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Gold Valley #11.5
Solid Gold Cowboy
He’s witnessed all of Gold Valley’s happy-ever-afters—is it finally time for this cowboy to claim his own?
As owner of Gold Valley’s bar, Laz Jenkins has had a ringside seat to all of the town’s drama. He’s poured drinks for, and given advice to, almost every cowboy in town—he knows everyone’s secrets. But no one realizes he’s hiding a secret of his own. Laz has been in love, for years, with his best friend, Jordan. Which means he’s definitely not going to her wedding. But when Jordan shows up in his bar in her wedding dress, very much not married, suddenly all bets are off.
Jordan appreciates the irony that she, a woman with insomnia, almost sleepwalked into a marriage she didn’t want. But this runaway bride is facing the fact that she needs a new place to stay, and fast. When Laz offers support, and his house to sleep at, she agrees. Except suddenly she’s not thinking of Laz as a friend, but as someone much more intense…and irresistible! He’s always been totally off-limits, but is their chemistry fierce enough to burn through every one of their reservations?
As owner of Gold Valley’s bar, Laz Jenkins has had a ringside seat to all of the town’s drama. He’s poured drinks for, and given advice to, almost every cowboy in town—he knows everyone’s secrets. But no one realizes he’s hiding a secret of his own. Laz has been in love, for years, with his best friend, Jordan. Which means he’s definitely not going to her wedding. But when Jordan shows up in his bar in her wedding dress, very much not married, suddenly all bets are off.
Jordan appreciates the irony that she, a woman with insomnia, almost sleepwalked into a marriage she didn’t want. But this runaway bride is facing the fact that she needs a new place to stay, and fast. When Laz offers support, and his house to sleep at, she agrees. Except suddenly she’s not thinking of Laz as a friend, but as someone much more intense…and irresistible! He’s always been totally off-limits, but is their chemistry fierce enough to burn through every one of their reservations?
59 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 1, 2021
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About the author
Maisey Yates
1,163 books3,001 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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April 19, 2022
This was a bonus story included with my edition of The Heartbreaker of Echo Pass. Laz is a guy who's always been working at his bar and helping out most of the guys in the Gold Valley series with giving them relationship advice. It was a quick and sweet read story about him and Jordan. A girl he always admired from afar. And it was fun to see the "guy in the back" get the girl this time!
December 10, 2021
This is a Very Short Novella Friends to Lovers Cowboy Romance, and this is the 11.5 book in the Gold Valley series. I have read and reviewed all the other books in the Gold Valley series. Gold Valley series is one of my favorite series which is why I picked this book up. I have to say I wanted more for this book. I felt this book was to short. By the time I started to like the characters it was the end of the book. The story in this book was ok, but I think it could have been great if it was a little bit longer. I think the whole book was 59 pages long.
July 19, 2021
3.5 Stars
Short story at the end of The Heartbreaker of Echo Pass. Laz (bar tender/owner) has been a secondary character for so long it was nice to see him get a romance!
Short story at the end of The Heartbreaker of Echo Pass. Laz (bar tender/owner) has been a secondary character for so long it was nice to see him get a romance!
July 16, 2021
Solid Gold Cowboy is a novella included in the massmarket paperback of Gold Valley #12. Very short but despite the romance being very quick, I believed in Laz and Jordan's love story (maybe because they already knew each other?). I also enjoyed the use flashback to made us know how they met and a bit about their friendship and her life's story.
Insomniac nights often leaded her to his bar. It's also where she went when she left the church after changing her mind on marrying her long-time fiancé. And that's how Jordan become Laz roommate and he finally tell her why he never gave her advices about her love life while playing matchmakers with everyone else in town.
Insomniac nights often leaded her to his bar. It's also where she went when she left the church after changing her mind on marrying her long-time fiancé. And that's how Jordan become Laz roommate and he finally tell her why he never gave her advices about her love life while playing matchmakers with everyone else in town.
