I can’t in good conscience recommend this book. At QualiTea Books we pride ourselves in always sharing books that have a happily ever after and we cannot guarantee that with this book. We have enjoyed Lacy Williams books in the past, in fact our favorite being the 1st generation book of this series and parents of the princess in this book. We gave Once Upon a Cowboy five stars mainly because of the beautiful happy ending it had, only to discover in this book that they did not have a HEA. It is heartbreaking to read a book and love the characters and then think the rest of the series will provide that same joy only to read this book and discover that is not true.
I am very surprised by all the positive reviews because I figured more people would be upset by this ending for the first book in this series. If you have read the first ten books in the series, stop there! Those have happy endings that will bring you joy. I would not recommend you continue the series or read this book because it casts a negative view on the rest of the series.