Good Time Cowboy

Gold Valley #3

by Maisey Yates

In Gold Valley, Oregon, forbidden desire just might turn into the love of a lifetime…

When Lindy Parker lost her cheating husband, she gained a vineyard. She’ll do anything for Grassroots Winery, including teaming up with the hottest devil she knows, rancher Wyatt Dodge. Wyatt is her ex’s friend and has an ego as big as the bulls he rides. But in spite of that, disciplined Lindy has always wanted him…

Lightning struck Wyatt Dodge the first time he saw Lindy Parker. But there were two problems with that: she was married to his friend, and Wyatt doesn’t do strings. But now Lindy is free, and the two of them can finally explore the heat that’s burned between them for so long. But can Lindy make this good time cowboy decide on forever?

Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Westerns, Audiobook, Harlequin, Enemies To Lovers

443 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 21, 2018

About the author

New 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.

Reviews

[♥Rachel♥ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wyatt and Lindy have been squaring off since they first appeared as side characters in previous books. Wyatt’s been pushing Lindy’s buttons while she tried to freeze him out and keep her distance. Too bad for Lindy that they’re partnering up for business because they’re about to get a lot more time together. Lindy’s promoting wines and tours through her vineyard using Wyatt’s horses, and Wyatt is featuring the experience as an excursion available to his new ranch/inn guests. There’s been a love/hate thing going on between these two because of the history and that’s about to come to a head.

I love how Maisey Yates gets to the heart of her characters and their motivations, and that’s part of what makes them so hot is that you get their emotions before there’s anything physical between them. There’s a delicious buildup between Lindy and Wyatt! Loved that even though there were some bumps in the road for their relationship there wasn’t any over-the-top drama.

I’m really looking forward to Grant’s romance, because that man deserves some loving! And I really hope there’s a romance for Bea and Dane! She’s got such a massive, intense crush on Dane that I’m a little afraid her heart might get squashed, but I’m crossing my fingers that he finally opens his eyes to Bea!

A copy was kindly provided by HQN via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

[Angela (Angel's Book Nook) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good Time Cowboy was a delight to listen too.

Lindy and Wyatt drive each other crazy. They’ve recently tied their business together to help promote the dude ranch Wyatt is trying to get off the ground and so, they have to suck it up and deal with each other.

These two have some issues to get over; before they can come together.

Wyatt’s got a lot on his plat. He's got a few secrets too. He hasn’t told his family one important thing about the Ranch and we also learn about an incident in his childhood that sent him off to join the Rodeo circuit. When this all comes out. It’s a shock, but it helps Dad and Son to talk again.

Lindy was married and her hubby cheated a lot so, she’s sworn off men especially rodeo men. She’s focused all her energy into the winery and is gun shy about hooking up with a man. Especially Wyatt.

Lindy and Wyatt deep down really like each other, but they are prickly when together. They both are a handful, stubborn, and crave control. I liked watching them have to play nice to get the big event off the ground and then having to let go of the past and let someone in. Theirs a lot of tension between them and it just adds to the story.

I also like all the characters we meet; new and old. The family and friends make a great community.

Audio: Narrator Suzanne Elise Freeman did a fabulous job. I really enjoy her narration of the Gold Valley series. The voices are all unique to that character. I like how she portrays the story. It comes alive and I can’t stop listening. She gets me hooked.

Good Time Cowboy was a sweet romance. I really am enjoying the audio for the Gold Valley series. Now off to the next installment.

P.S. We are treated to a bonus novella, Hard Riding Cowboy, in this audio edition.

Rated: 4 Stars

[Wendy'sThoughts · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 Cannot Deny The Feelings Stars
* * * 1/2 Spoiler Free
Maisey Yates is an author who knows how to write Cowboys and the women who throw them off their game. Good Time Cowboy is part of connecting books and this time she focuses on Lindy and Wyatt.

Lindy is the type of person who needs and likes control, order and results. She owns a winery and has worked to make it become a respected company. She needs to have more business and one way to do it is to partner with the ranch next door.

Wyatt is her contact and he is everything she should not want. He is a Bull Rider like her ex husband, he can't seem to take anything seriously, and nothing phases him.

So why does she have to work with him...
Why does his teasing and flirting push her buttons like they are...
She should not be attracted to him... but somehow she is...

Damn it!

Lindy isn't the only one who is fighting attraction... Lindy is all Wyatt can think about. The only way he can stop himself from just taking her into his arms is to give her challenging banter and teasing... Watching her get all hot and annoyed is a hoot and keeps him from thinking about how beautiful she is...

This tale is standard Lacey and HARLEQUIN.
Here are the other related books:

Cowboy Christmas Blues (Gold Valley,#0.5)
Smooth Talking Cowboy (Gold Valley,#1)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mail Order Bride (Gold Valley,#1.5)
Untamed Cowboy (Gold Valley,#2)
Hard Riding Cowboy (Gold Valley,#2.5)
Good Time Cowboy (Gold Valley,#3)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Snowed in the Cowboy (Gold Valley,#3.5)
A Tall Dark Cowboy Christmas (Gold Valley,#4)

A gifted copy was provided by HARLEQUIN via Netgalley for an honest review.



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[Tina Loves To Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a hate to love Cowboy Romance, and this is the third book in the Gold Valley series. One of the main characters (Wyatt) was a secondary characters in at least one of the other book in this series. I have to say I loved getting to find out more about this character. I loved both Lindy and Wyatt because their characters felt so real to me. I loved they showed that they are not prefect and grow so much during this book. The storyline is very character driven which I love. The romance in this book was hot and fast.

[Nikki (Saturday Nite Reader) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars rounded up

I love reading Maisey Yates when I need a reprieve from all the heavy dramas I have been reading. Something about her cowboys are irresistible; and Wyatt Dodge did not disappoint!

Lindy on the other hand took a bit of time to warm up too, but the electricity these two had made for a fun, quick read.

[Stacee · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have been waiting for Lindy’s story for about 3 books now and somehow, I was a little disappointed.

I loved Lindy and Wyatt. They’re both so stubborn and they have excellent banter and chemistry. I loved the button pushing. Of course it’s always fun to see how the previous couples are doing.

Plot wise, it felt really repetitive. There were long blocks of inner monologue and a lot of pushing away. I thrive on dialogue and maybe that’s where my interest fizzled. There were a lot of feelings to work through and backstory to overcome. I guess I was expecting a bit more fluffiness from these two.

Overall, it was a good story and I’m so happy they got their HEA. I’m eager to get to Grant’s story.