July 26, 2021
Oh man. Laz has been such a fixture in this series and I had been hoping he would get his book. Sadly, the novella didn’t capture it for me.
I liked Jordan and I’ve really enjoyed seeing Laz cameos in the other books. Together they’re supposed to be best friends, but it seemed like they didn’t spend a lot of time together. Sure, they had deep conversations in the middle of the night, but it felt like a secret rather than a public friendship.
Plot wise, it’s a novella, so it moved way faster than I would have liked. I wanted more build up of the romance between them, more conversations, more of an HEA, just…more.
Overall, I did like seeing Laz get his HEA, but this won’t be a story I go back to read again.
I liked Jordan and I’ve really enjoyed seeing Laz cameos in the other books. Together they’re supposed to be best friends, but it seemed like they didn’t spend a lot of time together. Sure, they had deep conversations in the middle of the night, but it felt like a secret rather than a public friendship.
Plot wise, it’s a novella, so it moved way faster than I would have liked. I wanted more build up of the romance between them, more conversations, more of an HEA, just…more.
Overall, I did like seeing Laz get his HEA, but this won’t be a story I go back to read again.
June 3, 2021
Solid Gold Cowboy by Maisey Yates is a rather short novella featuring Laz Jenkins, owner and bartender at the local bar on Main Street in the town I've come to know rather well through Ms. Yates entire and addictive Gold Valley series. While I tend shy away from novellas because I prefer longer novels, there was no chance I'd miss reading one by this talented author, and although it easily could have been expanded to full-length, Ms. Yates managed to pack a lot into this moving and heartfelt novella, and it earned a 5-star rating from this reader.
Laz is unattached and likes it that way, listening to his customer's troubles and dispensing sage advice on love to his clientele when needed. He owns a small ranch, inherited from his late and beloved grandmother, and seems to be happy with his life as it is--with one exception, Jordan, an insomniac who on occasion manages to arrive at his bar just after last call. They've become best friends over the years, with Jordan telling Laz her troubles, from her insomnia, to her addicted parents who tossed her out of their trailer at age 16 to make her way alone in the world, to her 12-year relationship with her live-in fiancé, Dylan, a normal guy with what Jordan believes is a normal family--something she's craved all her life.
Jordan knows that Dylan's family doesn't really approve of her trailer trash beginnings, but they have treated her well, and appear to have accepted her relationship with their son, but that's about to change, when Jordan shows up at the bar, wearing her wedding gown, long after her wedding was supposed to take place, and when she's supposed to be on plane with her new husband en route to their honeymoon, and the relationship between Laz and Jordan is about to change in a major way.
I love a good second chance romance, and Maisey Yates has delivered a real gem in Solid Gold Cowboy. Her characters have real depth, are certainly sympathetic both to one another and to the reader, with just enough attitude, personality, angst, self-knowledge, and sexual chemistry to make
me wish that this was full-length novel, but regardless of the brevity of this book, it was well worth reading and is a wonderful addition to this series.
Laz is unattached and likes it that way, listening to his customer's troubles and dispensing sage advice on love to his clientele when needed. He owns a small ranch, inherited from his late and beloved grandmother, and seems to be happy with his life as it is--with one exception, Jordan, an insomniac who on occasion manages to arrive at his bar just after last call. They've become best friends over the years, with Jordan telling Laz her troubles, from her insomnia, to her addicted parents who tossed her out of their trailer at age 16 to make her way alone in the world, to her 12-year relationship with her live-in fiancé, Dylan, a normal guy with what Jordan believes is a normal family--something she's craved all her life.
Jordan knows that Dylan's family doesn't really approve of her trailer trash beginnings, but they have treated her well, and appear to have accepted her relationship with their son, but that's about to change, when Jordan shows up at the bar, wearing her wedding gown, long after her wedding was supposed to take place, and when she's supposed to be on plane with her new husband en route to their honeymoon, and the relationship between Laz and Jordan is about to change in a major way.
