieces in this story and lots of characters which can only mean lots of more stories for the folks that make the Four Corners home.
~~Wicked Readers Review Team~~
When worlds collide, you can either mend them together to create a whole new world or just try to subsist in each other's orbit.
Evelyn whole world imploded when she caught her fiance' and best friend - and partner in business- having sex in their office and feeling utterly betrayed when she finds out the the third partner knew about affair. Evelyn's reaction to things she can't control or don't want to face is to walk away. Burn bridges and walk away.
Sawyer Garrett world has expanded in a way that he didn't expect. An unplanned pregnancy with a casual hook up leaves him as a single dad who desperately needs a mom for his little girl. Believing that his family is cursed in the love arena, he plans on advertising for a wife/mom for his baby. He doesn't need love, he needs a mother for his child. If it's just business, she will have no reason to leave his little girl without a mother, right?
This is a complicated story full of emotional back stories of both Evelyn and Sawyer. Each have their own reasons for wanting to create a family and be a family for this little girl. Both Sawyer and Evelyn have to come to terms with their reasons for choosing the path they are on and what it means for their future.
There are a lot of moving pieces in this story and lots of characters which can only mean lots of more stories for the folks that make the Four Corners home.
~~Wicked Readers Review Team~~
June 12, 2022
Unbridled Cowboy by Maisey Yates is the kind of romance that lures me in deep. I find the characters irresistibly charming. Each one is having their own life crisis and by coming together on mutual terms they find a life work making. Only this mutual contract goes to shreds once the contract continues. It is hot, raw, instant attraction on first meeting for these characters. They try to deny it or pretend it is not there when it keeps hitting them harder. The saying the more you ignore, the more it is going to burst comes to mind. It shows just how hard it is to ignore the matters of the heart. Their angry banters were fun as heck to follow. I love every moment with Sawyer and Evelyn.
Sawyer is a player, but he does not shy away from duties. That includes his family, his family legacy, and his newborn daughter. Now, he needs a wife to be a mother for his daughter in hopes he can give the family he never had as a kid. Then, there is Evelyn who is just as hardworking, independent, and strong. Yet she misses out on the family thing and wants one of her own. She wants to be a better mother than hers was. In the end, these two have a lot of learning from each other. Trust, faith, and honesty creates a beautifully yet unforgettable journey in this new novel. Overall, Maisey Yates still proves she still has the magic to make laugh-out-loud scenes, realistic characters, and a love that is worth keeping all come to life. I highly recommend giving this read a try!
I received this copy from the publisher. This is my voluntary review.
Sawyer is a player, but he does not shy away from duties. That includes his family, his family legacy, and his newborn daughter. Now, he needs a wife to be a mother for his daughter in hopes he can give the family he never had as a kid. Then, there is Evelyn who is just as hardworking, independent, and strong. Yet she misses out on the family thing and wants one of her own. She wants to be a better mother than hers was. In the end, these two have a lot of learning from each other. Trust, faith, and honesty creates a beautifully yet unforgettable journey in this new novel. Overall, Maisey Yates still proves she still has the magic to make laugh-out-loud scenes, realistic characters, and a love that is worth keeping all come to life. I highly recommend giving this read a try!
I received this copy from the publisher. This is my voluntary review.
May 24, 2022
Marriage is a business deal...
Sawyer is 34, has a brand new infant daughter and no relationship with the baby mama. So, he decides to advertise for a wife on a website. Its will be a business deal only, cuz he is terrible at relationships.
Enter Evelyn who agrees to his terms at first but quickly wants way more than a business deal. Steamy.
Sawyer is 34, has a brand new infant daughter and no relationship with the baby mama. So, he decides to advertise for a wife on a website. Its will be a business deal only, cuz he is terrible at relationships.
Enter Evelyn who agrees to his terms at first but quickly wants way more than a business deal. Steamy.
May 26, 2022
Loved this story about Sawyer needing a wife for his baby daughter. Placing an advert for a wife which was answered by Evelyn, after she found her fiance cheating with her best friend. Evelyn goes to Sawyer's ranch and through her working out her issues realises that Sawyer is the one for her and they finally find their happily ever.
June 2, 2022
Having read the novellas preceding this story, I already knew that I liked the community and atmosphere of Four Corners Ranch. This first full-length story let us in on the world of the strong and silent Sawyer Garrett, who put out an ad for a mail-order bride when a woman he'd hooked up with had his daughter and didn't want her. Sawyer thought a wife was the quickest and easiest way to ensure that his daughter had a mother figure, and as all the women in his family line had abandoned their kids with the exception of his mail-order bride grandmother, he figured it was the thing that just might work. Meanwhile, in New York City Evelyn, the heroine, caught her fiancee cheating on her with one of her best friends, and the other best friend knew all about it. Feeling betrayed, she left everything behind, including the very successful business the three friends had made, answered Sawyer's ad, and flew out to Oregon.
I wanted to read this book because of the marriage of convenience, and of course, the cowboys. But I got so much more than that in this story. Evelyn does a massive amount of growth, and it turned out that some of the awful characters in her life had some unforseen layers. While doing some internal analyzing and making herself into a better person, she realized that Sawyer was pretty emotionally messed up, and did her best to help him with that. For his part, Sawyer didn't know what hit him with Evelyn, and didn't quite know how to cope. I loved Sawyer's siblings and all the other people on the ranch, though Hunter is a bit of a jerk. Along with all the heavy situations surrounding the characters' pasts, the side characters managed to have some humor and fun injected into an otherwise semi-heavy story. The writing brought this down a little bit, as there were quite a number of mistakes and things that distracted me, and the pace did drag at times. Still, if you're looking for a contemporary Western with a bit of an old-fashioned feel with an awesome heroine and a silent but strong hero, give this a read.
I wanted to read this book because of the marriage of convenience, and of course, the cowboys. But I got so much more than that in this story. Evelyn does a massive amount of growth, and it turned out that some of the awful characters in her life had some unforseen layers. While doing some internal analyzing and making herself into a better person, she realized that Sawyer was pretty emotionally messed up, and did her best to help him with that. For his part, Sawyer didn't know what hit him with Evelyn, and didn't quite know how to cope. I loved Sawyer's siblings and all the other people on the ranch, though Hunter is a bit of a jerk. Along with all the heavy situations surrounding the characters' pasts, the side characters managed to have some humor and fun injected into an otherwise semi-heavy story. The writing brought this down a little bit, as there were quite a number of mistakes and things that distracted me, and the pace did drag at times. Still, if you're looking for a contemporary Western with a bit of an old-fashioned feel with an awesome heroine and a silent but strong hero, give this a read.
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