**Huge thanks to HQN Books for providing the arc free of charge**

[Aly · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

"He wasn't a train she had missed, but one she had been destined to catch later."

Lindy Parker doesn't like rodeo anymore. It remind her of her ex-husband, who cheated on her and destroyed ten years of marriage. She got her revenge, thanks to a prenup agreement, and gained full ownership of his family's winery where she put her heart in. Working with her former sisters-in-law is no problem, they became like siblings to her. The last thing Lindy thinks she need in her life is an other cocky bull rider. Certainly not, Wyatt Dodge, manwhore and friend of her ex. But the opportunity for a partnership with his dude ranch is a chance she cannot pass.

Wyatt Dodge retired from the rodeo circuit to revive the family's business. It was his choice, but he never told his brothers and sister why he left in the first place nor that if they doesn't succeed at making a profit, their dad is gonna sell. For him, it was love at first sight, the one with metaphorical lighting strike, the first time he saw Lindy. He ignore that she felt the same kind of recognition but it wouldn't have matter at the time anyway, because he immediately learned she already belong to an other man. Wyatt might have been known to not care about this kind of details before, but this time, he draw the line at seducing his friend's wife.

From what we could see in the previous books, Lindy and Wyatt didn't get along well together. He enjoy infuriating her and she pretend he gets on her nerves. But we all know the truth, that antagonism is just an other word for sexual tension ;p And long time simmering feelings is bound to explose. But how can two stubborn person who like to have the last word can find a neutral territory to let go of the past and the true wants and needs of their heart ?

When I want a romance with powerful emotions and characters's journey to inner discovery about themselves and/or the mistake of the past, I know Maisey Yates is the author to go to. It sometimes feel like a tsunami of feelings, but doesn't it feel great when the MC overcome it with their epiphany and take a leap of faith ? It was especially satisfying to see it with Lindy, since she was a bit uptight, overthinking and she erected walls around herself.

"She was still working on being casual about all that, as agreed, but she didn't know how to do it when it felt like he was eroding those walls that had always stood between herself and the world. Between herself and other people."

Some things the hero did in the past should have been a total turn-off for me that I wouldn't be able to form a connection with him, but like always, I can't explain what it is about Maisey Yates' writing style that make me understand, forgive and love her characters so much. The fact that Wyatt doesn't compromise about who he is with anybody bothered me at first but it became part of his charm.

"Did I scare you ? Good You wanted sincerity, you're getting it. I want you. You. Not sex. You. That's different. And it bears mentioning, because let me tell you, usually I'm not so picky. I'm not going to pretend that I'm anything other than what I am. But you should know, I don't care about much, but the one thing I've cared about in a long time is that I want the next woman I take to bed to be you."

The journey to falling in love, the path that lead them to it and all the steps to get there, this author know how to makes it both thrilling and touching and the connection during sex is always on point !

[Anna's Herding Cats · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reviewed for herding cats & burning soup. (posting 8/23)
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2tO8Upc

Yates and cowboys. My happy place. Good Time Cowboy was full of cowboy goodness.

The Gist: Lindy and Wyatt. Well they drive each other crazy. But they've recently tied their businesses together for a promotion-- she owns a winery, he owns a neighboring dude ranch-- so they're having to suck it up and deal with each other. And the damn pesky attraction that's always simmered below the surface.

Lindy and Wyatt. Whewboy! They're a handful but I enjoyed them quite a bit. They're both stubborn and crave control. Are hard working, determined, will do anything for their families. They both hide deep insecurities-- her with a prim buttoned up persona, him with a devil may care attitude as if nothing phases him. They were just so suited for each other.

It was fun watching them work on a big business event. Having to see each other. Play nice. Tease and frustrate each other. And discover some inner layers they weren't exactly expecting or sure how to handle. All that tension sure heated things up nicely, too!

Add in a little family, a wonderful community of friends and a lovely setting to that fiery romance and it made for a real nice read. It took me a little time to get into Good Time Cowboy (likely on me) but once it snagged me...it snagged me good.

*I am finding it a bit aggravating with this series that the "books" end around 75% so that a previously released novella can be included in print.

[Kathleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 Stars!!
I have read all the books in this Gold Valley series as well as the Copper Ridge series and I think this one is one of my favourite books… so far.

I will admit that I had a bit of a hard time getting into this story, because there is a lot of back story between Lindy and Wyatt and to understand their relationship, you have to get through their pasts. Each of them had something they were hiding from the world and their families and in order to get through their daily lives they had to hide these parts. In getting together in a joint venture between their two business’s, they find that the attraction they have is mutual, but where Lindy wants to put that separate from everything the two are doing, this does not sit well with Wyatt, but as he wants Lindy he is willing to work with her limitations of their relationship both in business and out of it. Like everything in life, this begins to spiral when life gets in the way… The passions and chemistry was there from the start and they fan those flames until it’s a soaring, raging Fire!!

Lindy and Wyatt’s story is very compelling in that they both share a kind of grief at the losses in their lives and working through them alone does not help them each to heal, but in forming a relationship, they begin to heal and work at knowing what love really is. With the help of family and friends around them they see that they can get through their past to find a future together.
Thank you to Maisy Yates and her publisher for a copy of this book to review.

[Melanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good Time Cowboy features a wonderful romance set in a charming small town.

Lindy Parker may have gotten Grassroots Winery in her divorce, but she's poured everything she has into it and she'll do anything to make it a success including teaming up with rancher Wyatt Dodge. As a friend of her ex, Wyatt should be off limits but that's never stopped the attraction Lindy feels for him. While the two work together on a joint venture between their properties, the attraction between them grows. And before long the two give in to that attraction, but is it just physical or could there be something deeper between them.

Lindy grew up in a world vastly different from the one she currently lives in and as a result of knowing how her life could have turned out, she's determined to do whatever it takes to make sure she doesn't lose her current life. This means she's very restrained and doesn't decide to do things on a whim. Her constant restraint meant I was so incredibly happy when she finally started to let go as the book went on. As Lindy loosened up, she was able to accept who she is and actually be happy with who she turned out to be.

After Wyatt lost his mother at a young age, his father pulled away leaving Wyatt feeling alone and unloved. His grief over his mother and the lost relationship with his father meant Wyatt started to lash out early in life and didn't let people close to him for fear of losing them. Learning Wyatt's backstory was heartbreaking and I was happy to see he was able to have the confrontation with his father that was so desperately needed.