I love a good second chance romance, and Maisey Yates has delivered a real gem in Solid Gold Cowboy. Her characters have real depth, are certainly sympathetic both to one another and to the reader, with just enough attitude, personality, angst, self-knowledge, and sexual chemistry to make
me wish that this was full-length novel, but regardless of the brevity of this book, it was well worth reading and is a wonderful addition to this series.
April 8, 2023
I have loved each one of the books from this series….GiddyUp cowboy!
July 7, 2021
Initial thoughts: It was too short and unmemorable. There was nothing special about it.
Major Plot spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk
ONCE AGAIN MAJOR PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD, THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING
I hate that I am writing this review especially surrounding a Maisey Yates story, but this one just didn’t connect with me. I wasn’t invested in the outcome at all, which I wasn’t expecting especially since this was about bartender Laz, who I was hoping to get his own story sometime. Unfortunately it wasn’t what I was wanting for his story. I wanted a lot more than I got.
Now, this was a novella so that might have been the biggest reason why this was a disappointed. Yes, going into it I did know that this was going to be novella, but I thought with it being about Laz that it would have benefited since I have seen appearances in several books in the Gold Valley series, but it didn’t really help. The pace was too quick, and there was a severely lack of build up between Jordan and Laz romance before they got their HEA in the end. It had to been done that way because it was a novella, however that was a detriment because I wasn’t invested in the romance due to lack of build up and pacing. It was like over a flash in the plan. Yes, their romance was building up over the course of ten years, but there were only little snippets here and there of their past, which was meant to be part of relationship development. But having those little snippets in there didn’t help. In fact they were very jarring whenever they came on the page because it took me out of the action of what presently was happening. There were just so many of them. I get the purpose for them, but it didn’t work flow wise. It was very distracting to have them in there.
Though I did appreciate that this was a friends to lovers story, it didn’t quite feel like the typical friends to lovers that I tend to really enjoy. First off all, several times during the course of the story they referred to each other as best friends. I wouldn’t have classified them as best friends or even friends in general. They only spent time together after the bar closed when Laz was finished work. They never hung out passed those parameters. Yes, they had some deep conversations with one another about things and provided comfort to one another, but that was the extent of their relationship. There were things they didn’t even know about each other that friends should know about each other. It wasn’t the scars and underlying things beneath the surface either. It was some basic things. So, I kind question the deepness of their relationship, which would have lead them to fall in love with each other. There wasn’t enough evidence on the page to suggest that.
I didn’t not care for Jordan’s storyline. I understood why she felt she had to marry another man and ignore her attraction to Laz, but. I didn’t like it. I think if more of her psyche was explored more in detail, instead of the little snippets that were in this novella I might have had more sympathy, but it just jive for me of the reason she gave for being with her ex for so long. I hate to say it but made me really not like her at all because of that. Then the quick turnaround that happened without showing any growth or development to get that change was just very strange. It didn’t feel realistic at all. Yes, it took her ten years years to get there, but it didn’t feel that in a novella format.
Their romance was just not for me on so many levels. It was just way too rushed. There was a lack of buildup even though this had been building for ten years. I didn’t feel that build up personally. Even though he had wanted her ten years and same for her, I didn’t feel that angst or denial feature that I would have expected from all those years of them not being together but wanting to be. Not like Sammy and Ryder’s story in the Gold Valley series where the longing could be felt so hard and gut wrenching. That was what I was wanting here and just didn’t get. It was just really hard to connect to them as a couple. There was a lack of romance I felt between the two of them. I was little iffy if even worked as a couple. It was not the romance for me.
