Cowboy for Hire

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Entangled Publishing via NetGalley and I am voluntarily reviewing it. I fell in love with Wishing River with the first book of the series, "The Trouble with Cowboys". OMGosh, I couldn't read the story fast enough. This story is no different. I devoured the pages and I didn't want to stop reading. Ms. James has been a fantastic job of story-telling. She masterfully crafted a tale of two damaged souls coming together to overcome their past. Sarah is a young lady who lost her brother when she was ten and her family was never the same again. The ranch was a place of hiding from the world. Cade is a young cowboy who has never received love. He had to prove his worthiness in order to not be discarded. This story just totally grabbed me right from the beginning. There were moments that were hilariously funny and others that were poignantly heart-wrenching. This story is written in my favorite dual POV format. I can really connect to the characters so much more easily this way. I was completely saddened to see the story come to an end. It is like saying good-bye to friends until the next book in the series comes out. Ms. James did a great job of included the first couple throughout the story along with the other two from their group. I looking forward to reconnecting with all of them again in the next story. This is a really sweet, clean romance. I highly recommend this to anyone who love to see two people overcome past hurts and find love.

Tender, sweet, clean romance Sarah is ready to come out of her sheltered life by learning to run her ranch and taking on the world. For the first, she sets out to hire a ranch manager. A cute mix-up with her ad copy sends a lot of the wrong kind of cowboys to her door, but finally a qualified foreman shows up with all the right credentials. Sarah has a lot to learn, and even more to overcome, but her determination and sense of humor were delightful to see and demonstrated a resiliency that few suspected she had. Cade is looking to make his own way in the world after learning the ropes on the ranch owned by his best friend, whose family stepped up and gave him a home when he had no where else to go. Cade believes that he has nothing to offer to anyone, but he'll work harder than everyone to earn his place at the table. This is a slow-burn romance with plenty of tension and even more emotional complications. Both Cade's and Sarah's back stories will break your heart and have you rooting for them from the start. The HEA was sweet and satisfying, even if a tad bit predictable. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.

The second book in the Wishing River series brings us the story of Sarah and Cade. It starts out with a whoop and some great chuckles when Sarah places an ad for a ranch manage and the ad she placed and what got printed in the paper are two different things, bringing her more applicants than she knows what to do with. After a long and trying day, she got one last knock on the door and Cade applying for the job. He's experienced and wants to break away from his current job and run the ranch on his own. Sarah has a little bit of a different idea on that, she wants him to teach her all the aspects of running the ranch. Something she was never allowed to do when her parents were alive because she was a girl. Overprotected and sheltered are an understatement, add to that is the elderly housekeeper who is bossy, enabling and pretty much got on my last nerve with her meddling. Cade brings his own set of baggage with him as well, but keeps it under wraps fairly well. No one knows all the details of his past, not even his best friend. I liked Cade a lot determined to do a good job and the right thing and bring the ranch to where it needs to be, all the while trying to engage Sarah and teach her what she was never allowed to do. Sarah was a little harder to warm up to, I wasn't as engaged with her as I was Cade. I wanted a little more tension between the two. I didn't see the hook we see in most of her books between the two main characters. For me I felt the book moved a little slow in some spots, there was a tad too much filler which distracted me from what is really a good solid plot and storyline. Still worth a read, there are adventures to be had here!