Both Lindy and Wyatt were attracted to each other when they first met, but with Lindy being married to one of Wyatt's friends at the time, that meant neither of them acted on that attraction. Due to the attraction they both feel, the pair has a tendency to rile each other up as a way to avoid those feelings. I loved the banter in their relationship and their chemistry was simply amazing. It's clear to anyone who sets eyes on the pair that they want each other and once the two give in, the scenes are incredibly steamy. Initially the pair decides to enter a physical only relationship which will end after their business deal is complete. Clearly this backfires and the two quickly catch feelings which is a trope I love. Overall I was happy with the way their relationship issues were resolved.

One of the best things about this author's books is how interconnected the stories are with couples appearing as side characters in other books. I love getting to revisit couples after their happily ever afters and this author does that very well. In this book we also got to see the return of some characters from the Copper Ridge series due to the connection of Lindy's winery in both series.

Overall I really enjoyed Good Time Cowboy and it was wonderful to return to the world Maisey Yates has created in this series. I highly recommend these books if you're looking for some great small town romances.

[Lynn Brooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Soul baring family drama! With the next in the Gold Valley series, Maisey Yates brings us Lindy and Wyatt's story. We knew it was going to be good from all of the fire they each put forward in hating each other in previous glimpses of them, but I wasn't expecting them to touch my heart so much. Both of them have a back story that defined them and made them into the person they are today ... and also made them think they weren't worthy of the love they grow to feel for one another. The family camaraderie is very warm-hearted, the past confessions define the character in a way we couldn't have predicted, and the passion they share with one another is magical. Really loved their story!

Lindy Parker is putting her heart and soul into making Grassroots Winery better than ever before, and she will do just about anything to make sure it succeeds ... obviously, if she's willing to partner with her cheating ex-husband's friend Wyatt Dodge. He's just about the most arrogant man she's ever met, and just as much of a womanizer as her ex. She can't stand him, but if partnering with his ranch will make a success out of the winery she got from her husband in the divorce settlement, she'll bite her lip and pretend for all she's got!

Wyatt Dodge comes off as a sure of himself guy who goes through women like nobody's business ... but there's a side to him that no one ever sees. He had a reason for hitting the rodeo circuit at seventeen and never looking back, and being back on the ranch and trying to make it a success brings all of the old baggage to the surface time and time again. Lindy might hate him, but he came alive the very first time he laid eyes on her. She can fight it all she wants, but they are destined to cause an explosion of desire one day soon!

[Kay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Over the summer, I jumped off the Maisey Yates bandwagon. She’s prolific and I did have an ARC in the TBR. Something Something Cowboy. I read the first page, slapped the Kindle shut and moved on. No can do. There it was *eye roll* the typical Yates antagonism, the heroine with the defiant mouth, the surly and/or laid-back hero … usually, this is reading catnip for me. I quixotically thought, Yates and I are parting company. You’d rightly say: here you are, MissB., reviewing another Yates romance. (Which I loved, btw … ) So, what happened? I have a terrible reader confession, so petty, kinda mean: I cannot read tall heroines, just can’t. No way. Every other ilk I’m cool with, but once a heroine confesses to tallness, there’s a disconnect. And that points to something about what I want as a reader: a tiny connection with the heroine that says, “You’re small, but you can do this.” Maybe because I’m small, like Jane-Eyre small, and since reading Brontë’s novel, it has stood as a model of what a heroine should be: humble, but never diminished. It’s terrible and … prejudicial … and goodness knows, we don’t need any more of that in the world, but there you have it. But with Good Time Cowboy, Yates hit all my satisfaction levels and I’m back on the bandwagon.

Good Time Cowboy is another volume in the vast world that Yates has built around two fictional Oregon towns, Copper Ridge and Gold Valley. Hero and heroine will be familiar to long-time Yates readers. Wyatt Dodge and Lindy Parker had cameos in the first two Gold Valley novels. More importantly, they’re signature Yates. Somewhere in their mid-thirties with their past to work through, circumstances and people in their lives who have knowingly or unknowingly, and because of an inner reluctance to confront, blocked them emotionally. Impeded them from falling in love. At this stage in their lives, Yates’s hero and heroine tend to think in terms of why they cannot embark on a committed relationship. While this state of mind and heart seems entrenched, there’s maturation that the hero and heroine have reached that allows them to overcome their past wounds and make that commitment. The journey, however, is a painful one, like giving birth. There’s pain, drama, uncertainty, but also anticipation and joy, possibility and fulfillment.

Wyatt Dodge, former bull-rider, is trying to make a success of his family’s ranch, Get Out of Dodge. Though he appears laid-back, he’s anxious to ensure the ranch’s solvency for his younger brothers, Grant and Bennett, and sister, Jamie. The siblings do not know that their father, Quinn, has given Wyatt an ultimatum: prove the ranch a success or Quinn sells. Wyatt and Quinn’s relationship is strained; there is something that lurks from their past that must be resolved for Wyatt to be able to love and commit to heroine Lindy. (Please note that Wyatt had a transgressive relationship in the past. I thought Yates handled it well, but some readers may not agree.)

Lindy’s emotional impediments come from her difficult relationship with a cold, lacking-in-love mother, her sense of herself as less-than because of her “trailer-trash” childhood, and her divorce from cheating husband, Damien. While Lindy and Wyatt are all kinds of messed-up internally, they’re successfully working towards building their respective businesses, Lindy’s Grassroots Winery and Wyatt’s ranch. In the past few months, they’ve been partnering on offering a tourist experience: the great outdoors and horses at the dude ranch and sophisticated wine pairings for meals and picnics.

From the get-go, their business acumen is left in the dust by their antagonistic banter (loved it!) and physical attraction. Yates is marvelous at shedding her characters’ emotionally protective carapaces as they shed clothes. Lindy and Wyatt’s business proximity sees them agree to sleep together, reasoning it’s only “for sex.” Famous last romance words. This is what distinguishes romance from erotica, sex is not primary to the romance narrative. A physical relationship, even in a kisses-only romance, is integral to the emotional work that needs to be done. It can be a conduit, a metaphor, a threshold, but like dialogue, it can only go as far as the characters are willing to go emotionally.

I believe that Yates writes romance as a carnal experience of faith. Wyatt and Lindy’s first encounter, when Lindy was still married, is described as a prefiguration:

He’d looked at her … This had been like a lightning strike. Electric. Immobilizing. Lethal. She’d had to force herself to keep moving forward, and the whole time he’d stared. His brown eyes locked on to hers, his expression filled with a kind of intensity she had never seen before. It had been like her whole body had been hollowed out, making room for this feeling that he had created and placed inside of her. There had been nothing but that. For a full thirty seconds. Nothing else existed outside of it. Not her life. Not her marriage.