My favorite part of the whole thing was when Ryder, Logan, and West showed up at the end at the bar talking to Laz. It just put a smile on my face as the brothers in laws jabbed each other with like digs here and there. I loved seeing their friendship and camaraderie on the page. It reminded of why I loved their stories so much and made me want to reread them again to relive all the ups and downs their romances had over the course of the series. It made me want more of them, which luckily was shown in The Heartbreaker of Echo Pass and hopefully will be shown more in the next two installments. I love seeing this family grown and find love after that tragedies they faced in their lives. I also loved the advice that they gave to Laz after Laz gave them advice in their own romances, which felt like a nice full circle moment for them.
Overall even though I love Maisey Yates and what she was trying to do in this novella, this just wasn’t favorite romance written by her. It was very not memorable. There was nothing special about it. It didn’t give me the feels even despite there were some sad parts due to Jordan’s background. The romance was just was just okay. There wasn’t much to it. Yes, it had been building for the past ten years, but I didn’t feel that longing or angst like I was expecting especially after the denial of want between these two for so long. I didn’t like the little snippets from the past just thrown in there to show development of their friendship. It was more distracting than adding anything to the romance. I wasn’t a fan of Jordan either so it was hard to root for her romance with Laz. It was just an okay story. It was nothing to really write home to about. I probably will not reread it like I would other books in the Gold Valley series.
Major Plot spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk
ONCE AGAIN MAJOR PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD, THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING
I hate that I am writing this review especially surrounding a Maisey Yates story, but this one just didn’t connect with me. I wasn’t invested in the outcome at all, which I wasn’t expecting especially since this was about bartender Laz, who I was hoping to get his own story sometime. Unfortunately it wasn’t what I was wanting for his story. I wanted a lot more than I got.
Now, this was a novella so that might have been the biggest reason why this was a disappointed. Yes, going into it I did know that this was going to be novella, but I thought with it being about Laz that it would have benefited since I have seen appearances in several books in the Gold Valley series, but it didn’t really help. The pace was too quick, and there was a severely lack of build up between Jordan and Laz romance before they got their HEA in the end. It had to been done that way because it was a novella, however that was a detriment because I wasn’t invested in the romance due to lack of build up and pacing. It was like over a flash in the plan. Yes, their romance was building up over the course of ten years, but there were only little snippets here and there of their past, which was meant to be part of relationship development. But having those little snippets in there didn’t help. In fact they were very jarring whenever they came on the page because it took me out of the action of what presently was happening. There were just so many of them. I get the purpose for them, but it didn’t work flow wise. It was very distracting to have them in there.
Though I did appreciate that this was a friends to lovers story, it didn’t quite feel like the typical friends to lovers that I tend to really enjoy. First off all, several times during the course of the story they referred to each other as best friends. I wouldn’t have classified them as best friends or even friends in general. They only spent time together after the bar closed when Laz was finished work. They never hung out passed those parameters. Yes, they had some deep conversations with one another about things and provided comfort to one another, but that was the extent of their relationship. There were things they didn’t even know about each other that friends should know about each other. It wasn’t the scars and underlying things beneath the surface either. It was some basic things. So, I kind question the deepness of their relationship, which would have lead them to fall in love with each other. There wasn’t enough evidence on the page to suggest that.
I didn’t not care for Jordan’s storyline. I understood why she felt she had to marry another man and ignore her attraction to Laz, but. I didn’t like it. I think if more of her psyche was explored more in detail, instead of the little snippets that were in this novella I might have had more sympathy, but it just jive for me of the reason she gave for being with her ex for so long. I hate to say it but made me really not like her at all because of that. Then the quick turnaround that happened without showing any growth or development to get that change was just very strange. It didn’t feel realistic at all. Yes, it took her ten years years to get there, but it didn’t feel that in a novella format.
Their romance was just not for me on so many levels. It was just way too rushed. There was a lack of buildup even though this had been building for ten years. I didn’t feel that build up personally. Even though he had wanted her ten years and same for her, I didn’t feel that angst or denial feature that I would have expected from all those years of them not being together but wanting to be. Not like Sammy and Ryder’s story in the Gold Valley series where the longing could be felt so hard and gut wrenching. That was what I was wanting here and just didn’t get. It was just really hard to connect to them as a couple. There was a lack of romance I felt between the two of them. I was little iffy if even worked as a couple. It was not the romance for me.
My favorite part of the whole thing was when Ryder, Logan, and West showed up at the end at the bar talking to Laz. It just put a smile on my face as the brothers in laws jabbed each other with like digs here and there. I loved seeing their friendship and camaraderie on the page. It reminded of why I loved their stories so much and made me want to reread them again to relive all the ups and downs their romances had over the course of the series. It made me want more of them, which luckily was shown in The Heartbreaker of Echo Pass and hopefully will be shown more in the next two installments. I love seeing this family grown and find love after that tragedies they faced in their lives. I also loved the advice that they gave to Laz after Laz gave them advice in their own romances, which felt like a nice full circle moment for them.
Overall even though I love Maisey Yates and what she was trying to do in this novella, this just wasn’t favorite romance written by her. It was very not memorable. There was nothing special about it. It didn’t give me the feels even despite there were some sad parts due to Jordan’s background. The romance was just was just okay. There wasn’t much to it. Yes, it had been building for the past ten years, but I didn’t feel that longing or angst like I was expecting especially after the denial of want between these two for so long. I didn’t like the little snippets from the past just thrown in there to show development of their friendship. It was more distracting than adding anything to the romance. I wasn’t a fan of Jordan either so it was hard to root for her romance with Laz. It was just an okay story. It was nothing to really write home to about. I probably will not reread it like I would other books in the Gold Valley series.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 15, 2021
Solid Gold Cowboy by Maisey Yates is a novella about Laz Jenkins, the owner of Gold Valley’s local bar. His job along with making and serving drinks is to listen and occasionally point out when someone is being dumb about his love life. Laz does not see his life changing. He is happy with his ranch, small house and bar. Then Jordan shows up again in her wedding dress, but not married.
Laz and Jordan are best friends. For years she has been showing up at his bar after closing to sit and just talk. She had insomnia. Jordan was living with her boyfriend/fiance after being taken in by his family when her own threw her out. Laz had no opinions about her choices, mostly because he had been in love with her forever, not that anyone knew. Laz knew he was not into being married after surviving his parent’s marriage.
Laz helps her out and their relationship changes, but will it be enough for either of them. Solid Gold Cowboy by Maisey Yates comes out in June. It is a short, interesting novella.
Laz and Jordan are best friends. For years she has been showing up at his bar after closing to sit and just talk. She had insomnia. Jordan was living with her boyfriend/fiance after being taken in by his family when her own threw her out. Laz had no opinions about her choices, mostly because he had been in love with her forever, not that anyone knew. Laz knew he was not into being married after surviving his parent’s marriage.
Laz helps her out and their relationship changes, but will it be enough for either of them. Solid Gold Cowboy by Maisey Yates comes out in June. It is a short, interesting novella.
October 10, 2021
One of the Gold Valley series, in which bar owner Laz Jenkins sees his longtime friend come back into the bar after hours in a wedding dress. Jordan left Dylan at the altar or at least somewhere in the church--along with the family she thought she owed allegiance to. But her heart wasn't in it, and so she returns to the one friend she's had for so many years.
This time, he can't just give out advice. This time, Jordan's appearance--even though he refused to attend the wedding-that-never-happened--forces him to take her home to help her sleep and maybe even heal. But in doing so, he opens himself up to what he's been determined to avoid all these years: love. Oh, the sex is great, but he can't take the next step.
Or can he? When three of the guys he's advised in the past come into the bar to turn the tables on him, Laz has to face facts: what he really wants and with whom, even though Jordan's statement that she loves him scares him to death. Will he man up? Or keep running?