In this first moment, and expressed as a flashback, Yates establishes the idea of the beloved as predestination. But I also like that predestination doesn’t mean predetermination. Lindy and Wyatt have to work on themselves, overcome their fears, acknowledge their internal impediments and make a free choice to love, to choose the beloved. Maybe it was “meant to be”, and certainly for Yates there are no coincidences, but it must also be chosen. Yates’s language strains here, but it is rich in religious imagery:

The full burst of that moment she had first laid eyes on Wyatt Dodge. It hadn’t been love at first sight. But it had been the promise of love. The taste of it. And now, she was immersed in it, like a baptism. In fire, in heat and desire. An unending, all-consuming love. This was the moment she had known she would have. The fulfillment of that destiny that had been promised the moment she had walked into that bar.

Wyatt mirrors Lindy’s revelation when he admits to himself that he loves her:

Perhaps he had from the moment she had walked into that bar. Like a moment of faith. One he wouldn’t ever fully understand. Like he had seen her and known something, deep in his bones. Like he had looked into a crystal ball.

Finally, there is a familiar echo, for any person of faith, in Wyatt’s final realization, that love abides:

… there was only one thing that endured. That lasted. That lived on after people died. It was love. And of all the temporary, vain things in the world, it was the only thing that would stand tall in the end.

Yates echoes Ecclesiastes and St. Paul’s Corinthians 1, chapter 13. Before reaching the point when the past is burned away, love stands sentinel. But for the sentinel to have motion and possibility, the hero and heroine must choose. Then, possibility becomes reality and the shadows in the mirror, darkly, clear.

What else can I say, folks, other than I’m a Yates fan-girl. I loved Good Time Cowboy not because it did something new, not because Wyatt and Lindy will stand out. They’ll meld into Yates’s world, along with all her happy couples. What will linger is the sense that in the humble romance, in our carnal, temporal, and temporary reality, we can fulfill our human calling: to love and be loved. (Good Time Cowboy is followed by a Yates novella. I didn’t read it. Even for Yates, I can’t do one after another. But I’ll be back for it.) With Miss Austen, I say that Yates’s Good Time Cowboy is proof “there is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,” Emma.

Maisey Yates’s Good Time Cowboy is published by HQN Books. It was released on August 21st and may be found at your preferred vendor. I received an e-ARC from HQN, via Netgalley.

[books are love · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Wyatt. I love the way he comes off as easygoing and not caring but deep inside he cares a great deal and feels so much. His guilt is hard to see only because he shouldn’t feel any. He feels he needs to repent for his past and he doesn’t. He is a powder keg and when he blows it will be the release he needs and will help him heal and go on. Wyatt is the one who takes care of everyone but himself for he has closed himself off in fear of being hurt again. He has had to pick himself up so many times that now he doesn’t want to need anyone. ONly when Lindy walked into his world five years ago she started to break that wall and now that she is free she is crashing it down.

Lindy is a strong stubborn character. She is trying to prove something to others and along the way loses herself. She doesn’t think she is easy to love and can love but she is wrong. Her and Wyatt have a explosive relationship. Two peas in a pod at first. Both trying not to need others but they drive each other nuts. She is one that is very structured and he is laid back. She is kind and caring but with Wyatt she is sassy and bold. These two give us some great banter and sexy moments even when disagreeing. I didn’t like her rules when they finally acted on their feelings. You could see how it hurt Wyatt but he didn’t say anything because again he felt he deserved it.

We see how Lindy heals and finds her way to who she is supposed to be and this is due to Wyatt’s honesty and support. He is there for her and shows her kindness, understanding and compassion. He sees her and not who she portrays. Lindy helps Wyatt as well for he begins to feel again and let someone in even when he fights it. The chemistry is explosive and that is how they begin their journey. It is Wyatt’s dad who helps Wyatt get to where he feels he can let Lindy in and love. The man who hurt him helps him heal. That scene is heartbreaking and warming for you see healing and a new relationship begin between them.

The story is sassy, fun and intimate. Sweet and fun. The characters you love and you see the love between family and friends as well as you read and fall in love with Lindy and Wyatt’s story of how the move on, heal and fall in love.

[Carma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another 5 star read from Maisey Yates, I wanna move to Gold Valley.

Lindy Parker is a strong woman. She wants what she wants when she wants it. She does NOT want Wyatt Dodge. Yet the same man occupies her every waking thought, her dreams and everything in between. She can’t believe she is attracted to a bull rider.

Wyatt Dodge has been attracted to Lindy Parker for 5 years. Since the first day he saw her walking toward him only to kiss his friend Damien and get introduced as his wife. He can’t do anything about said attraction with his ranch on the line. He has to find a way to work with her on the upcoming grand opening of his dude ranch or it will all be for nothing.

Lindy likes to be in charge, she likes order and structure. Everything Wyatt is not. Working with him is going to test her patience in more ways than one. Now if she can only stop thinking about ripping his clothes off that’d be great.

Wyatt treats Lindy like a kid with a crush, teasing her and proverbially pulling her pigtails. He makes and effort to call her Melinda, because no one else does. He finds the verbal sparring keeps his mind off of wanting to kiss her senseless. He has to stay focused on saving the ranch.

Lindy and Wyatt dance around their attraction like a Friday night hoedown but will they find out they work better as a team, in all areas of their relationship?

As with most of the books I’ve read by Maisey Yates, Good Time Cowboy makes me want to move to Gold Valley and find these families. Ms. Yates writes such realistic characters that you can’t help but feel every part of the story as if you were side by side in the thick of things. I received a copy of this story without expectation for review. Any and all opinions expressed are my own.

[Mitsubachi · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's a reason I keep reading this books: I know exactly what I get. Even if it's not a very exciting story, sometimes that's all you want. No surprises. No bad endings. Just knowing what you get.

This is the book about a hard, rough cowboy, who meets a soft, squishy woman he had a moment of attraction with at one point in life, sooner or later. By chance the two of them get to have hot no-strings attached sex and from there on the problems only being.

All the books are build up the same way in this series, no matter if Gold Valley 1, 2, 3, 4, 1.5, 2.5. I've read them all, they are all the same. They are all the same kind of enjoyable. It's not a bad thing, it just makes me wonder why there is nothing to spice things up? Make one of the Cowboys completely different, not a manwhore who knows he's sexy but can't help and fall for the main lead. Not a proper girl, who has hardly been touched by other men. Just saying, it could be that simple!

But yes, this book was just as good as the others. The sex scenes were enjoyable, I liked the characters as I liked the ones before and I enjoy having characters from the other books pop up and get involved. This is why I keep reading the books, too. I like the world that has been built here and the writing is good enough for me. This is my guilty pleasure and nothing can take that away from me. I hope there will be many more books to come and I will definitely check out other series by Maisey Yates.

Do read if you want to have a quick, hot romance story with too many happy perfect endings and guys that turn from hardboiled cowboy into sensitive Shakespeare. Do not read if you expect some world changing view or message from these books. These are simply here to feed a girls fantasy of a strong, hot guy who is able to give her everything she needs. If you need that, dive right into it!

[Christi Snow · Rating 5 out of 5]

My Review:
Enemies to lovers...at least that's what this book seems like on the surface, but these two MC's have been fighting more than each other for a long time...and that little twist added so much to this story. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to watch these two work toward their HEA.

So far, I've enjoyed this entire series, but I think that Wyatt and Lindy have been my favorite couple so far. I like the partnership they've formed although neither one is sure about working with the other. My heart hurt for Lindy in just how worried she is about other people's vision of her. She's been hurt so much over the years and is still so strong in the face of adversity. I LOVED where she ended up with her ex, and liked that she was so strong that even he couldn't fault her for what she's earned.

I wanted to kick Wyatt a few times. He's just so dang stubborn, but like how he truly begins to see Lindy. I hated the secrets he's keeping from his brothers and wanted him to tell off his father in the worst way. He's also been through so much and it's frustrating to see everyone including his brothers talk down to him when he's trying so hard.

Like I said, I really liked this one. The chemistry between the two was fantastic. I liked watching their relationship evolve and grow as they began to truly get to know one another.

I definitely recommend this one and the entire series. This has been a great one!

I received a complimentary copy of this book in return for an honest and voluntary review.

[Diane (Books and Tequila Blog) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good time cowboy is the third book in the Gold Valley Series. The stories are interconnected but it can be read as a standalone.

Lindy is trying to prove herself and running the vineyard that she claimed after her recent divorce. She has a long way to go and first had to believe in herself before she can make others believe in her.

“Some people have beautiful things. Some people have beautiful lives. Some people don’t. And when you’ve lived an entire life of dirty and ugly it’s hard to imagine you could ever have anything else. That you could ever deserve anything else.”

Wyatt has crushed on Lindy since the first time he saw her across a crowded bar. He immediately found out she was not only taken, but the wife of a rodeo friend. Now Lindy is free and they have to work together, but Wyatt is not looking for more than a fling.

Author Maisey Yates has become my go-to for hot cowboy stories with real emotional depth.
-4Stars!-

[Donna Repsher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good Time Cowboy is the third novel in Maisey Yates' Gold Valley series, and if there's one thing about her novels, it's that they grab you and don't let go until the final page--in my case, I got to that last page at 5:00 a.m., and this novel gets 4.5 stars from this sleep-deprived reader.

The main characters in this novel are Lindy Parker, who owns and operates the winery and vineyard that one belonged to her cheating ex-husband, Damien, whom she divorced 2 years earlier after discovering that he was cheating on her. She got the winery, vineyard and lavish home in the divorce, leaving some of the Gold Valley residents and Damien and his family thinking she was a trailer trash gold-digger who married Damien for his money. Well, she did grow up in a run-down trailer park, and during her ten year marriage, she worked hard on becoming someone that fit well into the rarefied social set she'd married into. She worked like mad to make the winery a success, her ex couldn't have cared less about it during their marriage, and she polished her image into that of a cool, sophisticated, well-dressed, in-control, and successful business owner. But there was one person who made her lose her cool, from the moment their eyes met across a crowded bar and his name is Wyatt Dodge, former bull rider, friend of her ex-husband, and currently trying to restore the failing Get Out of Dodge ranch into a stylish, successful and profitable destination dude ranch.

Before and more so after the divorce, Lindy has put all her energies into improving the local business community, and has teamed up with the Dodge ranch and other local businesses to make Gold Valley a vacation destination, not unlike nearby Copper Ridge, the location of the author's previous and excellent series. Wyatt has his own issues, his father is the primary one. When his father gave up on the ranch, he gave Wyatt an ultimatum--turn the ranch into a success within a year or lose it. His father would just as soon sell the ranch out from under him and his siblings and split the money between them, but the ranch is something Wyatt put all his rodeo winnings into, keeping it afloat and providing for his siblings, and he's not about to have his father take it away simply because his father didn't like his career choice. There are also secrets to be revealed about Wyatt, and why he left the ranch at the age of seventeen, but I'll let you discover what those reasons are rather than explain them here.

Wyatt and Lindy couldn't be more different in personality, outlook or behavior. Handsome-as-sin, Wyatt's style has always been that of an easy-going, sexy, charming, and commitment-free bull rider/cowboy. Lindy, on the other hand, is as straitlaced and buttoned-up as a woman can be. She's not dated since her divorce and her ex is the only man she's ever been with before, during and after the divorce. Lindy can't see herself ever allowing herself to trust another man enough to commit to him, but her ire and dislike of Wyatt's love 'em and leave 'em lifestyle and reputation doesn't mean she's oblivious to his gorgeous looks, strength and sex appeal.

Since the day Wyatt set eyes on Lindy for the first time he was strongly attracted to her, but once his friend, Damien, introduced them and made it clear that she was his, Wyatt backed off and respected Damien and Lindy's relationship, but the attraction between Wyatt and Lindy managed to survive her 10 year marriage and divorce, and now that he and Lindy are working together, Wyatt finally has his chance to pursue the sexual relationship he's always wanted with her. The only thing that bothered me, and the reason this novel didn't get a 5-star rating was my difficulty in understanding what, besides her looks, Wyatt saw in Lindy. I had a tough time warming up to the uptight, straitlaced, cold and standoffish Lindy, and I actively disliked her personality and persona for the first half of this novel. But, like Wyatt, Lindy has some secrets of her own, and once they are revealed she became a much easier character to warm up to and understand.