This time, he can't just give out advice. This time, Jordan's appearance--even though he refused to attend the wedding-that-never-happened--forces him to take her home to help her sleep and maybe even heal. But in doing so, he opens himself up to what he's been determined to avoid all these years: love. Oh, the sex is great, but he can't take the next step.
Or can he? When three of the guys he's advised in the past come into the bar to turn the tables on him, Laz has to face facts: what he really wants and with whom, even though Jordan's statement that she loves him scares him to death. Will he man up? Or keep running?
September 10, 2025
This beautifully written short story dives directly into the heart of the relationship between two friends as they navigate a sudden upset, when Jordan walks away from her wedding and shows up back at her best friend's bar. There's nothing unnecessary in this book: no lengthy backstories, no tangential running monologues, no filler scenes. Just two people confronted by feelings and having to work it out. I loved it-- I reread this whenever I've finished some unrelated poorly written book and need an absolute palate cleanser and a pick me up. It loses nothing because of its brevity. The author did beautifully with this one.
April 24, 2022
This was a novella about Laz who always had advice for those at his bar but could not help himself until his best friend Jordan showed up in his bar after running away from her own wedding. Laz and Jordan had been friends for ten years since she showed up one night after closing needing someone to talk to. Their hours meshed since she had insomnia and he closed late so really it was a friendship made in heaven. I was a little disappointed that there wasn’t room to have a few of the characters question why she ran off but it did explain how Laz finally fell in love.
August 1, 2021
A quick read . This novella follows Laz and Jordan, who have been friends for 10 years. She suffers from insomnia and walked onto his bar one night. They became fast friends.
They both had difficult family issues and left home at 16 and 17. Thinking being alone meant they'd never have to rely on anyone or let anyone down, they're proven wrong .
Can they overcome their pasts and be strong enough to commit to a future together? Read it to find out: you'll be glad you did.
They both had difficult family issues and left home at 16 and 17. Thinking being alone meant they'd never have to rely on anyone or let anyone down, they're proven wrong .
Can they overcome their pasts and be strong enough to commit to a future together? Read it to find out: you'll be glad you did.
August 16, 2021
Laz finally gets his HEA. As the owner of Gold Valley’s bar Laz has been in many books, often giving advise. Now we get his book. Jordan and Laz are best friends. She has had a boyfriend turned fiancée since she walked into his bar after closing one night, but that didn’t stop the budding friendship. My only reason for four stars on this one is because I wish it was a full length book. I feel like there could have been so much more about both their pasts if it had been longer.
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May 1, 2021Categories
Western Romance, Small Town & Rural Fiction, Women's Fiction, Contemporary Romance
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A Gold Valley Novel
Western Romance, Small Town & Rural Fiction, Women's Fiction, Contemporary Romance
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A Gold Valley Novel
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June 1, 2021Categories
Western Romance, Small Town & Rural Fiction, Women's Fiction, Contemporary Romance
Miniseries
A Gold Valley Novel
Western Romance, Small Town & Rural Fiction, Women's Fiction, Contemporary Romance
Miniseries
A Gold Valley Novel
June 10, 2021
Laz and Jordan's story. They finally end up together.
October 3, 2021
Boring, repetitive. Didn't feel like it had anything to do with Gold Valley - skimmed the last 50% to see if anything actually happened
March 8, 2022
It was extremely short. I didn't feel any chemistry between them and I didn't even understand how they were already at the point of sleeping together when they were. Np.
September 23, 2023
Actually sweet & short one🖤 🤠🍻🤠🍻🤠
June 18, 2024
A short sweet cowboy novella you gotta love it
December 27, 2021
This is a super quick read. It’s only 60 pages, but those pages are packed with emotion.
If you’ve been reading this series, you know Laz. The trusty bartender at the local watering hole. Always there to give advice to the men in Gold Valley who are destroying their love lives. But that’s about all we know about Laz…until now.