Like every other Maisey Yates novel I've read, Good Time Cowboy is about much more than your average cowboy, enemies-to-lovers romance. There's a lot of depth to this novel as well as character development, backstory, and enough angst for a least a dozen novels, and while I felt that the build-up was a bit slow, the wait was so worth it, because Ms. Yates delved deep into what made her characters the people they were, how they were hurt by their own lives and upbringing, past and present, and what they each needed from the other. While there isn't much in the way of action in this novel, what there is in abundance is a deep and profound understanding of the human psyche, the true nature of what makes a marriage work, and an honest and adept appraisal of her own characters, and when in comes to that kind of depth, Ms. Yates has few peers.

As I stated at the outset, this was an impossible to put down read, even though it took me some time to warm up to the heroine. It was certainly hot and sexy, but also deeply moving, and I loved its HEA ending, and I think you will too. While this novel works just fine as a standalone, I will suggest that reading this series in the order in which it was written will make it easier for you to understand the secondary characters and the complex relationships between those characters. Kudos to the amazingly talented Maisey Yates for writing yet another addictive and emotional read.

I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions expressed are my own.

[carinthelibrarian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sometimes I read a book because of my library patrons. This is the case here. I have a patron who orders about ten of these a week and I’m amazed at how fast she flies through them. I thought maybe I would give one a try just to see what she was so obsessed with.
I love a good romance book don’t get me wrong. But these are like the sexy version of a hallmark movie where everyone is good looking and falls in love after one week. Are ALL cowboys that sexy with six pack abs and an ass that could kill? Like in one town? ALL the men are sexy?!
Curiosity fulfilled I don’t need to read anymore. But if I want a good steamy romance involving a cowboy I know where to look.

[Sascha · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you're looking for an intelligent read with all of the feels, check out Good Time Cowboy by Maisey Yates, the latest entry in the Gold Valley series.

In the previous two novels, it was apparent that Wyatt and Lindy were going to come together at some point. They seemed literally combustible, rubbing each other the wrong way, exchanging barbs.


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[Sigrid · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have become a huge fan of Maisey Yates over the last year and this book is one of my favorites from her. This is definitely a must read!

[Kathy Mickiewicz · Rating 5 out of 5]

GOOD!

[Alissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5* This was my favorite in the series so far! :-)

[Danielle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was completely blown away with this book. It was just so much more amazing than I thought it was going to be from page one all the way to the last line in the epilogue. It was kind of funny because out of all the setup couples that were expected to be part of this series that I heard about last year when Maisey Yates was talking about this new series, Lindy and Wyatt were not on my top couples that I was looking forward to the most. To be honest I was more looking forward to Bennett and Kaylee story more especially with that being a friends to lovers story, and it wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy Bennett and Kaylee’s story because I did, it was just that this story blew it out of the water for me. Perhaps because I was anticipating it as much as the other characters in this series so I didn’t know what I was getting into until I got into. I will say my intrigue with couple until the end of Untamed Cowboy where there was some interesting tension between Lindy and Wyatt and the fact that they were reluctantly working together then my interest peaked a bit, but never thought it would surpass the first two books in this series.

Lindy and Wyatt just had this spark to them immediately as soon as the story too off. They had this wild sexual tension between them that was really, really hot and beyond steamy, and just the way they related to each other was really entertaining. They had this sexy banter back and forth where they teased each other back and forth, which was really funny but also set the pages on fire with their innuendos. They just really got under each other skin in the best way possible. I love the fact that Wyatt full out admitted that he liked irritating Lindy and really liked getting under her skin, and he did so many, many times, which just made for an even more entertaining story that I loved.

But beyond that sexy banter and teasing going on, there was something more to them that that, which was covered up by all the teasing and banter. They had this insane connection from moment they met five years ago, and had been really sparking ever since. It was only due to the fact that she was married to his friend and they had some emotional issues that kept them blocked away from each other. So their attraction had been building and developing for quite awhile and never really lessened. They really had this pull to each other that they kept denying even when she got divorced from her cheating ex and kept them apart, but that didn’t stop their force to each other to grow and grow. If anything it got stronger and would not let up for a second, though they kept denying each other what they both wanted for years and years until finally they gave into their passions, So there was quite a bit of angst there, which I loved.

They were on fire in the bedroom when they finally decided to have a no-strings physical affair only. They set the pages ablaze when everything just came out and they went for it. That was due to the fact that they had been denying for so long what they truly wanted which was each other. Their first time scene was very passionate at them finally giving into temptation and was very much about the tension between them getting released finally. It was a hot one, for sure. The second time scene was just as passionate, but it was different because Wyatt was trying to prove that this was only a physical thing and that emotions weren’t in play when in fact they were. So it was a very base scene in the beginning but quickly became about their connection and needing one another. The last love scene, which was my absolute favorite in the book was just one of the most beautiful and poignant love scenes that I have read. It was romantic. It was sensual. It was very emotional. It was sexy, and just full of meaning as they took plunge into some deeper than anything they had experience before. It was beautiful written, and it showed both characters bending stripped back and raw, showing of their true selves without any barriers between them. They could be themselves in that moment. The showed their weaknesses to each other and only by being together in the most intimate way possible could they become stronger and better selves than they had ever been before. It was a transformative experience for both of them, and it was Lindy who initiated where before Wyatt was the to be the one to initiate. So it was a meaningful scene on so many levels because it was finally the moment where Lindy was ready to let go and let him see everything of her including her love for him and just be herself, and it was beautiful. Amazing.

And the emotional storyline between them as a couple and individuals were a doozy. It was one whopper of punch let me tell you. As they both acknowledged, they were a little messed up from what happened in their past, and it was only because of their love that they could move on from these issues and create a happiness for themselves in a healthier way both as individuals and as a couple. Again very beautiful sentiment. Them being together was healing and I loved how being with each other made them stronger and better, healthier people in the end. And I love love stories that due to that, and it just makes for a satisfying ending, which was the case in this story as well.

Lindy and Wyatt had to deal with massive hurts in their past. Lindy had to deal with her marriage ending and her ex’s cheating, but also acknowledging she was at fault too because she never showed her ex her true self and even acted like the perfect wife to please him, something that was not healthy. And also she did pull away from her ex too not that it made what he did was right but it happened. Plus she had issues of her own worth and having grown up in the trailer park when she met her ex. So, she had a full plate of emotional issues to contend with, and Wyatt broke that down when she was with him, which scared her and was the reason she didn’t act on her attraction for him. She couldn’t pretend with him. He saw her for who truly was not the facade she presented to the world. While Wyatt had to contend with the fact that he felt everyone that he loved was taking from him from the time his mother’s death. His father didn’t deal well with the loss of his wife and relied heavily on Wyatt to be the man of the family because he couldn’t deal with his pain along with Wyatt’s as well so he tended to bruh it aside. And that hurt Wyatt in the end because he felt so much loss and pain over the death of his mother, he just wanted comfort from his father and just didn’t get it. Not at all and he needed it. This caused a great amount of resentment towards his father and caused him to make not the best decisions in life. It also caused him to put up walls just like Lindy did and pretend her didn’t care and just become this carefree guy. He didn’t want to feel love or give love because he couldn’t take the loss again. That what made Lindy and Wyatt work because they understood in a way the no others could because if they went through different things the result was the same and that was building up walls around themselves and not allowing anyone to get to close to them and create that intimacy that they wanted yet were afraid to get because of fear of rejection or just loss. And that was what made their love story beautiful to see them come together for each other.

The secondary characters were nice to see make appearances here and there. It showed some of the ones that got their happily ever after already and catch up on what they were doing with their happiness and significant others while the other ones, which have been in the series as well, had little teases of what could be in store for their books down the line. I have to say, and I have said this before, that I am even more anxious for Bea and Dane’s book after this one. I thought I couldn’t be more hyped for the book, but with each one that goes by I get more hyped. I can’t believe I have wait until April 2019 for that one. I can’t wait especially after this one. The tease that Bea was totally in love with Dane and others knowing about it and trying to protect her from that believing that Dane would never feel the same way about her, though I think Bea had a little inkling especially with that scene in the hospital. To add to the spin of it all was the fact that Dane got severely injured in this book and the possible complications because of that upcoming and that Bea sat by his bedside when he was in the coma just so much setup there already I can barely stand it. I wish that was the next book in this series instead of Grant. There so much already and I can’t wait to see what’s to come for Bea and Dane. I’m sure there’s is going to be a juicy one.

I can’t say nothing but good things about this book. I wouldn’t change a single thing. Everything was perfect. It flowed perfectly. The development between Lindy and Wyatt was spot on. There was great sexual tension between them. Highly passionate scene that showed off not only the physical connection they had but the emotional one too. They had that sexy banter that just was beyond entertaining. The spark from the immediate get go, and it didn’t stop, which was amazing. I loved that they had a backstory to them, and that this thing between them had been building and building from the moment they met. I loved Lindy and Wyatt so much more than I thought I was going to. The story was very emotional intense as was the love story attached to it. This book was about healing and overcoming emotional obstacles but be rewarded with a fulfilling and sustaining love that will last a lifetime. It was just beautiful love story between two broken people that healed through the power of love, and I absolutely loved that. I will be rereading this one again and again for sure.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 Good Time Stars!!

“This thing between us…I don’t know what the hell it is. If I kiss you right now, if you kissed me back…I think we would light this whole vineyard on fire. All those pine trees would go up like a lit match and dry tinder. We’d start a whole forest fire, baby. I don’t want to give you a gift. I want to burn out this thing between us until there’s nothing left but ashes. Ashes aren’t a gift. They’re evidence of destruction. That’s what I think might happen if we touch. That we may well ruin everything around us, but it might be worth it.”

Good Time Cowboy is the perfect read for a hot summer day…

Good Time Cowboy is the third book in the Gold Valley Series, but it can be read and enjoyed as a stand-alone novel. Good Time Cowboy follows the story of Wyatt and Lindy. Lindy is trying to move on from the divorce of her husband. While she may have lost his lying, cheating self; Lindy gained his family and the vineyard. There’s nothing Lindy won’t do to see the vineyard succeed. And if she has to team up with her ex’s bff, then she’ll do just that…Wyatt is everything Lindy shouldn’t want, but can’t stay away from. He’s her total opposite. And even though these two should stay away from one another the fire between them is just to hot to let burn out…

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I loved the writing and the story-line sucked me in. I really enjoyed Lindy and Wyatt together. I thought they had great banter and I loved their chemistry. Their story had just the right mix of steam and drama. I enjoyed watching Wyatt and Lindy navigate their way to a happily ever after and I couldn’t put their story down. Good Time Cowboy is the perfect read to spend the day getting lost in. Oh, and there’s a bonus novella at the end that was a fun little treat.

*I was provided an ARC copy of this book via the publisher & NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review*

[Books and Spoons · Rating 5 out of 5]

With the perfect balance of fun banter and humor, deep emotions and life lesson and passionate romance the Good Time Cowboy shoots straight into the hearts of the readers and takes a fast hold. I absolutely adored this story, each moment of it, bringing up all the feels and emotions to the surface.
Lindy Parker and Wyatt Dodge have one of those connections that is tangible sizzling each time they just think of the other. The energy and attraction between them are palpable, undeniable, and fervent. They get each other, they recognize in the other the past hurt, disappointments, and heartache. There are moments between them that had me swooning hard and moments that brought tears to my eyes, there is an a-ha moment with Lindy that just blew me away, one of my favorite scenes in a book maybe ever. It just raddled me to the core.
The family drama is heartbreaking. How the parents' choices shaped their children's lives even after childhood was long behind them, and still affected their decision making and even their happiness, was an eye-opening moment, so realistic and revealing.
I have yet to read a book by the author that wouldn't have had me completely enamored. Maisey Yates writes about life and relationship in a way that readers all over the world can relate to the stories and reflect on them. She mixes deep emotions, life's struggles, humor, and romance in a perfect balance, always delivering the goods, leaving readers long for the next book. Thankfully, the wait is never that long.
Good Time Cowboy was one of those stories that I have eagerly anticipated, and Lindy and Wyatt, they won my heart over ten-fold while they entertained and had me alternately laughing, swooning, and in tears holding my breath waiting to exhale. Absolutely a marvelous tale, just like all the other books in the series.
~ Five Spoons!

[Marlene · Rating 4 out of 5]

Originally published at Reading Reality

Maisey Yates is the cowgirl queen of the angsty western romance. What I love about her books is that the difficulties that get in the way of the happy ever afters between her characters always feel real and never contrived. There are no misunderstandammits, just interesting people with too much baggage who get in the way of their own happiness by being human but not by being stupid.

That’s been the story through the Gold Valley series and through the series it spun off from, Copper Ridge. The two small towns are neighbors in Oregon. Their fates are tied, and so are the people who live there. The individual books in each series do stand alone, but it is fun to read them all and get to know the entire gang.

The Gold Valley series has been featuring the Dodge family as they get their once-and-future destination ranch back into shape for a new generation of both Dodges and tourists. In this third book in the series, we finally get around to oldest brother Wyatt Dodge. I say finally because Wyatt is the prime mover and shaker behind this resurrection of the family ranch, so the story so far has circled around him even though he hasn’t been the featured player until now.