Jordan has been coming to Laz’s bar for years. Her visits are after hours, but very innocent. She has insomnia and he’s there late closing things up. In that time, they strike up a special bond, a deep friendship. In fact, they both refer to the other as their best friend. And they both have much more romantic feelings for the other, but neither are about to admit that. In fact, Jordan has had a boyfriend/fiancé this whole time. But can she go through with the wedding? Laz has always considered himself a lone wolf, no having the temperament to have anyone else in his life on a regular basis. But can he handle watching Jordan marry someone else?
You would, at first, think Jordan is possibly not the best person in the world for stringing her fiancé along while having feelings for someone else. Yet, within this very short story, the author really helps the reader to understand and sympathize with Jordan. She’s actually not doing anything wrong. It’s not that her fiancé or his family are terrible, but they’re also not great.
Although this story is a novella within a longer series, it can very easily be read as a standalone. I’d highly recommend it if you’re looking for a quick read with a guaranteed HEA. It gave me all the feels.
You can find more of my reviews at All In Good Time.
If you’ve been reading this series, you know Laz. The trusty bartender at the local watering hole. Always there to give advice to the men in Gold Valley who are destroying their love lives. But that’s about all we know about Laz…until now.
Jordan has been coming to Laz’s bar for years. Her visits are after hours, but very innocent. She has insomnia and he’s there late closing things up. In that time, they strike up a special bond, a deep friendship. In fact, they both refer to the other as their best friend. And they both have much more romantic feelings for the other, but neither are about to admit that. In fact, Jordan has had a boyfriend/fiancé this whole time. But can she go through with the wedding? Laz has always considered himself a lone wolf, no having the temperament to have anyone else in his life on a regular basis. But can he handle watching Jordan marry someone else?
You would, at first, think Jordan is possibly not the best person in the world for stringing her fiancé along while having feelings for someone else. Yet, within this very short story, the author really helps the reader to understand and sympathize with Jordan. She’s actually not doing anything wrong. It’s not that her fiancé or his family are terrible, but they’re also not great.
Although this story is a novella within a longer series, it can very easily be read as a standalone. I’d highly recommend it if you’re looking for a quick read with a guaranteed HEA. It gave me all the feels.
You can find more of my reviews at All In Good Time.
August 24, 2021
SOLID GOLD COWBOY by Maisey Yates, is the bonus story in THE HEARTBREAKER OF ECHO PASS.
As owner of Gold Valley’s bar, Laz Jenkins has had a ringside seat to all of the town’s drama, witnessed all of Gold Valley’s happy-ever afters.
But no one knows he’s hiding a secret of his own—being in love with his best friend, Jordan. When she shows up in his bar in a wedding dress and very much not married, all bets are off.
Is it finally his time to claim his own happy-ever after?
SOLID GOLD COWBOY is sweet friends-to-lovers troupe about two people who finds the love standing right in front of them. Maisey Yates blends the past and present for readers to get an in-depth look into the characters’ psyche.
As owner of Gold Valley’s bar, Laz Jenkins has had a ringside seat to all of the town’s drama, witnessed all of Gold Valley’s happy-ever afters.
But no one knows he’s hiding a secret of his own—being in love with his best friend, Jordan. When she shows up in his bar in a wedding dress and very much not married, all bets are off.
Is it finally his time to claim his own happy-ever after?
SOLID GOLD COWBOY is sweet friends-to-lovers troupe about two people who finds the love standing right in front of them. Maisey Yates blends the past and present for readers to get an in-depth look into the characters’ psyche.
June 3, 2021
Love beats all
Loved this story about Laz and Jordan. They both had to start trusting their instincts and trusting their feelings for each other to arrive at their happily ever after.
Loved this story about Laz and Jordan. They both had to start trusting their instincts and trusting their feelings for each other to arrive at their happily ever after.
June 6, 2021
I really enjoyed Jordan and Laz's story. I was glad that Laz finally got his own happy ever after. Well written. Great characters even a few brief Cameron's from previous stories.
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