There’s angst in this romance on both sides of the equation. Wyatt is keeping a big secret from his sister and brothers. They are all (except local vet Bennett Dodge, see Untamed Cowboy) throwing not just their money but also their time, energy and hearts into getting Get Out of Dodge Ranch back into shape. They all think Wyatt owns the ranch, but he doesn’t. Their dad still owns the ranch, and if the ranch doesn’t succeed immediately after its grand re-opening, dad is going to sell it out from under all of them.

Wyatt is sure that dear old dad is punishing him for his long past sins, not that there weren’t plenty of them. But Wyatt is all in, he can’t resist a challenge and he isn’t willing to let his sister and his brothers down – no matter how willing he might be to tell their father to go to hell and not bother with the handcart.

Wyatt is so far in that he’s willing to partner with the one woman in town who has proven completely resistant to his charms. Lindy Parker is the one woman he has never managed to get out of his head, even if, or perhaps especially because, he’s never managed to get her into his bed.

Lindy, the current owner of Grassroots Winery, wants to make the winery a success to spite her ex-husband and ex-inlaws. She got the winery in her divorce from her cheating ex. As much as she doesn’t want to work with Wyatt – because he drives her crazy for reasons she can’t articulate even to herself, having the winery partner with the ranch makes good business sense even if it makes lousy personal sense.

Lindy’s been divorced for two years, which is just long enough for her to be able to start getting a much clearer picture in her own mind of the truth about not just her marriage but about her part of what went wrong. And about the twists and turns in her life that have brought her to the place she is now.

And that if she wants her own happy ever after, with or without any man in general or surprisingly Wyatt Dodge in particular, she needs to drop her own baggage, get her head out of her own ass and finally get out of her own way.

Even if Wyatt isn’t ready to get out of his.

Escape Rating B+: Unlike many of the previous books in this series (and Copper Ridge) this doesn’t feel like it really follows any of the familiar tropes. Wyatt and Lindy initially are far from friends. At the same time, they are not enemies, or even frenemies. While it becomes clear that they have both always been way more aware of each other than either of them was willing to let on, the relationship they actually have had doesn’t fit into any neat little boxes.

What it does remind me of is the French phrase that is usually translated as “love at first sight”. But love at first sight is not what they have. What happened to them at the very beginning, back when Lindy was still married to her cheating ex and Wyatt was still a champion bull rider on the rodeo circuit, feels more like the literal translation of that French phrase. Their first meeting was a “coup de foudre” or thunderbolt, that left scorched earth in its wake. And it’s the sudden intensity of that first meeting that neither of them has ever gotten past – no matter how much time they’ve both spent paddling that famous river, De Nial.

Their business partnership has forced Wyatt and Lindy into each other’s proximity on an uncomfortably frequent basis – and that original thunderbolt still has plenty of sparks left in it. There’s a big problem, with sticking your finger in a light socket over and over – electricity hurts.

Both Wyatt and Lindy have become experts at keeping other people away from their true, core selves, and are very good and not letting themselves need other people, because both of their foundational experiences, although very different in their particulars, made them learn back when they were children that they had no one to rely on but themselves. Other people always let them down.

That’s a hard lesson for a child to learn, and it leaves scars that affect adult relationships. Wyatt feels like he has to shoulder the entire burden of their father’s demands alone, that he can’t let his siblings know their futures are riding on the grand opening.

Lindy feels like she can’t ever let her uber-calm, ultra professional ice princess ever falter, because she’s certain that people will judge her for upbringing and her choices. And while she’s right, they will judge, she needs to learn that it doesn’t have to matter. Not being her authentic self is her part of what broke her marriage, and her inability to be her real self keeps her from relationships, including one with her brother.

And both of them have things they need to forgive, both to forgive themselves, and to forgive others. Those are hard lessons to learn, and painful ones. But ultimately freeing.

Also totally real. And that’s what makes Maisey Yates’ angsty romances so terrific to read! Speaking of angst, the next book in the Gold Valley series is going to be chock-full of it. I can’t wait to read Grant Dodge’s story in A Tall, Dark Cowboy Christmas this fall.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lindy caught her ex cheating on her and when they separated she was left the vineyard. Now she's getting help from his friend Wyatt who's a Rancher. Wyatt secretly had some feelings towards Lindy but had self control enough to keep his distance. Both have baggages and don't want the hassle of relationships but they both seem to have come up with an agreement they both might enjoy. If only they could keep their heart out of it.

I really enjoyed this Western contemporary thought it was such an enjoyable read. I love Wyatt and Lindy's character and getting to know them over the course of the book. I thought it was interesting seeing how they dealt with their past (or didn't) and how they were working to better themselves in this book. They were such a hard-working people and refused to let old baggage get them down. I love getting the dual point of view seeing what was really going on in their mind. Overall it was a really good luck I really enjoyed it. I also enjoyed the novella it was a nice little addition. Highly recommend.

[Jessi · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first two books in this series introduced Lindy Parker. She owns the local vineyard having gained ownership when her former husband cheated on her. While many townspeople think of her as a gold digger (she grew up on the "wrong" side of town), his sisters have stuck with her. Also sticking with her, at least in one sense, her ex's best friend, Wyatt Dodge.

Wyatt was struck by Lindy's beauty the first time he saw her. But she was his best friend's wife. His former best friend. Now Wyatt and Lindy are trying to work together to boost both their businesses. Too bad Wyatt doesn't actually own the family ranch. Especially bad since his father is holding it over his head. So much going on in his life and now... he and Lindy seem to be getting closer personally.
I think regular Yates readers will be pleased. I was a little disappointed by the book being somewhat repetitive. It could have been about 30 pages less and a pleasurable read.

[Kari · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good Time Cowboy is the third book in the Gold Valley series. It's also the first one that I have read. It did hold up fairly well as a stand alone as I never felt lost. This is Lindy and Wyatt's story. For me, this ended up just being an OK read. I wanted to love it, but I didn't. I did like the two main characters. Their banter was fun and you could tell they had chemistry with each other. They both bring some major baggage to the table. What took away from my enjoyment of the book was the pacing. It was really slow and repetitive. I got tired of hearing about Lindy and her hang up of still feeling like she has to prove herself. There were long section of inner dialogue that happened in the middle of a conversation and even during a love scene. It really slowed the pace and sometimes made me loose the chain of conversation. It wasn't a bad story, it just could have been shorter.